How did the meet-up go? Can someone provide a summary of what was talked about? Did we have 6 show up?

My apologies for not being there. With a sick newborn and a difficult 2 year-old I just couldn't leave my wife (who ironically broke her foot last week). Anyway, as you can see there was really only one good choice. :)

It sounds like we agree on June 30, 2009. Thanks to the guys at American Academy for being gracious hosts. We'll plan on 7pm, unless the group decides otherwise. I think discussion will be primarily about setting up different types of photo galleries, and the For Every Child site will be used as our example. Other topics are welcome.

We're looking for a drupal developer / administrator.

This person would help migrate our existing web properties to Drupal 6 from Wordpress, Moveable Type and other CMS systems.

Required skills / attributes:
- everything drupal
- drupal database migration
- work well as an independent developer
- familiar with vbulletin

Additional skills (not required by a bonus)
- vBulletin wizard
- Template design
- Linux system management
- Load balancing networks
- Database optimizations

Please contact chris.larson@smartphoneexperts.com for more details or questions

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.

The American Academy is an online high school built upon Drupal technology. If you came to the last group meeting, then you have been to our offices - downtown, SLC. We are currently in the process of converting from a Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 code base... which is proving to be a rather large project. Much of our existing code employed custom MySQL tables, with custom queries, something we are working to move away from, toward CCK and Views.

I'm working on a review type website and i've broken it into Categories. I got the Categories working with Taxonomy which is pretty cool, but what I want to do is when someone goes to a "Category" I want to give them the option to sort the listing by popularity (and other criteria) would the Views Module be the thing to do that?

Thanks,

I'm trying to plan out how to do a review type site in Drupal if anyone has done something similar.

I'm looking for a Rating/Review Module where basically you can create a "Review" Content Type and review that item based on multiple criteria, so say you were reviewing different Apples based on 'Redness', 'Taste', 'Value', etc..

So the owner of the site could rate the product based on those three criteria.

Also a Registered user could rate the items but the registered users ratings would be seperate but combined into a single 'user rating'.

If anyone knows of a good Review system that would help alot in my upcoming Drupal Project.

Thanks

DrupalCamp Colorado Registration has been opened! You can register at the main camp website - http://www.drupalcampcolorado.org

DrupalCamp Colorado is the regions biggest gathering of people interested in Drupal. The event is based around sessions proposed from the community and voted on by attendees. Camp is funded by a mix of entry fees and sponsorships.

DrupalCamp Colorado 2009

June 27 and 28th we will be at the Denver PPA Event Center (2105 Decatur St. Denver, CO 80211).

I'm assuming by the lack of discussion on the website that everyone has been very busy, so I think it's safe to wait till June for our next meeting. Is everyone cool with that?

Also, for the next meeting I'd like to cover two subjects that I think are useful for everyone:

• Photo galleries
• Private content

We could use the ForEveryChild website we started last meeting as our example. I think this should take 30-45 minutes to cover, so there will be plenty of time for any other presentation ideas.

I'm proposing that we move the manager position to another active member in our group. It may even be a good idea to have multiple managers to keep things moving along if the other is busy. There are some cool things that can be done on these group sites and without an active Manager we can't really take advantage of this.

I want to get everyone's thoughts on whether it would be worthwhile for us to record anything at this next meet-up. At future meet-ups I'll definitely do a better job with my camera/audio work (if you've seen the one from our last meet-up you'll know what I'm talking about). I'm just wondering if it'd be something that the people that can't make it would want to watch. I'm guessing that if we're all going to be working on this site that it'd be hard to really get some good shots of what we're doing.

Ideas? Thoughts? Comments? etc.

On Tuesday we will be creating a website for the non-profit organization For Every Child, an adoption agency that works with orphanages in Taiwan and Haiti. For Every Child helps families navigate through the US and foreign courts to make the adoption possible. The current websites they have are:

• http://www.foreverychild.org
• http://www.worldswaitingchildren.com
• http://www.fecforum.org/taiwan

I’m sure there are many of us who feel very comfortable walking through a website start to finish. And there are those who may not feel like an expert at the entire process, but are comfortable with some part of it. For this reason I’d like to divide up the process into sections and ask others to step in and present a section. Trust me when I say that this will get pretty boring if I’m the only one presenting! So step up and take a section.

Just wanted to let you guys know I just relaunched our DATC.edu site on Drupal 6. It was a heck of a project that I've been working on over the last few weeks and months. I finally set a schedule to get it done (3.5 Days) and I did it!

Go check it out! Any feedback is welcome!

I'll have a write-up on my work blog and personal blog when I get a chance tomorrow.

--amariotti

(Thanks to Chuck for his help porting over some of my PHP snippets. :) )

Here's a basic checklist of how I set up a Drupal website from scratch. I'm sure I've missed some steps, which is why I'm adding this as a wiki page. If you see anything that I've missed, or something that seems unnecessary, please make the correction and add your name by it. I'm sure there's room for debate on some of these things, and I think it might be good to discuss some of these issues here. So feel free to add a link to another discussion page for any topic.

A few of us are running Drupal training over the next few weeks. For more details see the original post announcing the training -- https://island.byu.edu/content/announcing-drupal-training

The next training is tomorrow (Friday April 2nd). We'll be covering the basics of CCK/Views -- for more info see https://island.byu.edu/content/drupal-training-2-build-job-posting-site-...

Reid Beels put together this information about the Open Source Bridge Conference happening in Portland, OR on June 17-19. I am passing it along to the Drupal community as I am sure it will spark some interest. I may be going to this conference depending on certain circumstances. If you are interested in going as well, please contact me through the contact form here at g.d.o or on my site http://craigjacksonweb.com and I can get you the group rate discount code.

Without further ado, here is some information about Open Source Bridge:

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Open Source Bridge

I spoke with somebody this morning and have engaged them to help me. Thanks to those of you who responded to this posting. I am really impressed with the Utah Drupal community!!

Matt

Hello Everybody. I'm looking for a Utah based Drupal developer to act as a consultant/programmer for my Drupal website. I'm located in Murray, Utah.

My website is www.mailcase.com

I'll need help on an ongoing basis configuring and maintaining my website. I specifically need help now with the Google sitemap module and the path module. I can pay by the hour or by the project.

Here's a link to the video of last night's Meet-Up. My apologies for my fat head being in the way the entire time. :)

The audio should be loud enough to pick up what's going on though. This was the group's first time trying to record the meet-up and post it up for everyone to see so we're learning!

http://vimeo.com/3749235
Password: utahGroup1 <--- right password! :)

Let me know if anyone has any problems.

Andrew Ariotti

The Drupal Tank meeting went quite well. Thanks to all those that made this possible, and all those that came. Craig (TapocoL) presented his configuration and file structure for his site at http://www.craigjacksonweb.com. Kyle Matthews shared with us about DrupalCon. You can review the DrupalCon presentations (which includes resources they used such as websites and slides, and even some have video) here http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/schedule.

Great article that came across the Drupal planet today:
http://www.mediacurrent.com/blogs/best-practices-and-tips-local-drupal-u...

Hey,

I was thinking of some ideas for the next meeting and some topics that would be helpful to me would be discussing addons and layouts for different types of general sites anyone might have.

e.g. News Website, E-Commerce, Blog Site, Article Based, etc.. And different ways you could use Drupal to approach a general site idea.

Tuesday February 17th at 7:30PM to 9:30PM at the ODIN Office

You don't have to stay the 2 hours but if you can come for a portion of the meeting and contribute your experience it would make for a better gathering.

Topics: Validation API and Theming

Google Map Directions

ODIN Development
772 East Utah Valley Drive, Suite 200
American Fork, UT 84003

What are the plans for this meeting? Are we just showing up with a random bucket of things to present? Are we going to try to nail down a particular topic for presentations?

I suggest we get the ones who want to present on February 17th to prepare now. So, we can get word out at least a week in advance with the topics of presentations. This will give time to persuade some of the possible showers to come out to check out a certain topic. I really do not want to have another meeting where we do not really know what is going to be presented, and it feels like we are just winging it.

Here are the minutes we said we would post. Review them and let us know if there are any suggestions and things on top of what we discussed that you would like to add to the conversation. We'll be posting some stuff at DrupalTank.org also.

Got to thank Curtis Jensen for taking these minutes.

All,

I am working on a client's Drupal site that integrates with a vBulletin 3.8 forum. My client wants me to make some changes and optimizations to vBulletin, but I know nothing about vBulletin and I'd love to keep it that way! (call me a Drupal snob...) Does anyone have vBulletin experience or know of a good place to look for vB help? I know vB offers commercial support, but I don't want someone to give me suggestions, I'd like someone to come in and do the work themselves.

Site: http://la.org.au/d57
Forum: http://forums.la.org.au

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Chuck

February 17, 2009 Meeting

These are some of the topics we discussed for our next Drupal Tank. We appreciate all that traveled to the meeting and contributed. Please all who attended and are interested in attending give us your two cents here by editing this wiki page and listing topics you would like to learn about along with any sites you could showcase different elements of.

Topics

Validation API
Theming with Basic Theme
Theming with Zen
Performance
SEO
Multisite
Organic Groups
WebFM
Formbuilder
Images
Gallery
WYSIWYG
TinyTinyMCE
Module Combinations

We're looking for topics for Drupal Tank. Please submit your suggestions. I'll create a poll to see what people are thinking about too. Please list different ideas you have. Please volunteer if you have some ideas you would like to present and we can go with those ideas also.

We've had some comments referring to LDAP and Active Directory integration. That's not anything I have experience with but if someone wants to volunteer to put together something on that we are open to that.

We've decided on a multi meeting topic for now on using Organic Groups/CCK/Views/Panels together.

Leave any comments letting the group know what you would like to learn about. I'll crawl through some other discussions and see if I can dig up anything discussed in the past that people wanted to get some education on.

I have a Drupal Site that is about 85% done and the contract developer (out of state) has left me hanging to get things finished up. I need someone local (Utah) that I can pay on an hourly basis to get the site to where I can push it live -- and to contract on an ongoing basis to make improvements and possibly to develop other sites. The current site is www.hockeyplayer.com/home

I believe it is in Drupal 6.

Please email me at quint@drumsondemand.com

There is just some window dressing that needs to be done, etc. I also need some help with executing the google ads module, etc.

Hey,

Anyone else heading to New Orleans this week for the Lullabot "Do It With Drupal" training conference? I'd love to hook up, if anyone else from Utah is headed out there.

If not, I'll try to take really good notes ;-)

Topic: OG/CCK/Views/Panels Usage

Will update with topics. We had 14 people at the November meeting. We appreciate the participation and are exited for this meeting.

Tuesday January 13 at 7:30PM to 9:30PM at the ODIN Office

You don't have to stay the 2 hours but if you can come for a portion of the meeting and contribute your experience it would make for a better gathering.

Google Map Directions

ODIN Development
772 East Utah Valley Drive, Suite 200
American Fork, UT 84003

Just a reminder post to get people's attention. If you are planning on attending the meetup in American Fork, here is a map with directions: Google Map.

Let me know if you have any questions. Sign up as an attendee if you plan on coming so we can get a more accurate guestimation of attendees. It should be a lot of fun and we'd love to see anyone who can attend to come. Come with ideas for what direction you would like to see the meetings take. We want everyone's feedback so we can make these meetings fun and informative.

November 18th at 7pm

OK everyone due to feedback and to help those dealing with traffic, we've updated the meeting on the 18th of November to 7PM. Let us know if yo have any recommendations for feedback for the meeting.

Google Map Directions

ODIN Development
772 East Utah Valley Drive, Suite 200
American Fork, UT 84003

This is the official Utah Drupal Tank meetup. All those that are able to come please come. We'll get a more detailed description of the agenda in the next week or so. We are going to start and hold these every month on the third Tuesday at 7:00pm for an hour. Any feedback anyone has about the meeting please chime in.

Let us know if you have any feedback.

Hey everybody. I know I got involved awhile back and haven't showed up to any meetings yet, but I've got some commitment from our whole team at ODIN Development now to sponsor a meeting place and regular meetings down in Utah County. We've actually revisited our business plan and have decided to make Drupal a huge part of it. In doing so we want to get a lot more involved in the local Drupal community and global one. Everyone and anyone who can make it is invited.

Here's some idea / resources that Acquia has gathered. I thought they might spark ideas for events we could hold as well as provide useful resources.

http://acquia.com/drupal-event-organizer-kit

Well, we haven't had a meet-up in around 4 months. And, I would like to set-up a meet-up to get things possibly going again within this group. I am willing to do a topic on my Google Summer of Code Project on Drupal (Validation API). I understand there were two others from this group in the GSoC (kyle_mathews and jtsnow) that may want to add into my presentation as well.

Today, (September 19) Symantec took our advice (against their better judgement), gambled and let us install the "Talk Like a Pirate" module (http://drupal.org/project/pirate) on their "Juice" community at http://juice.altiris.com

It's been a blast!

If you read this on the 19th, drop by and read how the filter changes regular posts into "pirate speak".

If you missed the event, here's a sample post from one of the users:

Wow. Pirate auto-conversion!
Submitted by sjlewis on 19 September, 2008 - 11:35.

Hey all,

Just a heads up that Novell's Drupal community has recently undergone a facelift: http://www.novell.com/communities

Kudos to Axis41 (www.axis41.com) for the design, Odin Development (www.odindev.com) for the theming, and my company, WebWise (www.webwiseone.com) for project management.

Sorry people, no one was interested in my training event scheduled for October so it is cancelled.

I am however looking for local Drupaller to get involved with the same concept just moving in a different direction and I would love to have local designers and programmers to get involved with this venture.

If you're a Ninja, message me for more details.

I have secured 3 domains that can all be used for Drupal training in various formats as well as various aspects.

We've recently created a new site using Drupal & Ubercart to handle our e-commerce. We are looking for someone that can customize this to fit our unique needs. I'm told it will require extensive PHP programming. Please contact us at john@ems-i.com or 801 302-1400.

I finished our year-long project of a brand new website using Drupal. My case study is here, here and here if anyone is interested (the last one being the complete version that was posted on Drupal.org).

And here's a link to the site: http://www.datc.edu

Feedback is welcome! (design, usability, content, etc.)

amariotti

I am proud to announce the availability of a new module for Drupal integration with Salesforce.com CRM users. I posted on our group page a while ago regarding a potential module that would integrate Salesforce's Lead Form into the Webform module that we've all grown to love. Well... I was able to get in contact with a developer from Ohio, who was excellent to work with, that did just that for us.

Utah Open Source Conference 2008

I will most likely be attending this, and I thought I would pass on the information to the group.