Chicago's local community of various user groups focused on Drupal. Groups have meetings each month in/around Chicago. Please be sure to join our group if interested in posting or hearing about Drupal-related job opportunities in the Chicagoland area.
The Drupal Chicago Meetup Group holds meetups on various topics and networking opportunities. Presentations and speakers are aimed at a general audience, with site show-and-tells, module demonstrations, news and announcements, and question and answer sessions.
If you live or work in the suburbs, check out the Fox Valley Drupal Meetup group with topics for all users.
Volunteers in the Chicago Drupal Group also organize MidCamp - Midwest Drupal Camp. Drupal camps are multi-day events that can include training days, session days, code and documentation sprints, and social events. Held annually in March, MidCamp is quickly becoming one of the larger and prestigious Drupal camps due to its high level of speakers, content, accessibility, and attention to detail.
Did we mention, the Chicago Drupal community has active and ongoing community discussions going on can be found at https://midcamp.slack.com.
Drupal developers/companies and salesforce for webiste project
The Latino Policy Forum is looking to hire a website developer/company to rehaul our website, preferably that has some knowledge of Salesforce as we'd like to integrate the too systems. My understanding is that Drupal works best with the Saleforce CMS system. Budget is $12,000-$15,000
I'm attaching a RFP and sample site map to provide a little bit more information about our needs.
My apologies is this is not the appropriate space to post these types of requests and if anyone has any recommendations - I welcome them
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Filtering assoc array returned from variable_get()
Given this checkboxes form field for a drupal module
$form['soc_eport_expireByFiletype'] = array(
'#type' => 'checkboxes',
'#title' => t('Select file extention'),
'#default_value' => variable_get('soc_eport', array('gif'=>'Gif')),
'#options' => array(
'gif' => t('GIF'),
'jpeg' => t('JPEG'),
'jpg'=> t('JPG'),
'png' => t('PNG'),
),
);
It produces this array:
Array
( [gif] => gif
[jpeg] => jpeg
[jpg] => 0
[png] => 0
)
Week-long Comprehensive Drupal 7 Training in Schaumburg, Illinois
We invite you to join NxtTeam in Schaumburg Illinois for 5days of comprehensive Drupal training August 27th-31st!
This is actually THREE courses across five days. Each attendee receives a bound, printed copy of the courseware to take with them after we go through it in class.
* Drupal 7 Site Building, Monday the 27th through Tuesday the 28th ~ $600
Learn the essentials of how to create pages, menus, taxonomies, content types, and views.
More info and to register -->
http://training.acquia.com/schaumburg/2012-08-27/site-building-drupal-sc...
Need help with a theme problem
I need some help with a theme problem.
I'm getting a horizontal scroll bar and I can't figure out where it's coming from. The site is a fixed-width and should render at 1000px. The page seems to think it's 1897px wide. The site is http://prussingelementary.org and is a Zen child theme.
If you can see the problem quickly, please let me know what I've done!
If you're a theming expert, I'd be happy to buy a bit of your time. Let me know what you'd charge.
Thanks much!
-- Steve Stern
Read moreContent assigned to multiple groups won't appear under organic groups home tab
Hi all,
While creating a new blog node in Drupal commons, I assign two organic groups to it. While it appears under both groups' Blog tab (view group_tab_blogs), it only appears under one group's Home tab (view activity_log_stream).
Any suggestions?
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CDMUG August 2012 Meet Up Wed 15th @ 7:00pm
RSVP @ http://drupal.meetup.com/1
Duo Consulting opens doors at 6:00pm for attendees to arrive, socialize, and hang out before meetups. We try for presentations to officially start by 7:00pm. Comment your RSVP with full name and bring photo ID to gain authorized access to Duo's office downtown.
Presentations:
CDMUG August 2012 Meet Up
Duo Consulting opens doors at 6:00pm for attendees to arrive, socialize, and hang out before meetups. We try for presentations to officially start by 7:00pm. Comment your RSVP with full name and bring photo ID to gain authorized access to Duo's office downtown.
Presentations:
Feeds Module++ by Maksim Pecherskly
Free Drupal Training and Install Workshop
What is Drupal? Where did Drupal come from? How can Drupal help you?
Jump into the driver seat with our hands on experience known as the "Drupal Test Drive". Not only will we cover an introduction to Drupal, you will also be given a free temporary Drupal website. Learn how to create and edit content. Utilize open source modules to extend functionality of your website. Add users and manage groups with permissions. Plus your temporary website is available on the Internet to play with after the workshop.
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Is there a calendar, ical feed, RSS feed, or any single spot which lists all upcoming Drupal events, camps, meetups, groups, powwows, chats, coffee, birds of a feather, etc?
Read moreDrupal Coworking Friday - August
Join fellow Drupalers for a day of coding and camaraderie. Intended for freelancers, telecommuters, or those who just want to get out of the office for a day, coworking is a time where we can get our own stuff done in the company of others (and hopefully help each other along the way).
We'll be at the Next Door Cafe (659 W Diversey) from 9am to 5pm on August 31st. I've reserved one of the larger tables in the center area for the day, but there are plenty of other work areas if you need to run solo for a bit.
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CADUG 8.12 - Advanced Drupal Meet Up!
Lightning Talks
Attendees are encouraged to present for 10 minutes on a topic of their choosing. Show off a recent project, get audience feedback for your next big idea, demo a cool new module, give a marketing case study or just talk about anything else Drupal related. No slides or presentation skills are required. Short yet informative talks are the goal.
Read moreBash Aliases
I can't imagine administering drupal without drush. I've set up some aliases in my bash profile. I've become so dependent on these, that I synchronize my alias.sh file through bitbucket. For example, the function drupre will put the site in offline mode, run cron, clear cache, and then put the site back in online mode. The other is drubackup which will save the file structure and database dump to a date based file structure.
Does anyone have any other alias commands to speed up work flow?
drupal and drush
Read moreSomething to think about in terms of Accessibility
So, personally, I don't dabble much in Accessibility and don't know much about it. It's definitely on my list of things to get into, but as you can imagine for any developer, that list is very long. That being said, I saw something really cool today and automatically thought - Accessibility.
I try to make a habit of looking for innovation outside of Drupal community. So obviously, I troll github.com/explore. And I found this nifty little stylesheet:
https://github.com/redroot/holmes
Read moreJust a thank you
I left IRC open today (#cdmug). Just after asking a question and some clarifying details, I had folks jumping left and right to help out. I love this community. The problem was solved and my boss impressed with the end result.
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CADUG 7/31 Meeting Notes
These are abridged notes from last night's CADUG meeting. Please post comments about what I am forgetting here. I will be sure to record the next meeting so we can dictate this more transparently.
Welcome to CADUG
- What is CADUG?/Why does it exist?/Where is it headed?
- Members ask questions/discuss meetup purpose/agenda.
- Members discussed possibly starting a twitter to submit questions to for lighting talks.
- Members discussed possibly creating a place to submit lightning talk questions and track/vote on these questions getting floor time.
[DCC12] Should this year's camp have an overall theme?
At the kickoff meeting for this year's planning earlier in the month, it was suggested that we might want to have an overall theme for this year's DrupalCamp Chicago.
Some of the suggested topics were:
- distributions
- Drupal 8
- responsive design
- multilingual Drupal
In my mind, having an overall theme is a good idea for both potential presenters and attendees. The trick will be choosing the right one!
Read moreCan we move Community discussions here?
Now, I'm not saying we all start airing our dirty laundry for the entire internet to see. Any group of passionate people will have internal conflicts.
However, there has been recent activity, primarily related to the planning of DrupalCamp Chicago, that has been occurring in IRC and Basecamp. While both tools are valuable, they severely limit participation of the Chicago Drupal community as a whole.
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Free (pratically - $20) Drupal Training in Iowa
You may have heard a lot about the DrupalCorn Camp 2012 but there is also a pre-camp Training Day that you may consider attending. Although the courses are not totally free, at $20 (lunch included) this is a nominal fee.
Chris Shattuck and Michael Hofmockel are executing two all day training courses that will run the day before the camp.
Check them out:
* Ready to dive into Drupal? - Chris Shattuck
Training in Chicago? Not in Drupal but related technologies
Hey Folks ->
Some folks with whom I work are looking for training classes in webish technologies and I thought people here might have some leads for worth-it training vendors.
I was looking for classes in javascript & HTML 5 and PhoneGap (the cross-platform DMA construction environment)
thanks for any leads!
todd
CADUG - Chicago Advanced Drupal User Group
The Chicago Drupal community has a long and colorful history. It is one of the most vibrant around the country, and possibly the world. We have been long time attendees and members of the Chicago Drupal Meetup Group.
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