The Grand Rapids Drupal User Group (GRupal) is a collection of developers, designers, content managers, and businesspeople who use Drupal personally or professionally. We meet monthly, at 6PM on the first Monday of the month, at The Factory (38 Fulton S. West, Suite 400). Our meetings involve presentations on technical topics, assistance with each others' projects, and social time for networking and relaxation.
September Meet Up
It's almost the second Monday already!
At this month's meeting, Dan Royer will take a tour under the hood of an active and robust support ticket system using native Drupal components (content types, views, rules).
If you are a beginner, you'll get some sense of the power of views and rules for this real-world application. If you are an advanced user, you might get some new ideas about how to apply principles from this application.
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Ben Rouston is going to give us a preview of a PHP class he will be teaching at the Factory soon. Ben may have more to add to this thread by way of information, but it will be great to hear about this class, which some of us might be interested in signing up for.
See you all this Monday night at 6:00 at the Community Media Center.
Dan
Ben Rouston writes:
It's Ben, we spoke a few times in the past about me doing a talk for the
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DrupalCamp Michigan 2015 - Planning Meeting
Camp Details
Saturday January 31st, 2015
Henry Ford College
http://2015camp.michigandrupal.com/
Original
Let's get together and make a plan for DrupalCamp Michigan 2015.
For now, let's meet in #drupal-michigan on IRC. From there, we can look to using other mediums such as Google Hangouts and/or Skype in the future.
We're looking to establish "on the ground" volunteers in an undecided Michigan city to help establish the necessary resources to host the camp.
Please stop by and chat to share your opinions.
Read moreJuly Meetup
Hello everyone! Mark you calendar for the second Monday in July--the 14th. But note that the plan this time is to head directly to the Winchester and go right to the eat and drink. If you haven't been for awhile, this is a good time to catch up with your local Drupal pals.
Again, the meeting will NOT be at the Community Media Center, but instead at the Winchester at 648 Wealthy St. http://www.winchestergr.com/
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Grand Rapids Drupal Group - DrupalCon Recap
Didn't make it to Drupalcon this year but want to hear about new techniques and tricks and when Drupal 8 is going to drop?
Did make it to Austin but want to hear about all the great sessions you couldn't attend?
Join us at the Community Media Center for our monthly meetup for a discussion of all things Drupalcon.
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Who's going to Drupalcon?
Who else is going out there and interested in hanging? I'll be out there Monday morning until Friday morning along with the rest of the Commercial Progression team.
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May 27th - Lansing Drupal Users Group Meeting
The may meeting will be May 27 at 6:30pm in the Center Conference room of the MSU Main Library.
Our agenda is to discuss website Internationalization and tools that make it possible in Drupal. Time permitting we will also discuss the Context module that allows your site's layout to be customized based various conditions in the pages you display and based on who is looking at those pages.
Shoot me an email or give me a call if you have any questions or need to know about parking, etc.
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Kevin Finkenbinder
finkenb2@mail.lib.msu.edu
517-884-7352
Upcoming GrWebDev meeting
Hey everybody, I don't know how many of you are familiar with GrWebDev, but it's a great group focused on general web development. Their next meeting, 6pm on June 2, is a CMS Shootout.
http://www.meetup.com/grwebdev/events/31328662/
If you are interested in how Drupal matches up with other CMSes, I think this will be a great meeting to go to. Also, I don't think anyone has volunteered to speak about Drupal itself at that meeting. This may be a good opportunity to get people familiarized and interested in our CMS. Any volunteers?
Read moreDrupal Meetup - Field Collection Alternatives
Now that we've covered the Field Collection module, we're going to explore several of its alternatives. The Field Collection module is great for creating related entities that are only used in a single place. If a site needs to be able to use that entity in multiple places, though, you much use something other than a Field Collection. The main alternative we'll be covering is the Inline Entity Form module.
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The Grand Rapids Drupal Group meets on the second Monday of every month at the Community Media Center on Wealthy Street:
1110 Wealthy St SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
www.grcmc.org
Directions: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Community+Media+Center/
We'll be presenting a deep dive in to a specific module. This month, the module we're looking at is the Field Collection module:
https://drupal.org/project/field_collection
Read moreoops! Second Monday
Yikes, didn't realize it was Drupal meetup time again. Patrick and others, do you want to meet? I didn't get an announcement out so sorry about that. George? Sami and Brandon might come if we decide to meet.
thoughts? I'm happy to skip a month or to meet. What do you all want to do?
Read moreMonthly Drupal Meetup
Join us again in March for our "Second Monday of the Month" regular meetup. We'll meet at the Community Media Center (next door to Wealthy Theater) on Wealthy St. in Grand Rapids.
I believe we'll be taking a look at Drupal Commerce this month--but others can chime in that might be prepared to talk about this. Patrick?
I hope everyone can make it!
See you all soon,
Dan Royer
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Preferred Responsive D7 base themes
Hey peoples,
I'm about to start working on a new theme for a client of mine. I do have some experience creating my own themes and modifying themes developed by others, however this will be my first attempt at creating a Responsive Drupal 7 theme.
The client is working with a designer who has sold them on a site that needs to work similar to this one: http://ffc.com/.
My question - what is the preferred base theme for a D7 Responsive site? I know there are a lot of base themes out there so I appreciate this groups suggestions for which ones are easier to start with.
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February a2Drupal Meeting
Now that we are (temporarily) done with 50 below zero and 7 foot snow drifts, we have an a2Drupal meeting! As alluded to in January, our topic this month is the Media module.
Location: Spark Central (garden level) in Downtown Ann Arbor
Date: February 24, 2014
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Lansing Users Group Monthly Meeting - February 25, 2014 - 6:30pm
Next Meeting:
We will resume on February 25th at 6:30pm. Our speaker will be Nathan Collins talking about what “git” is, and how to use it for tracking changes in files, modules, themes, or anything else you may want to track. Go to http://github.com to create a tracking account there. Finally, the “git” software can be accessed at http://git-scm.com/.
Module of the Month
Our module of the month will continue with the Views Series by looking at some useful additional views modules including views_calc and calendar.
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Bilingual English/Spanish Volunteers for Drupal online training project (2014)
We are preparing an English version of Forcontu's Drupal training program and we are looking for bilingual English/Spanish people interested in translating (from Spanish to English) part of the materials. In exchange you'll receive free online training (7 months & 420 certificated hours, valued at USD$ 1500) to become an Expert in Drupal 7. You can also give this training opportunity to another person of your choice (maybe a friend, employee or client).
If you are interested or know somebody that could be, please fill in or share the form to contact us. More information at this URL: http://www.forcontu.com/bilingual-volunteers
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March Madness
Official thread to organize March Meeting. What are we doing?
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Meeting tonight
Hello everyone is there a meet up tonight?
Read moreMonthly Drupal Meetup
Join us again in January for our "Second Monday of the Month" regular meetup. We'll meet at the Community Media Center (next door to Wealthy Theater) on Wealthy St. in Grand Rapids.
Our default discussion is to share Drupal related problems and success, but as our meeting gets closer, we will announce any special topics.
I created my first module and would be glad to show how that works, but we'll defer to the group interests of the evening.
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