This is a local user group for sharing knowledge about Drupal and networking with other folks in the greater Seattle web/tech community.
SeaDUG meets monthly to talk about Drupal, to plan related events, and to socialize. During SeaDUG meetings we showcase modules and projects, share tips and tricks, and answer nagging questions about Drupal.
We welcome participants from all skill levels and all disciplines related to website building and development - marketers, project managers, developers, designers, writers, devops, user researchers, QA, and more.
Stay in Touch
- Join the SeaDUG Slack workspace to chat regularly with other SeaDUG community members.
- Follow us on LinkedIn for more frequent news and Drupal-related content sharing.
Jobs
PLEASE do not post job offers in this group unless they are local to Seattle, or remote and open to people who live in Seattle. Any job posted to this group that is not in the Seattle/Puget Sound Metropolitan Area or open to its residents will be promptly removed.
Consultants/vendors
Seattle Consultants and Companies List
I thought it might be useful if we created a list of Seattle-area companies and individuals who do Drupal projects for clients. The idea would be that the list could be viewed by potential clients, who might not want to make an account and post a job, and also that other Seattle Drupal User Group members could use the list to find people to refer clients to or help them on projects. It will also give the group members an idea of what type of Drupal expertise we have available locally.
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Looking for other non-profit Drupal site devs
Hi folks. I've volunteered to implement a new website for a local non-profit [1] using Drupal and CiviCRM, including community forums, a custom event calendar, donations, fund raising support, etc. I'm looking to share experiences & advice with others using the same platform. Is there a group of Seattle-based non profit Drupal site developers already out there? Are there others doing similar work who are interested in brainstorming together, perhaps co-working, or sharing experiences online? Please drop me a line.
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December Seattle DUG Meeting
December 13th is our next drupal user group (DUG) meeting in Seattle. Join us at the usual place and time:
Location:
Espresso Vivace
227 Yale Ave. N
Seattle, WA
Date and Time: 12/13 6 pm - 8 pm
The room at Espresso Vivace has not been reserved, so we'll take it if we can get it.
If folks want to cowork beforehand please post a comment to this event stating when you will be there.
Agenda:
- Introductions and Announcements
- Barnraising leftovers - what's left? feedback? what worked? what didn't?
- Drupal questions
SeaDUG Barnraising Wrap-up
Thanks to everyone who participated in today's barn raising event. It was fascinating to see all of the collaboration and teamwork come together during the course of the afternoon.
We finished the day with a functional Drupal site that reproduces the content and features of the original. A custom theme built with CSS was mostly completed to mimic the look and feel of the original site. The installation profile will require additional planning and debugging.
A follow up session will be forthcoming to complete the remaining milestones and release the site to the owner along with documentation. Please comment below with your thoughts and experiences...
Read moreCreating Screencasts on Ubuntu
For the barnraising this coming weekend, I know we want to be able to record everything. Finally I have taken the time to figure out how to create a screen cast on Ubuntu.
When you want to create a screencast in Linux, it seems like xvidcap is the way to go. Not very fancy, but it sure does its job. Below are some notes describing how xvidcap was easily installed on ubuntu (Fiesty). Presumably, other Debian based Linux distributions would also work following the information below. In addition, xvidcap offers a slackware package and source for installation.
installing xvidcap
Read moreSeattle Book Arts Website Barn Raising
Have you ever watched a website being built, right before your eyes? Come join the Seattle Drupal User Group as we migrate Seattle Book Arts to the Drupal content management framework.
Office Nomads (Capitol Hill)
1617 Boylston Ave, Suite 200
Seattle, Washington 98122-6730
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Nov TacDUG Meeting Saturday November 17th, 2007 12:30 UW Tacoma Cherry Parkes rm 105
Another joint taclug/tacdug meeting this month to bootstrap the tacoma drupal users group.
I'll be in Virginia for Thanksgiving but there's still alot going on.
The next Taclug meeting is Saturday November 17th, 2007 (third
Saturday of the month) at 12:30 PM. The main topic will be Linux
virtualization. The location of the meeting will be at the University
of Washington, Tacoma in the Cherry Parkes building room 105. We have
several exciting things planned for this meeting
This will be the first meeting held in cooperation with the University
Read moreNovember Seattle DUG Meeting
Our next meeting is coming up soon. We really want to meet before the barnraising on the 10th. I suspect most of what we'll be discussing is barnraising specifics. Come join us as we undertake a fun project.
Details
Date and Time - November 8, 6 pm - 8 pm
Location (NEW): Office Nomads
Proposed Agenda:
- Introductions
- Announcments
- Barnraising - General Discussion and Planning
- Check in at 7pm - maybe it would be good to break out into groups?
Drupal Presenters for the Seattle PHP Group
I am requesting Drupal presenters for the Seattle PHP group. The group is interested in real world PHP applications. The presentations could be spread over the next few months.
Read moreOctober DUG Seattle Meeting
Hey Folks,
Our next meeting is October 18. We have had a change in plans just for this month.
We are meeting with the Flex User Group:
http://www.flexilicio.us/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/9/October-18-User-Group-...
The meeting location is different. We will meet at the Adobe Conference Center in Fremont:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/maps/seattle_map.html
and specifically:
Read moreHost Candidates for Drupal
Here is a list of Host Candidates. Add your recommendations with a link to the the host plan features page. Indicate if SSH access is listed on shared web hosts. 9/14/2008 added slicehost to vps.
Read moreOctober TacDug meeting UW Tacoma Cherry Parkes building room 105
The next TacDug meeting is scheduled for Saturday October 20th, 2007 (third Saturday of the month) at 12:30 PM. The location of the meeting will be at the University of Washington, Tacoma in the Cherry Parkes building room 105. We are piggy backing on top of the TacLug group to provide a kickstart for Tacoma Drupal users.
More info here http://www.taclug.org/wiki/October2007
Read moreSeaDUG Barnraising Preparation
During the September SeaDUG meeting, Jared suggested a great opportunity for a local barnraising project. We set the implementation date for November 10, 2007 - 11AM to 4PM, location to be decided.
Read moreA barn raising is a one or two-day event during which a community comes together to assemble a barn for one of its households. A certain amount of preparation is done beforehand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising
Seattle Dug, Sept 27th 2007 at Vivace near REI
Shawn, Robin and I will be fresh back from our DrupalCon Barcelona 2007 trip and will have plenty to report back.
Figure on an agenda that looks something like this:
Intros
DrupalCon Report back
Q/A
I'm not sure if we reserved the private room, so if anyone finds themselves over near REI, please go into Vivace and add us to the calendar. Be sure to post a note here so other's don't go out of their way.
See you all in a few days!
Read moreDrupalCon Barcelona 2007
Here are some notes from the sessions we have been attending at DrupalCon:Barcelona.
It's been a mildly warm and slightly humid week, but otherwise very similar to Seattle with ever changing weather patterns and random drops of rain.
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Facebook-Drupal User Integration
Below is a list of various Facebook modules that are currently available. Each provide a partial attempt at integrating Drupal with the Facebook API, but none of them address the most critical issue - application integration and user/session management.
My goal is to create a module that allows a single Drupal site to be related to a single Facebook application. This will also relate a Drupal user to their Facebook user ID, as well as their application session key if they have installed the associated Facebook application. (Note, session keys allow you to asynchronously writing to profiles, feed actions and more.)
In addition, it would be nice to have a way to mange profile writing and feeding using themes, roles, actions and other existing modules.
Is anyone else interested in taking these modules to the next level?
Logging in and providing a Facebook API wrapper is nice, but it is only a fraction of the power.
Signup module for dug events and drupalcamps
There was some talk at the Seattle Dug about helping out with signup module so that it would be compatible with things going on here on g.d.o (so that it could be used for signups to dug events)
there is post over here about the todo list for the signup module http://groups.drupal.org/node/5044
maybe the upcoming la drupal camp, or berkeley camp or an associated user group (or the Seattle DUG) would be able to contribute some to the signup module?
Read moreCo-Work thursday on Capital Hill?
Anyone interested in getting together to do some work out of the house on thursday?
Maybe around 2pm at vivace on Denny?
I have a call at noon that i should be done with by then. Of course there is no reason why people couldn't meet there earlier. We should probably go and reserve the room if we want to use it, i could swing by today.
-gregory
Read moreCron fix tip
Last updated by communitysteps@... on Sun, 2007-08-19 01:42
This tip might be helpful to others. I have been having problems getting cron to run consistently. Last night, Shawn gave me a tip to clear the news aggregator queues. I removed the aggregator items and selectively updated each news feed. One feed wouldn't update and it caused an error message. I deleted the problem feed and was able to run cron successfully.
For example: http://domain.com/admin/content/aggregator
Click, "remove items" then "update items"
Regarding configuration control and versioning
One of my partners, Arthur (arthurf), just posted this to one of our internal lists. Since we were talking about it (how to track configuration changes if you work on a staging site) last night, i figured i would pass it along:
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From: Allie Micka <allie@>
Date: August 17, 2007 4:09:08 PM EDT
To: development at drupal
Subject: Re: [development] The right way to manage Drupal webiste development
Read moreMichel Levy-Provençal wrote:
2/ When our sites will be online, we will need to continue the
development. The only way we found to manage this is to lock param
