Western Massachusetts

The next Western Mass Drupal Meetup will be on Tuesday, August 5.

Great meeting last night, including Walter's presentation on ECommerce and Drupal (Ubercart recommended) and David's presentation on Pubcookie. Thanks again to David Hamilton for hosting the meeting.

Location: Amherst College campus, Webster 102 (see comment from David below for more detail.)

Please suggest agenda items for the next meeting by posting comments below.

Check back here later for updates.

AGENDA (in process):

1. Overview access control modules - which to use when? - General Discussion
2. A look at template files - Rick Hood
3. What IDE do you use and why? Textmate, BBEdit, Dreamweaver, etc... - General Discussion

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The next Western Mass Drupal Meetup will be on Tuesday, July 1.

Great turnout at the meeting this past Tuesday. Thanks to David Hamilton for hosting the meeting and offering to host this meeting as well.

I assume same location: Amherst College campus, Webster 102 - but check back here before the meeting to make sure.

Please suggest agenda items for the next meeting by posting comments below.

Check back here later for updates.

AGENDA (in process):

1. Overview of e-commerce options for Drupal - Walter Wilkinson
2. Pubcookie and the drupal pubcookie module - David Hamilton

Following the first Tuesday of the month timing we have been doing, then next Western Mass Drupal Meetup will be on Tuesday, June 3.

That was a great meeting this past Tuesday. Many thanks to Jim Skowyra for arranging the room again!

Thanks to David Hamilton this meeting will be hosted at Amherst College campus, Webster 102. For more see David's comment below.

Also, we have been informal in the past but I think an agenda would be good with as many presentations as possible, so comment below if you have something to present. It can be small and "newbie" so anything is cool. I think at the last meeting we did presentations that would have been over heads of newbies so want to maybe balance that with some basic stuff too. A step by step of Imagecache Module use is an example.

Check back here later for more details.

Thanks, Rick Hood

UPDATE:

agenda so far:

1. Using the Audio Module - Jim Skowyra
2. Building an image gallery using CCK, Views, Imagecache, Thickbox and Custom pagers (http://drupal.org/node/144725) - Rick Hood
3. Making custom page and views templates - Dan
4. The Innerfade module (http://drupal.org/project/innerfade) - tentative - Dan

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Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 6, 6-9pm.

Location: Lord Jeffery Inn, Amherst (30 Boltwood Ave).

http://www.lordjefferyinn.com/

Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/2fmrj2

This time we are in "The Garden Room" which is larger.

Many thanks to Jim Skowyra for arranging the room again!

Make comments to this if you want to talk abotu something in particular - maybe give a presentation or whatever.

If anyone has a projector, please bring. I will try to fix mine before, but may not have any luck.

Hi!

Thanks for a good meeting last week. I appreciate all the information you have to offer.

I have a question about how to get started on a project.

Feeling a little bit of a post-Drupalcon lull and mulling over travel plans to next weekend's DrupalCampNYC4, I found myself wishing that there was something a little bit closer to home to look forward to going to occasionally.

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Our next meeting will be on April 1, 6-9pm.

Location: The Quebec Room at the Lord Jeffery Inn, Amherst (30 Boltwood Ave).

http://www.lordjefferyinn.com/

Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/2fmrj2

Many thanks to Jim Skowyra for arranging the room again.

Also note there is a Boston meeting on March 19 at 6pm:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/8373

On Tuesday, March 11, we have the Quebec Room at the Lord Jeffery Inn, Amherst (30 Boltwood Ave) from 6-9pm.

Sorry I won't be able to attend this one. A slip on the ice Superbowl Sunday resulted in a knee injury which keeps me immobile until mid-March. Otherwise, the room is set.

I can start setting these up for the first Tuesday of the month. That means the next one would be April 1st.

Also, I tried creating this as an event - got an inactive spam filter error. Anyone run into this problem?

Jim

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I'm probably driving out to Boston on the 8th for the Boston meetup. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/7767

I may be able to bring someone depending on whether or not I'm meeting with a client out that way first. Let me know if you are interested and I'll let you know if I can give you a lift.

Well it was small, 4 people but concidering the impromptu nature that was good.
I learned more about search hooks, and that all the freelancers in the area are overwhemed w/ bussiness.

JOsh

Hi,
I just moved to Amherst and I'd like to meet with other Drupal Developers. I have a neat set of projects underway but i could use some help.

Hi,
I just moved to Amherst and I'd like to meet with other Drupal Developers. I have a neat set of projects underway but i could use some help.

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The projects on tap include:

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If interested please include your experience, location, and rate in your response.

Thanks,
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Green Fields Technology
Greenfield, MA,

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Skills needed:
* advanced module development (with efficient code that won't slow down high-traffic sites)
* advanced theming

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I have recently jumped into the Drupal community with both feet, after 4 or 5 months of tinkering more or less on my own. I was glad to find a western Mass. group, and was curious as to whether there are any upcoming meetings in the works... or better perhaps to wait until the fall?

Hope everyone is having a good summer!

-Andy

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Knowing that there are a lot of BarCamping Drupallers, I figured I'd point out BarCampManchester up here in Manchester, NH. Manchester's only an hour north of Boston, so it might be a great day trip for some of you.

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We’re looking for someone to

*learn our systems working with senior consultants;
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Sorry I've been missing in action.

I've scheduled a meeting for this date and time. Same location as last time:

Media Education Foundation
60 Masonic Street
Northampton, Massachusetts 01060
http://www.mediaed.org/

We can just get together and talk about projects we are working on, or whatever. The room is booked for 6-9pm, but we don't have to go for 3 hours - we'll see how it goes.

OK we are set for Monday, November 6 at 9:00am here: http://www.mediaed.org/ It is a great space with projector and screen.

We have the room until 12:00pm if we want to go that long. There is a coffee shop in the same building.

Suggested topics:

1. I can do a presentation about what I know about theming (the basics) and then people who know more can take it from there.

2. Maybe Tim can teach us about how modules work? Hook function and all that jazz? Maybe look at example.module? (http://drupal.org/node/292)

Also, extra bonus: that night in Cambridge there is a Boston Users Group that’s going to be a great meeting. Check it out: http://groups.drupal.org/boston4 Jeff Robbins from Lullabot.com will be there. If you want to drive in together, let me know.

I was hoping to find a night open for us at the Media Education Foundation (http://www.mediaed.org/) in Northampton, because they have a great room with large projector and screen. However, they are completely booked up, except for weekends.

Here is the calendar: http://www.mef.tv/webcalendar/month.php?&year=2006&month=11

Is anyone up for a weekend meeting, like Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon or Sunday afternoon?

If so, please let us know your preference and if any dates are not good.

OR anyone know another location where some kind of screen is available so we can all watch what people might want to present?

OK, let’s try getting together on Thursday, October 12, 7:00PM at :

9/22/06 NOTE: Date changed, it used to be October 5.

Haymarket Cafe (downstairs)
185 Main St
Northampton, MA 01060
(413) 586-9969

How about as an agenda we each talk briefly about:

• What we know about Drupal and might be able to give a presentation on later.
• What we don’t know about Drupal and want to learn about.

We can get into these topics and also use it as the basis for figuring out presentations that might be done at future meetings.

I'm starting work on a new not-for-profit Drupal site on the side called WesternMassBuyLocal.org. There are a few "buy local" sites out there already, but I have some new ideas that I would like to try with this one. (Update: just created a national site on the same subject called http://www.buylocal.net/ -- live, but still in development. Also building related site http://www.pioneervalley.org/ in Drupal.)

I see a lot of box stores moving into the area, and local businesses that have been around for 20 years are closing down. When people type in things like "[product] store amherst" into Google, I want them to come up with information about local businesses and to not end up at one of the "box stores". We also have a lot of CSA here and it would be good if more people learned about how they can buy locally-grown produce direct from the farms.

Another project that I would like to start on in the next few months is a multi-blog Drupal site about the 2008 presidential election (USA). The idea is that the voices of a large number of regional (national?) bloggers would be able to get higher search engine rankings and a louder voice than if they were just blogging independently. A multi-blog project would get more coverage than a single blog.

Just some ideas that I am working on. I have the domain names ready, but haven't installed Drupal on them yet...

Is anyone interested in meeting in Amherst/Northampton area to talk about Drupal? I'd be interested to see what other people are doing with it.

I've been using Drupal for about 9 months and am interested in learning how to create custom modules. I would be glad to help out any new Drupal users install Drupal and get started with it...