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
Developer and themer work possibilities
As I mentioned last night at the monthly hoedown, I work for a company called Drupal Staffing and Consulting, and as the name implies, the company does two things:
- Providing Drupal people for companies that need them, both contract and permanent
- Our own development projects, where we need developers and themers
In fact, this week we've had a couple cases where we've needed themers. For the contract and permanent jobs, some are telecommute jobs, and others would require you to relocate - it just depends on the position.
Read moreMarch Meetup Wiki Notes
Thanks to everyone who added and edited notes from the March Meetup. Read more for the detailed roundup.
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PDX Beer and Drupal Meetup (New Monthly Event at Lucky Lab Beer Hall)
Hey everyone,
At the last Portland Drupal User Group meeting, I posed the question of whether others would be interested in 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. It's one part work group, one part code sprint, one part BOF meeting, and two parts Happy Hour.
Read moreGet-together For Ryan Szrama (aka Mr. Ubercart/Drupal Commerce)
Ryan Szrama, one of the originators of Ubercart (now Drupal Commerce) is going to be working in town from April 2-11. Unfortunately he will miss the April DUG meeting (which isn't until 4/14), but he would like to get together with Portland Drupalers while he is in town. A definite date/place hasn't been set up yet, but I was thinking the Lucky Lab in NW Portland (our usual post DUG meeting hangout) for a place. Ryan has one other meeting that week, but he hasn't planned it yet, so I'll let him chime in here when he knows what evenings will work for him that week.
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Events: Portland Startup Weekend
Portland Startup Weekend is happening this Friday - Sunday, starting at 6pm Friday evening.
I've heard great things from past attendees, but specifically thought it would be a perfect opportunity for rapidly prototyping a drupal site as one of the projects. Plus the opportunity to mix with all kinds of folks outside the pdx tech community.
http://portland.startupweekend.org
And last I heard they are still seeking help + sponsors.
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- I know, two messages in a row from me. What kind of craziness is going on? ;)
- I'm not connected with Startup Weekend in any way shape or form. Just know people who have attended and really enjoy it.
PDX support for Drupalcon Sessions: Last Day to vote!
Today is the last day to vote on sessions for SF Drupalcon 2010. Didn’t see a post yet in support of presenters from PDX, so this is it.If you've posted a session, mention it here and we'll rally all the support we can by the end of the day.
If you haven't yet, get out and VOTE!
Under the Hood A Complete SaaS Framework from a Single Install
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/complete-saas-framework-sin...
Business Solutions & Drupal Doing Business with a Rapid Development, Integrated Technology SaaS Framework
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/doing-business-rapid-develo...
Background
Philippe and I have submitted two sessions, both dealing with the unique SaaS framework we built for Black Tonic. There's currently no other recipe like this using only a single drupal install, which has tons of advantages. (We call it the "37 signals" SaaS model.) We presented on this at the Portland Drupal Camp.
Who else? Please post links to your session here.
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Not drupal... Joomla!
Sorry in advance that it isn't completely Drupal related. Most of my experience is with Drupal, and I've got none with Joomla. I'm hoping to find some one who is experienced in doing advanced themeing in drupal (not using panels for layout purposes, uses contenttemplate, etc) who also knows some stuff about Joomla themeing/templating/whatever they use for a term.
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DrupalPDX Contributors Meeting
Rogue Brewery, 1339 Northwest Flanders Street from 6:30 - 8:30
Mikey_p will be showing how to check out the DrupalPDX project from github and teaching contributors how to have their work incorporated into the DrupalPDX site.
If you're interested in getting involved but missed the last meeting, you'll have a chance to catch up.
Read moreMarch Meetup: Supporting Contributors and Admins
Many times we focus on how to present content to end users, but this time, we'll look at challenges that Drupal presents to administrators or relatively privileged contributors and what people in the user group do to solve those challenges. We're looking for 10 minute presentations, so please sign up in the comments.
Introductions (10 minutes)
Presentations (6 10-minute presentations), which should:
- Be web-accessible. No time for changing machines!
- Provide a brief use case or description of the need being met
- Show the problem and your solution
- Be accompanied by a list of modules used in your solution and, optionally, the site.
Reserve your spot in the comments.
DrupalPDX update and General Announcements (20 minutes): An update from the DrupalPDX meeting.
Logistics
We meet at the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209. NOTE: Please be aware that the developers at OpenSourcery will be working right up to event time. We ask that you arrive no earlier than 5:50pm. Thank you!
After the presentation finishes we'll walk over to the Lucky Lab NW for food and drink.
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Local DUG meetup in Eugene, March 3
After years of thinking "those PDX folks are so cool to have a monthly meet-up, we should have one in Eugene too", we're finally giving it a shot: http://groups.drupal.org/node/52093. If you or someone you know lives far enough south for you to want to attend, please join the http://groups.drupal.org/willamette-valley-western-oregon group and come to the meeting, and help us get off the ground.
Read moreModules for image gallery display in block
At the meetup last Wednesday, there were three different modules presented for displaying multiple rotating images in a block, with one central image and the others listed as tabs on the side. One was ddblock, and the other two were using Views based modules. Could someone mention what the two views based options are that were shown? I think I might now, but I'd like to make sure.
Thanks,
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How to make a view with exposed filters return no results until user searches
Hello,
I have a view that has exposed filters. When I navigate to the view page it shows me all of the results based on the default filter settings.
I want to make the view display a blank search page (with just the exposed filters showing) when the user first visits, in essence presenting a blank search form.
Is this possible?
Thanks,
Andy
Suggestions for displaying related content on profile node
OK, fellow PDXers, I need some help on something I know some of us around here have experience with. What I need is pretty simple, but there are a few ways to do it.
I'm working on a site for car research news, and I have experts and articles. I'm using Content Profile, and for each expert, I need to display a dynamic list of the articles that have been written by that expert on his profile node. There are two main ways I can see to do it:
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Read moreFebruary Meetup: See What Drupal Can Do
DrupalCon Discussion and Introductions (20 minutes): Talk about who's going and what's happening at DrupalCon San Francisco.
Lightning Rounds (11 5-minutes presentations): Show off what you've done with Drupal! Your presentation should:
- Be web-accessible. No time for changing machines!
- Provide a brief overview of the site
- Demo a single feature you want to highlight
- Be accompanied by a list of modules used in the feature and, optionally, the site.
Reserve your spot with a brief description of the feature in the comments.
DrupalPDX (15 minutes - jhedstrom and eliza411): We're exploring using DrupalPDX year-round to encourage active participation in our user group and support the Portland Drupal community. We'll talk about the general ideas and next steps.
Logistics
We meet at the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209. NOTE: Please be aware that the developers at OpenSourcery will be working right up to event time. We ask that you arrive no earlier than 5:50pm. Thank you!
After the presentation finishes we'll walk over to the Lucky Lab NW for food and drink.
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2010 Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit Vancouver
It’s official, Vancouver will be holding the 2nd annual PNW Drupal Summit this coming Fall. Details to come…
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Another Project Management question
Hi,
I have been following the discussion regarding PM software and am glad to see discussion in my local (geographic) community. As a member of the community here online and in Portland I have a question I would like to ask about project management.
Converting to multisite shared tables
I have a functioning multisite with completely separate databases, but I want to switch to share the user and sessions tables. After I change the settings.php file, do I need to rename that table on the lead database with the prefixes? I asked this on the drupal multisite group and nobody responded about changing an existing multisite. I've seen some tutorials about how to set it up from scratch, but am assuming this allows install.php to do some database configuration, which it can't for existing and well-populated sites.
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Drupal 7 Book Authored by Local Drupalite
Hi everyone. I've missed meetings over the past several months - buried in work, life, and all things Drupal. I wanted to let everyone know that I am about to put the wraps on Apress Publishing's Beginning Drupal 7 book. The goal is to have the book on the shelves by the end of March, prior to DrupalCon in SFO and the official release date for D7.
Read moreDrupalCon SF / Metal Toad vanpool – Free!
Sorry to say that Metal Toad management has cancelled the SF bus trip, due to lack of signups (the smallest bus we could get is for 47). We'll still be in SF all week, so I hope to see you there!
Metal Toad Media is offering free van rides to San Francisco with our crew. We are tentatively planning to drive the first van on Saturday, 4/17, with the return date TBD. There may be multiple itinerary options, depending on the level of interest. I am also trying to arrange for wifi in the vans.
Signups
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