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.
A New Website for the Indiana Users Group?!?! Rudy is working! Sirens are playing!
At the Aug 7th meeting, I proposed that we might consider setting up a site for our Indiana Drupal Users Group. The response was very warm indeed!
I'll provide hosting and we can ALL develop it as our efforts and time allow.
So here it is.
The NEW Site WIKI!!
What's the name of our site?
www.drupalindy.com won!!
Drupal5 or Drupal6
With THREE quick votes for Drupal SIX we have a winner.
Job List
Designers: dudenhofer / (yourname here)
Developers: (yourname here) Doug_Vann / (TonyV)
PHP Meetup Aug 6th @ BroadRipple
At today's meeting I mentioned that the monthly PHP meetup would be occurring the day before our scheduled Drupal meetup.
Some asked for more details, here they are:
http://php.meetup.com/394/calendar/8266589/
I encourage anyone wishing to attend to please join the meetup.com site and RSVP your intention to come. There is an RSVP option of MAYBE just in case you're noncommittal.
I will be there and it will likely be my last time since I will be co-teaching a class at church on Wednesday evenings for the upcoming school year.
Notes from 7-24 meeting
OK GANG:
If you attended the meeting on July 24th I am inviting you to join this WIKI page and post your notes from the meeting.
If what you have to say will likely start a whole thread of conversation then by all means start a new discussion after you post a teaser of it here.
Tonyv mentioned a session at DrupalconBoston2008 that was particularly interesting to him as it involved a birds eye view of the roles of designer, developer, themer in a Drupal project.
Read moreThe Three Stooges!
Here's a wiki page that is ALMOST entitled: The 3 Stages!!!
I propose that we all work out an outline of three distinct stages of Drupal development. Jump on in and add what you like. Please wrap your additions in Italic tags
Stage One: Absolute Beginners
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Hello from South Bend, IN
Hello all, my name is Brandon Morrison, and I'm a fairly new resident (6 months) to Indiana. I've recently started TFnS Web Design, a design boutique that specializes in small to mid-size web sites for small businesses and artistic types.
How many of you are in the northern side of the state? I've noticed that the meetings tended to be Indianapolis, which isn't all that feasible for those of us in Michiana to attend on a regular basis. Would there be any interest in having a get together in South Bend sometime?
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Hello Indiana Group!
Hi everyone. I just wanted to say, "Hello" to everyone out there. I am fairly new to Drupal, but have quite a bit of experience with both commercial and other open-source CMS systems. My company has decided to go forward with Drupal as their main platform for multiple community-based web sites, so I am jumping in head first!
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What Would You Most Like to Learn at the July IndyDUG Meeting?
Thoughts for next month's (July) Drupal Meeting?
Hello everyone!
The June 24th meeting was attended by Tony, Doug, Becky and yours truly. The meeting was held at the Abbey (after hours); a mistake on our part for not finding out what hours they kept but we were graciously allowed to remain on site to have our drupal discussion. Needless to say, this was a very informal gathering.
Doug showed us a couple of his sites including one being vamped by his son. Way to go Tyler! Tre'von is envious right now (yes, I had to tell him but he is in Atlanta living it up for the summer).
Read moreWould you participate in a weekly skype conference call of the Indy Drupal Group?
Anyone Going to the Next Drupalcon?
Anyone from our group going to the next Drupalcon? I'm thinking about it. Should be a pretty expensive ticket though.
Tony
Read moreTuesday June 24th Meetup at the Abbey - 6pm
ADMIN- ADDED: Attached is a PDF of a flier that you can use to promote this event.
The flier is not the greatest but it's the best I could get on short notice. Use it or make your own.
I'll be at the Abbey ready to talk all things Drupal on Tuesday, June 24th at 6pm. Anyone care to join me?! I'll bring at least one friend that also uses Drupal. Hope to see you all there!
Tony
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Suggestions on how to proceed?
As a total nood to Drupal, I must admit that it is a little overwhelming to look at all the modules and try to decide a plan of action when it comes to developing a site. I have been given the opportunity to build a site for a photographer who wants to be able to set up individual pages for wedding clients to proof photos, and purchase prints for themselves and their friends.
Read moreWhat sites have you developed?
I am curious to know what sites all of us Hoosiers have developed with Drupal...good or bad. Here's the list of sites that I have done:
Read moreHosting ideas?
Folks, I'm looking for some ideas.
I currently play "site admin" for four different web sites. They are all physically located in different web hosting accounts with the same web host. All of them are running Drupal. My role with all of them is to keep Drupal and the necessary modules and themes up-to-date and to establish the structure and functionality of the site. It's someone else's job to create and manage content using the tools that Drupal provides. All of these sites are for not-for-profit organizations and I'm not making any money from them...just covering expenses.
Read moreOur Shared Resources
If you don't see the EDIT tab for this Wiki, CLICK THE TITLE of the Wiki first
This is a wiki page that any of you can edit. The idea is that we can all contribute to this list and watch it grow.
So let me ask you. What are the resources [Drupal or otherwise] that you rely on to get you where you want to be? What are the tools, the websites, the books, anything that makes you better than you were yesterday?
Let's list them here!
Doug's list:
http://Drupal.org An obvious place to stay in the know of Drupal
Announcing the new #drupal-indy IRC room.
Hey gang.
Here's a meeting room that everyone in the state of Indiana can attend.
I have created the Indiana Drupal IRC Chat Room on freenode irc network.
The room is always open because I built a bot [I named him indybot] and placed him as an ever present bot in the room.
New to IRC?
If you want to keep things REAL simple then install an irc-client as a firefox plugin by doing this...
Open up your firefox. and navigate to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16
Click the ADD TO FIREFOX button
Complete all install/setup procedures
April 12th INDY meeting.
Join us @ the April meeting in INDY!
Where?
Midwest Internet Incorporated MAP!
(317) 287-3232
5348 N Tacoma Ave
Indianapolis, IN
We will take a tour of the data-center and drool over racks and racks of servers. My server's there and that of my former employer [ask me about that one!]
They also have a rather impressive museum of technology including computers developed by people that are no longer walking the earth.
Happy to Offer My Location for any Future Meetings
Hello Indy Group,
Just wanted to throw out there that I would be happy to offer my location to host any of our meetings. I'm on the Northwest side (near the pyramids) and have a pretty good meeting room. We have wireless and a projector too.
I hope this helps. I look forward to meeting you all!!
Tony Valle
Read more2nd Meeting of the Indiana Drupal Users Group
The "post event" functionality in Drupal.org is broken. It has been for a while. I couldn't wait; so I am posting a simple announcement.
Here it is.
The 2nd meeting of the Indiana Drupal Users Group.
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