Chat with us! Thanks to Neil (IndyTechCook) we now have an #indianapolis channel in the Drupal Slack Workspace!
If you're not already using Drupal Slack, I highly recommend you join at https://drupalslack.herokuapp.com/
Once you sign up and join the Drupal Slack Workspace, click on CHANNELS and you'll see a search interface.
As you begin to enter "indianapolis" you will see #indianapolis appear in the list and you can click it to join.
How/When We Started: The Indy Drupal Users Group started meeting in January of 2008. Since that time we've ranged from meeting once a month, to twice a month, to infrequently. We've had instructional meetups, guest speakers, some hack-a-thons, and even pulled off 2 DrupalCamps.
We haven't had a meetup since Feb 2016.
OLD NEWS: The IndyDrupal Meetup.com Page has been closed. We will be using this forum from now on.
In April 2018 I asked our 251 MeetUp.com members if they wanted to do a meetup and got little response.
Geeks and God Theming workshop
So I am watching Geeks and God live right now and they announce that on January 17th either in Detroit or Ohio they are going to be offering a theming workshop. From like 1-6pm. I think this would be a great opportunity to learn about themes.
Any one up for a road trip?
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Site relaunch: looking for feedback
Hey everybody, I've recently relaunched my company website, and I'd like to get some feedback on the look and feel. I'm working on a case study for drupal.org on it right now, and I'd like it to be as good as possible before unveiling to a larger audience. Any feedback would be welcome.
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Content Discovery
Is there a module that achieves personalized recommendations of community content from a users tags against all other users content tags?
So if user A tags a community node with 'drinks', 'entertainment', and 'bar' the resulting recommendation block would push similar tagged content to user A.
I've been reviewing the following modules but still confused
http://drupal.org/project/recommendation
setup for a subscribed friend to friend recommendation???
only recommends content that has been voted on via VotingAPI.
Read moreDrupal Performance Optimization
My current website home, sometimes loads very, very, very slowly. I have rebooted my server once and it sped it up, but I am wondering about some best practices to optimize drupal performance on the backend. I have a lot of memory intensive modules, so I think that may have something to do with it.
I've been digging through the drupal planet trying to find anything, but wondered if anyone else has had any issues with slowness.
Read moreVersioning Control and Server Backend -- Meeting idea
If people are interested I could talk about setting up and using a Drupal site with versioning control. At a meeting sometime.
How to get Drupal up and running with CVS.
How to setup your own CVS repository (in linux)
Updating Drupal via CVS
How to create a mysql database via the command line or via phpmysql
SSH/Putty
How to build a webserver on a spare computer with FTP/PHP/MySQL/Apache etc (the ubuntu/debian way)
Other best practices.
CDMUG Venti ver 2.95
Join our group for a night of technology and knowledge. The floor will be open for project presentations and topics. As always CDMUG events are a great way to meet like-minded people in our area. Bring your laptop, business cards, and an interest in Drupal. We are looking to bring out about 30 members for this event.
Tuesday January 6th 2009 @ 7 pm
i.c. stars
212 West Superior
Suite 300
Chicago, IL 60610
773.715.7133
RSVP @ http://drupal.meetup.com/1/
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December 15 Indy Drupal Users Meetup
We're trying one more meetup before the new year!
Location: Promethius Consulting Click Here for Directions
Time: 6pm
Let us know if you can make it! I will do a presentation on Zen Theme, so if anyone wants to know how to bend the Zen Theme into your own, come and join us! There have been a lot of questions about this in the past, so hopefully you can make the meetup and learn something!
Also Eric is going to present on his XAMPP so don't miss out!!
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http://blog.to.it/
Hey gang,
A buddy of mine from Cardiff built a cool web app that helps promote people's blogs.
http://blog.to.it/
My blog www.dougvann.com is utilizing the service.
I mention this for two reasons.
[1] You can find some great blogs on there especially techy ones.
[2] You should use this free service if you have a blog!
Check it out!
- Doug
Theming Questions?
There seemed to be a lot of interest in theming at the Drupal group last night. This is a place to post your theming questions as you come across them and see if we can't find some solutions. I'm leaving it wide open!
These questions may be addressed or lead to theming workshop at the next meetups. So keep posting here for the next meetup.
Read moreHow oftan should we have meetings that you would want to attend?
What days are best for you to attendan Indy Drupal Users Group meeting?
Happy New Year!!
OK, I'm a month and a few days early with the Happy New Year.
Here's the scoop.
Monday Dec 1st will be the only meeting in December. It's too crazy of a month to try and squeeze a second one in.
For January let's start off with a meeting on Monday the 5th. Responses to the polls I will be posting will determine where we go from there.
As mentioned, I will posting some polls to see what the group members think about meeting schedules and content.
I know I spend a lot of time on here trying to gauge the group and feel it out and push it along...
Here's why:::
Promotional Material
So everyone knows, Doug and I put together some promotional materials in preparation for the IndyBang event. We have a 3x5 banner that has some general information about Drupal (thumbnail attached for reference) - this can be re-used at any convention booth or display setup that any Drupal Indy members attend or host. We also had some fliers printed out. These fliers just need subtle changes (like the next Drupal Indy Meetup) and they could also be applied for any event.
Contact Doug or I if you ever find a use for this material.
Read moreDec 1st meeting of the Indy Drupal Users Group
Free Pizza! Maybe even Souvant22@drupal.org will be there presenting!?
at the offices of MidWest Internet and IndyAssociates.com MAP
Please Register on this site as attending so that we know how much Pizza to acquire. :-)
questions? call Doug Vann 317-531-7216 mobile
O'rielly's first Drupal book "Using Drupal" sample chapter available
Announcing O'Reilly's first Drupal book!
Using Drupal.
It is now finished. It's being sent to the printer and should be available at your favorite book stores soon. In fact, you can pre-order from Amazon.com right now.
http://www.doitwithdrupal.com/blog/sample-chapter-our-oreilly-book-now-a...
Check it out!!!!
2nd November Meeting of Indy Drupal Users Group 11.17.08
Towards the end of our last meeting on 11.3.08 I asked if ppl wanted to get together for another meeting in two weeks. The response was good so I'm posting it here.
Next Meeting: Mon Nov 17th
Location: The offices of IndyAssociates.com MAP-here
Free Pizza & Beverages!
Read moreIndyBang.org networking gala! Sat. nov. 22nd 3pm-6pm
Hey gang!
We have a rather unique and interesting opportunity before us.
James Moriarty of www.moriartymedia.com runs a dev shop in town that uses Drupal rather heavily. He is also the chief organizer of a networking gig on 11/22/08 named www.INDYBANG.org [go spend some time on that site and get a feel for what it is :-) ]
He asked me to do a booth at the event to represent Drupal. He also offered free booth space. We discussed it for a while and the best idea I could come up with was to have the Indy Drupal Users Group show up and rock-it-DRUPAL-style!
10% off tickets for DoItWithDrupal event in New Orleans
the coupon code for 10% off is DOITWITHDOUGVANN
That wasn't my idea for the coupon name by the way! :-)
Hey gang. [cross post to Indy, Chicago Cinci]
I wanted to take a moment to say that I am going to be at the www.DoItWithDrupal.com Seminar Dec 10-12, and I'd love to hook up with any of you who are going as well. Contact me via the g.d.o contact form and let me know you're going. I'm also looking to share the room with some people and keep the costs down.
For those of you who are not planning on attending you can get 10% off of the registration price.
The Indy Drupal Users Group -- Invading Cincinnati?!
Hey Cincinnati Gang, cross-post to Chicago gang...
Doug Vann here. I head up the Indiana group at groups.drupal.org/indiana Myself and 6 of our group just had a blast over at the www.drupalcampchicago.org While there the topic was raised that the midwest Drupalers need to unite and work together.
I'd like to check out one of your meetings maybe in December or January. The megabus.com can get me there non-stop round trip for anywhere from $3 to $20 depending on how early I book it. I could see who in our group would like to join me.
November meeting of the Indy Drupal Users Group
Here we go!! We're going to get down and dirty with some serious Drupal.
We're getting together next Monday at 6pm for Pizza and Drupal! Where? My office in Broadripple. map
Here are some possibilities for the agenda:
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