Chat with us! Thanks to Neil (IndyTechCook) we now have an #indianapolis channel in the Drupal Slack Workspace!
If you're not already using Drupal Slack, I highly recommend you join at https://drupalslack.herokuapp.com/
Once you sign up and join the Drupal Slack Workspace, click on CHANNELS and you'll see a search interface.
As you begin to enter "indianapolis" you will see #indianapolis appear in the list and you can click it to join.
How/When We Started: The Indy Drupal Users Group started meeting in January of 2008. Since that time we've ranged from meeting once a month, to twice a month, to infrequently. We've had instructional meetups, guest speakers, some hack-a-thons, and even pulled off 2 DrupalCamps.
We haven't had a meetup since Feb 2016.
OLD NEWS: The IndyDrupal Meetup.com Page has been closed. We will be using this forum from now on.
In April 2018 I asked our 251 MeetUp.com members if they wanted to do a meetup and got little response.
Evansville Drupal Group Starting
Hey guys, Looking at starting a drupal group up here in southern indiana. There are a couple options for locations, days to meet up and what not. I am very much interested in seeing who would like to start up a group for drupal guys down south. Initially it would probably be a couple meetings to see what we want to get out of it, what as a group we want to learn, and then we will go from there.
Let me know what you think, my email is chris@chrismcintoshdesigns.com and phone is 812-602-3712.
Thanks,
Chris
Monday, Feb. 9th - Drupal Indy Meetup
The next Drupal Indy Meetup is on Monday, Feb. 9th at the offices of Promethius Consulting (Click Here for Directions). raystuart will be presenting on Webmin and there will be another presentation about modules that work well together. Please bring $5 or so to chip in on pizza and drinks. There will be more information to follow.
Read moreLafayette meetup?
I know that there are several of us who live in Lafayette or West Lafayette and work with Drupal. Would any of you be interested in starting a Lafayette meetup? I think that we could probably meet at my church if we need a decent size room. Let me know what you think.
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Blogs of Indy Testing
I've been working on a RSS aggregation site called blogs of indy. The basic concept was to categorize the content by the posts instead of by the feeds. I'm almost ready for a beta release but I need some test blogs. If anyone would be interested in contributing content for testing, please create an account on my staging server http://blogsofindy.hostingbyhastings.com. Then create a Feed using the "CREATE FEED" link in the menu. Once this is done, I will map the content then refresh the feed.
Comments are welcome.
Neil
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2nd Indy Drupal HackFest! Saturday Jan 31st 1pm-??
OK, Here's the scoop!
Let's get together with our projects, our questions, our skills, and some pizza! Show up whenever and leave whenever. No official presentations will be given, but if a couple people have similar questions, we could break out into a small group and cover that info.
We are confirmed for the Broadripple offices of ProBlog Services.
MAP IT HERE
Who comes to the Indy Drupal meetups?
While the last meeting was well attended, there were some "regulars" and "long standing" members who weren't able to make it. I have been asked how things are going and who's attending. To that end I offer this post. My goal is to represent the demographics of the group in an accurate way. Please correct any misinformation appearing here.
Our last meeting on January 12th saw the widest spread assortment of Indiana Drupalers we have ever had. Shawn and Josh from Lafayette and Aaron from Bloomington, and Seth [amazing presenter that he is] hailing from Muncie.
Next Meeting
Last meeting 1/12: one of our biggest ever! Thanks in large part to the brothers-Dudenhofer! CONGRATS: James Moriarty & Neil Hastings! Winners of the O'Reilly Lullabot book : "Using Drupal" Looking forward: Should we shoot for a 1/26 meetup? If so, what should we discuss? Do we need to take a step back and cover some more common Drupal topics like taxonomy, path auto, user permissions, user profiles... etc??? What do you want [or NEED] to hear about? Let's talk about it.
Read moreMidwest BoF at Drupalcon
Let's get together at Drupalcon! I started a BoF so we can hopefully find other Drupalers in or around our area. Let's make some noise! :)
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/2692
Read moreWebcast from O'Reilly Media: Advanced Twitter for Business
Gang, The fine folks at O'Reilly Media have extended a rather nice offer to us:
Read moreJoin us for this live webcast:
Advanced Twitter for Business
Conversation, Community, and Profit--140 Characters at a Time
Where media is going in Drupal a Recap
Here is a link to the Drupal hack session for media:
http://recordings.dimdim.com/view/dimdim/b9109e76-32fe-102c-bbd7-0030489...
Looks pretty awesome!!
Read moreDrupalcon Roll Call
Many of us are going to Drupalcon. If you're going, PLEASE sign up as attending on this event post.
I for one haven't booked a room yet. Who wants to talk about sharing a room?
We have a lot of out-of-towners in the Indiana group and some of them are going to Drupalcon. This will be our chance to meet up.
So, please sign up and talk about how you're getting down there and what sessions you want to attend.
Lost Links - Help?
I've discovered an odd issue with my site ( dudenhofer.com ). I've noticed that my sidebar links aren't working. When I check the code, it still generates the "a href" tags, however, none of the links are active. The mouse doesn't even change to a hand like what is common for links when you roll over them. Granted, this is pretty much a testing site for trying new things, but any ideas where I could have removed the link functionality?
Read moreBending Zen Presentation
Sorry for the wait... Here is a link to the power point file from the Bending Zen presentation at the last Drupal Indy meetup. I will post the screen cast when I can get it finished. I will be walking through the complete creation of a theme starting with the Zen Theme. For now, at least you can reference the information that was the intro to the presentation.
The Power Point file is attached, and here is where I posted it on my blog.
Bending Zen Intro Slideshow
Cloud Camp Indianapolis
I got this on the RoR group, and thought it might be worth a note here....
BlueLock (www.bluelock.com), a Indianapolis Cloud Computing
company is sponsoring a national IT event: Cloud Camp
Indianapolis. Cloud Computing has quickly taken over the IT
industry and I am confident that many of your members would
find this to be a great opportunity. I’ve attached the press
release for more information. Cloud Camp Indianapolis is
basically an “unconference” forum for anyone interested in
cloud computing. Other Cloud Camp events are taking place in
Video RSS feeds
Not sure if anyone else has been trying to do this. But, I have been trying to display RSS feeds with the actual videos they contain. I thought I was going to have to create a module to do this, but you do not.
Modules you need:
feed api
feed api mapping
emfield (embedded media)
CCK
http://www.drupaltherapy.com/node/34
This video then shows you how exactly to set it up.
You will need to create a video field first...which this video shows you how to do that:
http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode22
My website:
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#drupal-indy IRC Chat Room
Hey all,
Trying to get our own drupal indy chat room hopping so we can help provide support to each other and continue to grow the local community. Our Drupal Indy group already has a chat room. It is listed below:
#drupal-indy
URL: irc://freenode/drupal-indy
Local Drupal Powered Online Game: Handbellhero.com
Hello All!
I wanted to make the last DrupalIndy meeting, but the weather was too much!
Anyway, since then I have published our company's first Drupal web site. It's our holiday card to our community. It was an interesting site because we had to integrate Flash and Drupal on a number of levels. Oh, and they gave me three days to make this happen. Me and the designer were up all night the night before it was due.
We modified the Blue Curve theme and started with the Acquia distribution (less modules to download, easier to upgrade).
Read moreDrupal Indy Meetup: January 12
Hey Indy Drupalers! We did a vote on the next meetup and January 12 won the majority. We're going to be discussing using CVS for Drupal updates and meeting at Promethius Consulting. If you would like to get in on this and the potential of a CVS vs. SVN discussion, sign up!! There will also be other topics up for discussion. Last meetup, we had 2 "rookie Drupal presenters" start discussions on Theming with Zen and local XAMPP setup. It seemed to get some really good response. Post here if you have an idea for discussion, or would like to take a crack at presenting on a topic.
Read moreMy first Drupal Module
I did it. A huge milestone in my Drupal development life. I completed my first custom module. While at this point it would only work on my site (I hard coded the name of content types and some other variables from the notification module) but it works. I have attached it but know that you can’t just add it to your site. At minimum you might have to change the name of the feed-item content type on line 85.
Read moreConvert PSD files to Drupal Themes
I found a very interesting resource that coverts a psd file to a Drupal theme. psdtocss (http://psd2cssonline.com/) online claims to accomplish this from their website.
Example site:
http://newfind.net/DrupalTheme/
Here are a few screencasts from the created.
http://psd2cssonline.com/node/183
http://psd2cssonline.com/node/186
http://psd2cssonline.com/node/193
