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.
Ubercart User Group
This is our regularly scheduled user group meeting. In the aftermath of last weeks news about the split of Ubercart and the new Drupal Ecommerce for D7, we might need to think about a new name of our group! In the meantime, we will continue to meet and explore Drupal ecommerce.
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Places to have Drupal events in the Twin Cities
Drupal fans love to meet in different capacities.
I'm starting this thread of which places work well for Drupal events, which should help us the next time anyone wants organize some Drupal-time.
As far as I know, there are different kinds of Drupal events that happen in the Twin Cities.
*There are various user group meetings at Advantage Labs.
*There are monthly informal beer meetings at bars
*There could be little sprints/hackathons (4-8 people) at coffee shops
*Occasional community-wide sprints (10-20 people, more publicity and more effort)
Little Drupal 7 Code Sprint - Twin Cities
We are having a little sprint get-together January 31 at noon at Common Roots Cafe in Minneapolis.
This is an informal sprint. We will be meeting at a coffee shop (we are only expecting 6-8 people) and will find some tables, breaking into little groups that fit in available seating.
The purpose of the sprint will be to find some things to do that will help out Drupal 7. This could be documentation, writing tests, reviewing patches, fixing bugs.
So go ahead and sign-up if you are planning to attend.
Common Roots Cafe
www.commonrootscafe.com
2558 South Lyndale Avenue
Read moreTC Ubercart Usergroup Meeting - TONIGHT
YES, the show goes on! Sorry for the late notice, but we hope to see you there.
We'll have the projector and pizza, and plenty to talk about. Let's do some show and tell!
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TC Drupal Users Group Meeting
Let's talk about how Drupal sites take advantage of the whole "social networking" universe. Wisdom is sprouting everywhere from "social networking killed the email star" to Facebook will destroy/save the world. In any case, any current web strategy needs to include integration of multiple networking strategies.
Read moreFebruary: Drupal 7 Code Sprint
At the New Year's Test Sprint, theunraveller and I were talking about having another sprint - this time just for Drupal 7 stuff. (We were both agreeing that we like sprints because, as I see it, you learn so much more about programming by working with others on solving problems.)
This should happen in a month or so (early February) in order to be able to contribute to Drupal 7 before it's finished.
Ideas
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Overnight Website Challenge
Is anybody familiar with this event?
Anybody interested in putting together a drupal based team?
All the info about it is here: http://www.overnightwebsitechallenge.com/
I just received an email about it via meetup.com last night.
Read moreTC Drupal/Ubercart User Group Show and Tell
Let's have some holiday fun for this meeting!
Drupal Show and Tell
Bring a presentation to share. Tell us the latest cool thing you did. Show us how you did it. Get us details if it is complicated.
NPP* strictly enforced!
Read moreTwin Cities New Years Test Sprint
This is part two of three events happening during the Twin Cities Testing Weekend. (discussion)
Other events:
New Years Resolution: Learn to write tests' Workshop, an introduction to test writing, will help prep for the actual sprint
link creation in progress: Test Pancake Sprint, more test writing, plus pancakes, Sunday (the day after the sprint, for test-writing fans who also like pancakes)
Read moreNew Years Resolution: Learn to write tests' Workshop
Cross 'Learn to write tests in Drupal' off your New Year's resolutions - first thing in the New Year!
This is part of the Twin Cities Drupal Testing Weekend
You should plan to stay for the Test Sprint. This introduction is geared to get everyone you ready for the Test Sprint.
This introduction to test writing workshop is geared for people who have used Drupal and know some PHP. If you can write Drupal modules or theme a Drupal website, you should be just fine. (Don't worry, you don't have to write amazing modules or themes, either.)
Read moreTwin Cities New Years Test Sprint and 'New Years Resolution: Learn to write tests' Workshop
Back in October, we had a 'Testing testing' discussion. Six (or so) local Drupal people met up. We talked about doing a testing-related event here in the Twin Cities.
Today is December 2, and seriously, no one is going to be able to do testing a testing event until the New Year. :)
But that's cool, because I am sure that most of us would put 'learn how to write tests' on our list of new years resolutions.
So let's get it over with first thing in 2010!
Does January 9 (Saturday) or January 10 (Sunday) work for people who might like to attend or host this event?
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE...
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Drupal Happy Hour
Come to the Blue Nile, drink beer, and talk about all things Drupal, web development, system administration, and rule #35.
Blue Nile Restaurant address:
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Read moreReminder: No TC Drupal Users Group on Wednesday November 25
The regular monthly TC Users Group Meeting for November was moved to the third Wednesday, November 18 to take into account the regular date's proximity to the Thanksgiving holiday. There will be no meeting this Wednesday evening. Look for the upcoming announcement of the December meeting which, like November's, will move to the third Wednesday, December 16, instead of the regular fourth Wednesday date.
Read more**TONIGHT** 11/18/09 TC Drupal Users Group Meeting
Tonight, tonight, tonight...
Besides being an atrociously awful Genesis pop song, it's the date for the next TC Drupal Users Group Meeting. At last month's meeting, the attendees voted to move the meeting up a week and combine it with the Ubercart Users Group meeting (3rd Wednesday regular meeting) since the regular date would be the night before Thanksgiving. What we did not do was let everyone know with much notice. Apologies.
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drupal_lookup_path() redux
Here's a little more information on the patch I mentioned last night (by Wim Leers):
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drupal_lookup_path() optimization - skip looking up certain paths in drupal_lookup_path()
Description
Why?
To reduce the number of queries per page that are completely useless, I've written this optimization.
Configuration
You get a new config page at admin/build/path/skiplist to modify the skiplist. The paths listed here can include wildcards as well as '', in the exact same way you can configure on what pages a block should (not) be listed.
What has changed to make this work?
Read moreZen theme hacking
I'm hankering for a couple few hours of friendly Zen theme building with like-minded buddies.
Options:
Coffeee shop with loud, obnoxious people and bad internet
OR
My place where the intertubes are strong, the tea flows like the rivers of Babylon and where a 16-year old cat basks in the sun.
This can be a joint project or separate projects where we get to benefit from asking one another questions and getting feedback.
Read moreWYSIWYG API
I've been looking more closely at the inner working of the WYSIWYG API stuff, in particular as it relates to markItUp!. I've written up some of my thoughts on extending markItUp! within the WYSIWYG API and it occurs to me that there might be others in the area who are interested in either customizing their own WYSIWYG editors or understanding how this all works.
If you are interested in working on this to collaborate and learn let me know.
Read moreGrants and Programs for Participation in Drupal/Open Source
A few nights ago, I listened to the mp3 from this Drupalchix panel at the DrupalCamp LA. (And many congrats to the organizers Rain Breaw and Nicole Bluto for their smart leadership!) http://2009.drupalcampla.com/drupalchix (see also, http://groups.drupal.org/node/23188)
One of the speaker/facilitators (Rain, I believe) talks about the film industry and how grants are available to support and encourage aspiring women directors. I definitely know a number of women who were able to develop their own visions and voices with the support of various arts grants.
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Drupal Camp Chicago 2009
You are invited to attend Drupal Camp Chicago on Saturday and Sunday, December 12 & 13, 2009.
Who/Why:
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