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.
Enjoy Drupal: Theming Jumpstart
Do you find Drupal's theming layer to be intimidating? Does PHP scare you? It doesn't have to be this way! Create your first theme in Drupal and learn how to make customizations and overrides using Drupal's theming best practices.
Read moreEnjoy Drupal: Site Building Basics
This event is going to be an all day, free training event on May 14th, 2014 in one of UMN's excellent active learning classrooms. We're going to introduce the core building blocks in Drupal, provide information about local Drupal service providers, and introduce the local Twin Cities DUG and other ways to get involved with Drupal.
Learn how to build your first Drupal website from the ground up through interactive, lecture-based instruction and practical real-world examples. A full day training consisting of progressive beginner topics in the morning (content creation, content types, fields & views) followed by mentored advanced topics and feature building in the afternoon.
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MySQL data recovery
Can anyone recommend a MySQL data recovery service? One of my servers has corrupted the /var/lib/mysql files and the host claims they don't have a backup. (I'm skeptical of that. I think we're mis-communicating.)
In the meantime, they've suggested I look for a MySQL data recovery service to repair /var/lib/mysql. Can anyone in the group recommend such a service?
TIA !
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TC Dupal Spring Sprint
TC Drupal is planning our next quarterly sprint at the offices of TEN7 on Saturday - May 17th, 2014 (11:00am - 4:00pm). Lunch will be provided.
- TEN7
- 718 Washington Ave. N - Suite 301
- Minneapolis, MN 55401
Mentors will be available to help beginners. We will also have some folks contributing to Drupal documentation.
Sign up HERE on groups.drupal.org!
Read moreTC Drupal Quarterly Coordinating Committee
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. 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).
This meeting is not specifically about TC Drupal Camp, but I'm sure that someone will be available to give a quick update on Drupal Camp planning and answer any questions.
Some items that are likely to be on the agenda.
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Happy Hours bring May Flowers
Spring showers may keep us inside, but Summer is on the way! Celebrate Spring with Drupal banter!
Blue Nile
2027 E Franklin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404
We meet monthly for Drupal Happy Hour. This event is all social, just come as you are! Bring a friend.
Read moreAre Drupal 6 & 7 sites compatible with PHP 5.4?
I just got this notice from my hosting company that they are upgrading their servers to PHP 5.4. See below.
Any concerns if I have Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 sites on their servers?
Any info or comments would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Corey
P.S. For some wired reason my Drupal.org account seems to have been deleted? IT was Gasman DEsign and now it's gone?!?!?
From my hosting company....
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Drupalize.me podcast about TCD'OH!
Last week, Tim Erickson and I had a great time discussing the recent TCDrupal Open House (TCD'OH!) with Addison Berry (add1sun) and local Drupal hero Joe Shindelar for their Drupalize.me podcast. The podcast is now available for your listening and downloading pleasure (you know you'll want to save this one for repeated listens). Check it out -- http://lb.cm/drupalize-tcdoh.
I'd like to think we do a good job of representing the awesomeness that is the TCDrupal community. Feel free to share the link with others so we can spread some TCDrupal love and info.
Extra special thanks to Addi for being a terrific interviewer and to Joe -- both for suggesting that Drupalize.me should highlight TCD'OH! and for his insights during the podcast itself!
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Drupalcon lodging plans
Hey MN Drupalers
I found myself in a pickle today because rooms have almost completely sold out in Austin for Drupalcon and I would like to find a place to stay near the event.
I found one with AirBnb that can house 8 - 12 people for our event. The cost would be about $100 a night per person (or less if we have > 8) which is about half the cost of hotels in the area.
Who's interested? Who can commit that they're going to do that?
I'm willing to put the deposit down ($500) but if we do this and you don't show up I'm on the hook for lot of cash.
Read moreMarch Happy Hour
Hello Spring! Hopefully the snow showers will be finished by the time Happy Hour rolls around.
Come on over and watch out for the Potholes!
Blue Nile
2027 E Franklin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404
We meet monthly for Drupal Happy Hour. This event is all social, but I saw a few laptops out last month! All we need it you, so just show up.
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SEO meetup
Hi everyone - at the last user group meeting (last week March 26) I said I would post info on the SEO meetups I have been attending and really like:
We do both virtual meetups as well as live meetups.
It is the Minnesota Network of SEOs: http://www.meetup.com/theSEOs/
master workshop: https://plus.google.com/u/0/
download podcast right sidebar of - http://www.janetejohnson.com/
And some of our past videos/hangouts:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrD18cMV6EYNMh1JyFB94g
Enjoy Drupal: Module Development Jumpstart
Have you ever wanted to unlock Drupal's full potential? Ever been told that you need to create a custom module to make the change you want, but feel like creating your own module is intimidating? If you know the basics of PHP, the power of Drupal is at your fingertips just waiting to be tapped into.
Agenda:
Read moreEnjoy Drupal: Theming Jumpstart
Do you find Drupal's theming layer to be intimidating? Does PHP scare you? It doesn't have to be this way! Create your first theme in Drupal and learn how to make customizations and overrides using Drupal's theming best practices.
Agenda:
Read moreEnjoy Drupal: Site Building Basics
We're going to introduce the core building blocks in Drupal, provide information about local Drupal service providers, and introduce the local Twin Cities DUG and other ways to get involved with Drupal.
Learn how to build your first Drupal website from the ground up through interactive, lecture-based instruction and practical real-world examples. A full day training consisting of progressive beginner topics in the morning (content creation, content types, fields & views) followed by mentored advanced topics and feature building in the afternoon.
Read moreAdvice on proposals / contracts
I'm about to begin work on a proposal for my 2nd paid job and am looking for advice re: a proposal format or template, and eventually a contract I can use. I've done a bunch of searching and am not thrilled with anything I've found thus far.
If anyone has a template or example they've used and liked they wouldn't mind sharing, that would be ideal.
I may end up creating my own based on the sources I have found (though I'd prefer not to). Anyone have any "gotchas" I should be sure to avoid, or items I should be sure to include based on personal experiences?
Read moreRequest for Proposal - U of M - College of Biological Sciences- Usability study and redesign
The College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota is looking for a qualified vendor to run usability testing and also a site refresh/redesign based off of the feedback from usability testing. Our current site is built on Drupal 7.
We are asking for a Request for Proposals 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/1J0OTCxY-1pKambsAiLtplWGu9a...
If you have any questions, please contact Tom at tjkautz@umn.edu.
Thank you!
Tom Kautz
Read moreApril Code/Documentation Sprint
CANCELLED!
We will reschedule in May. Date to be announced shortly.
TC Drupal is planning our next quarterly sprint at the offices of TEN7 on Saturday - April 19th, 2014 (10:00am - 4:00pm). Lunch will be provided.
* TEN7
* 718 Washington Ave. N - Suite 301
* Minneapolis, MN 55401
Mentors will be available to help beginners. We will also have some folks contributing to Drupal documentation.
Sign up HERE on groups.drupal.org!
More information to come.....
April TCDrupal meetup -- Drupal 8 configuration management
Join us for the April 2014 TC Drupal meetup on Wednesday April 23rd from 7-9PM at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis.
Getting excited (or anxious) to learn more about what Drupal 8 will be like? Well, it turns out that TCDrupal dignitary Matthew Tift is the Drupal 8 configuration system co-maintainer and he's agreed to tell us all about it this month. See the full post for all the details about Matthew's talk, Community Lab Hours, where this all takes place, etc. etc.
Read moreApril 2014 free Community Lab Hours
Join Advantage Labs and your local Drupal community peers for an open Community Lab Hours session, conveniently on the same evening before our monthly TCDrupal meetup — Wednesday April 23rd, 5-7PM. Community Lab Hours is a great place to ask questions, share ideas or to just get something done.
Participation is free but space is limited. Please let us know you're coming by describing what you plan to work on our Community Lab Pad -- http://lb.cm/april-community-lab.
**Community Lab Hours
Wednesday April 23rd 5-7PM
Advantage Labs @ Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S
March TCDrupal meetup -- mapping with Drupal
Join us for the March 2014 TC Drupal meetup on Wednesday March 26th from 7-9PM at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. Interested in how to make maps happen on Drupal sites but can't make it to either Midwest Drupal Camp -- MidCamp or DrupalCon Austin? Well, TCDrupal's own Tim Erickson, stpaultim, will be debuting his Maps, Open Layers and Proximity Search presentation -- proposed for both of these prestigious, previously mentioned events -- at this month's meetup. See the full post for all the details about the talk, Community Lab Hours, location, etc. etc.
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