Welcome to the Portland, Oregon Drupal Users Group. We have an official meetup once every month.
1. Meetings take place every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm-8pm US/Pacific.
Join this group to receive updates. Keep an eye on Slack for information between meetings.
No need to RSVP; meetings are open to all.
Join the online community on Drupal Slack in the #drupal-pdx channel.
You can support our group at OpenCollective.com/portland-drupal.
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A proposed approach for DrupalCon Portland design process
Tonight at the end of the Front End User Group Meeting, we discussed how we might take on the design process for DrupalCon Portland.
It was noted that no Portland-based or even PacNW design shops submitted proposals to the Drupal Association's Request for Proposals.
Several expressed how Portland Drupal shops are mostly small shops that can't afford to unilaterally commit to such a project.
Many shared the desire to contribute and wondered if such a project could be crowd-sourced to the Portland Drupal and Design community, of which we are so proud.
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Front-end meetup - July 2012
We're doing lightning talks about JS/jQuery, including best practices on how to integrate scripts into Drupal plus some demos on cool libraries/extensions.
Join us for lively discussion, amazing people, and the ability to walk away with more knowledge than you came in with. You will be glad you attended!
Meeting location:
Funny Monkey
2410 E Burnside St.
Portland, OR 97232
Parking is on the street and the #20 bus has a stop right in front of the door / across the street. Please signup if you're interested since the space is a bit limited. We look forward to seeing you there!
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DICOM image support?
I'm wondering if anyone in the Drupal community has been pioneering support for the DICOM (medical) image format. From some preliminary googling, there seems to be a PHP Imagemagick library that can do conversions, etc. (http://www.nanodicom.org/documentation/faq)
I'm working on a program that needs to store/process these images for display in a web browser, as part of a web app geared towards facilitating Ultrasound reporting. Any help or info in this avenue would be greatly appreciated!
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Way Out West Meetup
Hey Y'all.
Come out to the Way Out West meetup tomorrow night. We will be meeting at the Forest Grove Library (in the Rogers Room) at 6:30.
This is a beginner meetup and the subject will be Theming, specifically sub-theming why and how. This is not the same as the meetup on Thursday this is just the basics. So if you are new to Drupal or have an interest in making your own theme, this would be a good place to start.
For you that already know how to make your own theme and are aspiring themers, don't miss the meetup on the East Side tomorrow night.
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Does CRM (the technology) need to be defined?
We no longer bother to explain the acronyms TV, DVD, RAM, and more...
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How to reserve hotel rooms for PNW Drupal Summit
4th Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit - October 20-21, 2012 - Seattle
Venue: University of Washington - Mary Gates Hall
Event announcement: http://groups.drupal.org/node/216009
Event web site: http://2012.pnwdrupalsummit.org/ (in development)
Event registration: Coming Soon (Coders are hard at work)
Hotel Deca: http://www.HotelDeca.com
Hotel Deca rooms are now available for reservations
On July 28, Hotel Deca releases 25% of rooms reserved for PNWDS
On August 20, Hotel Deca releases 50% of rooms reserved for PNWDS
Reserve your room early to assure availability.
Portland Drupal User Group meeting tonight (July 11), 6pm at Open Sourcery
We're doing lightning talks tonight! Each will be 5-8 minutes and we'll try to get through half a dozen or so before announcements and an early break to the Lucky Lab to enjoy the 90 degree (!!) weather today.
Read moreNeed a main presenter for Wednesday user group
There was a scheduling mixup and heyrocker can't make Wednesday July 11th to speak. We'd like to put a request out for a 20 minute main presentation before our scheduled lightning talks.
Any takers? Hit me below. And thanks!
Read moreJuly meetup topics. update: see recent posts
Just putting this out there for July.
It looks like we'll have Greg Dunlap (heyrocker) spend the first 20-30 minutes of the July meetup talking about all the work that's been going into configuration management for Drupal 8. Looks awesome, can't wait!
Help! We need folks to staff the Drupal booth at OSCON on the 19th.
We need a few Drupal evangelists or evangelists in training to staff the Drupal booth at OSCON on Thursday, the 19th. We have open slots from 10A to noon and noon to 2P.
Volunteers get free exhibit tix to OSCON and the immense pride and satisfaction that comes with waving the flag.
More info at http://groups.drupal.org/node/238363
Signup at http://bit.ly/LRN09H
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OpenSourcery, in partnership with Acquia, will offer:
Drupal 7 Layout & Theming
Tuesday, August 7 and Wednesday, August 8
9:30am to 5:00pm
Portland, ORpenSourcery, in partnership with Acquia, will offer:
Drupal 7 Layout & Theming
Tuesday, August 7 and Wednesday, August 8
9:30am to 5:00pm
Portland, OR
Drupal business summit organizers best practices
Tomorrow the organizers of several Drupal business summits will be having a online conference meeting to discuss best practices in organizing a Drupal business summit. This meeting will be recorded and available for members of the community to watch and listen to.
The presenters include:
4 events for revolutions 2010 (NYC, Chicago, SF, DC): Katie Stavely, Kieran Lal
Drupal business summit Atlanta: Dave Terry
Drupal business summit Vancouver: Glenn Hilton
Drupal business summit Toronto, Chicago, NYC: Jenna Kellner
Agenda:
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Looking for resumes
My company - Forward Support - is looking to build its capacity when it comes to Drupal development. We have some larger projects we are currently in the process of bidding for, and if we get them we'll need to hire on some contractors for those projects. Until now it's primarily been me doing all the work.
As such, we're looking for resumes from people who can do either/both front-end and back-end Drupal working, including:
Themes & subthemes
Module creation
Views & Panels
Graphic design (creating themes in Photoshop/Illustrator from scratch based on branding information)
RedHen CRM Alpha1 released - Native CRM in Drupal 7.x
After 800 hours of development, ThinkShout's proud to announce the Alpha1 release of RedHen CRM - a native CRM framework for Drupal 7.
For more information, please check out our two-part blog post describing the architecture and feature set:
http://thinkshout.com/blog/2012/06/sean/redhen-crm-part-1
http://thinkshout.com/blog/2012/06/sean/redhen-crm-part-2
You can also learn more about the project on D.O at: http://drupal.org/project/redhen.
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DrupalCon Portland is seeking a local Design Partner - submit your proposal by July 9th!
DrupalCon Portland Design Partner Wanted: Drupal creative shops, we want to hear from you!
DrupalCon Portland is coming to North America in 2013, and it's looking to be our biggest and best conference yet! The DrupalCon planning team is looking for a passionate Design Partner to join our team and we're hoping to find this resource within the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
We've been lucky to work with these very talented design companies for DrupalCon over the years, and would love to see a local name added to this already incredible lineup.
Read moreRedHen CRM BoF today at Open Source Bridge
Tonight at 6:30pm PST Lev Tsypin from ThinkShout will be hosting a RedHen CRM BoF as part of Open Source Bridge here in PDX.
If you're in town and interested, please check it out:
http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/930
Read moreDrupal 7 Search - Fails to Index
When I go to index the site (something that should theoretically be running during cron), it fails to index at all. Strangely, there is no error message given for a failed cron. I have installed "Disable Messaging", but logged in as the user/1 or even with the module deactivated it fails to report an error.
My thoughts:
- I installed a certain module that is blocking the search function
- There is suddenly an issue in the MySQL database
- Humans should be allowed to search in Drupal
Thoughts?
Read moreLightning talks for next front-end meetup
Last meetup we decided to focus our next meeting on jQuery/JavaScript, specifically short talks and tutorials.
Some possible questions to answer: What are the best ways to integrate JS into Drupal? Do you have any tools, libraries, or plugins you especially like? Have you run into any particular pitfalls to watch out for? Tips or tricks?
I'd love to see a variety of levels represented, from beginner to advanced, so if you have anything you'd like to share, "sign up" in the comments!
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