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.
June Drupal Happy Hour
Aw, Summer is here, and the weather looks promising for our first patio Happy Hour! Come sit on the deck and talk Drupal with your peers. We'll reminisce about DrupalCon Portland, and continue our planning of DrupalCamp TwinCities.
The Blue Nile
2027 Franklin Ave. E.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Great beers and ethnic food. Bring a friend, and let's have fun!
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Why I Love Drupal (my act of contrition)
One can have incredibly elaborate , yet very open sites (including providing the absolute maximum openness for Anonymous Comment and posting) and still have excellent security and a complete absence of SPAM.
Amazing. As I said, belatedly, in response to an old discussion:
Drupal (on mySQL update) lost ability to authenticate (title corrected)
Re: Drupal (on mySQL update) lost ability to authenticate (title corrected)
Since my lunarpages admins have upgraded the mySQL DB installation, my site home page now looks like this: http://mynichecomputing.org/drupal6/ (take a look; it is now an error page, suggesting procedures).
I have now twice tried the Drupal-suggested procedure, SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('your_existing_password');
Though I give this SQL command in the ONLY place it makes sense '
to do it in phpMyadmin ,
all this does is disable my ability to get into phpMyadmin and has
Drupal on ramp
Get a running start with your web project by learning Drupal skills and applying them to your real-world project. Advantage Labs is combining Drupal classroom training with one-on-one strategy planning to help you dive right in to your Drupal project. This is a great opportunity to ramp up your Drupal skills in time to take advantage of DrupalCamp Twin Cities in July!
Here's what's included in Drupal on ramp:
Drupal 7 in a day training class
Get a solid introduction to Drupal 7 in an intensive one-day training class. Learn essential concepts, build rich functionality, and apply best-practices through hands-on exercises. You will build a new site from the ground up while learning the the key steps for creating and administering any Drupal site.
Planning roadmap and support
After the class, we’ll work with you to apply these concepts to your own projects. At a one-on-one planning session, we’ll model our proven process to combine your new technical skills with the planning, content and communication strategies for sustainable web management. With a project roadmap tailored specifically to your needs, you'll be prepared to dive right in. To keep the momentum rolling, you’ll have access access to weekly skill-building sessions where you can get help and share ideas.
Visit http://www.advantagelabs.com/events/2013/05/drupal-ramp for all of the details. Click on the "Register online" link in the right sidebar to sign up. Email info@advantagelabs.com if you have any questions.
Read moreReminder Community Lab Hours session 5-7PM tonight
Just a friendly reminder that we're holding an open Drupal Community Lab Hours session tonight from 5-7PM leading up to the TC Drupal meetup at 7. We have a shared Google Docs set up for you to let everyone know you're coming and what you'll be working on. Go to http://tinyurl.com/tccommlabpad if you'd like to add yourself. For more info about Community Lab Hours, read the event post at http://groups.drupal.org/node/298413. It's free and everyone is invited but we do have limited space, so please get on the pad so we'll know how many to expect. Thanks!
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May 2013 Twin Cities Commerce Meetup
There will be no meeting of the Twin Cities Ubercart/Commerce Group on Wednesday, May 29, the hour before the TC Drupal User Group that starts at 7pm. As I announced at the last meeting, I am out of town.
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Read moreReminder: TCDrupal meetup on May 29th not tonight!
DrupalCon Portland is up and running. There are a number of TC Drupal regulars here in rainy Portland soaking up lots of great Drupal knowledge and ideas. To make sure that we can come back and share this with everyone, we've moved the meetup (which would have happened tonight) to NEXT Wednesday the 29th from 7-9. Check out the meetup event post by clicking on our group site's new Events tab -- http://groups.drupal.org/twin-cities/events. Also consider coming to the new Community Lab Hours session from 5-7 on the same night, same location, right before the meetup.
Read moreDrupal Camp Submit a Session
We're looking for session proposals for TC Drupal Camp 2013.
http://2013.tcdrupal.org/schedule/proposed-sessions
Last year we got some feedback that there was a shortage of "beginner" sessions. I did some checking around for beginner topics listed at other Drupal Camps and created this list of session ideas.....
Sharing a list of possible topics. Please, feel free to steal these ideas and submit your own session.
If there are any of these sessions that you'd like to see at Drupal Camp, post a note here to inspire someone to propose it?
Read moreCommunity Lab Hours
Join us for Community Lab Hours Wednesday May 29th from 5-7PM at Intermedia Arts -- right before the TC Drupal meetup at 7PM.
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Theme trouble after Drupal 7 update
Hi all,
I'm updating a site from 6.23 to 7.22 for the first time in a while. Now that I've run the update, none of the 'out-of-the-box' themes seem to work. All the content is there, but none of the color, graphics, or correct fonts are used. (See attachment.)
I'm pretty sure I've run into this before, but I'm blanking on the resolution. Can someone jog my memory?
TIA!
Read moreMay TC Drupal meetup May 29th -- 1-week later than usual
The Twin Cities Drupal April meetup will take place on May 29th -- 1 week later than usual. DrupalCon Portland is taking place the week of May 20th and many regular Twin City Drupalers will be participating. So, join us on May 29th for a DrupalCon wrap-up, lightning talks (yours?) and whatever you wish to ask or discuss. Oh, and don't forget there will be pizza. Feel free to bring enough of your favorite beverage to share and we'll see you then!
Read moreLooking for a Module or ideas for...
I run a local soccer club website: http://www.minneapolisunited.org/. Uses Drupal 6, but hope to switch it over soon to D7.
I have a little Playing Field notice in the upper right, a View with attachments displays a series of Playing Field Notice content type. These have radio buttons to select a status.
A View on the Front has attachments and rewrites some Fields using Replacement patterns, etc, to display the notice.
So when the games or whatever are rained-out, the Site editor would go in and edit the particular node and change the Radio selection to "Canceled".
Read moreDrupal 6 Site Experiencing Extreme SPAM problems
On Friday I got a call from a local non-profit whose Drupal 6 site had suddenly crashed. I volunteered to try and help bring them online.
The site was generating an error that suggested a permissions problem with the database. The database for the site was also a bit larger than the allocated space provided by the ISP.
Read moreJune free Introduction to Drupal workshop
New to Drupal? Looking for a great way to prepare to get the most out of DrupalCamp Twin Cities coming up in July? Join us on Friday June 7, 2013 from 2-4PM for a free overview of the Drupal CMS and an introduction to best-practices strategies for using and developing Drupal sites.
Introduction to Drupal is a stand-alone, in-person workshop meant for anyone curious about Drupal and interested in learning how to approach Drupal in a sensible way. If you don't want to wait until June, we'll be running this workshop on Monday May 13th as well -- check out the separate event post.
Read moreMay free Introduction to Drupal workshop
Join us for an introduction to the Drupal CMS and best-practices strategies for using and developing Drupal sites on Monday May 13, 2013 from 2-4PM. Introduction to Drupal is a stand-alone, in-person workshop meant for anyone curious about Drupal and interested in learning how to approach Drupal in a sensible way. This is a great way to prepare to get the most out of DrupalCamp Twin Cities coming up in July. If you cannot make this date, we'll be running this workshop on June 7th as well -- check out the separate event post.
Read moreMay Drupal Happy Hour
Let's spend another month indoors, away from the weather and dream of summer and Drupal! Let's plan our travels to DrupalCon, that happens THIS MONTH. And Keri will tell us all about Twin Cities DrupalCamp.
The Blue Nile
2027 Franklin Ave. E.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
So much good stuff, how can you stay away? Great beer and ethnic food too!
No need to sign up, just show up!
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Co-Working Friday
We're kicking off a new experiment of having a Co-working day on Fridays. Come join the Drupal community in a Google+ hangout of up to 10 people. We're mostly going to be working on our projects but can tolerate a distraction to "look over someone shoulder" to help someone out every now and then.
Come to work alongside other developers, but please don't be offended if folks leave to focus on getting their work done for the day.
Here's the link to join: (Google+ account required)
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/d788f46ae84f49051c0466ea31719ab75774d...
April 2013 Monthly TC Drupal Commerce Meeting
oops! Barry commented on the fact that I sent out a discussion post versus and event -- I was wondering why it did not ask me for the date?
So below is the notice again - as a good reminder to join us tomorrow evening, 6-7, before the regular user group meeting and during the last part of the new community labs
You have all seen Barry's note and know that this is the 4th week of the month which means User Group meetings on Wednesday.
Commerce starts at 6 pm and lasts for one hour - it is right before the regular TC Drupal user group meeting.
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