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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PNW Drupal Summit open for registrations and session proposals!
The Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit (October 14-16) site is live and ready for registrations and session proposals.
Space is limited, so register today.
The tentative deadline for session proposals is September 8, at which point session voting will be opened.
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August 10 User Group Meeting: Media Module, Varnish, and Drush 5
August's meeting has a stellar line up! Join us NEXT Wednesday, August 10:
Alex Bronstein - Media Module
Aaron Longwell - Optimizing Varnish for Drupal
Moshe Weitzman - Drush 5 Preview
Meeting Details:
Date: Wednesday, August 10
Time: 6:00 - 7:45 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab, 19th and Quimby, for drinks and conversation!)
Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)
Drupal OSCON party
Join the Portland Drupal User Group and Acquia for an Drupal OSCON party tomorrow 7/26 starting at 7pm at The Spirit of 77. 500 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.
Be there!
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Discussions are not visible within my Groups
I have developed Groups within my Drupal site and have enabled discussions. After posting the discussion they are no longer visible. In addition, after creating a discussion and going back to "Group" I have a column labeled "Posts" and it shows, numerically, the added post. So, I assume the Group has recognized the new post. When I go to the specific group a system generated message appears, "No posts in this Group." Could certainly use some help. The web address is www.penandpost.fortewebdev.com
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Volunteer help for missions orgnanization site
I started to work with a missions organization on developing a site used for internal communication between their IT people, and unfortunately didn't have the time available I though I would have to work on the site. I'm looking for a Drupal dev who would be willing to donate some time to do the site for them. I will manage the project and put in some time helping when I can, but you would be doing the bulk of the work.
It's strictly on a volunteer basis, so no money's involved, but you would get the satisfaction of doing work for a great organization.
Thanks.
Steve
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Petition/send petition module or setup?
A client has asked me to set up a page which involves signing a 'petition' and emailing it to friends. I was curious if anyone has any recommendations of either modules or methods (forms/rules/actions) to implement this? Drupal 7 only.
Thanks,
Maria
July 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 6:00 p.m. or so, that's fine, too.
So here are the details on July's Brewpal:
Date: Tuesday, July 26
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lucky Lab Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St.
Portland, OR 97209
OSCON Booth Volunteers
Interested in representing Drupal at OSCON this year?
We need a minimum of two people per shift, a maximum of three. Edit this page and enter your name for the shift you'd like. When you're done, please send your cell phone number and your preferred e-mail address to eliza411, http://drupal.org/user/33570/contact. I'll send the volunteer orientation packet to your e-mail address.
Note: You must be registered to volunteer. Registration is free but doesn't include a session pass. For details on how to register and what the registration includes, see http://bit.ly/nr7BXM
Read moreWednesday's User Group Meeting (Rewrite of the Mailchip module for Drupal 7)
Hey everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that this WEDNESDAY (July 13) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.
Lev Tsypin is presenting on his top-to-bottom rewrite of the Mailchimp module for Drupal 7... pretty cool stuff including support for transactional e-mails.
Meeting Details:
Date: Wednesday, July 13
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks and conversation!)
Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)
It promises to be really interesting and fun meeting... you don't want to miss it!
Read moreJune 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 6:00 p.m. or so, that's fine, too.
So here are the details on June's Brewpal:
Date: Tuesday, June 28
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lucky Lab Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St.
Portland, OR 97209
cloudflare
i was checking out lulzsecurity-com and saw that they were using cloudflare-com for there DNS. Has anyone had any luck speeding up there site with cloudflare? Apparently they are mirroring Your site on farms around the world. Sounds like a great idea. I ran a free godaddy site nnepdx-com thru cloudflare-com free service but it basically slowed it way down. They scrape Your public zone records so You do not give them anything protected then You point Your DNS to there nameservers. The con being if they do not like You they could throttle Your traffic.
Read moreSummit Brewing
Our user group abounds with talented home brewers, and there have been casual conversations about brewing for the Drupal Summit after party. Sarah & Sarah confirmed that the venue will allow for outside food and beverage and wanted to get the word out so people have plenty of time to plan and craft.
For those interested in participating but lacking experience, equipment, or space, halstead is putting together a brewing party at his place. Let him know in the comments here or via his contact form if you're interested.
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Drupal 7 training with OpenSourcery
Good news: OpenSourcery has officially become an Acquia training partner. Which means that we're finally executing a plan that has brewing for a long time: we're going all in on Drupal education. The hardest part of my job is turning away nonprofit organizations that don't have enough budget to hire a firm. Now we have a more affordable option - learn to do it yourself.
We've scheduled 10 training events up the west coast from now through December, starting with a 3-day Drupal 7 site building event at our office in downtown Portland.
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Bulk import images as nodes? Better yet... bulk import images as ubercart PRODUCT nodes!
Hey everyone, haven't posted in a bit! I've been to busy, but a recent injury freed up some time in my life. Horrible way to come onto free time, but it goes that way sometimes!
Anyways here's the backstory:
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Wednesday's User Group Meeting (Extreme Drupal Performance + KentuckyDerby.com + Location/Maps)
Hey everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that this WEDNESDAY (June 8) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.
Here's what we've got on the agenda:
1. "A Million Pageviews an Hour: Extreme Drupal Performance" presented by Aaron Longwell
The Kentucky Derby is the most watched horse racing event in the world. It's frequently called "the most exciting two minutes in sports," and is nationally televised on 3 different networks and simulcast worldwide. All that excitement results in www.kentuckyderby.com, the race's official Drupal-powered web site receiving more than 1 million page views in less than an hour.
Presented by Aaron Longwell, Chief Technologist at Culture Foundry, this presentation will cover the hardware, software, Drupal modifications and extensions that enabled the site to serve every one of those pages with sub-200ms response times. In particular, Aaron's talk will discuss helpful Drupal modules, Varnish, HTTP in-browser caching, load balancing, redundancy, load testing, Pressflow, Amazon Web Services, and Capistrano--and how each played a part in the Kentucky Derby site.
Even small sites with little traffic can benefit from many of the techniques and technologies Aaron will be discussing. The talk will be relatively technical in nature (there will even be a bit of code) but even non-developers should learn something about the principles behind super high performance web sites.
2. "Location + Maps: Making it Actually Work" presented by Katrin Silvius
In her recent work, Katrin Silvius, senior web developer at One Economy, has discovered all sorts of bugs and workarounds necessary to make location and maps work well together in Drupal. Katrin will discuss some of the things she's learned from her work and we'll open up the discussion to other developers about best practices and nagging problems with implementing location and maps in Drupal.
Finally, here are the meeting details:
Date: Wednesday, June 8
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks and conversation!)
Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)
It promises to be really interesting and fun meeting... you don't want to miss it!
See you there,
Ben
What about a train ride?
With PNWDS and BADcamp so close to each other I am thinking of maybe taking the Coast Starlight from Portland to the Bay. Who's with me? We could rent some apartment in Berkeley to further cut costs.
Read moreDrupal Site Not Recognized by search engines
I am a novice at Drupal. I have a non-profit, geezergallery.com, that is not showing up when searched for with google or bing. The site has a blog module which is always found. The problem is that the main site is not. Any ideas on how to help these folks out?
Read moreMay 24 Brewpal
As always, no formal agenda... just the opportunity to chat, drink, and work in the company of your 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 6:00 p.m. or so, that's fine, too.
So here are the details on next week's event:
Date: Tuesday, May 24
Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lucky Lab Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St.
Portland, OR 97209
See you there!
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Portland Code Camp 2011
Just bumped into this and I think a lot of DruPDXrs will be interested:
Portland Code Camp 2011
This spring the Portland, Oregon development community is coming together for an outstanding community-based software (un-)conference like no other.
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CTools Modal + Views Bulk Operations?
This is a duplicate of an issue I posted on the CTools issue queue, but I thought I'd post here in case people in the local PDX Drupal community might have ideas.
I have been struggling with this issue for over a week, and I was hoping I could get some advice. I have been successfully using the CTools Modal API with forms that I have created myself, and it is working great. It is an awesome tool.
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