Twin Cities

Apropos to the month's meetup topic, I need a developer to work on a short-term (1-2 months) project implementing Ubercart and doing some integration with CiviCRM. Compensation is $1500-$1900 depending on specific terms of work. Longer description at Craigslist:

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/web/673695569.html

If you are in the Twin Cities area and interested, contact me at 651-442-5734 with questions, or use my contact form to e-mail me a description of your experience with Drupal e-commerce.

The team from Lullabot would like to invite all the fine folks from both twin cities to join us for an evening of Drupal.

We'll be in town running a week of workshops and would love to meet the locals. We'll host lightning talks where people can come show off they're latest and greatest in hacks, tricks, tips and new module discoveries. There'll also be a cash bar, snacks and free cookies ;-)

When: May 7th, 2008 from 7-10pm
Where: The Chambers Hotel [map] (we'll be in the ART Room)

Of course, if you want to take full advantage of our visit - you should register now for the workshops too!

Hope to see you all there!

Hi all,

I have been using Drupal for about 6 months on my own site and now having a real desire to learn how to code in Drupal. I'm an application developer in real life, but never had to use PHP.

I'm wondering if anyone would like to walk down this path with me. I thought it would be more fun to do this as a team rather than by myself.
We can discuss details like when and how often we are going to meet if there is enough interest in such a "learning" group.

Please reply to this post if you are interested, and feel free to post any ideas you may have.

Thanks!

A few of us up here in Northwestern Wisconsin are trying to get together the first-ever Western Wisconsin BarCamp. We're in the early organizing phases - meaning mostly we're mulling it over and looking for a time and place. Of course, the BarCamp will feature lots of Drupal love.

Hello all, I know everyone is really busy, but I thought I'd throw this volunteer position out there for those of you that might be interested in volunteer on a human rights project here in the Twin Cities. I'm looking for someone to volunteer their wonderful drupal skills once every 2 weeks for about 2 hours, just to sit and think of creative drupal solutions to my drupal problems. Your time would be greatly appreciated..and you'd be working on an award-winning website - www.newtactics.org!

For the April meeting, Samir Nassar (SteamedPenguin) will report on how to use the Zen theme effectively to theme Drupal.

This presentation will give you an overview of the Zen theme to allow you to use Zen as a foundation for your project. The structure and comments of the theme make it a solid and flexible foundation for any project.

• Regions: What are they? When to use them?
• CSS Foo: Building a design on top of Zen
• Creating Zen sub-themes for fun and profit

Spring has sprung! The local Drupal community is growing and developing quite a network of learning and networking opportunities. Here are some of the upcoming gigs.

• This group (of course): The Twin Cities Drupal Users Group Meeting. These meetings are free and happen monthly. No level of expertise is expected or required. Usually a topic of interest is discussed along with open forum for questions and networking. Always some yummy pizza following the topic discussion. Every 4th Wednesday evening starting at 7 PM. More info can be found here - be sure you are signed up to receive emails through the "my membership" link in the right column. Hope to see you soon!
• Lullabot's Drupal Theming and jQuery and API and Module Development classes for the more advanced Drupal developers. For more information, see their post below.
• Drupal Basic Training: Build a Drupal Website. For those of you how are just starting Drupal, Advantage Labs, Inc. is offering a 4-week class/workshop/seminar series on how to build websites using Drupal. We've been hearing from many folks - from the users group meetings to the Drupal Day at the Science Museum attendees - that a class like this would be helpful. It starts April 14th - a week from Monday. We expect to follow the series with more topic-based workshops (one-time) and more advanced classes.

We are also excited by Open Circuit. Science Museum of MN, Sunday's Energy, Gorton Studios, Steve Hanson (TC Drupal online group founder), TCDrupal Users Group and others have all been working toward more extended collaboration on Drupal learning opportunities. Stay tuned for more info to learn about Drupal and get involved locally.

Attend one of the biggest BarCamps in the world without leaving your own home town! It's time for the 3rd Twin Cities MinneBar!

http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/MinneBar

Hey there Minneapolis!

The team from Lullabot is headed to the midwest this May! We are going to conduct a week of workshops covering both Theming and jQuery and API and Module Development (or register for both and get a discount).

Come learn the ins and outs of Drupal from experts like Pro Drupal Development author Matt Westgate, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, Addison Berry and James Walker. The week is hands-on and interactive with plenty of opportunities to get your questions answered.

Early bird pricing is in effect until April 18th, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact us.

The Science Museum of Minnesota is hiring a Drupal developer to work as part of the team that operates the award wining Science Buzz website and exhibit.
Application deadline: April 9, 2008.

Science Buzz is expanding in many ways. Your expert Drupal, PHP, and web coding skills will help us:

• develop Mentor Buzz, an online community focusing on the needs of mentors and their students talking about science
• create unique web features focusing on contemporary issues like the 35W bridge collapse, Hurricane Katrina, or even male pregnancy!
• build web enabled exhibits that allow other museums around the country that allow their visitors to hook into the Science Buzz community
• create new tools that help our visitors create content along with us...we like to share authority
• and more...

UPDATE: This meeting is actually happening TOMORROW, March 18th. Sorry for the mixup and the short-notice-change!

In this session, we (Chad Fennell and Cody Hanson) recap the Usability Presentation we gave at Drupalcon Boston 2008. Open discussion will follow.

See you then!
-Chad

Hamline University School of Law is looking for an independent contractor or service to provide short-term (30 - 90 days) help with its Drupal-based web site. The position will require approximately 15 hours a week, possibly more.

Candidates must have the following skills:

• Drupal 5.x Site Administration
• Ability to work with Drupal's Views and CCK Modules
• Drupal Theming including CCK and Views theming
• Basic Unix skills
• Good troubleshooting skills within Drupal
• Ability to provide support to users at the Law School adding content to Drupal

I am considering presenting on themeing Drupal using the Zen theme for either the April or May meeting.

Here is what I would like to do:

• Explain what Zen is
• How to create and use subthemes
• Creating regions

I will be adapting several designs to the Zen theme, among them:

• spring360 by René Hornig

Some of you may already be aware of the Drupal Usability Testing Efforts at the University of Minnesota. Dries has also posted some thoughts on this project and how it fits into the greater Drupal usability plan.

A few folks have asked whether or not we were planning on holding a local Drupal meetup event, given that Dries and a handful of core developers would be hanging out in TC for a few days. The answer to that question is: Yes! We have a jam-packed few days of work for the Drupal team, but we're going to start things off with an informal public meetup on Monday, February 25 at 6:00pm:

Details
* Location: Campus Club (Directions and Parking)
* Time: Begins at 6:00pm
* Catered by the Campus Club

What we'd like to know is, who's in? Please help us out with an informal RSVP by posting your name and an optional affiliation to this wiki page. Thanks!

My stepmother is starting a new business building floral arrangements. I am going to help her build a website, and I plan to set it up using Drupal, but I am no designer, so I'm looking for someone local to create a theme for her website.

I think a theme is generally pretty independent of the size of the site, but feel free to quote me on whatever basis (pages, hours, sites) you like.

Thanks,

Matt

February’s presentation was a bit “meta” for a Drupal group, focusing on basic user-centered site structure -- An approach that works similarly regardless of your choice of CMS (or lack thereof). I focused on my use of card-sorting exercises to develop the hierarchy of information used at Friends of the Mississippi River's web site, http://www.fmr.org, in our 2007 Drupal-based redesign. The notes and example documents that I used in my presentation are attached below.

For the January meeting, Gorton Studios will walk through the home page of the Rake Magazine (one of our recent projects) and deconstruct it by looking at the files and code involved. Much of what will be covered is at least hinted at in our writeup of that project (http://drupal.org/node/191608), and reading through that writeup may help you get more from the session.

The next meeting is January 23rd (I believe). We missed the November meeting, so I don't know if an agenda and presenter have already been set for January. If not, though, we'd previously mentioned that we were willing to present on some of our recent projects and had tentatively slotted that for the January meeting.

From 10am to 5pm on January 27th, Open Circuit (http://tcopencircuit.org) will be hosting a day-long series of workshops on Drupal in the Learning Technologies Center at the Science Museum of Minnesota. We want to provide an opportunity for everyone from the bleary-eyed programmer to the wide-eyed novice to teach and learn about using Drupal to build websites.

Hi! I'm an arts administrator recently relocated to Minneapolis from San Francisco where I was involved in the nonprofit tech community - NTEN, NetSquared, etc. I am attempting to find and join a similar community in my new hometown!

From 10am to 5pm on January 27th, Open Circuit (http://tcopencircuit.org) will be hosting a day-long series of workshops on Drupal in the Learning Technologies Center at the Science Museum of Minnesota. We want to provide an opportunity for everyone from the bleary-eyed programmer to the wide-eyed novice to teach and learn about using Drupal to build websites.

For those who did not have the pleasure of seeing Dan talk about the new local Indymedia site, you missed a good meeting. And you'll have to wait until January to get your Drupal fix, as we're foregoing the December meeting.

See you in 2008.

-Mark

We are looking for another full or part time Drupal developer, PHP programmer.

Must have
20-40+ hours of weekly availability
Proven experience working with Drupal
Extensive, proven knowledge of PHP and MySQL
Ability to hand code HTML and PHP
Ability to work within the command line
Ability to work on several projects concurrently
Ability to accurately estimate the time required to complete the work
Working knowledge of JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery, XML, Flash, CSS

Telecommuting and working remotely is ok.
Compensation is dependent on qualifications and efficiency.

Twin Cities Indymedia will present their new Drupal site (which is still in development). They will be pretty quick, and are open to all suggestions and ideas.

This will be a great time to review how another site implemented some of the same functions you have probably implemented, and to consider the pro's and con's of different directions.

Come one, come all!

LOCATION:

2104 Stevens Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN

Just one block north of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

See you Wednesday!
Bobbi

I see the monthly meetings are at IATP Building
2104 Stevens Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

on the 4th Wed of the month

Time?

DrupalCampWisconsin

What
A BarCamp-style day of drupal-centric sessions and hacking in good ole Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sign-up at http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampWI

When
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
10AM - 10PM (Registration starts at 9AM)

Where
Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)
Multipurpose Room
1025 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI

Want to help out?

Is there a meeting scheduled for November?

This is a full-time position that supports the Vice President of Communications. The responsibilities include formulating concepts, managing IATP's visual identity, executing layout designs for art work and copy to be presented by visual communications media, such as Web pages, HTML email, reports, factsheets, pamphlets, posters, and packaging of organizational material.

Responsibilities

At the next Drupal Group meeting, I will be discussing what I have learned so far about theming a view using the template.php file. I will explain how I was able to create a nice little table, and how I could not only control the formatting, but also where and when the data is displayed.

A group of us are trying to get together a regular meetup for technology for nonprofits in the Twin Cities. At the moment we're just kicking around ideas for planning this. It might be under the guise of a Netsquared meetup, or something else. If you're interested in helping to plan such a group, please contact me.

Steve

CSS Developer will be responsible for learning and almost exclusively using the Drupal CMS while working closely with our green web design team.
Required Qualifications:

• Ability to hand code CSS, HTML and PHP
• Extensive, proven knowledge of CSS and familiarity with PHP
• Open Source experience
• Work 4 days per week in our studio
• Ability to work on several projects concurrently
• Ability to professionally interact with clients if necessary
• Ability to accurately estimate the time required to complete the work

The following qualifications are a plus:

IDC WebDev is an established, small web design firm based in the Twin Cities. For over five years we have provided high quality web design, content management solutions, and database programming to local businesses and non-profits.

We're seeking a web developer/programmer to join our small, effective team. This is an opportunity for you to access more work based upon our sucessful word-of-mouth networking, initially as an independent contractor and with the goal of eventually welcoming you into our business as a full partner.

I promised to post the example files from the CSS demonstration last month, and promptly forgot all about it. Late's better than never, right?

I'm not allowed to attach zip files to this post, so I'll keep this link active for a couple weeks.

http://www.intermediaarts.org/css_example.zip

WHAT: BarCamp in Milwaukee -- the second edition
WHEN: October 13th and 14th (with a social pre-event on the 12th)
WHERE: Bucketworks
WHY: Because we're geeks, and don't need any other reason

We did the site in drupal this time, and there should be several drupal related sessions going on.

Come and join the fun, and help plan DrupalCampWisconsin,

Feel free to contact me with any questions

I am wondering if there other people in the Twin-Cities using Drupal, that would want to create sub-group for development of Drupal or more advanced topics for Drupal.

I really like the group we have going here. I think the range of Drupal expertise is a huge benefit, but I also feel like it is limiting at the same time. The difference between beginner CSS and writing Drupal Modules is huge.

My idea has spawned from this post (http://drupal.org/node/160239) and what others have said about other Drupal Users Groups.

Hey Folks,

The Exhibits division at the Science Museum of Minnesota is hiring a Multimedia / Web Designer. While the official description below doesn't specifically mention Drupal development, it could be a big part of this job. We are looking for someone to work on site at the museum in Saint Paul, MN, USA.

It's not that CSS is such a simple topic that it will only take 30 minutes to cover in depth - It's that there's so much to cover that I'm not sure how to tackle it without rambling from subject to subject. I'll talk about critically important concepts like specificity, inheritance and the box model and such, but after that, what's the best use of our time? Any suggestions on how to focus this discussion would be appreciated.

If I understood correctly, for the rest of the session we'll attempt to tangibly tackle user's Drupal questions by starting with a fresh, local installation.

Hello,

I wanted to announce a new module, just released today: Node Cloud. If you're familiar with tag clouds this module should look pretty familiar: it themes the output of a view like a tag cloud.

The primary ordering of the view is from the first sort. The sizing of each item is based on the second sort order. This makes the plugin very versatile for making clouds of popular content, highly rated content (say with the voting api), highly commented content, etc.

Hey everyone. I have agreed to give a Theming Demo at the next Twin Cities Drupal User Group. The problem is that I do not own a laptop. So if someone could possibly help me out here, that would be great. Preferably I would like:

Laptop with a local webserver and a fresh install of Drupal. A simple, but good text editor, and Firefox.

OR I can set up my own fresh install of Drupal and use someone's laptop for the demo. I would need a good ftp client, good text editor, and Firefox.

Any takers? Thanks ahead of time.

I would like to make to this meetings specially since I am planning to visit my drupaleros friend in BCN this September. Unfortunately, I cannot make the time and the dates of these meetings. Is it possible to change the date and time? The time is not really that bad is just the week day.

thnx!

It looks like I volunteered to give a demo on creating a Drupal theme from scratch. Here are some initial things I have in my head:

Assumptions

I will assume you understand the basics of HTML and CSS. Here is a good place to start: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss

I will also assume you do not know PHP but can understand it's basic usage in web development. http://www.php.net

HTML/CSS Theme

Hi All - just wanted to remind you that the 4th Wednesday is tomorrow, May 23rd. So - its time for another fun-packed TC Drupal meeting!

Wilbur has generously agreed to give his "$500 websites" review. After that, come prepared to discuss what methods you use (or need) towards delivering expectations within budget for sites large and small.

See you tomorow at Advantage Labs' conference room at:

2104 Stevens Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55409

Take care,
Bobbi

Hi,

I'm a web developer in the Twin Cities, and I'm relatively new to Drupal. I have used some other CMS and blogging systems, but I am about to start a new project in Drupal, and I am looking for someone who can guide me a little bit. Mostly, I'll probably just be asking about the best way to do things, and get some help if I run into trouble. Are there any Drupalers out there who would be willing to give me a hand? I would greatly appreciate it. I can pay by the hour, also.

Thanks,

-L.K.

The Dojo Module is an open source Drupal module that enhances Drupal websites with the awesome power of the Dojo Javascript Toolkit.

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!

MinneBar is tentatively scheduled for April 21st. Anyone interested in doing some type of Drupal Camp/Hacking/Etc in and around barcamp?

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

Migrating to Drupal
By Abhijeet Chavan and Michael Jelks on Sat, 2006-09-30 01:00. Webmaster

Why and how the Planetizen Web site migrated to the Drupal infrastructure for communities.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8710