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North Shore Drupal Cafe
Come and meet up for an informal Drupalist's gathering. We can talk about our next meet-up locations and dates. Perhaps we could make this a monthly event. Sorry for late notice but hey, it's a cafe!
Bonjour!
(practicing for Paris :)
Panera Bread
647 Broadway
Saugus, MA 01906
(781) 941-2220
It's on Rt 1's southbound side for those that don't know the area. If you're heading north I'm pretty sure you:
- Take the exit for Lynn Fells Parkway
- You will pass over Rt 1. When you empty onto Lynn Fells Parkway you will be facing a Shaws and Target plaza. Take a left.
MetroWest Drupal Meetup
Throughout the years, many awesome things have happened on April 16th. In 1922, Annie Oakley set a record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row. In 1939, the Boston Bruins beat Toronto Maple Leafs to win the Stanley Cup. In 1940, the 1st baseball game was televised. In 1956 the 1st solar powered radios went on sale. In 1972, 2 giants pandas arrived in U.S. from China.
Read moreNortheast User Group Leader Summit on May 2 in Cambridge
(The text below was copy/pasted from the event listing at http://neugsummit.eventbrite.com. I'm not one of the organizers -- just passing it on.)
Join us on Saturday, May 2 for a special Northeast community/user group leader summit.
Together we can help each other by sharing our experiences of running a user group.
We will be focusing on the mechanics of running a group, not the technical content, so pretty much anything goes.
Register at http://neugsummit.eventbrite.com (two people max from each group.)
Proposed topics include:
* Building community
If you live or work North of Boston and wanted to go to a Drupal Jam Session which town/area would be your choice:
Rhode Island Meet-Up
This is the first of what will become monthly meet-ups in Rhode Island
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Western Mass Drupal Meetup - Tuesday, April 7, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Location:
Webster 102 on Amherst College campus
https://www.amherst.edu/users/H/dhamilton/drupal_meetings
Many thanks to David Hamilton for again arranging the space!
AGENDA:
A. There was talk last time about looking at the way Drupal could handle graphing data. Anyone up for that?
B. I recently (finally) learned how to use hook_form_alter to change Drupal forms. See: http://drupal.org/node/403288 - Rick
C. jQuery demos by Dan
D. How to setup XAMP.
E. Best way to go from Photoshop to Drupal theme? - Rick
Drupal Café at J.P. Licks on April 1, 2009 @ 7pm
A few of us are having coffee and talking Drupal on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at J.P. Licks in Jamaica Plain. You're invited!
| When: 7pm to 9:30pm on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 |
| Where: J.P. Licks at 659 Centre St. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 |
Boston Drupal Meetup - Morse Library - March 9, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
new venue!
We will be hosted by Metrowest cabal of our Boston group. Go to Natick's public library, the Morse Institute Library, 14 East Central Street, Natick, Massachusetts. This is less than one block from the Natick stop on the MBTA Commuter Rail's Worcester/Framingham/Boston line. When you get there, go up the stairs, take a right, and you'll find us in one of the study rooms in that area.
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 5 minutes on a topic of their choosing. You may show off your Drupal site, ask some questions of the audience, give a module demonstration, share some marketing ideas for Drupal, and so on. Just keep it brief. No expertise or planning required - just do it.
The next meetup will likely be march 31 or April 1 in Providence, MA at the Biltmore hotel. The meetup will be attended by many of the attendees of the Lullabot workshop.
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Looking to barter for in-person Drupal tutoring
Greetings -
I am a brand-new Drupal user who is working with my other 3 brand-new-Drupal-user co-workers to take on finishing the development of our new website now that we have had staff shrink due to the economy. And it's past time for me to learn how to do this stuff!!!
I'm the founding Executive Director (and now more of a rank-and-file staff person) of a national grassroots advocacy group (current antiquated site: www.champnetwork.org) fighting for better HIV/AIDS policies in the United States. We are also a member of May First People Link (www.mayfirst.org)
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Feedback on a custom contact form
Looking for some help/ideas on a custom contact form. Webform displays a token %title to pass, what i'm assuming is, the node title. However, it dosn't seem to be working correctly. I've posted a support question on the project page. So i'm looking to pass either the node title or node url of a webform that I have embedded in a block on said node.
Has anyone acheived passing custom tokens/arguments in a webform? Even further any luck passing custom cck fields in a webform or just a standard node that dosn't get published but e-mail via actions/triggers?
Any help would be appreciated.
Read moreWestern Mass Drupal Meetup - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
The next Western Mass Drupal Meetup will be on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Location:
Webster 102 on Amherst College campus
https://www.amherst.edu/users/H/dhamilton/drupal_meetings
Many thanks to David Hamilton for again arranging the space!
AGENDA:
- Imagebrowser and other image modules (Lightbox, etc.) - Alfred Nutile
- Theming in Views 2 - Rick Hood
- Drupalcon update from anyone who went.
Please make agenda suggestions by posting a comment below or email me: rick@flowmediadesign.com
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Fourth sort-of-monthly MetroWest Massachusetts Meetup at Morse Institute Library in Natick
Right now you are probably asking yourself, "Why two Metrowest drupal meetups in one month?" Or maybe you are asking yourself, "Wait, what first meetup?" "Um, the one that was announced two days ahead of time," we confess, using advanced mind control (a soon-to-be-released Drupal module) to interrupt your internal monologue. To which you reply, "Just how much attention do you think anyone pays to you?"
Read moreMetrowest Drupal Meetup... yes, again
That time you've been waiting for is here again! Come down and join us for drupal and drupal related discussion this Thursday at 7pm at the good old Morse Institute Library, 14 East Central Street, Natick, Massachusetts.
We'll be doing the usual lightning talks, there will be a highlight report from the latest Boston drupal all-star meetup, and probably a fair amount of discussion about DC2009 sessions.
Read moreCall for Volunteers at next week's Boston sprint to Upgrade drupal.org to Drupal 6
The Boston sprint is dedicated to upgrading drupal.org's Drupal 5 platform to Drupal 6, in preparation for the redesign. During this week-long sprint at One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) offices in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, we plan to get a working upgrade path for the existing drupal.org databases, port the project infrastructure to Drupal 6, and implement Views, among other issues.
Please see the project issues list and email Susan MacPhee at susanemacphee@gmail.com to volunteer expertise on issues you can help resolve.
In your email, please include your level of time commitment, Drupal experience background, and which tasks you would like to help with.
If you have any questions, please contact Susan.
Upgrade drupal.org from Drupal 5 to 6 project issues lists:
http://drupal.org/node/362117
Sprint announcement from Dries Buytaert:
Boston Drupal Meetup - HSCI - February 3, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
We will be hosted by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute at 42 Church Street in Cambridge, above the Border Cafe. This was the location of our October and June meetups. There is an alcove entrance on the Church Street side, and it says Harvard Stem Cell Institute on the door. Maureen Lyons will be there to let people in. If folks are late they can call up using the dialog box next to the door. We'll also check the door periodically.
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 5 minutes on a topic of their choosing. You may show off your Drupal site, ask some questions of the audience, give a module demonstration, share some marketing ideas for Drupal, and so on. Just keep it brief. No expertise or planning required - just do it.
After the meetup, some of us will continue the conversation over dinner in one of the hundreds of fine restaurants in Harvard Square.
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HOWTO: Check Domain Availability in Drupal Site
Does anyone know how to embed a widget (or is there a Drupal Module) that will enable users to check for availability of domains?
I'm building a Drupal-based site on which users will request a new domain for their Drupal-based site. I'd like to determine availability of domains right from within my site, rather than sending them to a domain registrar.
Read moreMetrowest Drupal Meetup, Part Deux
Still can't believe that you missed the first ever Agaric hosted Metrowest drupal meetup? Well don't double your regrets by missing the second... That's right, the second ever metrowest drupal meetup is happening, and soon.
So come down and talk drupal or anything related, or just heckle those who are, on Thursday January 19th @ 6:30PM at Natick's famous Morse Institute Library, Room 1C.
Read moreDrupal Providence meetup in 09
Holidays are soon to wind down and the new year will be upon us. Shall we start planning the first meetup of 09? Discuss!
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Drupal Bootcamp at CCTV: Feb 13, 2009
Drupaltherapy and Cambridge Community Television have teamed up to offer a one-day Drupal training in February. This training will take place on Feb 13, 9:30AM-6:00PM, at Cambridge Community Television in Cambridge, MA, lead by Sean Effel, an experienced Drupal trainer. The cost for this 8-hour bootcamp style training is $350.00 per seat and it will cover everything a beginner or novice should know about Drupal, from installation and configuration to contributed modules and themes.
Read moreWestern Mass Drupal Meetup - Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
The next Western Mass Drupal Meetup will be on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Location:
Webster 102 on Amherst College campus
https://www.amherst.edu/users/H/dhamilton/drupal_meetings
Many thanks to David Hamilton for again arranging the space!
AGENDA:
- Feedback and issue tracking with Drupal sites:
http://drupal.org/project/webform
http://drupal.org/project/casetracker
http://drupal.org/project/faq
and David Hamilton about how he uses webform (see comment below).
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