twin cities

Hey Twin Cities,

After talking with a few of you at last meeting (thanks again Dave!), I realized there are probably quite a few of us that will be heading off to Drupalcon DC in March.

Hi Twin Cities! I’m a new face in the local Drupal community, having just joined Gorton Studios as their new Project Manager. Gorton Studios is currently working on a bunch of interesting projects and it just so happens that these projects are landing at the same time. So, we are currently looking for both freelance Drupal Programmers and Designers, as well as folks that we can outright refer work to. We are looking for people that are experienced in their field, are great communicators, are flexible, have integrity, and of course a sense of humor.

Drupal Genius Wanted - we're looking for someone who can:

• provide fixes and tweaks as needed
• has strong knowledge of drupal code including blocks, views, and related components.
• strong knowledge of of php, mysql, and javascript preferred. If weak in those, then suggest how you'd address it
• is prepared to help us efficiently migrate to a new hosting site and build a new dev server that is set up for easy, transparent migration to the live server
• has a working knowledge of managing Flash, streamed media, and other graphical components within a Drupal/Apache environment

Gorton Studios is looking for a Project Manager with experience, discipline, integrity and excellent communication skills. If that's you and you want to be involved in building websites for great organizations, let's talk! Or, if you know someone who might be a good fit - please forward this on to them!

This is a full-time, on-site position in Eagan, Minnesota.

Full description available at http://www.gortonstudios.com/news/werehiring

It looks like the folks over at the Minnesota Historical Society are looking at Drupal - they've posted a 'Senior Web Developer' job at http://www.mnhs.org/about/jobs/731.html that includes "Experience with open source applications such as Linux, Apache, Drupal, Lucene, Nutch or Solr." amongst it's must-have qualifications.

Is there a meeting scheduled for November?

This month's presentation will be a large presentation broken down into smaller sessions. We will have Show-and-Tell sessions highlighting REAL sites we have developed with Drupal.

Please prepare one case study to share with the group. We will post these case-studies, so the first people to commit get the pick of the litter! Add your session as a comment. Remember, many hands make light work!

I'll be showing off the brand new Dojo Module that super-charges your Drupal website. The Dojo Toolkit is an open source, Javascript toolkit that does virtually everything from Ajax to widgets. I'll introduce the Dojo Toolkit, how to configure the module, how Dojo enhances Drupal, and most importantly, how to use Dojo in your own content, modules, & themes.

The presentation will be fairly fast paced and contain a lot of information, so be ready! :)

Location:

Main conference room in the IATP building:
2104 Stevens Ave S.
Minneapolis MN 55404

We've all seen great Drupal-powered community membership sites, but how do you actually put one together?

At this month's TC Drupal meeting, we'll eat our own dog food and put together a site of our own at www.tcdrupal.org. We'll build member profiles, interest groups, and both mass and discussion email solutions. You'll learn how to expand on Drupal's native functionality with new staples such as CCK, Views, OG and Bio.

What the Drupal community really needs is a taste of what can be accomplished by winter-hardened Minnesotans. Let's get together and show our stuff at the World-wide Drupal groups bug hunt.

Now is a good time to start forming a strategy. Please use the comments here to point out some of your interests and areas of expertise. Don't worry if you're not a Drupal or programming genius. This is a great way to learn from others, and people of all skill levels can benefit the process

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