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.
Drupal Daze
Drupal Daze is a Twin-Cities, two-day, Drupal conference organized by Open Circuit. It will be held on July 19 and 20, 2008 from 10AM to 5PM on each day, and will be at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
Official Registration is OPEN! To Register, go here:
http://www.tcopencircuit.org/drupal_daze
For more details, go here:
http://drupaldaze.com/
We are still looking for Presenters.
If you are interested in sponsoring, volunteering, or helping out other than presenting, please contact us through our web form.
Read moreCall for Presenters for Drupal Daze (July 19-20, 2008)
Open Circuit is putting together another Twin-Cities Drupal Conference. This time it's two days. There will be presentations and panel discussions. We invite you all to help us make this a great, accessible Drupal focused conference.
Presentations
We are currently looking for presenters. We have three tracks lined up:
- Drupal Advanced - aimed at people who are already familiar with Drupal basics.
- Drupal Basic - aimed at people who have probably never done anything with Drupal.
- Community Building - about building communities with websites. this does not have to be about Drupal specifically, but is encouraged.
It's looking like we will have 5 slots per track per day (10 total per track).
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Learn Drupal Development Group Meeting
This is a social venue to follow up on the Any Interest in Learning How to Code in Drupal? discussion and put together some kind of a road map.
Suggested location: Common Roots cafe in Minneapolis.
When: Tuesday June 17th at 7PM
Address:
2558 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55405
An evening with Lullabot!
The team from Lullabot would like to invite all the fine folks from both twin cities to join us for an evening of Drupal.
We'll be in town running a week of workshops and would love to meet the locals. We'll host lightning talks where people can come show off they're latest and greatest in hacks, tricks, tips and new module discoveries. There'll also be a cash bar, snacks and free cookies ;-)
When: May 7th, 2008 from 7-10pm
Where: The Chambers Hotel [map] (we'll be in the ART Room)
Of course, if you want to take full advantage of our visit - you should register now for the workshops too!
Hope to see you all there!
Read moreAny Interest in Learning How to Code in Drupal?
Hi all,
I have been using Drupal for about 6 months on my own site and now having a real desire to learn how to code in Drupal. I'm an application developer in real life, but never had to use PHP.
I'm wondering if anyone would like to walk down this path with me. I thought it would be more fun to do this as a team rather than by myself.
We can discuss details like when and how often we are going to meet if there is enough interest in such a "learning" group.
Please reply to this post if you are interested, and feel free to post any ideas you may have.
Thanks!
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BarCamp Chippewa
A few of us up here in Northwestern Wisconsin are trying to get together the first-ever Western Wisconsin BarCamp. We're in the early organizing phases - meaning mostly we're mulling it over and looking for a time and place. Of course, the BarCamp will feature lots of Drupal love.
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April Meeting - Zen and the Art of Drupal Themeing
For the April meeting, Samir Nassar (SteamedPenguin) will report on how to use the Zen theme effectively to theme Drupal.
This presentation will give you an overview of the Zen theme to allow you to use Zen as a foundation for your project. The structure and comments of the theme make it a solid and flexible foundation for any project.
- Regions: What are they? When to use them?
- CSS Foo: Building a design on top of Zen
- Creating Zen sub-themes for fun and profit
Drupal Training Opportunities
Spring has sprung! The local Drupal community is growing and developing quite a network of learning and networking opportunities. Here are some of the upcoming gigs.
- This group (of course): The Twin Cities Drupal Users Group Meeting. These meetings are free and happen monthly. No level of expertise is expected or required. Usually a topic of interest is discussed along with open forum for questions and networking. Always some yummy pizza following the topic discussion. Every 4th Wednesday evening starting at 7 PM. More info can be found here - be sure you are signed up to receive emails through the "my membership" link in the right column. Hope to see you soon!
- Lullabot's Drupal Theming and jQuery and API and Module Development classes for the more advanced Drupal developers. For more information, see their post below.
- Drupal Basic Training: Build a Drupal Website. For those of you how are just starting Drupal, Advantage Labs, Inc. is offering a 4-week class/workshop/seminar series on how to build websites using Drupal. We've been hearing from many folks - from the users group meetings to the Drupal Day at the Science Museum attendees - that a class like this would be helpful. It starts April 14th - a week from Monday. We expect to follow the series with more topic-based workshops (one-time) and more advanced classes.
We are also excited by Open Circuit. Science Museum of MN, Sunday's Energy, Gorton Studios, Steve Hanson (TC Drupal online group founder), TCDrupal Users Group and others have all been working toward more extended collaboration on Drupal learning opportunities. Stay tuned for more info to learn about Drupal and get involved locally.
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MinneBar
Attend one of the biggest BarCamps in the world without leaving your own home town! It's time for the 3rd Twin Cities MinneBar!
http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/MinneBar
Read moreLullabot Training in Minneapolis
Hey there Minneapolis!
The team from Lullabot is headed to the midwest this May! We are going to conduct a week of workshops covering both Theming and jQuery and API and Module Development (or register for both and get a discount).
Come learn the ins and outs of Drupal from experts like Pro Drupal Development author Matt Westgate, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, Addison Berry and James Walker. The week is hands-on and interactive with plenty of opportunities to get your questions answered.
Early bird pricing is in effect until April 18th, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact us.
Read moreTCWebPros Meeting: Drupal, Drupal, Drupal!
UPDATE: This meeting is actually happening TOMORROW, March 18th. Sorry for the mixup and the short-notice-change!
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U of M Drupal Usability Testing Recap - March 26th
In this session, we (Chad Fennell and Cody Hanson) recap the Usability Presentation we gave at Drupalcon Boston 2008. Open discussion will follow.
See you then!
-Chad
May Meeting - Ubercart w/ Sundays Energy
For the May meeting, Sundays Energy will walk through setting up an e-commerce website using ubercart. Everyone in attendance will get a one month (free) hosting account with all the required, drupal, ubercart, and contributed modules setup and ready to go.
- Building the catalog, adjusting display settings
- Selling items with attributes like clothing
- Events, handling registration, event signup confirmation and reminders
- Buy roles and/or access to "premium member areas"
- File Download Products
- Renewable Subscription type products like membership, hosting, and monthly auto-ship
- Simple Donations
- Discounts and Coupons
- Reports - Sales, Product, and Customer
- Stock Levels - Inventory Management
- Affiliate marketing and tracking
- Amazon Integration to retrieve product photos and description information automatically
- Payment and Order fulfillment options
Presentation Proposal: Theming Drupal with the Zen Theme
Twin Cities Meetup with Dries and the "Usability Team" RSVP
Some of you may already be aware of the Drupal Usability Testing Efforts at the University of Minnesota. Dries has also posted some thoughts on this project and how it fits into the greater Drupal usability plan.
A few folks have asked whether or not we were planning on holding a local Drupal meetup event, given that Dries and a handful of core developers would be hanging out in TC for a few days. The answer to that question is: Yes! We have a jam-packed few days of work for the Drupal team, but we're going to start things off with an informal public meetup on Monday, February 25 at 6:00pm:
Details
* Location: Campus Club (Directions and Parking)
* Time: Begins at 6:00pm
* Catered by the Campus Club
What we'd like to know is, who's in? Please help us out with an informal RSVP by posting your name and an optional affiliation to this wiki page. Thanks!
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February Meeting - User-centric Site Structure
February’s presentation was a bit “meta” for a Drupal group, focusing on basic user-centered site structure -- An approach that works similarly regardless of your choice of CMS (or lack thereof). I focused on my use of card-sorting exercises to develop the hierarchy of information used at Friends of the Mississippi River's web site, http://www.fmr.org, in our 2007 Drupal-based redesign. The notes and example documents that I used in my presentation are attached below.
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January Meeting
For the January meeting, Gorton Studios will walk through the home page of the Rake Magazine (one of our recent projects) and deconstruct it by looking at the files and code involved. Much of what will be covered is at least hinted at in our writeup of that project (http://drupal.org/node/191608), and reading through that writeup may help you get more from the session.
Read moreJanuary Meeting topic
The next meeting is January 23rd (I believe). We missed the November meeting, so I don't know if an agenda and presenter have already been set for January. If not, though, we'd previously mentioned that we were willing to present on some of our recent projects and had tentatively slotted that for the January meeting.
Read moreDrupal Day!
From 10am to 5pm on January 27th, Open Circuit (http://tcopencircuit.org) will be hosting a day-long series of workshops on Drupal in the Learning Technologies Center at the Science Museum of Minnesota. We want to provide an opportunity for everyone from the bleary-eyed programmer to the wide-eyed novice to teach and learn about using Drupal to build websites.
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Introduction and Inquiry
Hi! I'm an arts administrator recently relocated to Minneapolis from San Francisco where I was involved in the nonprofit tech community - NTEN, NetSquared, etc. I am attempting to find and join a similar community in my new hometown!
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