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).
Mar 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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UMN Drupal Users Meeting
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.
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Enjoy Drupal: Site Building Basics
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.
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DrupalCamp Planning Call
DrupalCamp Twin Cities planning is starting up. We have announced our dates (Thursday, August 7 through Sunday, August 10, 2014 in Minneapolis, MN) and we're at the point where we need to start working through tasks and to-dos.
Join us for the weekly planning call at 805-360-1000 and use access code 814087#. If you're interested and want to lend a hand to the process, join the call.
Read moreDrupalCamp Planning Call
DrupalCamp Twin Cities planning is starting up. We have announced our dates (Thursday, August 7 through Sunday, August 10, 2014 in Minneapolis, MN) and we're at the point where we need to start working through tasks and to-dos.
Join us for the weekly planning call at 805-360-1000 and use access code 814087#. If you're interested and want to lend a hand to the process, join the call.
Read moreDrupalCamp Planning Call
DrupalCamp Twin Cities planning is starting up. We have announced our dates (Thursday, August 7 through Sunday, August 10, 2014 in Minneapolis, MN) and we're at the point where we need to start working through tasks and to-dos.
Join us for the weekly planning call at 805-360-1000 and use access code 814087#. If you're interested and want to lend a hand to the process, join the call.
Read moreDrupalCamp Planning Call
DrupalCamp Twin Cities planning is starting up. We have announced our dates (Thursday, August 7 through Sunday, August 10, 2014 in Minneapolis, MN) and we're at the point where we need to start working through tasks and to-dos.
Join us for the first weekly planning call at 805-360-1000 and use access code 814087#. If you're interested and want to lend a hand to the process, join the call.
Read moreUMN Drupal Users Meeting - Friday, March 28, Noon-1pm
Join us for our next Drupal User Group meeting.
Friday, March 28
Noon - 1:00pm
101 Walter Library
This month, our presenter will be John Starr from UMN OIT. John will have the latest on the enterprise Drupal initiative here at the University. In particular, he will focus on the structure used to dovetail central management of security updates and core configuration with site-level flexibility and custom code.
He will also have more general updates about the progress of the project, and we expect there to be some time for questions as well.
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