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
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Training Course in Raleigh on February 27-28
Platinum Edge uses dynamic teaching techniques to make your understanding of Scrum straightforward and enjoyable.
We offer highly engaging courses that use real-world examples and hands-on exercises which enable our students to take away a solid understanding of Scrum.
During our intensive 2-day class, Certified Scrum Trainer and author of "Agile Project Management for Dummies" Mark Layton will step you through the finer points of the Scrum framework.
The cost of the attendance covers:
• Certified Scrum Master assessment and certification
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Triangle Wiki: Call for Contributors
I thought some of you might be interested in this event:
On Saturday, February 25, you'll have a chance to contribute to a local open source project, at Red Hat headquarters on Centennial Campus. The project is called Triangle Wiki. It's an effort to document the Triangle area. We'll need coders, photographers, and people with local knowledge. It's a hackathon and wiki-athon (if that's a word) all wrapped up in one.
More details are posted on the CityCamp Raleigh website:
Triangle Wiki: Call for Contributors
http://citycampral.org/2012/02/triangle-wiki-call-for-contributors/
TriDUG Meetup February 21 - 6:30PM at Red Hat (Raleigh)
Hi TriDUG,
Here is the agenda for our Feb 21 meetup
Agenda
6:30pm - Meet & greet
7:00pm - Announcements, job postings, need a job, general TriDUG business
7:15pm - Why version control is important - Greg Monroe
7:30pm - Group discussion: Version control and production/development environment
NCSU FOSS Fair 2012
Thought some of you would be interested in the NCSU FOSS Fair 2012
The 2012 FOSS Fair will be held on Saturday, February 18th in Engineering Building 2 (EB2) on NCSU's Centennial Campus. We will meet in Room 3211 at 9:00 AM.
More info:
https://opensource.ncsu.edu/FossFair2012
TriDUG IRC planning session on February 13th @ 2pm
Hi TriDUG,
Please join us on Monday, Feb 13 at 2pm on IRC to help plan for are next meet-up....which will be on....
Tuesday, February 21 at 7pm.
Thanks,
Jason
On meet-up: http://www.meetup.com/triDUG/events/51752452/
Read moreOpen source at DrupalCon Denver
Hi TriDUG & NC,
I thought some of you would be interested in my first post about DrupalCon Denver
Open source at DrupalCon Denver
http://opensource.com/government/12/2/open-source-drupalcon-denver
Please share with all your Drupal friends.
Jason
Welcome Barb Baranski as a new TriDUG coordinator
I'd like to welcome Barb Baranski as our newest TriDUG coordinator.
After Allen stepping down due to time constraints and the very loud and clear "We want more lunch meetings" message from the successful Lunch with DesignHammer meetup, it is clear that we need more coordinators to help support this as an addition to our current evening meetups.
So, I asked Barb if she was interested... after contemplating it a bit, she has agreed.
Read moreDrupal Styling for Beginners (3-day course)
Xykon, the consulting firm I work for is offering a new 3-day long Drupal
course Drupal Styling for Beginners" at our offices in Dupont Circle on I street.
This 3-day long course: 'Drupal Styling for Beginners' will get
your theming journey started on the right foot. Accompanied by our
in-class workshops and take-home assignments, you'll get a great head-start
with Drupal, learning how to set up and style basic views, web forms, core
Data creation with Rules
In Drupal 6, we used simplenews and simplenews-content-selection to create our newsletters. In Drupal 7, simplenews-content-selection has not been released as of yet and the patch to the D6 version to make it work in D7 isn't optimal. One of the contributors on the issue post said that content selection could be done via the following steps:
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Views, Webform workshop and other announcements
Hi TriDUGers,
for those of you that missed the Durham meetup, I have officially announced my retirement as a TriDUG organizer. This month's meetup was my last as an official organizer of the group. Both Greg and Jason have done a fantastic job over the last six months coming up with new ideas and in general breathing life into the group and I feel like TriDUG is in excellent hands going forward.
Read moreTriDUG Lunch @ DesignHammer Meetup - Noon, Fri Jan 27, 2012
NOTE: Type in original header... it's actually the 27th and not the 17th.
Design Hammer has graciously offered to host a TriDUG lunch meet up (with FREE PIZZA) at their offices in RTP. Located conveniently off NC 54 just west of the NC 55/54 intersection.
Jay Roberts will be presenting on site migration & developer workflow.
Noon to 1-ish.
Sign UP at: http://www.meetup.com/triDUG/events/48936212/
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Drupal + Mobile Integration
It was great to meet everyone who was at the meetup last night at Duke CE. As part of discussing possible ideas to motivate future lunch/evening meetings, we talked a little about the area of mobile technologies and integrating/synchronizing with Drupal. The company I work for is currently using Drupal 7 as a backend for a mobile fitness app for Android, and we'd love to get in touch with those in the community who are doing similar development, or are curious about how the technology works or its potential.
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Looking for instructions for installing COD on an existing Drupal site
I've followed links in COD documentation for installing COD on an existing site, but haven't found any instructions. I installed COD on a sandbox site and found the modules it uses at /public_html/profiles/cod/modules/contrib. I'm already using a lot of the modules. I plan to copy the COD modules I'm not already using to my existing site /public_html/sites/all/modules. Do you have any suggestion or warnings or links to instructions? I rank my skills at a novice level.
Read morefiltering pdf file attachments
I have a Drupal 7 question that I can't seem to find a clear solution. I have a lot of pdf files that I want to add to our website. I want to be able to query/filter the pdf files based on year and department. I would want something like a drop down menu or radio buttons to accomplish this so the user can select to sort by year and/or department. I can't figure out how to add any taxonomy or association to the file to do so.
Do you know if this can be done or not? If you know of any books or tutorials that will help me, I would greatly appreciate any assistance.
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Coworking Drupal?
If anyone is interested, I'd be up for organizing a Triangle Drupal Co-working Friday. I've been working at Bull City Coworking and it's pretty great.
Here's more info on Drupal Co-working Fridays:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/195983
Julia
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It looks like life might be getting easier
Have all concerned seen this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16408850 Microsoft celebrates IE6 death
Not that I ever bothered much, but getting to ignore IE6 problems sounds like a step forward.
Conference Scheduling
Many organizations that hold conferences have a list of their sessions and functions which can be selected and then downloaded as an iCal file to be incorporated into the attendees' calendar programs. Is anyone familiar with how this is done? Is anyone working on incorporating this feature into Drupal based sites?
Thanks
Steven
TriDUG Meetup 6:30 THURSDAY Jan 19th
Happy 2012, everyone.
The first TriDUG meetup of this year will be in Durham @ Duke CE.
NOTE: Because of parking conflicts with the Durham Performing Arts Center, we will have to meet on Thursday this month rather than the normal Wednesday.
The full agenda was determined in the IRC planning meeting the 12th. But the basic schedule is:
6:30-7:00 Socialize
7:00-7:10 Announcements / Jobs needed or offered
7:10-7:45 December "Virtual Meeting" recap / TriDUG Wear
7:45-8:30 Paul T.'s site review
8:30-9:00 Group problem solving
9:00 Adjourn to Mellow Mushroom for fun
TriDUG IRC planning session on Thurs, Jan 12 @ 3:00
The organizers are inviting all TriDUG members to join the #drupal-nc IRC channel to help us set the agenda for the January meetup. We will start at 3pm and post the IRC log to the TriDUG forum after we have finished. Please come with your ideas.
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Selecting blocks from a node
The main content area has
- left sidebar
- main content
- right sidebar
The left and right sidebar will have a default block assigned. However, I'd like to expose a drop-down menu where the user can select specific blocks for each node page. This selection will override or replace the default block.
Right now I'm managing this via the blocks page using path assignments, but the UI/paradigm context shift out of nodes when leaving a node to find the appropriate block and update the active viewing paths is jarring for new users.
As always, thanks!
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