Portland (Oregon)

See here for specifics:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/95074

Sorry if you consider this spam, but I don't have a lot of time to be unofficially hunting for candidates and I am doing this so we hopefully have some more qualified people to choose from!

(I just realized, the Portland group lists normal content AND jobs in the same list. Doh, sorry for the duplication. Looks like I can't delete this either!)

The Techno Science Supersite (http://technosciencesupersite.org), sponsored by Intel and managed by the Business Education Compact, is in need of a CMS guru/volunteer to guide migration to a new Drupal content management system. The Supersite – a brainchild of Intel that was developed in 2002 - highlights over 100 K-12 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs for students in Oregon and SW Washington.

Hello,

I am using the geocode module to add geodata to already existing location nodes on our site. To speed up the process of geocoding 3000+ nodes, I have enlisted the help of views bulk operations.

Hey everyone,

Just a friendly reminder that TODAY (Wednesday, Sept. 8) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.

Here is what's on the agenda:

1. "Understanding the Drupal 7 Database Abstraction Layer and Field API" presented by Todd Tomlinson

Two of the biggest and most important changes in Drupal 7 are the new database abstraction layer and Field API (fields in core!). In this presentation, prolific Drupal author Todd Tomlinson will break down everything you need to know to take advantage of these exciting and powerful new D7 features. For those may not know, Todd is the author of two important Drupal books: 'Beginning Drupal 7' (released June 1, 2010) and 'Pro Drupal Development for Drupal 7' (due in October, previous editions of this book have been considered the "bible" for Drupal developers). After his presentation, he'll even be giving away free books and coupon codes!

2. "The Best of DrupalCon Copenhagen" presented by Jonathan Hedstrom

Were you not able to make it to DrupalCon Copenhagen last week? We've got the next best thing! Our very own Jonathan Hedstrom was in attendance and he'll offer his insights on the Core Developer Summit, the "State of Drupal" keynote address, and his favorite presentations and events. It's a terrific opportunity to stay up-to-date on the latest Drupal news and we'll also open up the discussion to others who were in attendance.

For full descriptions of each of the above presentations, you can check out the full meeting announcement here:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/91174

Here are the meeting details:

Date: TODAY (Wednesday, Sept. 8)
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks!)
Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)

See you there,
Ben

I meant to ask at Brewpal last night . . .

I had a client whose site uses TinyMCE, ImageField and Insert ask for the ability to choose the cropping region for an image and then place the image within the body of the node.

I found:
http://drupal.org/project/epsacrop
http://drupal.org/project/imagefield_crop
http://drupal.org/project/imagecrop
and TinyMCE's $41 MCImageManager

Only the last one appears to allow cropping of an image that a user can place in the body of a node.

Hello,

I am having some trouble getting a Views 2 argument to return what I want.

I working with Drupal 6.19 and all modules are up-to-date.

I am using the content_profile module to make a profile node for each user (public_profiles). And each user can create various types of nodes, one of which is called a Location.

I setup a block view to return nodes that are Locations, and I am trying to make that block view appear on the users public_profile node...

Does anyone know of a shared host (inexpensive) that will give You a folder out side the web root? So i can upload our pdf's and videos into, to secure. It's for a continuing ed site.

Thanks,

Ran,
Portland, Oregon

Hey everyone,

Just a friendly reminder that TODAY (Wednesday, Aug. 11) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.

Here is what's on the agenda:

1. "Janrain Engage: Connecting Drupal with the Social Web" presented by Brian McGinnis, Forest Basford & Larry Drebes (Janrain team members)

Need to quickly connect your Drupal website to the social web? Key team members from Portland-based Janrain will be here to discuss their Janrain Engage service and how it empowers your site visitors to sign-in with their existing accounts on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, MySpace, AOL, or other networks, and then simultaneously publish user comments, reviews or other activities from your site to multiple networks. In particular, the Janrain team will address the current state of the Janrain Engage Drupal module (http://drupal.org/project/rpx), ongoing efforts to port the module to Drupal 7, and important insights into how you can best leverage the power of third-party social networks.

2. "Git for Drupal (Part II, Advanced Git)" presented by Michael Schwern

Michael will delve deeper into essential git commands--including how to best create repositories, add files, clone, commit, fork, branch, stash, and merge. Because a Drupal project has some special considerations that other projects don’t, he'll cover some important key action steps (such as using remote vendor branches to track Drupal core and modules, leveraging the benefits of github.com, and merging in your local patches). We'll also open up the discussion to experienced git users in the audience who will offer their insights into best practices for using git with Drupal.

For full descriptions of each of the above presentations, you can check out the full meeting announcement here:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/85359

Here are the meeting details:

Date: TODAY (Wednesday, August 11)
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks!)
Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)

See you there,
Ben