Portland (Oregon)

January 30th 2016, is the Drupal Sprint Weekend, with local sprints being held around the world! Portland is no exception, and thanks to ThinkShout we will be holding an all-day sprint at our office on Saturday the 30th of January.

You can find out more about Global Sprint Weekend here: https://groups.drupal.org/node/488988

The sprint location address is:

ThinkShout
433 NW 4th Ave, Suite 100
Portland, OR 97209

We are moving the date of the Front-end meetup since this month is would be the day after the normal DUG meetup.

Last month we talked about modern Drupal 7 development practices. This month we will be talking about Reactjs. I will go over what it is, what it does, how it works, and we can discuss incorporating it into a Drupal 8 website.

We will have pizza, just like last time.

This will be on the East Side, over at Clarity Innovations.
1001 SE Water Avenue
Suite 400

Join us Wednesday, Oct. 14 for the October user group at the offices of ThinkShout. The theme this month is Teaching and Learning Drupal.

Diane Douglas will share her experience teaching Drupal at Portland's Epicodus school. She'll talk about some of the initial difficulties for beginners and how to get past them, as well as topics that are covered in the Drupal curriculum at Epicodus and how they are structured to be suited to beginners.

Dan Linn will talk about his extensive Drupal mentoring experiences in a talk entitled "The Dreaded Drupal Learning Curve".

Last month we canceled and the month before that we talked about Front End Regression Testing. This month we will go full Drupal and talk about some of the cool site-building and front-end specific tools that I use that can help us to configure our way away from relying on tpl.php files.

We should have pizza, just like last time. Drinks will be water.

This will be at a new location. On the East Side, over at Clarity Innovations.
1001 SE Water Avenue
Suite 400
Portland, Oregon 97214

There is some on-street parking nearby. Don't park in the building parking lot.

Join us next Wednesday (9/9) for the September user group at the offices of Phase2.

This month Greg Boggs will be talking about the RedHen Raiser distribution by ThinkShout. From it's product page:

Join us for the July edition of Brewpal! On the fourth Tuesday of each month, we get together to work on projects, ask questions of our fellow Drupalers and have a pint.

As you may know, this year we've been rotating the venue of the Brewpal meetup. The criteria includes free wi-fi, a large public space that's family friendly, bar service (rather than table service), all while being close-in and easy to get to by public transit. This month (August 25th), Brewpal will take place at Teote Areperia (1615 SE 12th) the SE Lucky Lab (915 SE Hawthorne).