Our mission is to connect Drupal users in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and surrounding areas. We get together monthly for presentations, site demonstrations, and hack nights. Our goal is to help new Drupal users get up to speed, foster the development of existing Drupal designers and Developers, and contribute to the larger Drupal community. The Research Triangle has a big concentration of technical folks, universities, and start-ups and we want to expose as many people as possible to Drupal and all that it offers.
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Find us on IRC at #drupal-nc and on Twitter at TriDUG
Four webinars in March 2010, Cranking Your Nonprofit's Drupal Site Up a Notch
NTEN (http://nten.org) webinares: Cranking Your Nonprofit's Drupal Site Up a Notch
Series Sessions Include (all sessions held at 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern for 90 Minutes):
* March 9: Drupal Modules for Nonprofits
* March 16: Leveraging the Power of CCK and Views
* March 23: Getting Started with Drupal Theming
* March 30: Good Maintenance: Upgrading your Drupal Site
Series Takeaways:
* How to plan a site that will take advantage of Drupal's powerful framework
* Tips and tricks for using Drupal's most popular features
Event, March 18: Celebrating 50 Years of Computing at Carolina
First, thanks again for your help with the website: http://www.ibiblio.org/comphist/
I recently made more improvements. I've now got "Role(s) in computing at UNC:" and "What are you doing now?" in the registration form, and I changed the left menu item from "User list" to "Personal bios" -- I'm getting a little better with Views.
Here's the info about the March 18 celebration:
In 1959, the UNC Computation Center began operating with a Univac 1105
computer. In March 1960, Bill Friday presided over dedicating the
Computation Center.
March ADUG Meetup - Site Building w/Open Publish (Part 2)
For our March program, Jeff Walpole and Frank Febbraro, co-founders of Washington, DC-based Phase2 Technology, will join ADUG to continue our discussion of OpenPublish (OP).
Last month ADUG’s Kent Lester talked about his first “out of box” experience using OpenPublish to build a news site. In Part 2, Jeff and Frank will discuss the past, present and future vision for OpenPublish and the enthusiastic community that is building up around it. At this meetup you’ll:
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mamp problems
OK, losing my mind here. I previously had a local mamp site running but without getting into detail it was deleted due to major problems. I have decided to start it all over. Well for some reason mamp does not run. I download mamp, install, but upon start up, servers don't run and I have no start page. I've tried several time and get the same result. I'm at a loss. Previously this was a snap. Thoughts? Much appreciated.
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TriDUG Meetup 6:30pm March 17th @ Hesketh.com
Hesketh.com has graciously offered to host our meeting in March! The evening's presentation is on setting up a development + staging + live server environment with Drupal. Topics that will be covered include:
basic LAMP stack setup
configuring SVN
Synching files & data between site versions
As usual the presentation should start at 7:00pm with some time at the end for questions.
Directions to Hesketh.com's offices
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I wanted to post a quick summary of things the group is planning.
Read moreFeb. Meeting thanks
For those of you who couldn't make the meeting last night Julia gave a fantastic presentation on some of the special considerations surrounding building user forums in Drupal. Thanks, Julia, for giving a great presentation that covered 100% of the allotted meeting time!
I would like to give special thanks to Greg for the generous donation of meeting space, and wow, what a space. If it hadn't been for him there would have been no February meeting. Thanks again Greg! Also a big thank you to everyone who made it out.
Read moreWhat part of the Triangle do you drive from when you come to a TriDUG meeting?
Brainstorm: what's the best way to handle requests to change membership type?
I have a web site where we'll be adding a blog. This blog will allow for comments, but only after each member account has been internally reviewed. To support this, will have several roles:
"Blogger" has all CRUD permissions for the blog
"Commenter" can create and edit comments to each blog
"Authenticated" a non-anonymous account but lacks any editing capabilities
"Anonymous" can read the blog and comments but no edit capabilities
Squarespace?
Has anyone looked at squarespace.com? It is a hosted CMS. It doesn't seem to be extensible, but has basic functionality (from the descriptions). Any comments or thoughts?
Read moreTriDUG Meetup 6:30pm Feb 23rd @ Duke Corporate Education
So after a break for the holidays followed by some chaos with our venue we're back! Greg Monroe has been kind enough to supply us with a venue for this month's meeting, a special thank you to Greg and Julia for working out the details.
Read morePlease consider participating in my master’s research
Hello,
I am a master’s student in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC. I am doing my master’s paper research on Drupal project success factors and perceptions. If you have been a stakeholder in a Drupal project, please consider taking this survey: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/230306/drupal-success-factors-survey
Please contact me at mthomas8 at gmail.com if you have any questions about the research. Please feel free to repost/forward this message to other Drupal users and usergroups.
Thank you,
Matt Thomas
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Finally I'm posting and not needed help
I've been using the theme Seven for a while for my admin theme. It's going to be core for D7 and they backported it to D6 and I thought I'd give it a spin. It's awesome. Comparable to RootCandy but a little simpler IMHO, plus, it's core!
So, just thought I'd broadcast this since I assume many of you aren't aware of it's existence.
Anyone down for a road trip to the ATL aka Hotlanta next week?
As long as I'm back for the State game Wed night I'm down.
ADUG Meetup - Major Announcement (Tues, Feb 9th)
Wow, Phase2 coming to Atlanta for February, 9th Meetup!
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help: node reference / getting context from block
Hello. I'm relatively new to Drupal and seeking some advice on working with a node reference field.
I have an Article content type that has a required node reference field, which points back to an Issue. I was happy to discover that using Panels module's Node template and context, I can apply a "template" to all my Issue items that passes the Issue node ID as an argument to a view/block that retrieves a list of the Issue's "child" Articles. Cool stuff.
Read moreFishing for ideas regarding sites/defualt/files
So, not sure really what happened, but all fo the sudden files in the sites/default/files folder are not accessible. I was updating a module when all hell broke loose. I pinned it to the css file stored in default/files was not being read. I then realized that NO file in that folder was readable.
Permissions are 755 for default and 755 for files.
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Just curious When the next TriDUG meetup/hack night might be.
As the title states. ^^^
Read moreHorizontal jumping on variable length content
This is an old problem. This is default browser behavior: when you have centered content that does not extend below the bottom of the browser window, there is no need for a scrollbar. However, when content does extend below, a vertical scrollbar appears, thus shifting the content. This renders a seeming horizontal jump of content. Some customers care about this jump, others don't. Guess which one I'm addressing today.
The brute force fix is to redefine the topmost object:
html {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
But I don't like always having a scrollbar.
Read moreContact manager: I'd love some advice
One of my favorite clients are looking to migrate their contact information (address, email, etc) database from an MS Access database (a jet-based database with the Access-based GUI, bless their hearts) to something more robust. They also wish to move a Drupal 5-based contact information (who called whom, when, where and the results of the contact) database and merge the two models into one solution, as we current have two address databases. Sounds like low-hanging fruit, given what a disaster the jet database is. BUT, this is a golden opportunity to rework the business model to incorporate standard best practices into what is essentially a Customer Relationship Management problem and solution.
Read moreNeed some advice, ideas on node creation for directory
So, I have a website for a church. Each person (adult and children) have their own account.
I need to build a directory, with photos. This would be easy for a company directory, but we need 'family' photos to be available here and persons grouped together.
My initial idea goes something like this: create "family" nodes using address as the unifying data. And, that's about as far as I've gotten. I really can't wrap my head around how to do this. Please help me brainstorm!
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