Wisconsin
This group is for anyone who uses Drupal and lives in or near the State of Wisconsin, USA.
Let's get together and support each other's various efforts to use and improve this great content management and social networking system.
Brainstrom K12 Tech Conference
I am wondering if there are any Drupal users in Wisconsin that work in k12 education? The reason I am asking is if there is the Brainstorm K12 technology conference is coming up at the end of February, which would be a good time to try to get one of the breakout sessions or discussion groups there to focus on Drupal.
Seeking help installing FFmpeg
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to install FFmpeg on one's Drupal server, I can find source code but no "Installing FFmpeg For Dummies" documentation. I am not adept at installing from source. I am assuming that someone reading this has done so already and would be able to arrange a time when you could look over my shoulder, hold my hand, etc. while I install FFmpeg so we can use Media Mover.
If you are such a person, please contact me offlist at ranoble at madison dot k12 dot wi dot us
Thanks :)
Pulling Custom CCK Fields into Views Across Multiple Content Types
I need some help building a custom view for a new section of a portfolio site that will work as an index of Portfolio Projects. Currently I'm using the CCK, Image & Image Gallery, Node Reference URL, Views2, Views Attach, and other related or dependent modules.
As a sidebar, I also gave the SimpleViews module a try but could not get it to produce the page display I want. Perhaps this is still the way to go...maybe not?
Regardless, I'm having trouble getting a View built that will display the Portfolio Project content.
Inventory of needed pages
Whaa?!?! Another MadDUG Code'n'Coffee?
Hello and welcome to another installment of "I normally go to [fill in coffee shop name] because they have good [fill-in-the-blank 1] and even better [fill-in-the-blank 2]." ... I'm your host, Dried Poptaert.
Yep, that's right ... time for another code'n'coffee. And you know what that means? Time to meet, drink coffee, etc. and chat about Drupal as well as all those crazy-cool Drupal project sites everyone's working on out there.
Milwaukee Drupal Users Group (MkeDUG) -- November
It's time for the Milwaukee Drupal community to come together again and suport and encourgae Druaplers
of all skill levels.
Location: C2 Graphics Productivity Solution, 222 E. Erie St. Suite 330, Milwaukee WI 53202
First Hour - Simple Drupal Install
Second Hour - Q & A, Discuss topics of interest for our next meetup
Thanks to Kevron for gettings rolling again.
Question for the group
I have a question for you all, we have been building a website for local green business owners to connect with each other. We have an html page that I need to get to be xml. Our super Drupal programmer has not been able to figure out how to get a particular query from our website into an rss feed. It seems like the hook_nodeapi might be a solution if we could figure that out, and the REST server module is way over our heads. Has anyone encountered this before?
Madison Drupal Users Group (MadDUG) -- November
Where: The 2nd floor conference room at DANEnet. 517 N Segoe.
This month we'll have our usual Q&A / Tips & Tricks sharing from 6-7.
From 7-8 we'll take a look at a couple of ways to handle Image Galleries on your sites...
Hope to see you there!
New Lullabot Video "Site Building With Drupal"
I spend a lot of my time training people how to harness the awesomeness of Drupal. If you are one of the many trying to grow your skillz, then PLZ check out the Lullabot's newest offering.
NEW VIDEO! For all of you wanting to gain some NINJA Drupal SKILLZ!
Site Building With Drupal
Also check out my review of their other videos.
http://dougvann.com/blogs/dougvann/09-08-13/how-to-become-drupal-ninja-l...
ps. be sure to also take advantage of Drupal on IRC see the handbook at http://drupal.org/irc
Need help creating an RSS feed without Views
I can not use views because I want to include links to users who have flagged the nodes and this flag information is not available in views. So...as step one, I'm just trying to create the feed with just my profile nodes, here is what I have, wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction
function mymodule_rss() {
$nodes = db_query_range(db_rewrite_sql("SELECT n.nid FROM {node} n WHERE n.type = 'profile' AND n.status = 1"), 0, variable_get('feed_default_items', 100));
Drupal web hosting recommendations
Hi,
I'm looking for commercial hosting options for a Drupal site, and would appreciate some guidance on how much server power I might need. My experience so far is in developing relatively low-traffic sites. I'm also not an expert by any means in Linux server admin.
Drupal Camp Chicago 2009

You are invited to attend Drupal Camp Chicago on Saturday and Sunday, December 12 & 13, 2009.
Who/Why:
General Site Setup Assistance
Hey all, I've been trolling the Wisconsin group for a bit, and was hoping someone with some more experience could help me wrap my head around this problem.
The Setup
There is one "corporate" site. It has recipes in a variety of topics.
There are 8 "franchise" sites. They should be able to show the same recipes as corporate, but as if they were their own. Each franchise site wil also have a few of their own pages, such as About Us, Contact Us, Specials. etc, each editable by people specific to that store.
From WAMP to web server
Sorry I couldn't join everyone tonight for the Madison group.
I'm building a site in Drupal and started on my local computer with WAMP Server. Now I need to move things to a real web server, and I don't want to start over from scratch.
Any suggestions on the best way to do this? I've got the Using Drupal book, but didn't find anything in there about it.
Thanks,
Reid Magney
Wisconsin Government Accountability Board
gab.wi.gov (not Drupal yet, but coming soon)
What is THE best night for a MadDUG meeting?
October MadDUG Code'n'Coffee
Impromptu MadDUG meetup on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 from 6pm until coffee shop closes (e.g.: whenever) at Michelangelo's (back room, off Carroll St.).
Michelangelo's Coffee House:
Question Regarding Categories & Taxonomy
I am building a site and I want to manage certain posts and I thought I'd tap the local community for some advice on how to set it up properly.
The site would allow users to submit news articles. Free tagging will be implemented. I have 'news' set up as a term in taxonomy with the list of associated terms. My question is how do people view all 'news'?
I'll help flesh it out.
Impromptu Drupal Users Group Meet-up Anyone?
I've gotta say, it's been a while since I've attended a MadDUG meetup but the Drupal User Group meetup this past Thursday in Madison, was really great. Great topics, great discussions, great ideas, methods, personal workflows, and was just a great time. Seeing lots of familiar faces at the meetup was nice and seeing many more new people there too made it even better. Thanks again to the DANEnet crew for the meeting set-up, wi-fi & av gear.
Now ... I know this is a Wisconsin group, not just a Madison, WI group however, seeing that the next MadDUG meeting
Madison Drupal Users Group -- October
Where: The 2nd floor conference room at DANEnet. 517 N Segoe.
This month we'll have our usual Q&A / Tips & Tricks sharing from 6-7.
From 7-8 we'll talk about writing a custom module (accessing the database, altering a form, adding permissions, etc).
If anyone has any specific ideas for a module we can write during the meeting, please leave a comment below.
Student Drupal Tech Help
I work for a group at the UW that manages a small group of Drupal sites for departments in our building. (No, this isn't a service we extend to just any department, it has to be in our building.)
However, when approached for this service, we always stress how
1) we will give you a blank drupal install, maybe a theme or two, a tutorial on how to use it and let you go to town.
2) we will not do custom design.
Web Themer/Developer | Computer Sciences, UW-Madison
The CS department at UW-Madison is looking for help in redesigning their web site in drupal.
Successful bidder must have drupal experience with large, diverse and preferably academic sites such as ours.
We are looking to maintain the graphical quality of the current (customized dreamweaver) site while dramatically improving our ability to maintain it in a decentralized fashion. You will work a person on our internal Lab staff who will provide advice on the current setup and help with aspects of design and implementation. Prefer someone local to UW-Madison.









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