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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.
Twin Cities Drupal Camp, Values Discussion #2
This is a follow up meeting to our first values discussion on February 6th.
Overall Background: We are meeting to discuss our conference and organization values. Goals include that begin to craft a mission-statement and define a set of core values that we, as a group, can use as a guide for all future decisions regarding our annual conference, and other sponsored events.
Read moreTwin Cities Drupal Camp, Values Discussion #2
We met on Feb 6th, and started the conversation (or restarted it, from previous efforts), and we'd like to schedule a follow up meeting. A new Doodle poll is at https://doodle.com/poll/pmqxe7fb5dcpwgpz, so you can vote on a few options for meeting times.
RECAP OF PREVIOUS MEETING:
Read moreTCDC 2019: Working meeting
We should have another working meeting to discuss:
- Finalize camp dates / location
- Go/No go on St. Thomas for June 6th through June 9th.
- Talk about the mechanics of how that's done.
- Plan for next set of tasks with key parts of delivery: Website / Marketing / Planning
Duration: 45 minutes
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mi2LpptwPBqJCr8hZGE4PgFwziWJp6F7vJOx...
Open Web Co-Working Day
We have lots of great space in our Pantheon Minneapolis office, so we are opening up our office for co-working and networking with other WordPress, Drupal and Open Web people.
You are welcome to come and go between 9am and 5pm on Tuesday, February 12th, however we do ask that you RSVP so we have a better understanding of our guest count.
We will have private and public space available for working, networking and conducting meetings.
Read moreTwin Cities Drupal Camp, Values Discussion #1b
This is a rescheduled meetup for the one we had to cancel last week:
As described earlier, we are holding the first session to discuss our conference and organization values. Goals include that begin to craft a mission-statement and define a set of core values that we, as a group, can use as a guide for all future decisions regarding our annual conference, and other sponsored events.
Want to join in the conversation? Stop by our first meeting at Electric Citizen offices at 4306 Bryant Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55409
Read moreCANCELLED: Twin Cities Drupal Camp, Values Discussion Meeting #1
As described earlier, we are holding the first session to discuss our conference and organization values. Goals include that begin to craft a mission-statement and define a set of core values that we, as a group, can use as a guide for all future decisions regarding our annual conference, and other sponsored events.
Want to join in the conversation? Stop by our first meeting at Electric Citizen offices at 4306 Bryant Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55409
We'll also put a Google Meet URL up for those attending remotely, but come in person if you can.
Notes:
Read more5-Day Drupal 8 Training in Minneapolis
Learn how to build a website with Drupal from top to bottom. This week-long Drupal class is divided into three parts: site building, theming, and module development. You can register for all five days, or just the days of interest to you.
Site Building & Architecture (Day 1) - Learn about how to structure your Drupal 8 site and take advantage of modules and configuration techniques.
Read moreTwin Cities Drupal Camp, Values Discussion
We'd like to hold the first session to discuss our conference and organization values. Begin to craft a mission-statement and define a set of core values that we, as a group, can use as a guide for all future decisions regarding our annual conference, and other sponsored events.
Want to join in the conversation? Now is the time. Here's a link to a Doodle, which we will use to select date and time for the first meeting.
https://doodle.com/poll/yrf6f99vtcxkgi3p
Read moreJanuary 2019 Twin Cities Drupal User Group Meeting
Join us tonight for the first TCDrupal user group and Jam of 2019!
We’ll kick things off at 6pm with a jam session. Come early and do some Drupal. The Jam is a great time to ask questions, get help, or help others.
Read moreTwin Cities Drupal Camp 2019, finance and exploration
2019 DrupalCamp is not planned yet, and there's a lot of discussions that need to happen. While we won't decide everything in one night, there are a few very important discussion points that need to happen.
1) Who will handle our existing camp funds, now that the DA no longer will? Note that there is at least one unpaid reimbursement from 2018 camp, so we should try to get this decided ASAP.
Read moreBackdrop & Drupal Birthday on January 15th
As you may be aware, I've been pretty active with the Backdrop CMS project lately and have volunteered to host a Backdrop CMS Birthday party on January 15th (Backdrop will be 4 years old).
https://backdropcms.org/news/events/backdrop-birthday-party-twin-cities-mn
Read moreJanuary Drupal Happy Hour @ Venn Brewing
Come join us for Drupal Happy Hour starting at 6:00pm at Venn Brewing in South Minneapolis. Venn has been a great venue, offering plenty of space and a great array of rotating taps to choose from. Stop on by and talk Drupal, or anything else, with some of the local community. Board games have been known to break out late.
Always check out our group page at groups.drupal.org for the full schedule for this group!
https://groups.drupal.org/twin-cities
Venn Brewing Company
3550 East 46th St
Backdrop CMS Contribution Event/Sprint - (12/15/18)
I've been digging deeper and deeper into Backdrop CMS over the last few months and getting more and more involved with the Backdrop project. I am trying not to fill up the local Drupal user group forum with Backdrop announcements, but since the connection between Drupal and Backdrop is so strong, I think it appropriate to post the occasional update or event.
Here is what is happening with Backdrop CMS locally:
1) I'm creating a local Backdrop CMS user group page at Meetup.com where anyone interested in Backdrop can meet and get announcements (then I won't need to post here as much).
Read moreDecember Drupal Happy Hour @ Venn Brewing
Come join us for our December Happy Hour starting at 6:00pm at Venn Brewing in South Minneapolis. Venn has been a great venue, offering plenty of space and a great array of rotating taps to choose from. Stop on by and talk Drupal, or anything else, with some of the local community. Board games have been known to break out late.
Always check out our group page at groups.drupal.org for the full schedule for this group!
https://groups.drupal.org/twin-cities
Venn Brewing Company
3550 East 46th St
November TCDrupal Happy Hour, Thursday 11/1 at Venn Brewing in Minneapolis
Fall continues and we're still at Venn Brewing. Come join us for our November Happy Hour starting at 5:30pm at Venn Brewing in South Minneapolis. Venn has been a great venue, offering plenty of space and a great array of rotating taps to choose from. Stop on by and talk Drupal, or anything else, with some of the local community. Maybe this month we will actually pick a new location!
Always check out our group page at groups.drupal.org for the full schedule for this group!
Read moreOctober TCDrupal User Group and JAM
Join us this evening for our monthly user group! We'll have the open JAM and networking starting at 6pm. At 7pm we'll transition over to a show and tell session. Learn something helpful? Build something cool? Come share or bring a question for the group. I'll kick things off with showing how you can use custom config entities to build out deployable user-selectable style pallets for your paragraph and block components.
Location
Advantage Labs at FLOCK
2611 1st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN, 55408
Pizza and beverages sponsored by Advantage Labs!
Read moreOpen Web Coworking Day
Join us for this month's Open Web Coworking Day. We have lots of great space in our Minneapolis office so we're inviting you to cowork and network with other WordPress, Drupal and Open Web people.
You are welcome to come and go between 9am and 5pm on Tuesday, October 9th. However, please do RSVP so we know who and how many to expect at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-web-co-working-day-tickets-50177740974
We will have private and public space available for working, networking and conducting meetings. Hope to see you here!
Read moreOctober TCDrupal Happy Hour, Thursday 10/4 at Venn Brewing in Minneapolis
Come join us for our October Happy Hour starting at 5:30pm at Venn Brewing in South Minneapolis. Venn has been a great venue so far, offering plenty of space and a great array of rotating taps to choose from. Stop on by and talk Drupal, or anything else, with some of the local community.
Things to do:
- Report back on DrupalCorn: exciting sessions, Corn Hole tournament, car pooling, and a little karoake :-)
- Discuss Twin Cities Open Source CMS Unconference
- Play board games
Twin Cities Open Source CMS Unconference
"Building the Open Web: The technical, financial, and social challenges facing us as communities, web professionals, and open source advocates."
Read moreBackdropCMS 1.11.0 Release / Demo - This Saturday
This Saturday, BackdropCMS will be releasing version 1.11.0. I know that some folks in the local Drupal community are Backdrop curious.
I've blocked out a couple of hours on Saturday when I'll be helping with the release and/or working with David Radcliffe on a BackdropCMS contrib module that we maintain.
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