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Related content
At last night's DUG I asked the group if anyone had a good solution/module recommendation for showing related content in a block, based on taxonomy. A block like this could be used to show blog entries/forum discussions related to the blog entry in focus ("You might also be interested in"), or to show FAQs related to a piece of content, etc, etc. Solr was suggested, but while it is an excellent search option, it does not seem to be well suited to this.
There are some modules out there that can do this and if any of you have any recommendations I'd love to hear them. I've tried Taxonomy Quick Find, but it's approach is not ideal for my needs.
What I really wanted was to do this through Views and get all of the fine-grained control over the way you select and display your information that only Views gives you, but also in a way that is dynamic, rather than a collection of duplicated blocks with hard-coded taxonomy codes. After digging around I found a blog post on how to use views 2 in Drupal 6 to create a related content block. The post is a bit dated, but otherwise is solid and easy to follow.
Read moreWOW! DrupalCampLA 2009 - Aug 8-9 - planning wiki - help make drupal great!
Last updated by christefano on Sat, 2010-07-24 00:50
- DrupalCampLA 2009 planning is done and registration is open: http://DrupalCampLA.com
- Questions, Concerns or other musings should be posted here: http://2009.drupalcampla.com/forum
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Below is the wiki archive -- Please don't edit
- First, do this ... block these dates! Aug 8 & 9.
Drupal Camp Victoria 2009
NorthStudio and the Victoria School of Business and Technology are once again proud to host the second annual Drupal Camp Victoria, in Victoria, BC September 11th and 12th. Just like last year, we have timed Drupal Camp to happen around the Great Canadian Beer festival. Please go to http://drupalcamp.northstudio.com/ for more information and to sign up.
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June Meeting: Lightning rounds, July Challenge discussion, Modules 101
Lightning Rounds
It's been a while since we've done lightning rounds, which are generally quick, informative, and fun. Here's what we've got so far:
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Street Roots launches rosecityresource.org PDX Drupal UG project today
I wanted to let the group know that today Street Roots did their hard launch of our community project, the Rose City Resource site. Since we went live in March, Israel (SR director) and I have been tweaking, configuring, and adding (with the continued support of the dev team, thank you).
You can pick up a copy of today's Street Roots to find an article on page 3. Israel is holding a stack of papers for us so if you're not able to pick one up, let me know and I'll send one to you if you want. :)
You can also see the article here:
Read moreArticle: Building Community with Open Source
Good article by jhedstrom in today's NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network) newsletter: Building Community with Open Source with PDX Drupal UG as an example. Nice.
http://nten.org/blog/2009/05/28/building-community-open-source
Hover/Mouseover Menus
In Drupal 6, which module do you guys think is best for hover/mouseover menus, i.e. where you expand a menu by simply hovering your mouse over the primary menu option. Nice Menus (http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus) is not the easiest to use and you need to know your CSS, but does the job. An example of a site using Nice Menus is none other than recovery.gov. However, is there anything better out there? I find many menu modules but most seem to force the user to click on a menu or involve images rather than text.
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Open Source Bridge
The following description is from the organizers:
Open Source Bridge is a completely volunteer-run conference for open source citizens held June 17-19 in Portland, Oregon. Focused on developers working with open source technologies, the event features five tracks connecting people across projects, languages, and backgrounds to explore how those developers approach their work, and why they participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at other events.Read more
Redirecting subdirectory into root, and all pages therein
Hey there everyone,
So for a while there I was placing all of my drupal content in a subdirectory, and redirecting all my visitors to the subdirectory. I've come to discover through working with some people who do a lot of SEO work that it's not a good idea to go doing that. So, I moved everything to the root directory from the subdirectory, did abunch of other stuff for SEO, and now I want to redirect everything from the old sub directory back to the root directory.
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July Challenge Meeting
After the May meeting yesterday, several of us kicked around an idea for July's meeting. Between now and the June meeting, we brainstorm a challenge in the form of a client requirement or a user spec.
At the June meeting, we'll announce the challenge, and then interested parties will use Drupal to solve the problem. Core, contrib, and custom solutions are all welcome. In July, everyone who tried to solve it will sign up to present, and we'll divide the meeting time among them, but presentations won't be longer than 10 minutes each.
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Lipstick & Powder seeks Hammer & Nails
Greetings, Drupalites
I'm a PDX UI designer with 10 years of old school HTML experience trying to bring the best of Open Source form and function to my clients' websites. In the last year or two I've gained a good working knowledge of Drupal, but lack the Deep Magic. I'm hoping to partner up with a skilled backend developer who looks for signs of intelligent life beyond Minelli and Garland.
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Classic Arcade Games with Lullabot and Friends
Come celebrate with the Lullabots as we wrap up another weeklong workshop here in beautiful Portland. We're headed to Ground Kontrol to play classic arcade games and pinball! There's a live DJ and you'll need your ID to get in since there's also a bar. And we'll probably find ourselves at VooDoo Doughnuts before the night is through.
Come on out and get your geek on!
When: 7pm, Friday
Where: Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade - http://www.yelp.com/biz/ground-kontrol-portland-2
511 NW Couch St.
Portland, OR 97209
Phone: (503)796-9364
Having an extremely weird problem accessing Drupal.org, looking for input
Howdy:
I have an very intermittent and strange problem. From my static IP at my office, intermittently without warning, I cannot access drupal.org or any related sites, while anybody else can as long as it's not my IP. From my same office, if I log onto a free WIFI, I can access the site on the same computer.
I call Comcast and they are about as helpful as my Cat. (FWIW, my cat is old skool, she's a fortran developer and too lazy to learn the web ways).
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Lullabot Is In Town - Portland Meetup on Tuesday
The Lullabot team will be in town next week teaching workshops at the Hotel Monaco. We've got a nice space reserved and a bunch of out-of-town workshop attendees who would love to meet the great Portland Drupal community. So how about a Portland Drupal Meetup on Tuesday (May 5th)!? We'll have a cash bar, audio/video stuff, and snacks.
We'll keep the format pretty open with lightening talks and question/answer sessions. We'll have a signup sheet, and we'd love to hear about the cool stuff that you're working on, Drupal discoveries, or just questions that you need answered.
Location:
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Chat on Drupal
Does anybody have any experience or recommendations from among the many modules that implement some kind of chat on Drupal sites?
Read moreOpen Source Bridge discounts and free ticket drawing
Members of local user groups can get a discount to Open Source Bridge:
http://opensourcebridge.org/get-involved/for-user-groups/
We'll also be having a drawing at the May meeting (http://groups.drupal.org/node/21406) to give away a free ticket.
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Drupal Beyond the Web
Justin Miller will treat us to a half-hour version of his DrupalCon DC Presentation, Drupal Beyond the Web.
Modules 101
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whither Panels_page and Views ctools?
Hello all. I am trying to us panels in Drupal 6.10 and have installed all asked for modules but cannot find "Panels_page" and "Views ctools". I cannot activate panels module without them apparently. Can anybody direct me to those download links? Maybe there is an update lag for those modules? Thanks, TS
Read moreLinuxFest Northwest - Sign up NOW!
LinuxFest Northwest is coming up soon -- April 25-26 in Bellingham, http://linuxfestnorthwest.org
We are planning to hold a mini-DrupalCamp at LinuxFest -- see http://groups.drupal.org/node/20345 for format.
However, deadlines are approaching! Only a few people (from Vancouver I think?) have signed up to give formal talks on Saturday (Jakob assures me that even though the deadline is past, if you sign up now (4/8), you can still get in). Please do so if you want to give a formal talk on Saturday.
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