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.
LinkedIn: Portland Drupal
Front-end meetup - May 2012
This month we're talking CSS preprocessors - specifically Compass/SASS and LESS. Both of these tools can speed up and enhance your CSS development by allowing you to use things like variables and mixins to dynamically generate your code. We'll have presentations on each as well as time for questions and answers.
Meeting location:
Funny Monkey
2410 E Burnside St.
Portland, OR 97232
5-16 Way Out West Meetup
Join us for another "Way Out West" meeting at the Forest Grove Library next Thursday. The topic will be Drush. So, if you are new to Drush, not using Drush or don't know what Drush is, this is the meeting for you.
Using Drush is like letting the genie out of the lamp, only you get unlimited Drupal wishes. (when it comes to building and maintaining your site)
At this meetup, we strive to learn from an help each other. It is worth the drive and you might even meet people that don't attend the PDX meetups.
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Looking for June User Group presetenters
If you're interested in presenting on something Drupal and interesting for June's User Group meetup, please contact me so I can get you scheduled in.
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DrupalCon Portland - Volunteer Recruiting + Open Q&A
Hey Portland -
Join me for an open discussion of the volunteer roles we're looking to fill for DrupalCon Portland.
When: Thursday, May 31 from 6-8pm @ Open Sourcery
Who: Anyone interested in learning more about volunteering for DrupalCon Portland
Timeline
Call for volunteers opens: March 24, 2012
Call for volunteers close: June 15, 2012
Volunteer selection: June 18-June 29, 2012
Volunteers notified: June 29, 2012
Volunteers confirmed: July 2, 2012
Portland Call for Volunteers: https://association.drupal.org/pdxvolunteer
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May Group Meeting: Behavioral Driven Development for Drupal.org
At May's Portland Drupal User Group meeting, Melissa Anderson and myself will present on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for Drupal.org. This is a new effort that came out of last week's code sprint to upgrade Drupal.org to D7 to provide a testing framework for Drupal.org that makes sense.
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Drupal 7 Training
OpenSourcery, in partnership with Acquia, offers two Portland-based Drupal 7 workshops each month:
- Drupal 7 in Day (Monday, May 7 from 9:30am - 5pm)
- Site Building with Drupal 7 (Tuesday and Wednesday, May 8 & 9 from 9:30am - 5pm)
Either is is complete on its own, but they combine to make an excellent foundation for site builders and content managers. They're hands-on and suitable for newcomers to Drupal as well as experienced users of earlier versions looking to get familiar with Drupal 7.
Our Portland-based sessions are guaranteed to run, so attendees can plan knowing that the event will not be rescheduled or canceled based on number of sign ups.
For detailed information and to register online, see http://training.opensourcery.com
If you have questions or want more information, contact me via our web site or my contact form: http://drupal.org/user/33570/contact
Read moreThoughts on Syndicated Content + Multisites
Hello All -
I am new to the Portland Drupal Group so forgive me if this is not the correct place to put this. I am setting up a Drupal 7 multi-site (sub-directories). I was wondering how possible it was to create a site dedicated solely for shared content (News articles). It wouldn't be accessible from the web, but it would be a one-stop place for users to enter content (a specific content type) that would be reflected throughout all the subsequent multi sites.
Thoughts?
Alex
P.S. they will all share the same database (different table prefixes).
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Portland Frontend DUG Survey
Hey All!
Thanks to everyone who made it to the first Portland Frontend DUG last week! In case you missed it, we had a great showing and a lot to talk about, so feel free to join in the conversation. The first thing you can do is take the PDX Frontend DUG Survey.
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Reboot Democracy Hackathon
Code for America is here! I met with these guys yesterday and they're doing some pretty awesome stuff. They could use your Drupal skills at their hackathon this Sunday. Go get your civic on and talk about how Drupal people can improve technology for Portland :-) This is the bigger of the two events CfA is having this weekend.
Reboot Democracy Hackathon
Sunday: 10am-3pm
Location: Geoloqi
Event signup: http://reboothackathon.eventbrite.com
Also, check out the attached poster!
Read more"Rebooting Democracy: Tapping the Power of Open Data to Bring Government into the 21st Century"
Hey guys! Code for America is in town. They're going to be having two events this weekend. Here is the first. Come watch them speak - they're cool people!
"Rebooting Democracy: Tapping the Power of Open Data to Bring Government into the 21st Century"
Saturday: 4:10-5:10pm
Location: Bud Clark Commons 1
Code for America speaking event in partnership with the Pacific Northwest Science and Technology Foundation and the Bus Project
Documenting the DrupalCon PDX planning
Hey everyone - My name is Robert and I was the guy walking around with the camera at the DrupalCon PDX meetup. I'm going to be documenting the planning and meetings leading up to DrupalCon next year, so I thought I'd solicite some feedback from the group as a whole. I shot a short interview with Neil Kent and put it up on our blog:
http://www.metaltoad.com/blog/drupalcon-pdx-2013-kick
Is there any particular content you'd be excited or interested to see... people to interview or get insight from? Your feedback would be appreciated!
Cheers,
Robert
Metal Toad Media
groups.drupal.org - help!
Pretty sure this isn't the place to post this, but am looking for some direction. No matter what, I can't get the groups.drupal.org site to send email to anywhere but the address I signed up with originally. I am changing my email address and have removed any reference to the original email I signed up with from groups.drupal.org and from drupal.org. Why is it still sending email to my old address?
Read moreApril Brewpal
As always, no formal agenda... just the opportunity to chat, drink, and work in the company of fellow Drupalers. Don't forget to bring your laptop and use the free Wi-Fi. Because AC power is somewhat limited, it's best to charge up your laptop before you come.
We get going at 5:00 p.m. or so, but people can show up at any time.
So here are the details on April's Brewpal:
Date: Tuesday, April 24rd
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lucky Lab Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St.
Portland, OR 97209
Videos of Wednesday PDX DUG meet up?
Hi everyone!
Inspired by word of mouth from the Denver DUG, I'm wondering if we could set up regular videotapings of Wednesdays meet up at OS's offices. I think the community at large would benefit from this, and might make newcomers a little less wary about showing up if they've seen a taping of a meetup! I'm up for offering my vimeo or youtube account to serve this purpose, or we could create a PDX DUG vimeo/YouTube account. I don't have access to a good equipment, however. What do you say? Would anyone be willing to volunteer to take on this kind of task?
AB
Read moreWay Out West Meeting 4/18
This month's meeting at the Forest Grove Library at 6pm will cover Organic Groups. Come on out west and participate with us.
We will discuss configuration and use of OG.
Each meeting, the group decides what the following meeting will cover, so if there is something that you would like to discuss at a basic level, join us and we can schedule your topic (if the group agrees) at the next meeting.
Please contact swiftsure if you have any questions.
DA - Call for Volunteers for DrupalCon Portland!
Thank you to everyone at the Portland Drupal Users Group for having Neil and I present last night. It was great to meet so many Drupal people from the local area and to hear your feedback and awesome experiences from DrupalCon Denver.
Quite a few of you asked for the presentation and materials we used and mentioned during our talk. We're happy to share those here (thanks Amber H. for the nudge!).
DrupalCon Portland Presentation - includes org chart
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Enterprise Business Integration with Drupal
I've found the general Drupal group meeting a great place to learn about all things Drupal. From interesting modules, community initiatives, or presentations of sites/projects members have worked on. I've felt that the general group meetings have had to serve a very large audience (and it has done well in doing so) and I've greatly appreciated everyone's honest thoughts and opinions. By no means am I advocating that the general group meeting discontinue nor do am I implying I wouldn't continue to go to such meetings.
Read moreFirst ever PDX DUG front-end meetup!
This is the first ever Portland Drupal meetup specifically for front-end developers and designers. Do you eat, sleep and breathe templates, the Drupal theme layer, design, jQuery, AJAX, and just generally making sites intuitive and beautiful? Come to this meetup and talk with like-minded folks. First meetup will be a meet-and-greet, as well as brainstorming for what format and topic ideas we'd like to cover in the future. Possible topics include:
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April Group Meeting: DrupalCon Recaps, Beer and the Drupal Association Volunteer
Hello all!
This is just a reminder announcement that Wednesday's meeting will include us breaking out the leftover beer from DrupalCamp and discussing as a group the highlights from DrupalCon!
Members of the Drupal Association will also be in attendance and will be giving a presentation and call for volunteers for DrupalCon Portland 2013. There will be donuts too! This is an excellent opportunity to get involved.
Read moreDrupal Mentor Group
I'm part of the team running 1001mentors.com. We're based here in the Seattle area. Our mission is to connect people with mentors based on expertise. We support public group for open source communities. Mentee can send mentoring request to senior group members. We're looking to create a Drupal Mentor Group. We have a few open mentee requests and we want to help our mentees. Send us an email to 'contact at 1001mentors.com' if you can help.
Thanks,
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Phuoc Do
1001 Mentors Team
