Welcome to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Drupal Group -- the place to get involved with the Twin Cities Drupal community whether you're new, a core contributor to the Drupal project or somewhere in between. Register for the group to get posting privileges and to be notified of what's going on.
Looking to connect with other local friendly Drupal people? Check out the Events tab for a rundown of our regular meetups and other upcoming Drupal-related events.
You can also join your Drupal peers and mentors in a couple of places:
- Slack tends to be more active these days. Join https://tcdrupal.slack.com. If you need an invite go here to get an automatic invite to the Slack team
- IRC -- #drupal-twin-cities on irc.freenode.net -- to ask questions, propose ideas, socialize. Check out Drupal.org for more info about IRC and Drupal including how to create a new account and connect. Or come to the next local meetup and someone will help you get started.
Hack for MN
Sorry about the short notice, but if anyone's still not busy this weekend, we're holding our second annual event for the National Day of Civic Hacking. It will be hosted at The Nerdery in Bloomington. Tickets are selling out on Eventbrite, but we'd still like to make sure we have a full house.
The event is called Hack for MN. It's a hackathon supported by local, state, and national government and community organizations. Agencies from NASA to the EPA have contributed challenges to work on. The hacks range from web, mobile, hardware, and social.
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Drupal Coder / Contrib / Documentation Night
We need to find a new name for this event. "Coder Night" might be a bit intimidating for some folks.
Don't be intimidated, just come and bring a project to work on - it does not have to involve coding :-) You can also use this time to contribute to Drupal. I will be working on Drupal documentation and would be happy to help anyone that wants to come and work learn about how to contribute to Drupal documentation.
It looks like we will probably be meeting at Gorton Studio's - however, I'm waiting on final confirmation. If not, we'll find another location.
Read moreCamps, Camps, and More Camps
Apparently, it's Drupal Camp season in the Midwest.
- Drupal Corn (Iowa) = July 17-20
http://2014.drupalcorn.org/ - Drupal Camp Wisconsin = July 25-26
http://www.drupalcampwi.com/ - TC Drupal Camp = August 7-10
http://2014.tcdrupal.org/
At this point, I'm probably going to all three. If anyone is interested in ride-sharing or room-sharing, please get in touch with me tonight at happy hour, right here on Groups.Drupal.Org, or contact me directly.
Who else is going Drupal Corn or Drupal Camp Wisconsin?
Read moreTwin Cities Drupal Camp site is LIVE
Hey, check out the Twin Cities Drupal Camp website. We've been live a few days now and have hopefully caught most of the bugs (let us know if you find anymore).
http://2014.tcdrupal.org/
Important dates:
- Deadline for submitting a session: June 22nd
- Deadline for early bird registration: July 15th
- Camp: August 7th-10th
If you are planning on submitting a session, please do it quickly. We'd like to get some momentum. We already have some great sessions submitted and are expecting many more.
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TC Happy Hour June
Hurray Hurray, we can sit on the patio today! Join us for our monthly Drupal happy hour, we have a LOT to talk about!
- DrupalCon news
- TC DrupalCamp
- Bats!
- Blue Nile
2027 E Franklin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404
We meet monthly for Drupal Happy Hour. This event is all social, show up, don't sign up.
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May 2014 TCDrupal meetup -- Lightning Talks!
Join us for the April 2014 TC Drupal meetup on Wednesday May 28th from 7-9PM at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis.
Spring has sprung and Drupal is busting out all over! I know many of you are working on Drupal projects, some very big some not so big. Why not come and (informally) share something you’re working on, have learned or are stuck in the mud over. Yep, it’s Lightning Talk time — a humble but fond TC Drupal tradition.
Read moreMay 2014 free Community Lab Hours
Join your local Drupal community peers for an open Community Lab Hours session, conveniently on the same evening before our monthly TCDrupal meetup — Wednesday May 28th, 5-7PM. Community Lab Hours is a great place to ask questions, share ideas or to just get something done.
Participation is free!
Community Lab Hours
Wednesday May 28th 5-7PM
Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Want to host DrupalCorn Camp in 2015? Let us know your interest by May 27th!
The DrupalCorn Camp organizing committee is requesting any groups or individuals that are interested in becoming a host location/camp lead for the 2015 DrupalCorn Camp to fill out the "Intent to Apply" form by May 27 11:59pm. The Intent to Apply form consists of some basic contact information, potential venues/locations as well as your reasoning, in a few short paragraphs, why you think DrupalCorn Camp would work well in your location.
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Tomorrow's sprint at TEN7 -- Parking info, esp. considering it's a Twins game day
Hi everyone, Les alerted me to the fact that it's game day tomorrow. So, here's some parking information for those of you joining us tomorrow between 11am and 4pm for the sprint. We've got 12 parking spaces behind our building, entrance from 715 2nd St, all free to use for the day.
The official TEN7 address: 718 Washington Ave N, Suite 301, Minneapolis, MN 55401
Google map to office: http://t7.io/TEN7map
Parking entrance is at 715 2nd Street, walking through the tunnel to Washington Ave.
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Trouble-shooting menu routing
Hi all,
I could use some trouble-shooting advice for a corrupted/partially restored (That's a long story) Drupal database. My site now loads with a generic error that I'm struggling to debug.
I think I've trace the problem to menu routing, but now I'm stuck. The menu_get_item function returns $router_items[$path] false. That doesn't seem right, but I'm not sure. I'm also not sure how to trouble-shoot it.
I'd be grateful for any suggestions, like is there a better forum to post this request?
Read moreText format input filter problem - cannot get style attributes to work
I'm using CKEditor on a client's site and cannot find any documentation that shows how to create a text filter that will let a user enter style attributes (like changing the size of text). And by "user" I mean someone other than a trusted admin, so "Full HTML" is not an option.
Note - I'm not having any issues setting up CKEditor itself (either standalone, or with the WYSIWYG module), just the input filters...
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drupal 7 organic groups and subgroups
has anyone used organic groups in drupal 7 with subgroups -- I downloaded organic groups, but when added subgroups I don't see any of the screens or selection lists I am suppose to get for parent, child etc.
have parent groups which will have subgroups and want the administration handled by the parent or someone in the parent group.
Anyone worked with this or these.
Any help is most appreciated
maryann king
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What are the steps or best practices for open sourcing curriculum?
I've realized from the discussion regarding TCDrupal sponsorship of events, there is enough of a critical mass for me to decide that open sourcing the curriculum for Enjoy Drupal: Site Building Basics is the way to go. I've been telling folks informally that I'm happy to share it so long as they don't charge for the event, so why not make it "official"?
Read moreHow to determine where information is coming from on a Drupal page
There's a key bit of information I think I'm finally ready to learn - how to determine where information on a page is coming from in Drupal.
And by "where" I mean how do I find the templates being used that generate information I see on a given web page.
I'm working with CRM Core right now and I've noticed a few places where I have no idea where the info I'm seeing is getting generated. There is one that is bothering me more than the others - a view that includes 3 buttons that are not to be found anywhere in the views ui.
Read moreA Call for Sponsors / Should TCDrupal Sponsor Events?
A Call for sponsors
Lets start with a call for sponsors for the upcoming Enjoy Drupal: Site Building Basics training workshop. We're looking for $850 to cover costs for 100 or so attendees, but also looking for other local Drupal service providers who want to be listed on our handout.
Should TCDrupal Sponsor Events?
Interesting discussion has come up around TCDrupal directly fully sponsoring events throughout the year. There are several examples of how this could be beneficial, but it has been suggested that the Enjoy Drupal: Site Building Basics training workshop be considered for this.
Enjoy Drupal: Module Development Jumpstart
Have you ever wanted to unlock Drupal's full potential? Ever been told that you need to create a custom module to make the change you want, but feel like creating your own module is intimidating? If you know the basics of PHP, the power of Drupal is at your fingertips just waiting to be tapped into.
Read moreEnjoy Drupal: Theming Jumpstart
Do you find Drupal's theming layer to be intimidating? Does PHP scare you? It doesn't have to be this way! Create your first theme in Drupal and learn how to make customizations and overrides using Drupal's theming best practices.
Read moreEnjoy Drupal: Site Building Basics
This event is going to be an all day, free training event on May 14th, 2014 in one of UMN's excellent active learning classrooms. We're going to introduce the core building blocks in Drupal, provide information about local Drupal service providers, and introduce the local Twin Cities DUG and other ways to get involved with Drupal.
Learn how to build your first Drupal website from the ground up through interactive, lecture-based instruction and practical real-world examples. A full day training consisting of progressive beginner topics in the morning (content creation, content types, fields & views) followed by mentored advanced topics and feature building in the afternoon.
Read moreMySQL data recovery
Can anyone recommend a MySQL data recovery service? One of my servers has corrupted the /var/lib/mysql files and the host claims they don't have a backup. (I'm skeptical of that. I think we're mis-communicating.)
In the meantime, they've suggested I look for a MySQL data recovery service to repair /var/lib/mysql. Can anyone in the group recommend such a service?
TIA !
Read moreTC Dupal Spring Sprint
TC Drupal is planning our next quarterly sprint at the offices of TEN7 on Saturday - May 17th, 2014 (11:00am - 4:00pm). Lunch will be provided.
- TEN7
- 718 Washington Ave. N - Suite 301
- Minneapolis, MN 55401
Mentors will be available to help beginners. We will also have some folks contributing to Drupal documentation.
Sign up HERE on groups.drupal.org!
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