Portland (Oregon)

The Great Green March is a new non-profit startup project based in Portland. Our site is built on Drupal 6. We are looking for some more volunteers with Drupal knowledge to help us continue to develop the site to power the march. The vision for the march and site is large. Anyone interested in assisting with further Drupal development? For more information on the project please visit [http://greatgreenmarch.com[Great Green March]].

Pete P-O presented on the Open Media toolset during the last meet-up, and we've finally settled on a date for a meet-and-greet for anyone who wants to learn more about the project or get involved. The Open Media Project partners and raSANTIAGO are hosting the social at 3:30 p.m.

We've finally settled on a date for a meet-and-greet for anyone who wants to learn more about the Open Media Project or get involved. The Open Media Project partners and raSANTIAGO are hosting the social at 3:30 p.m.

So, as many of you know, we had a plan for an August DrupalCamp at CubeSpace. CubeSpace was an ideal setting, in terms of locality, parking, space, flexibility, catering and more. Sadly, CubeSpace is no more, having recently gone out of business. They will really be missed by the Portland open source community. It also means out plans are totally scuppered.

There seems to be a trend towards using 960 systems grid when theming. I've been designing a site using this system. One concern I have is that most standard banner ad sizes do not fit elegantly within this grid. Has anyone built a commercial site with the system and added banners in sizes like 728x90, 120 x 240, 300 x 250, etc. Is there another grid system that works better? Thanks.

We've been working on a new app and just opened up the process to beta testers. It's a real-time web presentation tool - allows a presenter to control display of images via URL. Really simple. Really effective.

And it's built with drupal.

Ah, comments module. How it keeps us up at night.

So we're trying to find a hack solution in order to:
1) Set Forum Topic create comments permissions to be "authenticated" user
2) Set all other create comments permissions to be "anonymous" user

Any suggestions? Priorities are speed and efficiency vs. "the right way". So maybe a good 'ol display:none ;)

Thanks,
David

I have just finished my first drupal site and I just need some clarification and input about building themes.

In the site I just built, I used the Zen theme. It worked totally fine for me as far as i can tell. If anything, i feel like it included a lot i did not use and i deleted a lot of the code that i thought was extraneous.

At the DUG meeting last week, someone did a lighting round on building your own theme.

I am just curious, what do most people making professional sites for clients use? Do you use an existing theme or do you build your own?

Hi everyone,

i am looking for the best way to set up an editable amenities list using CCK.

i have a content type called Accommodations in which the admin will fill in a bunch of data to create hotel listings.

The client wants to have an amenities list that they can check the applicable amenities for the listing and then add notes to any individual amenity.

I'm looking for a contrib module that lets users put a links to external URLs into a mode using some basic syntax such as [link:Url, text] or something like that. I've been searching the contrib nodules and am only finding such filters for nodes or img tags. I supposed I could write my own, but it seems hard to believe that such a module is not out there, but I'm not finding it.

Thanks

Rasmus Lerdorf will be in town for Open Source Bridge and has graciously offered to lead a meeting for PDXPHP. So the Tuesday before the OSBridge festivities kick off, He (and possible a few other speakers in town), will lead a discussion on various PHP and web topics.
Rasmus is of course know for creating the PHP language but is also an expert in application security, and is currently employed with Yahoo as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer, so there will be no shortage of interesting topics for this meeting.

Hi all,

I am experiencing some issues with a website I help maintain for a local non-profit based on version 5.7. When I try to login, not only can I not edit a page but I can't access Admin pages. After entering username/pw, from I get kicked back to the whatever page I was on, but still in non-edit and non-admin view. I am getting a url parameter that I have never seen before: http://www.sitename.org/?destination=admin

Any thoughts about why I would be getting this?

Thanks!

-- Jeff

I currently manage a website using FrontPage ( it was developed years ago) and I want to switch to Drupal.
I am looking for someone to do the setup...I can create/transfer the content.

Our organization can pay for your services....
Thanks...

As promised last night at the Lucky Lab, here's a Wiki page where we can re-group on the PDX Drupal Camp given that the chosen venue, CubeSpace, has gone out of business. :(

We're going forward with a July challenge meeting, and either Jonathan or I will post the final challenge on Monday. A lot of incredibly fun solutions have been proposed to Michelle's suggestion, and unless something more compelling comes along:

"I like the idea of a challenge! If I can suggest one that might be fun, and that probably has many ways to accomplish it: how about a Question and Answer section? Something where a user can post a question, and either a moderator or a user can post answers - but possibly the moderator answer always shows above other user answers or is somehow distinguished."

A couple of requirements:

• Presentations must be Internet-accessible so we can use just one laptop to keep things quick.
• To be guaranteed a time to present, make your commitment on the meeting reminder by July 6th.

If anyone has other ideas, please post them in the comments here. I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!

At last night's DUG I asked the group if anyone had a good solution/module recommendation for showing related content in a block, based on taxonomy. A block like this could be used to show blog entries/forum discussions related to the blog entry in focus ("You might also be interested in"), or to show FAQs related to a piece of content, etc, etc. Solr was suggested, but while it is an excellent search option, it does not seem to be well suited to this.

There are some modules out there that can do this and if any of you have any recommendations I'd love to hear them. I've tried Taxonomy Quick Find, but it's approach is not ideal for my needs.

What I really wanted was to do this through Views and get all of the fine-grained control over the way you select and display your information that only Views gives you, but also in a way that is dynamic, rather than a collection of duplicated blocks with hard-coded taxonomy codes. After digging around I found a blog post on how to use views 2 in Drupal 6 to create a related content block. The post is a bit dated, but otherwise is solid and easy to follow.

1. First, do this ... block these dates! Aug 8 & 9.
2. Second, please, please, we will need help, volunteers, and session proposals at all levels.
3. Third, we still need some more sponsors. We've already had some great verbal commitments, but we're looking to lock 'em down.
4. Fourth, follow LAdrupal on twitter
5. Lastly, check back often... this is just a planning wiki, so details are still slushy right now.

NorthStudio and the Victoria School of Business and Technology are once again proud to host the second annual Drupal Camp Victoria, in Victoria, BC September 11th and 12th. Just like last year, we have timed Drupal Camp to happen around the Great Canadian Beer festival. Please go to http://drupalcamp.northstudio.com/ for more information and to sign up.

I was sad to see today that CubeSpace is closing.

Lightning Rounds

It's been a while since we've done lightning rounds, which are generally quick, informative, and fun. Here's what we've got so far:

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Hi there, I'm new-ish to Drupal, and have a multi-media design company in Eugene, Oregon. I have two potential projects coming up this summer, and I'm looking to contract/collaborate with someone(s) who is a drupal developer, and all around nice person.

Both sites will have an emphasis on community -- so friending, rating posts, and users being served up personalized content depending on what they have expressed interest in.

I'd prefer to find someone in the Eugene or Portland area, but, it's not essential that you are an Oregonian.

If you're interested, please send me:

I wanted to let the group know that today Street Roots did their hard launch of our community project, the Rose City Resource site. Since we went live in March, Israel (SR director) and I have been tweaking, configuring, and adding (with the continued support of the dev team, thank you).

You can pick up a copy of today's Street Roots to find an article on page 3. Israel is holding a stack of papers for us so if you're not able to pick one up, let me know and I'll send one to you if you want. :)

You can also see the article here:

Good article by jhedstrom in today's NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network) newsletter: Building Community with Open Source with PDX Drupal UG as an example. Nice.
http://nten.org/blog/2009/05/28/building-community-open-source

In Drupal 6, which module do you guys think is best for hover/mouseover menus, i.e. where you expand a menu by simply hovering your mouse over the primary menu option. Nice Menus (http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus) is not the easiest to use and you need to know your CSS, but does the job. An example of a site using Nice Menus is none other than recovery.gov. However, is there anything better out there? I find many menu modules but most seem to force the user to click on a menu or involve images rather than text.

The following description is from the organizers:

Open Source Bridge is a completely volunteer-run conference for open source citizens held June 17-19 in Portland, Oregon. Focused on developers working with open source technologies, the event features five tracks connecting people across projects, languages, and backgrounds to explore how those developers approach their work, and why they participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at other events.

Hey there everyone,

So for a while there I was placing all of my drupal content in a subdirectory, and redirecting all my visitors to the subdirectory. I've come to discover through working with some people who do a lot of SEO work that it's not a good idea to go doing that. So, I moved everything to the root directory from the subdirectory, did abunch of other stuff for SEO, and now I want to redirect everything from the old sub directory back to the root directory.

Seems like a bunch of projects all hit at once. We are looking for a motivated Drupal developer to help us out on a variety of projects and tasks. If you need some work, we would love to hear from you. Send your resume and contact info to jobs@swipht.com

We are looking for a graphics designer who can design the PSD create the theme templates and craft the CSS.

We have several projects lined up that need a custom theme and more coming in every month.

Please send hourly rate and examples of your work.

After the May meeting yesterday, several of us kicked around an idea for July's meeting. Between now and the June meeting, we brainstorm a challenge in the form of a client requirement or a user spec.

At the June meeting, we'll announce the challenge, and then interested parties will use Drupal to solve the problem. Core, contrib, and custom solutions are all welcome. In July, everyone who tried to solve it will sign up to present, and we'll divide the meeting time among them, but presentations won't be longer than 10 minutes each.

Greetings, Drupalites

I'm a PDX UI designer with 10 years of old school HTML experience trying to bring the best of Open Source form and function to my clients' websites. In the last year or two I've gained a good working knowledge of Drupal, but lack the Deep Magic. I'm hoping to partner up with a skilled backend developer who looks for signs of intelligent life beyond Minelli and Garland.

Come celebrate with the Lullabots as we wrap up another weeklong workshop here in beautiful Portland. We're headed to Ground Kontrol to play classic arcade games and pinball! There's a live DJ and you'll need your ID to get in since there's also a bar. And we'll probably find ourselves at VooDoo Doughnuts before the night is through.

Come on out and get your geek on!

When: 7pm, Friday

Where: Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade - http://www.yelp.com/biz/ground-kontrol-portland-2
511 NW Couch St.
Portland, OR 97209
Phone: (503)796-9364

Howdy:

I have an very intermittent and strange problem. From my static IP at my office, intermittently without warning, I cannot access drupal.org or any related sites, while anybody else can as long as it's not my IP. From my same office, if I log onto a free WIFI, I can access the site on the same computer.

I call Comcast and they are about as helpful as my Cat. (FWIW, my cat is old skool, she's a fortran developer and too lazy to learn the web ways).

PLEASE READ THE RFP AND SUBMIT PROPOSALS AS REQUESTED:

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL #09-1002

REQUIREMENTS &

SPECIFICATIONS

FOR

Web Design & Development

Battle Ground School District #119
11104 NE 149th St.
Brush Prairie, Washington 98606

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: June 10, 2009 @ 1:00 P.M.

PURPOSE

Contract Help Wanted

We (FunnyMonkey)are looking for a local (Portland, OR) contract developer to help with the following general areas:

1.Writing simpletests.
2.Working with our development team on moving sites between Development to QA to Production.

At the risk of stating the obvious, we are fully committed to an open source development model. Toward that end, any test coverage we develop for contrib modules will be released back on drupal.org.

The Lullabot team will be in town next week teaching workshops at the Hotel Monaco. We've got a nice space reserved and a bunch of out-of-town workshop attendees who would love to meet the great Portland Drupal community. So how about a Portland Drupal Meetup on Tuesday (May 5th)!? We'll have a cash bar, audio/video stuff, and snacks.

We'll keep the format pretty open with lightening talks and question/answer sessions. We'll have a signup sheet, and we'd love to hear about the cool stuff that you're working on, Drupal discoveries, or just questions that you need answered.

Location:

Does anybody have any experience or recommendations from among the many modules that implement some kind of chat on Drupal sites?

Corporate Drupal Web Developer - Portland Oregon

JOB DESCRIPTION

Members of local user groups can get a discount to Open Source Bridge:

http://opensourcebridge.org/get-involved/for-user-groups/

We'll also be having a drawing at the May meeting (http://groups.drupal.org/node/21406) to give away a free ticket.

Develop and maintain the Coop Library Services website; develop site design; coordinate and work with staff developing documents for publication on the Coop Library's website; assist in migration of site to Drupal; work under the direction of the Web Administrator; team environment. For full job description and application, see the posting under "Human Resources/Jobs"

Drupal Beyond the Web

Justin Miller will treat us to a half-hour version of his DrupalCon DC Presentation, Drupal Beyond the Web.

Modules 101

Hi folks - its me Brian - I am starting up a new company and looking for local (PDX, SEA) Web Design/Web Development/Drupal Development contract workers that I can add to my contact list for future projects.

I am open to all skill sets and pay rates. Students are welcome to submit as well.

Theresa - I would especially like to get your info - you did a great job on the beehive project - cudos.

Here is what I am really looking for:
- First Name
- Last Name
- Location
- Contact Phone Number
- Contact E-mail Address

Hello all. I am trying to us panels in Drupal 6.10 and have installed all asked for modules but cannot find "Panels_page" and "Views ctools". I cannot activate panels module without them apparently. Can anybody direct me to those download links? Maybe there is an update lag for those modules? Thanks, TS

LinuxFest Northwest is coming up soon -- April 25-26 in Bellingham, http://linuxfestnorthwest.org

We are planning to hold a mini-DrupalCamp at LinuxFest -- see http://groups.drupal.org/node/20345 for format.

However, deadlines are approaching! Only a few people (from Vancouver I think?) have signed up to give formal talks on Saturday (Jakob assures me that even though the deadline is past, if you sign up now (4/8), you can still get in). Please do so if you want to give a formal talk on Saturday.

Hey there everyone, I've got yet another question that has me stumped currently...

Hey everyone!

Trying to sort out a way to work with audio files and CCK. I've got a project I'm helping out with, where users will put audio files in, and it would be nice if they could be played right on the node.

I need some good-looking and versatile video players which of course will work cross-browser. I need them for both 3rd party videos (YouTube) and for locally-hosted files. Needs to work in a panels pane, play above the page (ala Thickbox) and I would prefer to have some good parameterized controls available. And ideally, I'd like to put the snapshot of videos in a carousel as well (including title).

I've seen some writeups for the Dash Player - looks like a lot of dependencies. I also saw that Lullabot is using Kaltura for their Do It in Drupal conference videos.

Dylans tip for making feeds viewable was spot-on so I added a few more feeds successfully. In the process of doing that I have somehow locked myself out of administer settings?!? When I login it treats me as any other user and I dont see the admin menu set. Oh well, I have to go to work anyway! Any tips to give me back my power of admin would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, TS

Hello all and thanks to group members for welcoming me in when we met last Saturday at the Rose City Resource launch. I am slowly building my Drupal site and everything seems to be working fine except that certain block visibility issues are hanging me up. I am trying to plant the RSS Aggregator in a block on the front page and despite setting it up to view on all pages with title plus teaser I only see the chosen feeds (title only) in the selected block when I am signed on as admin. Anything obvious that I am missing? Thanks, TS

Richard and Katrin from One Economy will take a deep look at www.thebeehive.org – an ambitious multi-domain, multi-lingual drupal 6 project expertly knitted together by Katrin from a host of contributed and custom modules and some very clever theming. Katrin will answer the complicated technical questions while Richard will cover the softer aspects of drupal project management and interject snarky asides regarding ‘the drupal way’.

We have launched two social networks using Drupal (one is live and kicking...and one is already in beta) and are looking to expand our team to several more drupal developers who have experience working with Drupal social networks or social media sites. We're proud to say that our current sites have been been built pretty well (we like to think so) and are focused on two passionate communities. We would like to recruit a few experienced drupal developers who want to work on a few exciting projects and help us accelerate our development.

Qualifications and Requirements
- PHP, MySQL, Ajax