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.
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Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) Drupal Day
NPO Drupal Friends,
ThinkShout is proud to announce that we are facilitating the first ever Drupal Day for Nonprofit IT Professionals event at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) April 3rd, 2012, at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco.
The content of this full-day event will be geared toward IT decision-makers who either currently manage, or are considering, the Drupal content management system. With this focus, this event will be applicable to Drupal professional service providers specializing in the nonprofit sector, in-house nonprofit software developers, Drupal power-users, and executive nonprofit staff responsible for managing website and web application procurement and maintenance.
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Way Out West Meetup
We will be meeting at the Forest Grove Library next Wednesday at 6:30.
This will be an "Entry Level Meetup"
So, if you are new and want to learn or just want to ask questions, please consider attending. If you are already a Drupal ninja, consider coming to help out those that need it. There will be someone to guide us through some of the basics. I hope to be able to post an agenda before the meeting.
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Drupal Association Board Member Voting starts tomorrow!
The Drupal Assocation has two open positions on the board and voting for candidates begins tomorrow. The list of candidates can be found here: https://association.drupal.org/2012-nominations-announced Get out and vote! Shameless plug -- yes I am on the list of candidates.
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February User Group Meeting, Redux
Reposting this an event so that we can get SIGNUPS! Please sign up below so we can gauge interest.
Get ready for fun at February's meetup! Melissa Anderson (@eliza411) is going to walk us through some awesome Workflow training in Drupal. This is a very hands-on exercise, so bring your laptops and get ready for between 1 - 1.5 hours of training on the workbench_moderation module. From Melissa:
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Drupal 7 Trainings
OpenSourcery, in partnership with Acquia, offers two Portland-based Drupal 7 workshops each month:
- Drupal 7 in Day (Friday, February 3)
- Site Building with Drupal 7 (Monday and Tuesday, February 6-7)
February User Group Meeting Subject
Get ready for fun at February's meetup! Melissa Anderson (@eliza411) is going to walk us through some awesome Workflow training in Drupal. This is a very hands-on exercise, so bring your laptops and get ready for between 1 - 1.5 hours of training on the workbench_moderation module. From Melissa:
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January Brewpal
As always, no formal agenda... just the opportunity to chat, drink, and work in the company of fellow Drupalers. Don't forget to bring your laptop and use the free Wi-Fi. Because AC power is somewhat limited, it's best to charge up your laptop before you come.
We get going at 5:00 p.m., but if your job doesn't permit you to arrive until later, that's fine, too.
So here are the details on January's Brewpal:
Date: Tuesday, January 24th
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lucky Lab Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St.
Portland, OR 97209
Contact your Senator/Congressman Module/webform module/I'll take anything at this point!
I've searched high, low... hell I tried everything but Yahoo and asking my dog (my dog being more useful). Is there a module where users can input their zip code and basic information and then email their senators?
If there isn't, is there a write up on how to combine a set of modules to deliver this functionality? No combination of keywords I can cook up is doing me any good...
Random things I've tried to search for to find this (to help a future person who thinks like I do):
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Perfecting Permissions – Editorial Workflow
Does your organization require content review before the content gets published? We'll build a common editorial workflow that allows an author to create and edit his or her own work and submit it for editorial review. Author and editor can collaborate until it's ready to be passed along for final approval and publication.
Sign up at http://training.opensourcery.com/sessions/workflow-1
For more about our Test Kitchen format, see http://training.opensourcery.com/recipes
Read moreKeeping it Fresh! Content Scheduling
Site visitors can't trust information on a web site that's filled with outdated information and delayed announcements. Busy content editors can't always keep track of what needs to go up and down. Building pages that feature content for a limited time doesn't remove the content from site searches.
Come build a system where content contributors can automate the publication and archiving of content, saving time while delivering fresh content.
Sign up at http://training.opensourcery.com/sessions/scheduling-1
Read moreBack in town, looking for Drupal Projects
Hello Drupal-portland! Fun to go to the Drupal Wednesday event.
Just wanted to mention that I am back in town and looking for some more interesting/exciting Drupal projects.
Can do everything from Design to HTML4/5/CSS3/JS to Theming to PHP/Programming, custom modules to Project Management etc.
I'm looking for contract/freelance work, not employment.
Thanks for any tips or help you can offer,
Thanks!
Read moreBig thanks to January Presenter Mike Nielson
We had a great breakdown by Mike Nielson on the Omega theme, Context, Delta and <a href=""http://www.drupal.org/project/contextfield">ContextField at January's user group meeting. Thank you, Mike, I know I learned a ton and can't wait to use these on my next D7 site.
Read moreThe Denver Bus
I'd like to start the discussion about getting a bus together to take people to Denver for DrupalCon Denver March 19-23, 2012. I, unfortunately, won't be able to arrange the bus and logistics myself and am looking for volunteers to help.
Someone sanity-check me on this, but there was a lot of enthusiasm for a charter bus to Denver with wifi. At what price does this become silly? Has anyone ever taken a charter bus this distance?
Any feedback you have that can help us make better decisions is appreciated.
Read moreBuild a Site Event Calendar
Create a Drupal 7 event calendar, organize and color-code your events by category, reschedule events with a drag-and-drop interface, and promote them on an Upcoming events list on the front page. Add an RSS feed to keep your audience informed as new events are posted.
If you've configured the old Date/Calendar combination in an earlier version of Drupal, we think you'll be delighted by the relative simplicity of the FullCalendar module!
Sign up and details at http://training.opensourcery.com/sessions/build-site-event-calendar-0
Read moreCreate Slideshows and Galleries
Create photo galleries that elegantly display photos and titles with optional slide show viewing controls. Upload an image just once and have a variety of high quality sizes created without ever opening a graphics program. Then, bring them all together into a beautiful index that groups them by category!
Sign up at http://training.opensourcery.com/sessions/create-slideshows-and-galleries
For more about our Test Kitchen format, see http://training.opensourcery.com/recipes
Read moreJanuary Group Meeting: Mike Neilson Presents Delta Module and Context Field In the Omega Stack
For the January meeting, Mike Neilson will present on the delta module, context field and the Omega theme. These are subjects that have come up in prior Drupal meetings and there seems to be a lot of interest in it. If there are no other presentation volunteers, we could give Mike the run of the show for 45 minutes-ish if he needs it.
See you all the 11th and bring your codey hats.
Read moreLooking for presenters, Drupal User Group Meeting January 11
For the January 11 Drupal User Group meeting, we're looking for any volunteers to give a 15-20 minute presentation on something cool they're doing/have discovered/just figured out. If you've just taken a site live using a combination of modules working together in perfect harmony, we want to hear about. Just wrote some sweet module code or a gorgeous theme and you'd like to walk us through some code? Please let me know!
Read moreBrewpal tonight (Tuesdsay), 5pm @ The Lucky Lab
Bring some code and holiday cheer as we sit around at the Lucky Lab tonight starting at 5pm. No formal agenda, just good company and Drupal.
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Content Staging - Discussion from the last DUG
Hey Guys,
Here is the post about content staging I talked about from the last DUG. http://groups.drupal.org/node/198223
If anyone can think of places where I should cross-post this I'd like it to reach a wider audience. Feel free to jump in on the discussion!
Read moreDries Fireside Chat on Drupal 8 Development
Hey Guys,
I talked about this at the meetup last night - Dries is going to be giving a webinar this week presented as a "fireside chat" (I expect there to be some classical music, egg nog, a pipe, and at least one person dressed like Sherlock Holmes). The talk is this Friday. He has posted it on his blog:
http://buytaert.net/drupal-fireside-chat-core-development-process
Sign up and attend!
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