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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Front End Meetup - Portland - Thursday, Nov 15th
Hi all!
It is one of those weird months where the third Thursday is in the same week as the second Wednesday!
That means we are having the Front End meetup as well this week.
Join us to discuss PHP for Themers as we unravel the mysteries of Render Arrays, Theme Functions and Template Preprocess functions.
Eric Paul of Oak Tree Digital will be discussing his best practices for theme-layer php. I (Andrea Burton) will be showing examples of Render Arrays, Theme Functions and Template Preprocess functions in a custom theme.
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DrupalCon Portland
Using Zurb Foundation Orbit with Views
Anyone in attendance at the last Front-End meetup manage to figure out how to implement Zurb Foundation Orbit with Views to create a "slideshow." I have played with it (albeit briefly due to coursework), but I was wondering if anyone had tips.
Thanks!
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Reminder: November User Group meetup tomorrow night!
Nominate Tech folks for I am Oregon
Hi all,
There's a campaign currently running to nominate inspiring Oregonians for recognition, known as: I Am Oregon. The idea is to show appreciation and give recognition to people who do an awful lot to make life in Oregon better. So far nonprofit leaders, doctors, major givers, community leaders and others have been nominated. They are all very deserving and most of the existing nominations are inspiring, but you know who always falls through the cracks? Us! Open source tech people.
My organization is sponsoring this contest so I know nonprofits will feature strongly, but I'd like to see open source feature too. I may sound idealistic, but I sincerely believe that we open source folks are on the side of good and are making the world a better place. Those of us working on major open source projects are having an impact. Ours is a gift community, one where paying it forward is integral to what we do. We create software that makes it affordable for small businesses, nonprofits, local government, etc to thrive and grow. Some of us have worked on projects that directly help their community to thrive, be it by helping nonprofits or community organizing groups, or by making tools that they can affordably use. We are driven by a volunteer ethic.
Another group often forgotten by us is the people who make our communities possible. They run services like Calagator and other tools to facilitate our communities. They run affordable conferences like Open Source Bridge, BarCamp and many others, where we can go to and expand our knowledge and contacts, and to share and collaborate. They run our user groups, organize meetings, get involved with beginner events and so on. They make our communities possible and what they do trickles down through us to many projects that help our state to thrive. And they help us to grow, learn, be more successful and be more effective in how we help others. The amount of volunteer hours they give to us is astonishing... and extremely effective.
The work we OS folks do affects Oregon and beyond, yet campaigns like I Am Oregon rarely feature members of our community. We do good in this world, so I'd like to suggest that you all go to http://www.iamoregon.org/ and nominate these folks that deserve a little recognition. Volunteers get paid via thanks, recognition and pride in their work. Here's a chance for us to pay them back in a small way and it takes just a few minutes.
The last day to make nominations is November 14. There is no limit to the number of nominations you can make and you can nominate anyone, tech or not. Nominate early and often.
Read moreIntroducing Tiles, a new approach to page layouts - November 2012 Meetup
PDX INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION: MANAGING INTERACTIVE TEAMS
PDX Interactive is pleased to invite you to attend our panel discussion at the Art Institute of Portland. PDX Interactive is about best practices of team management. Industry professionals from a variety of backgrounds will speak on topics including intra-team communications, project workflow strategies, managing client relationships, how to assemble and retain the ideal interactive team, and balancing budget vs. quality. Come join us with other members from the web community and students/faculty from the Art Institute.
Guest panelists include:
- Damon Gallaty: McAfee, Inc
Loading multiple user entities using a field API field value?
Hello,
So I have been spending several days reading about the entity API and the field API both provide examples on how to define an entity/field, the structure and schema, and display handlers.
Next I reviewed user_load_multiple but to my dismay it only accepts parameters that are fields in the schema definition for user entities. I can't automatically reference fields attached via the field API.
Has anyone successfully loaded multiple users based on a value in an attached field?
Read moreDrupal Clackamas Breakfast $10.00 per person 15 people max
Drupal Entity Documentation
I have been working on several complex Drupal 7/Drupal Commerce projects over the last 16+ months and I have consistently hit a wall with fundamental problems using entities, loading, referencing, and "hydrating" entities.
Has anyone else felt my pain and can you provide recommendations on books or ANY documentation other that the poor excuse for documentation available in both the api.drupal.org or the documentation tree?
Read moreDrupal Archaeology
Do you have a Drupal 6 site? Are you unsure of what's been modified, which modules do what, whether it's safe to apply a security update, and/or how to plan for an upgrade to Drupal 7?
Over two days, Drupal Archaeology will support you and a teammate in the excavation of your site. At the end of the course, you will have prepared a detailed report to assist you, your management, or a Drupal contractor in making estimates about performing a site upgrade.
Read more4th Tuesday/Brewpal Meetup tomorrow 10/23 at Lucky Lab NW
Drupal 7 Layout & Theming Training in Downtown Los Angeles on November 14 & 15, 2012
Join us on November 14 & 15, 2012 in Downtown Los Angeles for Drupal 7 Layout & Theming, two full days of Drupal training! This training is being produced by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, development, consulting and training firm with a team of experts in Los Angeles.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
Drupal Development Best Practices Training in Downtown Los Angeles on November 16, 2012
Join us on November 16, 2012 in Downtown Los Angeles for Drupal Development Best Practices, a full day of Drupal training! This training is being produced by Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, development, consulting and training firm with a team of experts in Los Angeles.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
This one-day workshop gives you a comprehensive tutorial on the right way to manage your Drupal website. You'll learn about version control for your code and ways to manage changes in your data. You’ll also see how the Features module can enable you to keep your configuration changes in version control.
We'll cover industry-approved deployment strategies that let you move smoothly through development, testing and live environments. You’ll get a high-level overview of how to modify the way your site looks by sub-theming, preventing hours of frustration should your original theme be updated.
What you will learn:
- Using version control with Drupal
- Maintaining development, testing and production environments
- Managing configuration changes using the Features module
- Creating a basic sub-theme
- Creating a basic module
- Understanding Drupal’s API and the hook system
Portland Drupal Freelancer(s) available?
Hey there,
I've got more Drupal work than I know what to do with. I've had to stop taking work for 2012 as of early October and it is paining me. I'd like to subcontract out the extra work I have instead of miss the opportunities they may bring.
If anyone has some spare time and wants to do freelance work, please let me know... I've got three projects on hold that I can pass out.
Read moreSite Building with Drupal Training in Downtown Los Angeles on November 12 & 13, 2012
Join us on November 12 & 13, 2012 in Downtown Los Angeles for Site Building with Drupal, two full days of Drupal training! Learn by doing at this hands-on, exercise-based training from Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, development, consulting and training firm with a team of experts in Los Angeles.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
In two days, you will be brought up to speed on Drupal and be ready to tackle their own project. Learn how to manage media, build calendars and complex, dynamic queries of content by selecting and configuring the most popular modules.
This course is suitable both for Drupal users who are new to Drupal and those who want to broaden their Drupal skills. You'll also review Drupal's block system and learn how to use taxonomy to categorize your content.
Read moreFEDUG MEETUP LOCATION MOVED TONIGHT. Reminder: Portland Front-end meetup is tonight!
Due to the organizers' falling ill, the meeting tonight will be moved to Migration Brewing (down the street from FunnyMonkey)
2828 NE Glisan Street
Portland, OR
http://goo.gl/maps/G21v5
Chris Bloom will be leading the meeting. Thanks Chris!!
Join us at the FunnyMonkey offices to discuss Foundation!
"Foundation is the most advanced front-end Web framework in the world." - Zurb Foundation (even though they said it first, i support that claim!)
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Drupal.org D7 Upgrade Initiative - Two-day code sprint in Portland, OR
Now that the PNWDSummit sprint has finished, we're going to have another two-day sprint in Portland, OR in order to clean up some of the technical debt we've accumulated over the past 6 months and try to leapfrog this project forward to completion.
OpenSourcery will be donating space and hosting the sprint at their offices, and both Metal Toad Media and OpenSourcery are sending a few developers to power the sprint. Two devs from the D.A. will be sprinting too, as well as one or two of the Project* maintainers will be sprinting remotely.
Read moreDrupal 7.15 and Work Orders or Work management
Hi folks,
New to Drupal, I have a site up but it's in pieces right now. Still learning how to organize it. I have a need though to have site users that are approved by me to enter in a work order with light weight features and work management features as well. I am sure there is many ways to do this. Can someone help and or send me a link to a Drupal site that this is already being implemented?
Cheers!
Read moreDrupal 7.15 and Work Orders or Work management
Hi folks,
New to Drupal, I have a site up but it's in pieces right now. Still learning how to organize it. I have a need though to have site users that are approved by me to enter in a work order with light weight features and work management features as well. I am sure there is many ways to do this. Can someone help and or send me a link to a Drupal site that this is already being implemented?
Cheers!
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