"Welcome to ahh wicked pissah drupal usah group." Boston and the greater Massachusetts area is rich with talented Drupal community members and this group will help us all talk with each other. New postings can be found all over this page, and you can also read up on our newest Events and Jobs. We also have irc: #drupal-boston, real-time chat room for Boston Drupalistas.
Call for Volunteers at next week's Boston sprint to Upgrade drupal.org to Drupal 6
The Boston sprint is dedicated to upgrading drupal.org's Drupal 5 platform to Drupal 6, in preparation for the redesign. During this week-long sprint at One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) offices in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, we plan to get a working upgrade path for the existing drupal.org databases, port the project infrastructure to Drupal 6, and implement Views, among other issues.
Please see the project issues list and email Susan MacPhee at susanemacphee@gmail.com to volunteer expertise on issues you can help resolve.
In your email, please include your level of time commitment, Drupal experience background, and which tasks you would like to help with.
If you have any questions, please contact Susan.
Upgrade drupal.org from Drupal 5 to 6 project issues lists:
http://drupal.org/node/362117
Sprint announcement from Dries Buytaert:
Boston Drupal Meetup - HSCI - February 3, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
We will be hosted by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute at 42 Church Street in Cambridge, above the Border Cafe. This was the location of our October and June meetups. There is an alcove entrance on the Church Street side, and it says Harvard Stem Cell Institute on the door. Maureen Lyons will be there to let people in. If folks are late they can call up using the dialog box next to the door. We'll also check the door periodically.
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 5 minutes on a topic of their choosing. You may show off your Drupal site, ask some questions of the audience, give a module demonstration, share some marketing ideas for Drupal, and so on. Just keep it brief. No expertise or planning required - just do it.
After the meetup, some of us will continue the conversation over dinner in one of the hundreds of fine restaurants in Harvard Square.
Lead Technologist for Socially-Conscious Drupal Site | Changents.com
Changents (www.changents.com) is a storytelling and social networking platform that connects charismatic pioneers of social and environmental change – Change Agents – with a global network of "backers" who want to help them. Changents provides a rich set of tools for Change Agents to tell their exciting, ongoing stories; broadcast those stories around the Internet; and build virtual teams to collaborate with Change Agents in support of their missions. Changents launched in Beta in June 2008.
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HOWTO: Check Domain Availability in Drupal Site
Does anyone know how to embed a widget (or is there a Drupal Module) that will enable users to check for availability of domains?
I'm building a Drupal-based site on which users will request a new domain for their Drupal-based site. I'd like to determine availability of domains right from within my site, rather than sending them to a domain registrar.
Mid-Principal Web Developer | Revelation Partners
Title: Mid – Principal Web Developer
Location: North Metro Boston
Want to join a growing team developing social media applications used by millions all over the world?
We are working with a global market leader in the mobile space expanding an entertainment & social media division to continue their growth in the Internet/Mobile space competing with iconic brands such as Google, Apple, Facebook, etc.
Read moreMid-Principal Web Developer | Revelation Partners
Title: Mid – Principal Web Developer
Location: North Metro Boston
Want to join a growing team developing social media applications used by millions all over the world?
We are working with a global market leader in the mobile space expanding an entertainment & social media division to continue their growth in the Internet/Mobile space competing with iconic brands such as Google, Apple, Facebook, etc.
Read moreMetrowest Drupal Meetup, Part Deux
Still can't believe that you missed the first ever Agaric hosted Metrowest drupal meetup? Well don't double your regrets by missing the second... That's right, the second ever metrowest drupal meetup is happening, and soon.
So come down and talk drupal or anything related, or just heckle those who are, on Thursday January 19th @ 6:30PM at Natick's famous Morse Institute Library, Room 1C.
Web Application Engineer - Drupal, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Postgresql, Linux, HTML | WordStream
Position Title: Web Application Developer - PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Postgresql, Drupal, Linux, HTML, Apache
Location: Boston, MA (Financial District, Commuter Rail and T-accessible).
Status: Full Time, Regular
Responsibilities: The Sr. Web Application Developer will be responsible for developing and administering all Web marketing infrastructure for the WordStream.com Web site. Typical day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Writing Drupal Modules
- Writing & Customizing Drupal Themes
- Writing custom PHP & JavaScript Web applications
- Managing Web Server and IT Infrastructure
Drupal Providence meetup in 09
Holidays are soon to wind down and the new year will be upon us. Shall we start planning the first meetup of 09? Discuss!
Drupalist | Lucidus Corporation
A small but growing Internet Technologies company in the Mondanock region of New Hampshire is looking for a very strong Drupal developer. We specialize in Open Source CMS web application development leveraging Drupal, PHP, and MySQL. We are experts in our field and others in the industry seek out our knowledge for assistance in their own projects.
Read moreLong-Term Drupal Contractor Needed | American Program Bureau
Long story short, I am the Digital Marketing Manager in a small marketing department of an entertainment agency that has no in-house development/programing staff, and we just launched a new (drupal 6) site for my company (www.apbspeakers.com) in September. The outsourced dev who built most of the site will not be available as a resource after he finishes working through the bug list he currently has for reasons he/we couldn't anticipate at the begining of the project, and I am in need of some help.
Skills needed:
PHP, python, JS (MooTools and jquery), CSS/HTML, Apache
Drupal Bootcamp at CCTV: Feb 13, 2009
Drupaltherapy and Cambridge Community Television have teamed up to offer a one-day Drupal training in February. This training will take place on Feb 13, 9:30AM-6:00PM, at Cambridge Community Television in Cambridge, MA, lead by Sean Effel, an experienced Drupal trainer. The cost for this 8-hour bootcamp style training is $350.00 per seat and it will cover everything a beginner or novice should know about Drupal, from installation and configuration to contributed modules and themes.
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Western Mass Drupal Meetup - Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
The next Western Mass Drupal Meetup will be on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Location:
Webster 102 on Amherst College campus
https://www.amherst.edu/users/H/dhamilton/drupal_meetings
Many thanks to David Hamilton for again arranging the space!
AGENDA:
- Feedback and issue tracking with Drupal sites:
http://drupal.org/project/webform
http://drupal.org/project/casetracker
http://drupal.org/project/faq
and David Hamilton about how he uses webform (see comment below).
Read moreMetrowest Drupal Meetup
The Morse Institute Library lies just northeast of the town common, nestled deep within the heart of Natick Center. Among all the sites selected as possible drupal meetup locations, this was the one we had our hearts set on. The mist-shrouded Natick Center region provides the Library with a beautiful backdrop painted with a palette of seasonal colours and an abundance of traffic and commuters from the T-stop nearby. It is all of these attributes combined that makes the Morse Institute Library the ideal spot for talking drupal
Read morePartner with SEO/Design experience | www.malawforum.com
I’m an attorney with a well-ranked legal information site dealing with Massachusetts law (www.malawforum.com). Currently, for example, the site is on page one results for Google searches such as "Massachusetts law." Unfortunately, I am in way over my head with the Drupal and SEO work.
I am looking for a partner with SEO and Design experience who has worked extensively with Drupal. Help me optimize and monetize the site and expand it to other states and you can have half of the profits and half of the business.
Read moreDrupal PHP contractor | Harvard Graduate SChool of Design
Harvard grad school seeks to augment in-house web staff with seasoned PHP programmer well-versed in drupalisms,
for on-call interventions & enhancements to existing community (student) portal site. Drupal 5.x + organic groups + notifications +. Creativity & dependability required. Flexible work arrangements possible.
Contact servin@gsd.harvard.edu; put 'drupal' in subject line.
Drupal support sprint tonight, 8-10pm ET
Hi All,
Just wanted to alert you that tonight, 8-10pm ET, there is a Drupal support sprint on IRC #drupal-support.
Read more about it at http://bit.ly/L92x
Erik
Boston Drupal Meetup - Optaros - December 2, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
Last meeting
We had a terrific turnout at our last meeting. Many people participated in the lightening talks and the resulting conversation was really interesting. Boston builds spectacular Drupal sites. For our next meeting, we'll try out a bigger room in a new location at a new time ...
New venue
Our next meeting will be hosted by John Eckman of Optaros.
10 Milk St Boston
11th Floor
This is the same building as 294 Washington street - across from the Borders book store, wrapped around the Old South Meeting house.
Map
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 5 minutes on a topic of their choosing. You may show off your Drupal site, ask some questions of the audience, give a module demonstration, share some marketing ideas for Drupal, and so on. Just keep it brief. No expertise required - just do it.
Dinner
After the meetup, some of us will continue the conversation over dinner at a nearby restaurant. Destination unknown.
Western Mass Drupal Meetup - Tuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 6:00 pm
The next Western Mass Drupal Meetup will be on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 6:00 pm
Location:
Webster 102 on Amherst College campus
https://www.amherst.edu/users/H/dhamilton/drupal_meetings
Many thanks to David Hamilton for again arranging the space!
AGENDA:
-
CRM via Drupal:
- With CiviCRM: Alfred Nutile (http://www.rivervalleytechcollective.org)
- A bit about how Amherst College does it: David Hamilton (https://www.amherst.edu/users/H/dhamilton)
- Tracking customers and invoicing via Drupal: Kelly Albrecht (http://www.left-click.us)
Providence Drupal Meetup
This got decided in a discussion, but a "proper" event was never created. So here it is, a Drupal meetup happening in Providence -- TONIGHT!
at Red Fez (upstairs)
49 Peck St
Providence, RI
Some links:
Google Maps
Providence Phoenix listing
They've got food. They've got drinks.
I'll be there from around 6:30 to around 9:00. Hope you will too!
