Welcome to the North Carolina Drupal Users Group. Feel free to chat or post about your current projects you are working on to get feedback or help. There are many different groups and events you can get involved with in North Carolina.
Here are some important links for the major groups:
TriDUG - Raleigh, Durham, & RTP
Group Page - Meetup - Propose a Topic - Twitter
Charlotte User Group
Group Page - Meetup - Twitter
Asheville User Group
Meetup - Propose a Topic - Twitter
Boone/Appalachian State University
Twitter
triadDUG - Greensboro & Winston-Salem
Group Page
Need to Vent
Instead of actually accomplishing things the past week I've been trying to debug... Drupal, my install, MySQL. I literally spend ALL day working (not for pay) on this.
Cron will not run. It fails indefinitely.
I finally got one install (I duplicated my site on another server, with the same error) to work by uninstalling getID module. So I go to the other install and do the same thing, nothing.
Open Call for triDUG Volunteers
Hello triDUGgers!
This is an open recruitment call to everyone in the group. We are looking for some volunteers to become Moderators for the monthly triDUG Meetups and the bi-weekly Hack Nights.
General qualifications for being a Moderator are: Journeyman or higher Drupal skill level, experience with participating in the Drupal Community through IRC, g.d.o or Drupal.org Issue Queues, a desire to contribute back to the Drupal Project and previous attendance for at least one triDUG event.
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Help! How to stop "backlinkers?"
Hi folks, I'm wondering if you have any suggestions because we're at the end of our rope! The web site I manage has been hit with a flood of new user registrations that are NOT people authentically trying to join our community. Since this started on October 1st, we have been getting approximately 10 new users per hour, 24-7. The IP addresses are almost always unique and the profile information is different each time, sometimes with spammy links, sometimes not.
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Experiences upgrading Drupal 5/CiviCRM 2.0 to Drupal 6/CiviCRM 2.2
I just completed an upgrade from Drupal 5 with CiviCRM 2.0 to Drupal 6 with CiviCRM 2.2 on a site with multisite hosting. Perhaps my experiences will help someone else.
I lack sysadmin skills but can use basic UNIX commands and copy and paste MySQL and php. In most cases, Google helped when I got stuck.
I have two installations:
(1) test.nccommunities.org where folks learn how things work, test upgrades, and try out new modules. The site also offers CiviCRM with sample data for people to explore.
(2) nccommunities.org which has seven additional sites running under it.
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Q about hosting services
Hope this isn't politically incorrect. I'm planning a Drupal site for a film I will be marketing in a few months. I'm currently hosted (multiple simple HTML-CSS sites) at Godaddy as a simple "shared" site on Linux. I'm concerned that if I start to have success in the form of 20 to 120 people a day creating logins, logging in to comment, upload pictures, etc., that my current hosting will become a huge performance bottleneck. Moving to the dedicated hosting or the virtual dedicated hosting is expensive (for me) but might be a necessity.
Read moreDrupalcamp Atlanta - Final Wrap-Up and Key Takeaways
Thanks to everyone who came out to Drupalcamp Atlanta! I've posted a recap, and included some key lessons learned for future Drupalcamp organizers here:
http://www.mediacurrent.com/blogs/drupalcamp-atlanta-2009-wrap-up-and-ke...
If you attended DCA (and not already completed), please provide feedback via this survey:
Cheers,
Dave
Mediacurrent
Why Use Drupal? - Presentation and Panel Q&A
When: September 2, 2009 7:00 PM
Where:
The Research Triangle Park Headquarters
12 Davis Drive
RTP, NC 27706
Looking for a web publishing platform or content management system? Drowning in a sea of confusing opinions about the many different open-source and fee-based CMS programs across the Internet?
Are you considering Drupal?
Presentation
Read moretriDUG Hack Night
Time/Location
Tuesday, August 25 2009, 6:30 - 9:30pm
Coalmarch Productions, LLC
125 Edinburgh South Drive Suite 200
Cary, NC, 27511
Schedule
6:30 - 7:00pm - Mingle Time
7:00 - 7:15pm - Come up with a list of problems that need attention and who can solve them
7:15 - 9:30pm - Hack away!
Agenda
We're slowly getting back into the swing of things after our Summer vacations!
Read moreCANCELED: D7CX upgrade satellite sprint
chx is hosting a D7CX upgrade sprint, so Classic Graphics main office at 5901 Northwoods Business Pkwy, Charlotte, NC will host a satellite sprint on October 17 in the far left entrance door by th
Read moreDrupalcamp Atlanta Registration is Open!
The inaugural Drupalcamp Atlanta is now open for registration, and will be held on Saturday, September 19th from 9am – 5pm on the beautiful campus of Kennesaw State University. Our mission and purpose is twofold: (1.) we want to educate people about Drupal and (2.) further evangelize Drupal within our geographic region.
triDUG August Hack Night #1
Time/Location
Wednesday, August 05 2009, 6:30 - 9:30pm
Coalmarch Productions, LLC
125 Edinburgh South Drive Suite 200
Cary, NC, 27511
Schedule
6:30 - 7:00pm - Mingle Time
7:00 - 7:15pm - Come up with a list of problems that need attention and who can solve them
7:15 - 9:30pm - Hack away!
Agenda
Ahhhhh! Back from Summer Vacation! It's time to get serious about Drupal again!
Read moreCreating Campus Tour on Drupal
Would like to hear from anyone who has used Drupal to create a campus tour for your college or university. We are getting ready to revamp our dusty old online tour, and I'm trying to think of an interesting way to use Drupal to accomplish this. I'm thinking along the lines of a slideshow but with interactivity (e.g., "click here to see a video about this facility").
Gary Broyhill
webmaster
www.lr.edu
From LinkedIn: looking for a Drupal Moderator
I'm in the LinkedIn Drupal group. Saw this post and thought someone in the NC or Triangle group might be interested. I don't see anything about salary.
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blockquote>We are looking for a Drupal Moderator. Someone who is well known in the Drupal community....
We are actively looking for someone who could be a Drupal Moderator in GPLpedia.com. Please see
http://www.gplpedia.com/Community/Moderator.html
http://www.gplpedia.com/Softwares/demos/Drupal.html
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Twitter?
Just curious how many NC Drupal peeps are on twitter. I imagine most of you are. Lets share some twitter and create some community. I'll go first.
Follow me and I'll follow you.
Read moreNCTech4Good - Overview and experiences with content management systems
Just wanted to post this event that I found out about through the Triangle LINUX Users Group
Sean Watson, netCorps, Technology Consultant, will provide a general overview of several of the popular content management systems and will lead a discussion of the pros/cons of each. Participants will:
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Gain an understanding of when a CMS is better than a custom built/custom programmed static website and when it's not.
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Gain an understanding of why a proprietary hosted CMS solution is not usually a good idea.
triDUG June Hack Night
Schedule
June 18, 2009 6:30 PM
6:30 - 7:00pm - Mingle Time
7:00 - 7:15pm - Come up with a list of problems that need attention and who can solve them
7:15 - 9:30pm - Hack away!
Location
Merkados™
http://www.merkados.com/
1135 Kildaire Farm Rd.
Suite 200
Cary, NC 27511
Agenda
Read moreTriDUG June Meeting and Presentation
Schedule
Wednesday, June 3th
6:30pm - 9:30pm
6:30 - 7:15 - Mingle time!
7:15 - 8:30 - Presentations, Q & A
8:30 - 9:30 - Extra mingling, collaboration and ask-for-help time
Location
The Location for this Meeting has Changed!
The Park Research Center
Read moreTriDUG May Drupal Hack Night #2
Time/Location
Thursday, May 28 2009, 6:30 - 9:30pm
Coalmarch Productions, LLC
125 Edinburgh South Drive Suite 200
Cary, NC, 27511
Schedule
6:30 - 7:00pm - Mingle Time
7:00 - 7:15pm - Come up with a list of problems that need attention and who can solve them
7:15 - 9:30pm - Hack away!
Agenda
Hack Nights are still going strong! Thanks for everyone who has attended so far.
Read moreMay Drupal Hack Night #1
Time/Location
Tuesday, May 12 2009, 6:30 - 9:30pm
Coalmarch Productions, LLC
125 Edinburgh South Drive Suite 200
Cary, NC, 27511
Schedule
6:30 - 7:00pm - Mingle Time
7:00 - 7:15pm - Come up with a list of problems that need attention and who can solve them
7:15 - 9:30pm - Hack away!
Agenda
We had a really successful Hack Night last week, and we can't wait to host more! Coalmarch will be hosting 2 Drupal Hack Nights in May, so think up some great projects and problems for us to help you with!
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