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.
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.
Read moreMarch 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 March 26th, 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/march-community-lab.
Community Lab Hours
Wednesday March 26th 5-7PM
Advantage Labs @ Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55408
April Coder Meetup
Hey Hackers and Drupalistas,
We are for sure doing one last Coder Meetup at Tightrope Media Systems before scumbag raytiley leaves town. Please join us on the third Wednesday of April for the Twin Cities Drupal Coder Meetup. Pizza and Beer are provided by Tightrope Media Systems. If you don't know what a coder meetup is, find out below.
What is a Coder Meetup
Read moreNo Coder Meetup in March -Looking for New Home and Organizer
Hey Drupalistas,
It was with a heavy heart that I post this announcement. Even though its had a spotty run the past few months, I've always really enjoyed hosting the Coder Meetup. It was fun getting together with the Drupal Community and hacking on some code. It always reminded me of hanging out in the coder lounge at Camps and Cons.
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Next Newsletter
Sending out the next issue of the TC Drupal newsletter tomorrow. If you have any announcements that you would like included, please contact me: tim@politalk.org
I will include all upcoming events that are already posted here on GDO.
Read moreCache clearing schemes
Hello fellow TC Drupalers,
Does anyone have a good scheme to auto clear the cache of a site on a regular basis?
I started using the Domain access module on a site, and though it worked fine on my local, up live it keeps losing the domain info:
Notice: Undefined index: machine_name in domain_tokens() (line 87 of /var/www/mysite/public/sites/all/modules/domain/domain.tokens.inc).
I have tried a patch I found for Domain access, no luck.
The only thing so far that fixes it is to clear the cache manually. So.... back to my question.
Thanks,
Mark
Twin Cities Drupal Camp - Planning Update (3/12/2014)
Planning for this years Twin Cities Drupal Camp is well underway.
The day to day Drupal Camp planning is happening using BaseCamp as a project management tool. We will try to report back in this space with regular updates on how things are going. If anyone wishes to participate more actively, we would be happy to invite you to our Basecamp. Please, contact Keri Poeppe, myself, or anyone on the committee.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to post them here, contact a committee chair, or to contact someone on the committee.
Drupal Camp Update
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Twin Cities Drupal Camp Planning Meeting, Wednesday, March 12 at noon
Just a reminder that you can join the meeting by calling 805-360-1000 and use access code 814087#. Everyone is welcome! New folks, please give me a heads up by email (this helps me plan and prep for the meeting).
Thanks all!
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Groups Page Changes
I've started making a few small changes to our Drupal group. One of them is that we now have an Events page that is a separate full page of event information.
Any other ideas for changing things within our limited power to do so are welcome. Talk amongst yourselves.
Read moreTC DOH: Criteria for listing a TC Drupal event?
Stemming from a discussion at TCD'OH about community improvement, I'd like to see more frequent meetups on our group calendar, outside of our regular recurring events.
We're not exactly discouraging other events, but our social calendar is dominated so much by the regular meetups that it can seem like that's all there's supposed to be. That's a shame; I often can't make it to the coder meetup in St. Paul, for example, but I'd absolutely host a one-off coder meetup in Minneapolis some Saturday morning.
Read moreSumming up the first TCDrupal Open House
I don't know about you, but I had a blast this past Saturday at our first ever TCD'OH! Starting off as a way to satisfy our craving for Drupal camaraderie between Twin Cities DrupalCamps and morphing into a new way to interact and inspire, I think it exceeded all of our expectations.
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Want Help Writing Session Proposals?
Session (and scholarship!) proposals for Drupalcon Austin are due March 7th. I've had a couple people ask about getting help writing session proposals, and I figured it'd be easier (and more fun) to bring people together. So come as you are and drop in to brainstorm and get help writing your proposals.
I've blocked off time between 10am and 2pm, but feel free to drop in anytime within that window.
Read moreTC DOH: Freelancers Unite!
The conclusion is that it's hard to be a freelancer, but rewarding for many reasons. There are a lot of responsibilities that freelancers dislike (sales, marketing, interacting directly with the client) and there may be benefits to collaborating to share the burden, share leads, and work together on projects that would be too large for one person.
Read moreTC DOH: Theming for Mobile Notes & Discussion
Some people from our discussion today asked that I post this here. Check out the official notes from the Google Doc for this session: https://docs.google.com/a/enjoycreativity.com/document/d/1HPfo077PXYAUw4...
Benefits of responsive:
- One site is cheaper than two.
Navigation:
- Superfish
- Megamenu
- Navigation menu for omega 3?
- One level of navigation (with no more than seven options) - best practice for good usability
- Using block menu for child links
Images & video:
- Responsive images module (in d8) / picture module (in d7)
List of Twin Cities Drupal consultants
At today's Twin Cities Drupal Open House there were a few requests for a list of Twin Cities Drupal consultants. There have also been discussions about having a TCDrupal.org site with more information and functionality. That site could easily have a directory - which would work much better than, say, making a list in a post here on g.d.o. which soon rolls off the group homepage and therefore becomes unfindable, un-updated and therefore, essentially useless.
Read moreDrupalCamp Planning Call
DrupalCamp Twin Cities planning is starting up. We have announced our dates (Thursday, August 7 through Sunday, August 10, 2014 in Minneapolis, MN) and we're at the point where we need to start working through tasks and to-dos.
Join us for the weekly planning call at 805-360-1000 and use access code 814087#. If you're interested and want to lend a hand to the process, join the call.
Read moreDrupalCamp Planning Call
DrupalCamp Twin Cities planning is starting up. We have announced our dates (Thursday, August 7 through Sunday, August 10, 2014 in Minneapolis, MN) and we're at the point where we need to start working through tasks and to-dos.
Join us for the weekly planning call at 805-360-1000 and use access code 814087#. If you're interested and want to lend a hand to the process, join the call.
Read moreDrupalCamp Planning Call
DrupalCamp Twin Cities planning is starting up. We have announced our dates (Thursday, August 7 through Sunday, August 10, 2014 in Minneapolis, MN) and we're at the point where we need to start working through tasks and to-dos.
Join us for the weekly planning call at 805-360-1000 and use access code 814087#. If you're interested and want to lend a hand to the process, join the call.
Read moreDrupalCamp Planning Call
DrupalCamp Twin Cities planning is starting up. We have announced our dates (Thursday, August 7 through Sunday, August 10, 2014 in Minneapolis, MN) and we're at the point where we need to start working through tasks and to-dos.
Join us for the first weekly planning call at 805-360-1000 and use access code 814087#. If you're interested and want to lend a hand to the process, join the call.
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March Drupal Happy Hour
Come in from the cold!
Last monthly Drupal happy hour for this winter season! Peel off a few layers. Stay a while, or just have one quick one on the way home.
Blue Nile
2027 E Franklin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404
