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.
Drupal Camp Twin Cities Venue Planning 2012
University of Minnesota - Keller Hall
Contact information:
Pamela Vold
External Relations
University of Minnesota
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
vold@cs.umn.edu
612-625-2424
Keller Hall rooms will be open at 7:00am and must be vacated by 6:00pm
Keller Hall Rooms:
Keller Hall, 3-210 - Max Capacity: 246
Coming to the DrupalCamp party? Submit a lightning talk!
Hey everyone,
We're getting things ready for a super-fun DrupalCamp party this Friday! There will be plenty of socializing, some tasty snacks brought to you by a local food truck, free drinks, and a few surprises.
One of the things that made last year's party both fun and inspirational was a series of short presentations about cool and locally-relevant Drupal projects. Have you worked on a Drupal site you want to share? Have you found a module or solution you want to present? Can you talk about it for 7 minutes?
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looking for magento help
this is probably not the place, but I need someone to help me with a magento project - wanting to put a responsive design to it
please contact me- anyone have experience in magento?
Get Involved with Core Sprint (May 20th, 2012)
If you're anything like me after spending a couple of days talking about Drupal my fingers start to get a little bit twitchy and I just want to sit down and write some code or review a patch. So following the awesome DrupalCamp Twin Cities on May 18-19, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Jess (xjm), Tim Plunkett (tim.plunkett) and Joe Shindelar (eojthebrave) will be running a sprint aimed at helping anyone and everyone get involved in Drupal core development.
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Drupal Coworking Friday 5/11/12
Our next installment of Twin Cities Drupal Coworking is set for Friday May 11th. Come get some work done with other Drupal developers and sitebuilders. Feel free to work on your own projects/work, chat, collaborate, hang out, etc.
Boneshaker Books
2002 23rd Ave. S. (behind Second Moon coffee shop)
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-871-7110
If you plan to attend, please use this event's signup. Thanks!
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DrupalCorn 2012 planning
More DrupalCorn talk!!!!
We will be hanging out in the IRC channel #drupalcorn on irc.freenode.net to discuss whatever you want for DrupalCorn 2012. Ideas are welcome.
Follow DrupalCorn
https://twitter.com/DrupalCorn
https://www.facebook.com/DrupalCorn
Local Drupal 6 copy display's blocks as 'n/a' AND Administration Navigation bar missing
Hello everyone,
I have a local install of Drupal 6.22 on my MAC (running MAMP) and I've noticed that when I try to administer/edit a content page my Administrator Menu disappears, blocks display as 'n/a', and my footer goes missing. This makes it beyond difficult to make edits to the pages when they aren't displaying correctly.
I don't have this problem with the live version of the site. I currently use git to keep track of any file changes (like css or node-homepage.tpl.php) between my local and production website.
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DrupalCamp Twin Cities 2012 - Media Sprint
There's a great event called DrupalCamp Twin Cities going on May 18-19, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Since the event is fairly close to me, I've signed up to present and also will be organizing a Media sprint on Sunday, May 20th (as well as during the camp of course!).
Agenda
We'll be focused on sprinting for three main goals:
- Accessibility improvements to the Media module
- Cleaning up and polishing file_entity for core (and SimpleTests)
- Drupal core issues (converting file entity to an classed object, file usage system)
- 1.0 release documentation
Sprint progress wiki
We will be using http://lullapad.com/pWGqMEzRKY to track the current issues we're working on and who is working on them.
Time & Location:
We'll start sprinting from 9:30 AM until 4 PM (what time is this in my time zone?). Food and snacks will be provided by our awesome hosts, The Nerdery!
The Nerdery
9555 James Ave S
Suite #245
Bloomington MN 55431
Map: http://g.co/maps/cuf8m
Please note that The Nerdery is NOT within walking distance of the University of Minnesota where the camp itself is being held. It's considerably off-campus. Ask around at the camp to hitch a ride – organizers will try to facilitate transportation. The Nerdery has not yet perfected teleporting but stay tuned.
Want to attend?
If you are interested in attending in person, please comment below! Please try to note how you think you want to contribute during the sprint (coding? documentation? patch testing? writing simpletests?).
Read moreWebforms to email different hidden values?
I have a couple Drupal 6 websites that use webforms to collect leads and within these web forms is a hidden value that is set to see where our leads are coming from (this value gets emailed to us). For example Field Name: Source, Field Value: Apr_Newsletter_banner_2012.
When we send out the "same" form to different locations, we end up cloning the webform and changing the hidden value so we can see who came from which source. This makes for many webforms that are the same except for the hidden value.
Read moreDrupal Coworking Friday 5/4/12
Our next installment of Twin Cities Drupal Coworking is set for Friday May 4th. Come get some work done with other Drupal developers and sitebuilders. Feel free to work on your own projects/work, chat, collaborate, hang out, etc.
Boneshaker Books
2002 23rd Ave. S. (behind Second Moon coffee shop)
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-871-7110
If you plan to attend, please use this event's signup. Thanks!
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Volunteer at DrupalCamp Twin Cities
Got a hand? Lend it to us! Sign up to volunteer at DrupalCamp Twin Cities.
We need folks to help with classes, registration, and managing the rooms. You don't have to make a huge time commitment to help make camp awesome. Learn more and sign up on the DrupalCamp website.
Questions? Feel free to email me.
Thanks!
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Twin Cities Drupal Happy Hour
Time for another edition of Twin Cities Drupal Happy Hour. Join us at the Blue Nile for Drupal talk and excellent beer. This is our last event before our second DrupalCamp. Come and hear about the camp planning!
Blue Nile
2027 Franklin Ave. E.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-338-3000
NO need to signup, just come by and use the word Drupal at the bar!
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Drupal 6 Ubercart Products with Dates for Calendar
Greetings Twin Cities Drupal Groups,
I need to create products that have date fields. Here is where the development is headed:
User selects Product A
Product A has a date/time field for the user to fill out (select the date/time for an event on the calendar). User fills in a few other fields (cck, I assume), the puts the product into the shopping cart and checks out.
Product is then 'published' as an event on the public calendar.
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Just posted to THIS group's meetup page
Just posted to THIS group's meetup page: (quoting):
DO GO to the groups.drupal.org page FOR THE ACTUAL ADDRESS where the meeting is held and for any information on the meeting. I am wondering why this meetup site is kept, when the info is more than incomplete (and actually continues to be inaccurate).
[The site give incorrect info on the address and on attendees and give no information
on the topic or nature of the meeting.]
DrupalCorn 2012 planning
We will be hanging out in the IRC channel #drupalcorn on irc.freenode.net to discuss whatever you want for DrupalCorn 2012.
This is an open discussion, so please bring any ideas.
So far:
- Current proposal is August 3/4 (Fri/Sat) in Ames or Des Moines with 200 attendees and two keynote speakers
- timeframe, 9am - 5pm with an hour lunch
- an evening event on Friday night
- 4-6 tracks
Potential Tracks (may change based on submissions)
Education
Business
Big Drupal
Configuration
Theming
Follow DrupalCorn
https://twitter.com/DrupalCorn
https://www.facebook.com/DrupalCorn
Drupal 6: drupal_render gives "blank" results
Hi,
I'm trying to add an image to the login page of my drupal 6 site. I've gone into the template.php file and added the following lines of code:
function helpsys_theme(&$existing, $type, $theme, $path) {
$hooks = zen_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path);
$hooks['user_login'] = array(
'template' => 'user-login',
'arguments' => array('form' => NULL)
);
return $hooks;
}
function helpsys_preprocess_user_login(&$variables) {
$variables['rendered'] = drupal_render($variables['form']);
}
April TC Drupal meeting this Wednesday!
Join us for the March TC Drupal users group meeting this Wednesday from 7-9PM.
As you should already know, the second Drupalcamp Twin Cities is taking place on May 18-19. We have two dynamic keynote speakers, two free full-day training events and several community participation sprints ready to roll. What we need now is -- you!
We'll be talking about participating in Drupalcamp tonight. Have you ever considered presenting about something your passionate and know something about? Whether it's something you want to teach, a problem you want to see solved or an idea you want to catch fire -- consider presenting it at Drupalcamp Twin Cities. We'll help you learn what you need to propose a session and be ready to present at the camp. Newbies encouraged -- you don't have to have presented before and the topic need not be super-technical or exclusively Drupal-oriented.
We'll also be talking about participating as mentors for our two free training sessions and in our post-camp community sprints. If you have an interest and some questions -- join us.
Come learn about how Drupalcamps and Drupalcons work together to feed Drupal and the community.
Veterans of 'camps and 'cons are encouraged to join us Wednesday night to share your experience and help us keep the reputation as one of the most vital Drupalcamps in the nation.
Read moreDrupal Coworking Friday 4/27/12
Our next installment of Twin Cities Drupal Coworking is set for Friday April 27th. Come get some work done with other Drupal developers and sitebuilders. Feel free to work on your own projects/work, chat, collaborate, hang out, etc.
Boneshaker Books
2002 23rd Ave. S. (behind Second Moon coffee shop)
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-871-7110
If you plan to attend, please use this event's signup. Thanks!
Read moreWhat is this Wednesday's MN Drupal Meeting about?
I am finding it hard to find a description of the topic or agenda for this coming Wednesday's regular monthly meeting. What's it about. (It would be nice if this
basic information was also on the meetup.com site, since that exists and gives
me notices.)
April 2012 Drupal Commerce Meeting
Hi Everyone!
Wednesday evening, April 25, from 6-7pm (the hour before the TCDrupal User's group meeting) is out regularly scheduled Twin Cities Commerce User Group meeting.
Agenda for our meeting:
- last month's findings
- Commerce Bulk Product Creation
Remember, we are at the new Advantage Labs location in the Intermedia Arts building (see above)
Don't forget to RSVP & check out our site http://commerce.learnsdrupal.com for a review of past meetings and notes.
Look forward to seeing all of you and doing some commerce work!
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