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.
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PNWDS - 2011 Pre-Organizing Committee Followup
A quick update on the Pre-Organizing committee meeting that we had a week ago. We had a good turnout both virtually, and in person. Currently we have enough interest to start forming a committee. We will be working on this, and hope to have everything settled by mid-December before agreeing to host the summit.
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Google code-in due date coming up. Lets show the world how Portland does open source!
Google's Code-in is an event designed to engage new members to the open source community by creating bite-sized tasks that are easy to digest. Since Portland is basically the Open Source capital of the world I'm slightly ashamed that we haven't been rocking the GCI issue queue but I'm guessing that's because most people don't know about it! Now is our chance to show the world how Portland does Open Source.
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REMINDER: "Brewpal" Meetup TODAY at Lucky Lab!
Hey everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that TODAY (Tuesday, Oct. 26) is the date of our monthly "Brewpal" Meetup.
What is this event? It's an informal meetup each month to work on our own individual Drupal projects in the company of other Drupalers. The idea is that you can work on your own project, ask a question to your neighbor if you're stuck, chat with others about your brilliant Drupal start-up idea, and then take a beer break whenever you want.
If you are bringing your laptop, don't forget to charge it ahead of time (since Lucky Lab's power outlets are minimal).
Here are the details:
Date: TODAY (Tuesday, Oct. 26)
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lucky Lab Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St.
Portland, OR 97209
(Yes, they have wifi.)
So get ready to pack up your laptop...
--Ben
P.S. I'm going to have to miss this one since I'm currently out of town due to a family emergency. But we've been having great turnout at each Brewpal and I trust that y'all will code, chat, and drink without me! ;-)
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Organizing mtg tomorrow (Tue 10/26): Now's your chance to get involved with PNWDS 2011
Hello everybody,
Just a reminder that tomorrow night we're having the pre-committee open house to gather all those interested in bringing the PNWDS (Pacific NW Drupal Summit) to Portland next year. sarah_p has posted all the details at the open house event page here.
This Tuesday's Brewpal Meetup (Oct. 26)
Hey all,
It's time to remind everyone that the next Brewpal meetup is this TUESDAY (Oct. 26).
As always, no formal agenda... just the opportunity to chat, drink, and work in the company of your 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., but if your job doesn't permit you to arrive until 6:00 p.m. or so, that's fine, too.
So here are the details on our upcoming October event:
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 26
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lucky Lab Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St.
Portland, OR 97209
See you there!
--Ben
Read morePNWDS - 2011 Pre-Organizing Committee Survey
Want to help bring the PNWD Summit to Portland in 2011? Please, fill out the PNWDS - 2011 Pre-Organizing Committee Survey. It will help us as we organize volunteers, and gauge interest. Thanks! - Sarah P
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I can't believe I'm asking this - but does anyone have any WYSIWYG recommendations for IE8?
Blah, my first training on Watershed Now (drupal.org/project/watershednow) is at a computer lab at a federal training facility that only runs IE8 (for "security" purposes...).
I need a WYSIWYG option that supports image upload/insert in IE8. From my limited testing, the image alignment button for CKEditor (via WYSIWYG module) breaks in IE8. WYSIWYG Imagefield sorta works and is my preferred approach, but that doesn't provide the alignment left/right options that the plain ol' image button provides in CKEditor.
Anyone got a bullet-proof solution for IE?
-sean
Read morePre-Committee Open House/Signup for PNWDrupalSummit 2011
This meeting is simply an open-house to connect face-to-face with those interested in making the summit happen in Portland in 2011. So feel free to drop by at any point between 5pm-7pm at Lucky Lab NW , and if you can only come virtually I (sarah_p) will be in IRC (#drupal-pdx) during that time as well. All suggestions and ideas about the event will be taken note of, and once the committee is formed we'll sort through ideas at our early meetings.
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Photo or Media Galleries - Show them off!
Hello,
I recently finished my first build of my photo gallery on my website.
Take a gander here:
http://www.robertfoleyjr.com/gallery
I built it using:
CCK
Views
Lightbox2
ImageCache
I am interesting seeing solutions created by the community and discussing strategies. Provide links to galleries you have created and list what modules and or custom code you had to write to build it.
Peace out.
Read moreREMINDER: Today's User Group Meeting (Organic Groups + Messaging + Lightning Talks)
Hey everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that TODAY (Oct. 13) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.
Here's what we've got on tap:
"Organic Groups: There's A Party In Your Drupal And Everybody's Invited" presented by Chris Bloom
"Lightning Talks"
a) 'Notifications and Messaging modules' by Melissa Anderson
b) 'Private Message module' by Ben Kaplan
c) 'Drupal mapping: OpenLayers Theming' by Sean Larkin
d) 'Demo: Voicebox installation profile' by Bill Fitzgerald
More to be announced! Come with your presentations, too.
"Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit 2011: Let's Make It Happen in Portland" moderated by Melissa Anderson
Finally, here are the meeting details:
Date: TODAY (Wednesday, Oct. 13)
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks and conversation!)
Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)
See you soon,
Ben
Wednesday's User Group Meeting (Organic Groups + Lightning Talks + Messaging + PNW Summit Planning)
Hey everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that this WEDNESDAY (Oct. 13) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.
Here's what we've got on tap:
1. "Organic Groups: There's A Party In Your Drupal And Everybody's Invited" presented by Chris Bloom
If you've ever wanted to foster group collaboration on your website, we've got the presentation for you! Led by Chris Bloom, a Drupal developer with Orchestra and a themer for Sony Music websites, this presentation will demonstrate best practices for deploying the powerful, yet sometimes confusing, Organic Groups module (http://drupal.org/project/og). To do this, Chris will showcase a couple of cool Organic Groups case studies--including a huge video gaming community site he built (it's awesome) and a client site that needed Organic Groups with international pricing and user-hub access. He'll then take things one step further by showing how the ground-up rewrite of Organic Groups in Drupal 7 has addressed many of the shortcomings of the Drupal 6 version. I am really looking forward to this presentation!
2. Lightning Talks: Favorite Modules and More
It's been awhile since we've had lightning talks and they are back by popular demand. These are short, 5 minute presentations on your favorite module, cool Drupal website, or anything else of interest to the group. You can sign up to deliver a lightning talk by suggesting a topic in the comments below. To get us started, here are two lightning talks we've already got scheduled:
a) 'Notifications and Messaging modules' by Melissa Anderson: Learn how to better manage user subscriptions on your websites with the Notifications (http://drupal.org/project/notifications) and Messaging (http://drupal.org/project/messaging) modules.
b) 'Private Message module' by Ben Kaplan: Give users their own mailbox on your site and facilitate user-to-user messages, user-to-role messages, messages from the site administrator, and much more. It's easy to do with the Private Messages module (http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg).
3. "Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit 2011: Let's Make It Happen in Portland" moderated by Melissa Anderson
Planning has begun for bringing Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit to Portland next year. Melissa will moderate a short discussion about this and start the brainstorming and planning process (including a possible schedule for separate planning meetings). If you're new to the PDX Drupal User Group and want to get to know other Drupalers in the community, volunteering to help with planning this event is a great way to start!
Finally, here are the meeting details:
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 13
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks and conversation!)
Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)
It going to be a great meeting... you don't want to miss it!
See you there,
Ben
Let's Talk About Outreach
I don't believe we have the privilege of re-defining our regional summit unilaterally. Its identity and focus is clearly defined.
The Summit as it is appears to be incredibly successful based on reports from attendees and the enthusiasm here on g.d.o. I think it has energized our community to reach out and bring others on board and that's exciting! So let's do it, then. Without trying to co-opt the Summit itself, can we talk about who's on board to run a camp, clinic, or other outreach event, who you want to reach out to (new developers, new site managers, education, non-profits, business, etc.) and how/when to make it happen.
Read morePacific Northwest Drupal Summit 2011 Wiki
I want to get the wiki page in place so it's ready when the organizers are. We'll be discussing process at the October 13 User Group meeting.
Read moreCreating Custom Categories in Drupal
Hi
I don't know if this is the forum for the issues I have but I am looking for a way to create categories within my Drupal site. I looked at Taxonomy but I don’t think it is a mechanism that works the way I want it to.
Here is what I am trying to do.
I need to create a business category sub-system in Drupal that will allow the user to set the business category of the registration form they are filling out at the time of submittals. I may allow the user to have multiple business categories.
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creating a simple previous and next navigation for node pages
Hi all,
I am working on finally bringing my blog over from wordpress, and I am really struggling to find an elegant solution for adding a simple previous and next navigation to my posts. I am using a basic story content type for the posts, and using the date module to modify/enter the date of the post.
I have looked at the date browser view plugin, but it seems overly complicated and looks like it might be overkill for what I am trying to do...
I found this post: http://drupal.org/node/37767, but it looks like it is talking Drupal 5,
Read moreDrupal Summit Gift Card
Does anyone know who I should contact or where I should mail the giftcard they gave us for lunches at Drupal Summit? I accidentally took mine home with me and it still carries a balance.
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Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit 2011
Hi everyone,
Is it too early to start taking about PNW Drupal Summit 2011? I've heard that Portland is the next city up in the rotation...
Joaquin
Read moreA beginner's guide to using Hudson for continuous integration with Drupal
Shameless plug, I just wrote up a beginner's guide to getting Hudson up and running for continuous integration. Huge shout out to Steve Merrill. Couldn't have figured any of this out without following his work.
http://thinkshout.com/blog/2010/09/sean/beginners-guide-using-hudson-con...
Love to get some feedback. Please consider retweeting if helpful:
http://twitter.com/#!/sean_larkin/status/25914260515
Excited to spread the word about continuous integration!!
Sean Larkin
ThinkShout.com
http://twitter.com/sean_larkin
VoiceBox Alpha Release
Hello, all,
We have an alpha release ready of VoiceBox, our Knight Drupal Initiative project -
The project is a community media/feed aggregator/news space/conversation space. A high level run down of the featureset includes:
- Customizable user profiles;
- Discussions with embedded images, audio, and video;
- Publishing pictures, audio, and video via mobile devices and/or email;
- Content aggregation via rss;
Teal windbreaker left at the Lab after the Brewpal meetup last night (Sept 29)
Hey all. Someone left a teal Marmot windbreaker at the Lucky Labrador from the Fourth Tuesday meetup. Reply here if you know who's it is. I'll bring it to October's group meeting on the 14th regardless.
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