Northern VA Users Group

Jackson River (http://www.jacksonriver.com) is growing and we are looking for an experienced web developer, with Drupal skills, to join our growing and dynamic team. If you are looking for technically interesting work and think its a plus to help influential non-profit organizations along the way, then this is the job for you!

About the job:
We are looking for an exceptional candidate to join our technology team and be a part of some exciting Drupal based projects. Key skills are listed here, and more info can be found online at: http://www.jacksonriver.com/drupal_developer.pdf

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Get your 3D glasses ready... We'll be meeting in 3D (yes, I mean in person) next Monday, June 8th at Stetson's. We'll meet at the upstairs bar around 7:00 pm, and will get started with introductions followed by a round of five minute lightening presentations at 7:30 pm.

So far, a few people have volunteered to lead lightning talks.

• Adrian Rossouw, in town from South Africa, will talk about Aegir, a set of modules that helps you easily deploy and maintain many Drupal sites. He'll talk about what you can do with Aegir, where the project is, and where it's going.

The floor is open for anyone to give a five minute lightening talk, so if you'd like to talk about something you're working on in Drupal - like a module, a new website/tool, a question you have, etc. - post your topic in the comments and come ready to talk.

DC Drupal meetups are for people of all skills/knowledge levels, and all levels of presentations are welcome. Don't be shy if you're just starting or thinking about starting with Drupal - the meetups are a great way to learn and meet people who've been in your shoes before.

More details on the venue are below. See you there!

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DAY - Tuesday instead of Wednesday.

Don't miss the June meetup! We'll have quick presentations from anyone who'd like to share and then discuss Drupalcon Paris - what we are looking forward to, hoping to see on the schedule, etc.

Have something you'd like to present or discuss? Let us know!

Location
RHODESIDE GRILL, downstairs
1836 Wilson Blvd
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 243-0145

Hello Drupal World.

The May Drupal meetup will take place on Monday, May 11, at Stetson's. We'll get started at 7:00 pm, and then have introductions and a round of 5 minute lightening presentations at 7:30 pm. If you'd like to talk about something you're working on in Drupal - like a module, a new website/tool, a question you have, etc. - post your topic in the comments and come ready to talk. Hopefully the internet at Stetsons is back up, but if you'll need it for your presentation, let me know so we can bug them about it more adamantly : )

These meetups are for people of all skills/knowledge levels, and all levels of presentations are welcome. Don't be shy if you're just starting or thinking about starting with Drupal - the meetups are a great way to learn and meet people who've been in your shoes before.

We'll meet at the upstairs bar at Stetson's at 7:00 pm. More details on the venue are below. See you there!

Don't miss the May meetup! Bring a challenge or problem you've been working on and we can all take a look and discuss. We'll have a screen and wireless available.

Basement of the RHODESIDE GRILL
1836 Wilson Blvd
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 243-0145

Harish Rao will talk about the use of Drupal in political and advocacy campaigns. Harish was the Director of Information Technology for Dean for America (Howard Dean’s Presidential campaign), and subsequently has built online marketing campaigns, online communities, and Drupal based sites for a series of non-profit and for-profit organizations.

Tuesday, April 21rst, 6PM - 8PM @ TeqCorner, 1616 Anderson Road, 3rd Floor, McLean, VA 22102

To register:

http://yeatonpartners04-09.eventbrite.com/

From my experience,there are a few major things lacking in Drupal. One of them that I have encountered a lot is the ability - or inability to manage files/documents effectively. I'd like to start laying the groundwork for a comprehensive file (or at least document) manager that allows some of the more popular feature requests e.g check in/check out, protected files & directories etc.

Web Developer
Jackson River is looking for a Washington, DC area based Web Developer to lead on a wide variety of Drupal CMS Implementations, custom module development, and serve as a key member of our technology team. This position is ideal for a mid to senior level developer with strong programming, testing, application architecture, and systems integration experience.

The full job description is in the attached pdf, or can be found on our site!

We are looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow night at 6:30 PM. PLEASE NOTE WE'VE CHANGED THE VENUE - just down the road at Rhodeside Grill downstairs.

Location
RHODESIDE GRILL
1836 Wilson Blvd
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 243-0145

More information here: http://drupal.meetup.com/21/

Open Mic! Come and share what you learned or took away from Drupalcon. We are interested in hearing from anyone who wants to share - we'll have a screen and WiFi connection available.

Cheers,
Tiffany

I apologize if posting here is inappropriate, but I think members of this group might be interested. I have come down with a nasty flu. If anybody needs a ticket, or knows somebody who does, please contact smaskit at yahoo dot com. Thanks.

On Thursday March 5th we will be giving a introductory Drupal presentation over lunch during the Drupal Conference. Gearing things for professionals reviewing Drupal, we will discuss the software’s capabilities, support services available, and give an orientation of the open-source community behind it. After the presentation we will have a question and answer session that will put Drupal in the hotseat.

I am currently in the very beginning stages of writing a book on Drupal Content Types that will focus on Core, CCK, and Views. I have a first draft of the outline that I am working on. I would love to get community feedback to help shape the book at this very early stage.

http://alanio.net/blog/2009/02/first-draft-drupal-book-outline-content-t...

Thank you,
Alan

http://www.theandyforbesfiles.com/

JOB DESCRIPTION

POSITION: Web Developer/Programmer
FLSA: Exempt, Full-Time

DEPARTMENT: Web and Technology Services
SUPERVISOR: Vice President of Web and Technology Services
LOCATION: Downtown Washington, DC, Office – McPherson Square

SKILLS: ASP.NET and open source technologies, PHP, MySQL

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Come out this coming Monday to the February DC Drupal meetup, starting at 7:00 pm at Stetson's. This is a great chance to meet other local people using Drupal and talk about your experiences, challenges, and wins with the platform. These are casual events, and people with all levels of experience and expertise are welcome.

This meetup will follow our usual format. We'll have a round of 5-minute lightening presentations starting at 7:30 pm. Anyone can take the floor during this time to talk - for five minutes - about their work with Drupal. This is a great time to share what you've just learned about a module, what you've just built, or put a question out to the group. If you want to present, post your topic in the comments and come ready to talk. After the presentations, we'll go back to talking, drinking beer, and playing foosball and darts.

At this meetup, I'll be talking about DrupalCon - which will be here in DC in just a few weeks. There will be lots of fun opportunities to help out over the next few weeks and at the conference - I'll talk about these in detail on Monday.

We'll meet at the upstairs bar at Stetson's at 7:00 pm. More details on the venue are below.

See you on Monday! And if you're around tonight, come out to the NOVA Drupal meetup.

I do some podcasting on topics of interest to entrepreners, and early next week I am going to do a podcast interview with someone from a firm that is in the business of accounts receivable financing (http://tinyurl.com/atfoz4). If you have a development shop or are a lone developer, I'd be interested in hearing about the types of organizations you work for - associations, small commercial companies, larger commercial companies, etc. Company names are not required.

Don't miss the February Northern Virginia Meetup where we will showcase recently released Drupal sites including: WETA, CondoAuthority and New America's State Health site.

We'll be at Irelands Four Courts, 2051 Wilson Boulevard in Arlington. It's right across from the CourtHouse Metro.

Hello everyone, here is a great way to market your Drupal services to the non-profit community. Phase2 Technology is participating in this effort by sponsoring the Drupal portion of a new research report done by Idealware.org on the subject of comparing Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla and Plone. Of course, we want the Drupal community to be well represented so please consider adding your support by registering to be listed in the Drupal portion of their services directory.

Before you go get your corned beef, cabbage, soda bread and beer, make sure you stop by to meet and greet the Drupal community of Northern Virginia!

Refreshments will be provided.

To register: http://yeatonpartners03-09.eventbrite.com/

Come listen to Tony Byrne, Founder and Executive Editor at CMS Watch, as he speaks about the latest open source web content management developments relative to the WCM space as a whole. The presentation will be followed by networking.

Please note - Tony tends to draw large audiences. Please don't delay in registering!

To register: http://yeatonpartners02-09.eventbrite.com/

For those of you that are not headed into DC on Jan 20, Bryan House, Director of Marketing, Acquia, will give a 15 minute talk (via WebCam from his office in Boston) about selling Drupal services to the Government. Bryan's talk will be followed by a panel discussion of the nuts and bolts of Government contracting, Q&A and networking.

Any meetups planned? I'm new to the Northern Virginia Group and its been silent in the New Year since I joined. Was t something I said.... :)

• Sandeep

I'm trying to find qualified trainers to come to an Arlington-based non-profit and teach the staff Drupal. Any suggestions?

I'm looking for someone with past training experience, particularly with non-profits.

Take a break from your holiday preparations to come out for the last DC Drupal meetup of the year, taking place Monday, December 8th, at Stetson's. We'll gather to discuss Drupal, share our recent experiences using it, show off recent projects, and talk shop. This meetup is for anyone interested in Drupal, whether that's as a beginning developer, an expert developer, a current user, or a potential user.

We'll meet upstairs at Stetson's at 7:00 pm. As usual, we'll have a round of 5-minute lightening presentations where anyone can talk quickly about a recent project they've done, a module they've built, or a question they have with Drupal. We'll kick these off around 7:30 pm. If you'd like to present, post your topic in the comments and come prepared to talk. There will be a projector and an internet connection for you to use.

More details on the meetup are below.

Hello Folks,

Hope to see you this Wednesday, December 3rd for the Northern Virginia Drupal Meetup. We've moved the venue to Ireland Four Courts which is conveniently located in courthouse on the orange line. We'll be in the back room.

This month, we will talk about scaling Drupal using Amazon Web Services.

Eric Johnson of The Case Foundation and Frank Febbraro of Phase2 Technology will lead us through their experience with: types of services, the providers, planning, preparing your Drupal site, preparing the AWS environment, writing scripts, testing and lessons learned.

We are looking for experienced and talented PHP programmers who are passionate about technology, open source platforms, and helping leading organizations raise their impact using the power of online tools.

DESCRIPTION

We have a small Drupal project for an experienced programmer to move quickly on. We've beyond our capacity at the moment and have picked up a project that must be done within the next 2 weeks.

Scope of work:
1. Taking pre-programmed HTML layouts for a 5-6 page website and hooking them up to an already built Drupal configuration that has been used for several of our sites.
2. Some customization of the Drupal configuration will be required.

send experience, several work samples and hourly rate. I would like to select someone by Monday. This should be an 6-8 hour project.

I had a drupal designer/developer create a web site for me in Drupal but now I am struggling with how to use it as the end user/content manager. Even the most basic of tasks have been challenging for me, and my designer/developer is not local, and somewhat unresponsive. I would love to sit down with someone for a few hours to help me figure everything out. I am quick learner, but without any basic knowledge of how to use Drupal, I am finding that my learning curve is slowing me down immensely.

We thought the Apps for Democracy contest was a great way to show the DC government that Drupal is the leading open source platform for government project and a great chance to get them familiar with the platform. So we built a Drupal site and entered it in the contest. You can vote for it here. You don't need to log in so it only takes three seconds to vote, but voting closes tonight at midnight, so vote soon!

The site we built is called DC Bikes and you can check it out here. It's a guide to biking in DC and puts mostly city data on a map so people find detailed bike routes in DC, monitor bike theft in real time, and buy bike equipment on Craigslist. This site is built on Drupal and is the only submission that is 100% open source - we used open source Mapnik for our maps rather than Google Maps. Specifically we used FeedAPI and Feed Element Mapper for the site's aggregation, and the spaces module allowed us to build it pretty quickly.

Let's get together and whip up some Doc Love. We'll meet for 3 hours at the DC Public Library to work on Drupal and then, if folks are interested, we can go out for food and drinks after. We have a medium meeting room (A-9) reserved from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sat. November 8. (For directions to the room, see below in the Where? section.)

Please mark your calendar and tell your friends - Northern Virginia Drupal Meetup is next Wednesday at Baileys Pub and Grill at 6:30 PM.

This month's fabulous topic is

"Ready to launch? Rules of a Great Rollout"

Hello!

I'm hoping to solicit some help reviewing Drupal as a possible replacement product for our current in-house content management system. We have been reviewing various cms products and need some help presenting the concepts of Drupal to business users. If you have experience presenting and think you can help, please drop me a line and I'll fill you in on more details. Or if you can recommend a consulting group, please let me know.

Thank you,

Derrick Stone
Web Development Center
UVa Health System

As some of you may know, I've been neck-deep in Drupal's Doc team work. The doc sprints that we have had at the last two Drupalcons have been a ton of fun and very productive. I'd like to run a local sprint down in DC sometime before the end of the year. The basic idea that I am thinking right now is to find a location that will let us camp out with wifi for about 4-6 hours on a weekend. I'd be there the entire time but others could just drop by as they had time. I'd be there to help folks get situated, find docs tasks that they find interesting and generally answer questions.

Everyone, the slides from last night's event are posted on Meetup.com

http://drupal.meetup.com/21/

While you are there, make sure to sign up for our group. We find it is a great way to spread the interest in the group.

Info on next month's meeting coming soon.

Thanks,

Jeff

POSITION PURPOSE:

The Front-end Developer at D.C. United will be a professional who possesses knowledge of each browser's quirks and is able to create websites that appear and work well on equipment ranging from a Mac computers to Windows-based PCs to mobile devices.

POSITION PURPOSE:

The Senior Web Developer at D.C. United will be a gifted coder who has mastered current front-end and scripting web standards, especially with front-end development and unobtrusive scripting. This person must also maintain mid-level working knowledge of selected back-end technologies.

We are looking for a full time/contract onsite Drupal/PHP developer to help our Washington, DC client to convert legacy web pages to Drupal, as well as to continue support client’s sizable web property.

Ideal candidate will have Drupal installation and maintenance experience, mySql knowledge, as well as understanding of integration with back office systems. If you have a limited Drupal experience, but are proficient with PHP and have other open source platform experience, we would be happy to consider your CV as well.

xTuple, a software development company based in Norfolk, Virginia is looking for a Hampton Roads based Drupaler to lend a hand with a web-site conversion project. Hours are negotiable. In particular, we'd like someone who can help integrate 3rd party applications with Drupal to share a single-sign-on. Please email bc (at) xtuple (dot) com for more info.

Hi All, I wanted to share the results of the feedback we've received from the group about changes to the venue, format, and topics of future NOVA meet-ups.

After collecting a lot of feedback and having several discussions with our friends at WorthPoint, who organized our first meet-ups and have provided us with most of our topics and leadership to date, we have decided to try some new things. Going forward, we are entertaining the creation of two co-operating groups:

Hi folks, per my other post, we are looking for secure a SAVE THE DATE for this time and venue/agenda will be announced shortly.

We would like to cover 2 - 3 topics @ roughly 15-20 minutes per topic. Each topic includes a short presentation (less than 15 minutes) followed by Q&A (strongly encouraged)

Topics that have been discussed include:

• Using Drupal for Multi-site CMS's [Phase2]
• Tuning for Drupal Performance and scalability [BlackMesh]
• TBD

Trellon is an Internet strategy and development firm. We are seeking qualified Internet Strategists to join our elite Drupal development team. Please direct all inquiries to jobs@trellon.com. Please include a cover letter, resume, and statement of salary requirements.

What This Job is About

Internet Strategists are part of a cross-functional team charged with crafting the strategy to meet the needs and business objectives of our clients. Here's what we expect them to do.

• Set the strategy for web development projects. You will be taking part in developing proposals and budgets and working closely with other players in the delivery process to ensure a common understanding of goals and requirements.
• Interact with clients to analyze requirements and ensure the delivery of optimal solutions. The idea is to validate our approach through thoughtful, timely production of project materials, which includes conceptualizing and developing user experience plans including taxonomies, site mapping, information architecture and wireframes.
• Identify, understand and exploit innovations and new technologies to enhance Trellon's solutions. Basically, we want you to be aware of what is going on and speak up when you see opportunities for us to improve the kinds of solutions we deliver.
• Take responsibility for the ongoing development of Trellon.com through contributions of original material about the company, our solutions, and our activities as a company. This includes managing contributions to the company blog, creating original materials for the website at the direction of company leadership, analyzing web metrics and recommending strategies for new development.

I hope everyone has enjoyed their summer as it comes to a close. Time, especially during the summer months, has a way of flying by. Its already time for our September meetup.

ABOUT THE JOB

Do you love developing/managing 2.0-powered websites and want to put your skills to use for a meaningful cause? Like tinkering with open-source technology (esp. Drupal), and want a job that pays you to do it full-time? Do you have a vision of how social networking can bring communities of advocates together to champion a cause? Would you like to be on the ground floor of a growing web team striving toward innovation in their web development projects? If your answer to any of these questions is YES, we have a full-time position (with GREAT benefits) for you.

About Us:
Allen Trent Associates, Inc. is a management services consulting company. We provide our employees excellent benefits, including flexible work hours, Telecommuting from your home office, a Retirement plan, Health coverage and more. Total compensation package, 40’s.

About You:
You are highly organized, have excellent communication skills and are able to work independently in a virtual organization environment.

If you are being considered for this position you definitely have:

Vivakos, Inc., a leading integrator of open source and open standards based Web applications, is seeking talented and motivated PHP / Drupal developers with 3+ years experience.

Having launched ChinaOpen this saturday, we will be shifting from Adobe's Flex/AIR track into Drupal, from Tuesday July 15, 2008 on.

This is an "introduction to Drupal" type of training, detail as follows:

7月12日， ChinaOpen 第一站：adobe flex，详细请见 http://drupalchina.org/node/4782
从7月15日起, ChinaOpen 第二站： Drupal公开课程 ，
具体课程安排如下：

7月15 第一帧 Drupal 基础
将以drupal5.x版本讲述，暂定2008年7月15日上午9：30开始
主题：

1. Drupal简介及基础概念
2. 安装drupal（drupal5.8）

There are many ways to catch the Drupal wave - offering Drupal development and installation services, using Drupal to add social publishing capabilities to an existing web site, or building a new business based on Drupal, to name just a few. Saj Cherian (Valhalla Partners), Sean Greene (LaunchBox Digital & Rock Creek Ventures), Chuck Shotton (Pulse Media Group), and Guillermo Söhnlein (Space Angels Network) will discuss the current business and investment opportunities available in the social publishing and Drupal spaces.

This event is free and does not require registration.

The New America Foundation (www.newamerica.net) is seeking a new media professional with 4-8 years experience to help improve and expand our online presence.

This is not a Drupal developer job, or a webmaster position with a different title -- what we need is a smart power user who's comfortable with Drupal, and wouldn't mind learning more.