The University of Minnesota Drupal User Group works to share knowledge and resources, find solutions to shared challenges, and enable effective use of Drupal at University of Minnesota campuses across Minnesota. Staff, students, and faculty are all welcome here.
We will strive to be a bridge, not a silo, and encourage participation and sharing with others in our communities, be they geographical (Twin Cities at g.d.o) or professional (Higher Education).
May UMN Drupal Users Meeting
Our next UMN Drupal Users meeting will take place Thursday, May 21st, from noon to 1:00pm.
101 Walter Library
117 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
This month, we will revisit the topic originally planned for last month: development environments. How do you set up your local (or remote) development environment? What are your go-to tools? How to you wire them together? IDEs, bundled "development stacks," distro-based tools? Come share what works for you (and what doesn't) and perhaps learn from others.
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May 14th Drupal Happy Hour
We have been amiss at not getting word out earlier, AND picking a new venue after 3 months at Sisyphus. No matter, Happy Hour MUST continue, so as creatures of habit, we STAY at Sisyphus for May.
Read moreApril UMN Drupal Users Meeting
Our next UMN Drupal Users meeting will take place Thursday, April 23rd, from noon to 1:00pm.
101 Walter Library
117 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Update
We've revised our topic for April to focus on setting up the University Drupal environment locally for development. Some people have hit snags in getting this environment working, so we will take the hour to run through the process, identify the problems we find, and revise documentation for later reference. We'll move the general "environments" topic to next month.
Hope to see you all there!
Read moreApr 9th Drupal Happy Hour
It's our monthy happy hour event. Come for the Drupal camaraderie AND the beer! Amazing good food truck too! Bring friends and let's Drupal!
Can you believe it's our 3rd month at Sisyphus Brewing? Our intention is to rotate this to new venues every quarter, so come on out and discuss our options for the next location.
Sisyphus Brewing
712 Ontario Avenue West
Minneapolis, MN 55403
http://www.sisyphusbrewing.com/
Tax Day - Apr 15 - Drupal JAM
YOU are invited to our free-form monthly Drupal-centric Coder JAM! We get together and make the code - or whatever, in a part-social/part co-working environment.
We ask questions, answer questions, plan events, discuss technology, build DRUPAL websites, have fun!
Held at Gorton Studios! Once everyone arrives, Drew orders the pizza by popular request (please don't mention the Mac and Cheeze pizza).
If you need a ride, post a note here and we'll see what we can do.
Gorton Studios
Read moreMar 2015 User Group and Lab Hours
Another month and another meeting! We will have a Midcamp Retrospective, and Les Lim will be presenting on Behat Testing.
Community Lab Hours | 5pm - 7pm
Right before the monthly TCDUG meetup, join your local Drupal community peers for an open Lab Hours session Wednesday from 5-7pm. If you have a question, we will have an answer!
Twin Cities Drupal User Group meetup | 7pm - 9pm
Sponsored by Advantage Labs
Behat Testng Framework
Read moreMar 2015 Drupal Happy Hour
After last month's successful meeting, we are happy to head to Sisyphus Brewing for the March Drupal Happy Hour!
Sisyphus Brewing
712 Ontario Avenue West
Minneapolis, MN 55403
http://www.sisyphusbrewing.com/
Come for the Drupal camaraderie AND the beer! Amazing good food truck too! Bring friends and let's Drupal!
Read moreDrupal Security Updates - boilerplate explanation and justification documents
We are dealing with a new client right now, an agency that is working with a restaurant. The retaurant site has not been updated since 7.12! The agency is asking for some documentation to share with the client about the need for these updates.
I did a simple google search, and came up with no usable results! Maybe Drupal.org has some resources, but I have never seen anything like that there.
This would be a really valuable resource for everyone working with clients. I'm really surprised we as Drupal users are not sharing some of this.
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Enjoy Drupal: Site Building Basics
It's time for our seasonal public training, sponsored by the Twin Cities Drupal User Group. We're offering the ever popular introductory course, Enjoy Drupal: Site Building Basics. This time last year, this same class sold out at 109 tickets! We only have room for 50 this year, so reserve your ticket soon.
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Greetings UMN Drupaleers!
Our next UMN Drupal Users meeting will take place Thursday, September 25th, from noon to 1:00pm.
101 Walter Library
117 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
This month we will enjoy a presentation by Brad Lowry on using Drupal's Features module.
Read moreAnyone with Drupal to PDF experience?
stpaultim and I have been working on an ongoing support project that has been a little tricky. The client wants to be able to generate a single PDF download that combines a number of specific nodes from the site. We've been able to use the Views PDF module to create the PDF download, but the formatting within the document is pretty bad (and the functionality overall is a little unpredictable).
Anyone else have experience with this module or functionality? Can we buy you a drink to talk it over?
Read moreTwin Cities Drupal Camp Aug 7-10, 2014. Mark calendars, submit proposals!
If you haven't already, mark you calendars for Twin Cities Drupal Camp, August 7-10, 2014. A phenomenal event at an amazing price, it's well worth your attention.
And now, session proposals are open! So if you have an idea for a session, submit your proposal at the Camp website:
http://2014.tcdrupal.org/node/add/session
You'll need to create an account. (Note too that accounts from previous years were not migrated over.)
Add you session to help keep Twin Cities Drupal Camp amazing!
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Join us for our July Drupal User Group meeting.
Thursday, July 24
Noon - 1:00pm
101 Walter Library
117 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
At this meeting, we will continue our more casual summer sessions - part co-working session, part impromptu demos, part collaborative problem solving. So bring down your laptop and your list of questions, challenges, or solutions to talk about with your fellow Drupal users.
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Join us for our June Drupal User Group meeting.
Friday, June 27
Noon - 1:00pm
101 Walter Library
117 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
At this meeting, we will continue our more casual summer sessions - part co-working session, part impromptu demos, part collaborative problem solving. So bring down your laptop and your list of questions, challenges, or solutions to talk about with your fellow Drupal users.
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Join us for our next Drupal User Group meeting, coming up this Friday!
Friday, May 23
Noon - 1:00pm
101 Walter Library
117 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
At this meeting, we will have the first of our more casual summer sessions - part co-working session, part impromptu demos, part collaborative problem solving. So bring down your laptop and your list of questions, challenges, or solutions to talk about with your fellow Drupal users.
Read moreEnjoy 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 moreUMN Drupal Users Meeting - Wednesday, April 23, Noon-1pm
