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.
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You can support our group at OpenCollective.com/portland-drupal.
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PDX Discount to Lullabot's Drupal Theming Deep Dive Week in Portland, OR Aug 2-6
Lullabot will be holding back-to-back workshops on Drupal Theming at the Hotel Monaco in Portland from Monday through Friday, August 2nd-6th.
Members of the Portland Drupal Users Group can use the following discount code to get an additional 5% off their registration.
Register by July 9th and save even more while the early bird special is available!
Discount Code: PORTLANDDUG5
Find out more at http://lbt.me/portland-deep-dive
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Template variable issue
Hi all,
I'm having a issue with a variable I've created as a template variable. I imagine I'm missing something really basic.
You can see the result at rnp.org/beta, move from page to page and see the value inside "Currently Power... change.
$MW = db_query("SELECT SUM(field_project_capacity_value) FROM drpl_content_type_project WHERE field_project_capacity_unit_value = 'MW'");
$int_MW = (int)$MW;
$KW = db_query("SELECT SUM(field_project_capacity_value) FROM drpl_content_type_project WHERE field_project_capacity_unit_value = 'KW'");
$int_KW = (int)$KW;
Podcast Topics
For those of you who don't know (which is probably 99% of you), I have taken over the Acquia Drupal podcast (my first episode just went up today here). I have a couple more interviews lined up, but after that I'm going to need some more, so if you are doing something cool in Drupal (or know someone else who is) and think it would be a good topic, drop me a note, and we can schedule an interview.
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REMINDER: Today's "Brewpal" Meetup (Tuesday, June 22)
Hey everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that TODAY (Tuesday, June 22) 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.
Here are the details:
Date: TODAY (Tuesday, June 22)
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lucky Lab Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St.
Portland, OR 97209
(Yes, they have wifi.)
See you then!
--Ben
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Drupal 7 Code Sprint
CHX will be in Seattle July 25-26 and has expressed interested in having a code sprint here to crank on the D7 criticals queue and port modules to D7. Is anyone interested in this? While this event will probably be pretty code-centric, I think it would be an excellent introduction for people who are curious and interested in how to get more involved in the Drupal community. If Jennifer can make it, I'm sure she would be up for some documentation queue wrangling and we can make sure there is stuff for all skill levels to do.
Read moreJune 22 "Brewpal" Meetup: See You This Tuesday!
Hey all,
Our three prior "Brewpal" meetups have been a great success (we had more than 25 people at the last one), so it's time to remind everyone that the next Brewpal meetup is this coming Tuesday (June 22).
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.
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 June event:
Date: Tuesday, June 22
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lucky Lab Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St.
Portland, OR 97209
Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit Update - June 2010
Greetings Drupal Community!
It’s exciting times for Drupal in the Pacific Northwest. Planning for the October 2010 Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit in Vancouver, Canada is progressing nicely. Want to find out more, keep on reading!
Background
The process started in earnest last year with a call for participation. From there we established an Organizing Committee and starting laying down the foundation for the conference. Although I was the one that kicked things off I’m extremely pleased to announce that Vanessa Turke of ImageX Media took on the role of Organizing Committee chair and is doing a wonderful job. The Organizing Committee would also like to acknowledge the support we’re getting from last year’s Seattle organizing committee.
Contacts
| Sponsorship: | Phillip Djwa, Phillip [at] agentic DOT ca |
| Volunteers: | Vanessa Turke, Vanessa [at] imagexmedia DOT com |
| Presenters/Keynotes: | Chris Geoghegan, chris [at] imagexmedia DOT com |
| Training: | Dale McGladdery, dale.mcgladdery [at] gmail DOT com |
| General Inquires: | Vanessa Turke, Vanessa [at] imagexmedia DOT com |
The Conference
Here’s what we’ve nailed down about the conference so far:
| Date: | October 2 & 3, 2010 |
| Venue: | UBC Robson Square, Vancouver, BC |
| Tracks: | Developer Design & Theme Site Architecture & Administration Business & Project Management Birds of a Feather |
| Financing: | The conference is primarily financed from sponsorship, with a small contribution coming from ticket sales. |
| Organizing: | There are no paid organizing positions. We’re all volunteer. |
Drupal Booth OSCon 2010
OSCon is next week!! And the Drupalbooth is gearing up to be awesome!! Checkout http://drupalbooth.drupalgardens.com for the plan. Also, checkout our awesome sponsors at http://drupapalbooth.drupalgardens.com/sponsors.
If you're volunteering please checkout the OSCon Volunteer Packet, it has all the good info about what we are doing, where, and what you need to do to get into the Exhibit Hall.
Read moreDrupal Website Development class at Portland Community College
I am excited to let you know of two new classes on Drupal; Drupal Website Development and Customizing Drupal Themes. Our first class, Drupal Website Development, is starting on July 1st. Please contact me if you have any questions, and I appreciate you helping me get the word out about our classes.
Read moreREMINDER: This Wednesday's User Group Meeting (Mailchimp Module + Communicating with Your Users)
Hey everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that this WEDNESDAY (June 9) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.
The theme for the June meeting will be "Communicating with Your Users" and the main presentation will feature Lev Tsypin, a Portland developer who maintains the popular Mailchimp module (http://drupal.org/project/mailchimp). The module allows you to send bulk-emails to your users by integrating with the excellent third-party Mailchimp service (http://www.mailchimp.com).
Lev's presentation will be useful not only to those interested in using the Mailchimp service, but also to developers who need to write modules that interact with third-party APIs.
Some of the topics Lev will be covering include:
- Benefits/challenges of developing a "wrapper" module that interacts with Mailchimp's own API
- Benefits/challenges of upgrading the module to Drupal 7
- One-way vs. Two-way integration: Pushing data to Mailchimp and/or pulling data from Mailchimp
We're also looking for some shorter "lightning talk" style presentations on other modules or approaches that you've used to communicate with your users. This could be technical information or code, or a broader discussion of best practices you've discovered for sending e-mail, text messages, or the like.
If you're interested in delivering a lightning talk, please post a comment below so that I can plan out available time. I'll likely be delivering one myself on either the Private Message module (http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg) or the IM module (http://drupal.org/project/im).
And of course, here are the meeting details:
Date: Wednesday, June 9
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
Open Source Bridge: Project Management Talks
Open Source Bridge was last week, June 1 - 4th in Portland, OR. This is a conference near and dear to me, it's open source citizens from all over the world gathering to talk about the issues we're all facing, and geeking out on what we're all doing. Lots of fun talks, but the two below are more 'useful'.
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Dynamic Views Filters in D6
I have a D5 view that uses argument handling code to dynamically filter events for an academic year. In Drupal 6, I've upgraded from the events module to using the CCK date field, so the date would not be a timestamp any longer. That's easy enough, but I'm not sure how to get the equivalent filter functionality Drupal 6.
Has anyone tried something like this or does anyone know how to achieve the end result in some other way?
Argument Handling Code
$view->is_cacheable = 0;
if(date("n") <= 6) {
// second, minute, hour, month, day, year
Drupal Assoc sesstion at DrupalCon - Drupal trademark
The worst attended session for me at DrupalCon San Francisco was the one about the Drupal Association. ;) But also a very informative one.
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PDXPHP meetup at OSBridge with Haiping Zhao of Facebook and HipHop for PHP
Just a reminder that for the coders amongst you, that the PDXPHP group (the group that spawned our DUG) are meeting at Open Source Bridge this Thursday with Haiping Zhao of Facebook and HipHop PHP. HipHop is one of the major recent developments in the ‘PHP-verse’, but the discussion can go wherever the audience wants it to go.
Read moreCombining results from node reference fields with multiple values
I have view that uses fields and grabs node titles - all deltas - from a node reference field via a relationship. Is there a way to get views not to generate a new row for every title that is being returned?
I have a feeling this is getting into hook_views_pre_render() or views_query_alter() territory...
All thoughts and advice appreciated.
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Which modules?
If it's not obvious yet, I am new here.
Example: a Drupal site for a museum
User creates a login indicating areas of interest based on the taxonomy.
Home page contains a link to MyMuseum which displays a page of content aggregated from the site based on the afore-mentioned taxonomy.
E.g. Dylan's MyMuseum page has all kinds of info about dinosaurs and pirates, but Olivia's MyMuseum page has content all about space exploration and sculpture.
What combination of modules do I need? (I have rss aggregator and Twitter to collect the content.)
Read moreJune 9 Meetup
At this evening's Brewpal (where we usually confirm the next usergroup agenda) jhedstrom and I discovered we are both out of town for the next meetup on Wednesday, June 9.
We're looking for someone who can put together an agenda and facilitate the June meetup. Open Sourcery will be available. If you're willing and able, let us know in the comments. I'll actually be out June, July, and August, so if you're going to be in P-town during the summer, there's more than one month in need.
Read moreREMINDER: Tomorrow's "Brewpal" Meetup (Tuesday, May 25)
Hey everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that TOMORROW (Tuesday, May 25) 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.
Here are the details:
Date: Tuesday, May 25
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lucky Lab Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St.
Combining PNW IRC channels
Hey everybody!
So currently there are three Drupal channels for Pacific Northwest cities - #drupal-portland, #drupal-seattle and #drupal-vancouver. Right now there is a lot of overlap between these channels - people who hang out in two or three, but a lot of the time the individual channels are pretty dead. Additionally, since the Drupal Summit last year, there seems to be more of a broad community feeling between all the groups than there has in the past. So I was thinking maybe we should just do away with the three channels and form a new #drupal-pnw channel. It would bring more of us together and for many remove the need to join two or three channels individually. Local-only discussions could still happen on the groups, as it does already really.
Read moreWebchick in PDX, looking for people to hack with
Webchick (aka webchickenator, aka Angie Byron) is in town for a couple days speaking at a conference at Intel, and per Twitter is looking to get together with Portland Drupalers to do some hacking (more than likely on the D7 issue queue). You can reach her in IRC or on Twitter (@webchik). Also, feel free to post any responses here, since I she knows about this thread.
Update:People will be hanging out from 12:30 PM on at Ringlers Pub.
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