Welcome to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Drupal Group -- the place to get involved with the Twin Cities Drupal community whether you're new, a core contributor to the Drupal project or somewhere in between. Register for the group to get posting privileges and to be notified of what's going on.
Looking to connect with other local friendly Drupal people? Check out the Events tab for a rundown of our regular meetups and other upcoming Drupal-related events.
You can also join your Drupal peers and mentors in a couple of places:
- Slack tends to be more active these days. Join https://tcdrupal.slack.com. If you need an invite go here to get an automatic invite to the Slack team
- IRC -- #drupal-twin-cities on irc.freenode.net -- to ask questions, propose ideas, socialize. Check out Drupal.org for more info about IRC and Drupal including how to create a new account and connect. Or come to the next local meetup and someone will help you get started.
A concrete proposal for a Twin Cities Drupal User Group non-profit corporation
In order to have a concrete proposal for incorporation that we can all discuss, I've written up proposals for articles of incorporation and by-laws for a Twin Cities Drupal User Group non-profit corporation.
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September TCDrupal JAM Session
Our monthly JAM is an opportunity for anyone in the local Drupal community to bring a project and hang out and work together. Beginners and experts are all welcome. This is part social event and part co-working/sprinting.
Any project will do, here are a few samples of what you are encouraged to do at the monthly JAM:
1) Hack on Drupal Core
2) Bring a project from work
3) Work on a personal project
4) Come help improve Drupal documentation
5) Work on a presentation you are planning for TCDrupal user group
6) Plan a presentation for TCDrupal user group
7) Anything else....
TC Drupal Coordinating Committee (3rd Quarter)
Every three months we have a TC Drupal quarterly coordinating committee meeting. This meeting is open to anyone that wants to discuss upcoming or potential Drupal related events in the Twin Cities (or surrounding areas). We have been scheduling this meeting prior to the Happy Hour - with the intention of finishing our business in time for everyone to socialize starting at 6:00 (or sooner).
Anyone that attends the meeting is a member of the TC Drupal Coordinating Committee.
Read moreArtiCulture.org - Nonprofit
Hello,
ArtiCulture.org is a nonprofit located in Minneapolis with a mission to empower individuals and communities to create positive change through the visual arts. Our current site is built on Drupal and we are in need of getting the site updated with two critical functionalities that directly impact our day to day operations. The original team that built our site is no longer around and we do not have any expertise to get this update done on our own.
1) Ability for users to select class time/date
2) Ability for users to pay on our site for the registered classes
Request for Proposal - Site Migration and Redesign
The College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota is looking for a qualified vendor to visually redesign our current site and migrate it to another hosting solution. The current site is hosted in Drupal 7.
We are asking for a Request for Proposal from any qualified vendor that is interested in working with us. All information about our RFP can be found here: https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1PGEr7p-rqxAZZYUho9bSKunVI2...
If you have any questions, please e-mail tjkautz@umn.edu.
Thank you!
Tom Kautz
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Drupal Happy Hour - now with new Schedule!
Last month's attendees voted unanimously to move the Drupal Happy Hour to a new scheduled night - so take notice!
The Second Thursday of every month will the new scheduled night for TC Drupal Happy Hour! So 'bee' it - until further notice.
Blue Nile
2027 E Franklin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404
There was also talk of changing the venue! Come on by and share your ideas of the perfect Drupal Happy Hour venue. Bee heard! Bee Seen!
Hope to see you there, everyone is welcome. Bring a freind!
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Maintenance mode using server files?
Question: Is there an easy way in Cpanel or within a Drupal file on the server to temporarily take your Drupal 7 site offline and then turn it back on?
I can't use the maintenance mode in the Drupal admin, it needs to be done using the server files.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Corey
August Twin Cities Drupal JAM
Our monthly JAM is an opportunity for anyone in the local Drupal community to bring a project and hang out and work together. Beginners and experts are all welcome. This is part social event and part co-working/sprinting.
Any project will do, here are a few samples of what you are encouraged to do at the monthly JAM:
1) Hack on Drupal Core
2) Bring a project from work
3) Work on a personal project
4) Come help improve Drupal documentation
5) Come and spend the working on TC Drupal Camp 2014 (natch:) 2015!
6) Work on that presentation you are planning for TCDrupal user group
"Unconference Track" at Twin Cities Drupal Camp
This year we are organizing and facilitating an "unconference track." This is a series of loose discussions on topics suggested by participants (and a few seeded topics by organizers).
Schedule your own topic here:
http://bit.ly/1oF8qdb
Topic ideas:
- Freelancer tools. Online tools for freelancers to manage our business.
- Conversation with Chris Shattuck about running a Drupal related business
- When to use Wordpress?
- Drupal and U
- Teaching Drupal
- Drupal and Non-profits
- Add your own.........
August Happy Hour (rescheduled!)
Our regularly scheduled Drupal Happy Hour is being moved to August 14th - see you at TC DrupalCamp instead. We're moving our monthly happy hour from the first Thursday to the second Thursday this month.
Blue Nile
2027 E Franklin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404
We meet monthly for Drupal Happy Hour. This event is all social, show up, don't sign up.
If you are new, this event is for you - Come on out and meet the regulars!
Read moreRide Share / Room Share Opportunities for Twin Cities Drupal Camp
If you are looking for a ride to Twin Cities Drupal Camp or have a room that you might be willing to share to a fellow Drupalista, please feel free to post a note here. No one should miss camp because they couldn't get a ride from Wisconsin or didn't have a place to stay.
Read moreSkills needed to get a job as a Drupal site builder / developer
I've determined I'm not going to make enough money quickly enough as a solo site builder / developer to be able to get by, so I need to find actual, regular employment. Ideally this would be doing something working with Drupal, or at least using a similar skill set.
However, I do not have a background in computer science, programming, etc. I've built a number of Drupal sites (no custom module work) over the past few years, I worked as a System Administrator from 2000-2002 and I've used some flavor of Linux as my desktop environment since then. My undergrad degree is in History...
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Volunteer at Twin Cities Drupal Camp
If you are not signed up for Twin Cities Drupal Camp, stop reading this and go register now.
If you are signed up for camp, please sign up to volunteer. We need people to record sessions, be room hosts, and help us with registration.
Volunteering is a great way to meet fellow Drupal folk. Come be a part of the fun!
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August TC Drupal meetup
Topic
TBA
Community Lab Hours 5-7PM
Don't forget we're holding Community Lab Hours from 5-7PM right before the meetup in the same location. Come work on Drupal, get some help with your questions, share your ideas, get some stuff done!
The refreshment
Pizza and some beverages will be provided. Thanks to our generous hosts, Advantage Labs! You're also encouraged to bring along beverages to share.
Wednesday August 27th 7-9PM
Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55408
July TC Drupal meetup (TONIGHT!): Vagrant
Join us TONIGHT for the July 2014 TC Drupal meetup on Wednesday July 23rd from 7-9PM at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis.
I bet you thought we’d be all wrapped up in summer and forget about the meetup, didn’t ya? Well we didn’t. It’s happening tonight! So if you made other plans, break ‘em and join us.
Topic? At last month’s meetup, Tess (socketwench) mentioned the open source virtual development environment software Vagrant and how useful it can be to set up flexible, accurate development environments for working on Drupal sites (and code) development locally. She agreed (to much fanfare) to show us Vagrant and how to get it up and running. This will be our presentation topic tonight.
Read moreLet's discuss incorporation at Twin Cities DrupalCamp
You've probably noticed there's been some discussion about incorporation the Twin Cities Drupal User Group as a non-profit. Let's get together at DrupalCamp and try to bring the discussion to closure.
Some things to discuss:
- What are the reasons for incorporating?
- How do we incorporate? What about annual renewals and tax statements?
- How would the corporation function? How would our corporation work with the Drupal Association?
Drupalcorn Ridesharing
Drupalcorn is just a few days and I know there are several of us going. Do we have any plans to share a car for the camp?
My car is in reasonably good condition, but it's tiny. It could certainly take one additional person and luggage. Three would be a sqeeze. I would be able to leave sometime Thursday afternoon and return sometime Sunday.
Read moreTwin Cities Monthly Drupal JAM!
We've renamed our monthly "coder night" to the TC Drupal Jam.
Come help us celebrate the new name and JAM on (or with) Drupal - or JAM on stuff while thinking about Drupal.
Our monthly JAM is an opportunity for anyone in the local Drupal community to bring a project and hang out and work together. Any project will do, here are a few samples of what you are allowed to do at the monthly JAM:
1) Hack on Drupal Core
2) Bring a project from work and book some overtime hours
3) Work on a personal project
4) Come help improve Drupal documentation
Help us out! Sign up for Twin Cities Drupal Camp - NOW!
Just a reminder that there is just under a week to take advantage of the "Early Bird Special" for this years Twin Cities Drupal Camp. Some members of the planning committee have predicted that this WILL BE the best Drupal Camp ever!
We initiated an early bird special this year to help us encourage people to register early. (HINT) It's VERY helpful for us if you register now and not wait until 3 days before camp.
:-)
Please, sign up tonight for free Karma points! (undisclosed amount)
http://2014.tcdrupal.org/
Please, tell your friends!
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The Crafting Code Tour (with Crell!)
Larry Garfield is coming to the Twin Cities to speak at the Nerdery on Monday, July 14, at 6:30 p.m. as part of the Crafting Code Tour. He'll be talking about the increasing sharing that goes on between different PHP projects, including Drupal.
Brandon Savage will also be talking about tools to help evaluate the quality of your code.
Events at the Nerdery (9555 James Ave S Suite 245, Bloomington, MN) are always a good time, and there will be an after-hours drinkup at the Sports Page (9014 Lyndale Ave S, Bloomington, MN 55420) afterwards.
Should be fun!
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