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Permissions again :-(
I'm still having massively annoying permissions issues here in Boston. Conflicts between OG's "Organic Groups Access Control", CCK's "Content Permissions", and Workflow's "Workflow Access" permissions are rampant. (Posting to Boston too for compassion and insight.)
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Videos Posted: Design for Drupal Camp Boston
The video we captured is posted and linked off the Session pages.
http://boston.design4drupal.org
Titles with "+ Slides + Video" for example on the end will have those resources.
We hope that those that could not attend will enjoy some of the goodness we shared at MIT on June 13 and 14, 2009.
A special thanks to Sheeri Cabral and her assistant Ed Carlevale for their brilliant production work.
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Drupal Café in Jamaica Plain on July 29, 2009 (6:30-8:30pm)
A few of us are having coffee and talking Drupal on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 in Jamaica Plain. You're invited! If you plan to attend, please sign up by logging in and clicking the "Sign up" button below. Knowing how many people are interested in attending can help us better select good locations in the future. People who sign up will also have last minute details (if there are any) sent to them before the meeting.
| When: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 from 6:30-8:30pm |
| Where: BNN, in Egleston Square at 3025 Washington St, Roxbury MA 02119 |
Boston Drupal Meetup - MIT - December 1, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
We will be hosted by the MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building E51 - Tang Center (mapquest) in room E51-149 . Thanks again to Ed Carlevale for hosting us and to Susan MacPhee for securing this space.
Parking and Transportation:
After 3pm, there is an unattended MIT lot folks can use. It is Hayward Lot http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P5&Parking=go
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 10 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.
Dinner
After the meetup, some of us will continue the conversation over dinner at MIT's Muddy Charles Pub. We will likely pre-order some pizza so it meets us there. We'll take a count about half way through the meeting.
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - MIT - November 3, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
We will be hosted by the MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building E51 - Tang Center (mapquest) in room E51-149 . Thanks again to Ed Carlevale for hosting us and to Susan MacPhee for securing this space.
Parking and Transportation:
After 3pm, there is an unattended MIT lot folks can use. It is Hayward Lot http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P5&Parking=go
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 10 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.
Dinner
After the meetup, some of us will continue the conversation over dinner at MIT's Muddy Charles Pub. We will likely pre-order some pizza so it meets us there. We'll take a count about half way through the meeting.
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - MIT - October 6, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
We will be hosted by the MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building 51 - Tang Center (mapquest) in room E51-149 . Thanks again to Ed Carlevale for hosting us and to Susan MacPhee for securing this space.
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 10 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.
Dinner
After the meetup, some of us will continue the conversation over dinner at MIT's Muddy Charles Pub. We will likely pre-order some pizza so it meets us there. We'll take a count about half way through the meeting.
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - MIT - September 15, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Note: September's date was earlier announced as Sep 8. We moved to Sep 15 to give some space after Drupalcon.
We will be hosted by the MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building 51 - Tang Center (mapquest) in room E51-149 . Thanks again to Ed Carlevale for hosting us and to Susan MacPhee for securing this space.
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 10 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.
Dinner
After the meetup, some of us will continue the conversation over dinner at MIT's Muddy Charles Pub. We will likely pre-order some pizza so it meets us there. We'll take a count about half way through the meeting.
Read moreDiscount on Books: O'Reilly User Group Program
Boston Drupal User Group is a member O'Reilly User Group Program and we receive a 35% discount on O'Reilly, No Starch, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook, SitePoint, or YoungJin products purchased directly from O'Reilly.
Our discount code is DSUG. Orders can be placed online at http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zkbbqoo62slcir7541tp2rqunmfupobf13q0pp80 or by calling 800-998-9938. We are also entitled to a discount on O'Reilly conferences and tutorials.
If anyone needs a copy of "Using Drupal," you can use the discount.
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - MIT - August 4, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
We will be hosted by the MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building 51 - Tang Center (mapquest) in room E51-149 . Thanks again to Ed Carlevale for hosting us and to Susan MacPhee for securing this space.
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 10 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.
Dinner
After the meetup, some of us will continue the conversation over dinner at MIT's Muddy Charles Pub. We will likely pre-order some pizza so it meets us there. We'll take a count about half way through the meeting.
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Slides and demo site from my Boston D4D session
Blog post about my session and embedded slides. http://bit.ly/NdE1P
Demo site that goes along with my slides/presentation: http://drupalrealestate.com
drupalrealestate.com is an effort between bittennails.com and myself. He is an extremely talented designer, artist, web enthusiast, and good friend. You can see more of his talent here drupalista.com
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Cambridge event tonight-- record short 1.5 hour notice!
Some of us south of Boston people planning to make it to the North Shore meetup won't be making it quite all the way, so just letting you all know we'll be hanging out in Central Square at the Andala Coffee House, 286 Franklin St, Cambridge, MA 02139.
benjamin, Agaric
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MetroWest Drupal Meetup VII
If you pay attention to stuff, (and you probably do because you're reading this) you may be thinking "Hey wait, Agaric didn't host a drupal meetup in june!" and you'd be right about that, but now you know why we threw in the extra one back in february (http://groups.drupal.org/node/19220), although you probably knew that was the reason way back then, and were just waiting to see which month it was that we chose to skip...
Well, now you know, and knowing is half the battle
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - MIT - July 7, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
We will be hosted by the MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building 51 - Tang Center (mapquest) in room E51-149 . This is a new location for us. If all goes well, we'll continue to meet here for a long while. We have more space than our prior locations. Thanks to Ed Carlevale for hosting us and to Susan MacPhee for securing this space.
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 at Legal Sea Foods or another nearby restaurant.
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Another Drupal North Shore Meetup
Due to a scheduling conflict with Refresh Boston, this additional North Shore meetup has been established.
While I will set the Saugus Panera Bread as the default location for this event, given the North Shore facet covers a lot of ground (beyond what traditionalists consider the true North Shore even), I find it highly understandable if people want to hold this event somewhere else out of fairness. So feel free to weigh in on this regard.
Read morebidding on Recovery.gov
I just found out through Sunlight Labs that recovery.gov just put out an RFP. Sunlight Labs is pulling people together to submit a bid of some kind. I thought some folks here might want to be involved in Sunlight Labs' project or throw their own hat in the ring.
http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2009/06/17/we-are-going-bid-recoverygov/
Problems with navigation/menu:blog.page.book,forum? what is best?
I am trying to set up a navigation system
with Drupal,......... distinguishing between
Forums, Blogs. Books, Pages, is not all that
clearly defined. ........Help!
I want to use Tabs running across the top of the
site, similar to this
I just dont know whether to use Books, Forums, Blogs
The Menu titles will be like this:
Delta Blues.. Texas Blues ..Ragtime Blues.. Other....Gear
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Drupal North Shore meetup time!
For those of you who don't want to figure out the day name and military time conversion to civilian sector time, that's Thursday next week from 7:00-9:00 pm.
While open to alternative location suggestions (not to mention date/time alternatives), Panera Bread on Route 1 in Saugus worked well last time and so I'll submit that as the default.
The only official agenda item at this point is a Design 4 Drupal debriefing as suggested by Susan MacPhee.
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Drupaltherapy Boston: July 25, 2009
Announcing our next Boston area Drupal training on Saturday, July 25, 2009, from 8:30AM to 6:00PM, in sunny Davis Square. If you've enjoyed the Drupaltherapy screencasts, then this is your chance to spend a day with the same level of high quality instruction in a supportive learning environment.
Check out the workshop annoucement for information on availability and registration.
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How to convert posts from Blog Module to "Blog" Custom Content Type?
I've heard on several occasions, including responses to my last post on How to Segment Blog Personas, the recommendation to NOT use the core blog module, but instead to use CCK and Views to replicate the blog module functionality. This makes perfect sense, and I'm doing that going forward.
But what about a site that already has a bunch of blog posts using the core blog module? Has anyone successfully converted a bunch of existing blog posts from the Blog module to custom content types? Can anyone share step-by-step instructions?
Read moreWe Need You! Drupal Design Camp needs Developers
Drupal Design Camp is next weekend! http://boston.design4drupal.org/
We need you!
We need you the amazing developers to come and give Drupal Fundamental sessions. This is our chance to support a genuine effort to improve designing in Drupal and grow our community.
Why?
A lot of the attendees will need a foundation laid before they can understand theming topics.
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