This group is for anyone who uses Drupal and lives in or near the State of Wisconsin, USA.
Let's get together and support each other's various efforts to use and improve this great content management and social networking system.
Drupal class at MATC starting in January
Hi Everyone,
I'll be teaching the Drupal class at Madison Area Technical College again this Spring, the main theme being module development with PHP. The prereqs are some background with HTML and CSS and a little PHP (or willingness to learn it quickly).
What: Drupal class Where: Madison Area Technical College, Truax campus When: Tues-Thurs, 5:30 pm - 6:20 pm Starts: January 13, 2009 Ends: May 14, 2009 Cost: $329.25Read more
CDMUG Venti ver 2.95
Join our group for a night of technology and knowledge. The floor will be open for project presentations and topics. As always CDMUG events are a great way to meet like-minded people in our area. Bring your laptop, business cards, and an interest in Drupal. We are looking to bring out about 30 members for this event.
Tuesday January 6th 2009 @ 7 pm
i.c. stars
212 West Superior
Suite 300
Chicago, IL 60610
773.715.7133
RSVP @ http://drupal.meetup.com/1/
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Madison Drupal Meetup (October)
It's that time again... for a drupal meetup in Madison.
With Andrew moving on to pbwiki, we'll be at a new venue: the Brazen Careerist office at 222 W Wash.
Abe will be giving us a recap of Drupal Camp Chicago.
6-7 we'll have an open format, with time for questions, sharing, etc...
7-8 will be the more formal presentation.
Drupal Camp Chicago 2008
Who/Why:
For over 2 years Chicago Drupal has truly highlighted the benefits of an open source initiative. We have built resourceful bridges between many local Chicago establishments including non-profits, entrepreneurs, Drupal development companies, independent consultants, hobbyist, and others in the mid-west. Our goal for this Drupal Camp is to bring everyone together for open communication, education, fun, and industry networking.
What:
Read moreSeptember Drupal Meetup [Madison]
This month will be more of a discussion than presentation... The general topic is local development environment / setup. Some of the issues we can talk about include:
* How do you handle Development / Testing / Production environments?
* Best practices / personal preferences for version control (if at all)?
* Text editor / IDE choice (advantages)?
* Development tips & tricks (modules, firefox extensions, etc)...
* Any other questions or ideas?
Tutorial for setting up a Drupal 6 site on Amazon EC2
I just completed a tutorial for running Drupal 6 on Amazon's EC2 at http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/2008/09/13/running-drupal-website-amaz... . With the advent of the persistent storage that Amazon's Elastic Block Store provides, I figured that it was finally practical to operate a website out of EC2.
Read moreAugust Drupal Meetup (Madison)
We're meeting early this month...
Neil's giving a talk on Developing for CCK. Here's what he has to say:
Read moreNorthEast Wisconsin Drupal Users Group (NEWDUG) ????
This informal group http://mydigitechnician.blogspot.com/ has been discussing a Drupal group in the Fox Valley. Any interest from http://groups.drupal.org/wisconsin ?
Mike Putnam
Read moreCan I use Drupal for my new site?
I have been hired to replace an existing website. It currently is built with dreamweaver and lasso. I want to replace it with a Drupal site. I need it to have the following:
Easy user interface for adding entries to databases for events, publications, downloads.
Reliable search function which can find pages, downloads, buyable documents.
E-commerce with existing vendors (ViaKlix, DoIT)
Multi language - the whole site needs to be in English, Spanish, and Chineses. Certain pages need to be in Russian, French, and Portugese.
Drupal class at MATC
Hi Everyone,
I'll be teaching a 17-week Drupal class at MATC this Fall, first time through, the main theme being module development with PHP. The prereqs are some background with html and css and a little php (or willingness to learn it quickly).
What: Drupal class Where: Madison Area Technical College, Truax campus When: Mon-Wed, 5:30 pm - 6:20 pm Starts: August 25, 2008 Ends: December 17, 2008 Cost: $310.05
More info about this and our other programming classes here (PHP, Ajax, Java, etc.).
Read moreJuly Drupal Meetup
This month, by popular demand, we'll cover beginning module development.
We'll follow the usual format, and meet at NetConcepts: 2820 Walton Commons West
6-7 Come to show off you project, ask and answer questions, share tips and tricks
7-8 Presentation
If you've got any relatively straightforward module ideas post them here, or shoot me an email. Right now I'm leaning towards building something that uses the Form API and AHAH (or AJAX).
Read moreSite writeup and Drupal 6 theme from talk
At the June Madison Drupal meetup, I promised to post a little writeup on my site along with the CSS and PHP code for the custom theme I showed off. I finally got around to posting that information at http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/2008/06/21/architecture-site . The theme is attached to the post, but it is a Zen subtheme, so you'll need the Zen theme installed on your Drupal 6 site to use it.
Sorry for not posting this under the meeting topic, I thought it might get buried under there.
Read moreDrupal 5/6 WYSIWYG Editors with Image uploaders (Madison)
This came up toward the end of yesterday's meeting so I thought I would post these links:
http://drupal.org/project/tinymce
http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor
http://drupal.org/project/imce
I think TinyMCE is one of the most popular JavaScript WYSIWYG editors in Drupal. FCKEditor is an alternative to TinyMCE and I like it a little better because it is a little easier to configure. It also has its own file upload manager built in, but IMCE integrates a little better with Drupal's role system.
Read moreDrupal 5 Theme cheat sheet (Madison)
Here is that Drupal 5 theme cheat sheet that we talked about at yesterdays meeting.
Read moreJune Drupal Meetup (Madison)
This month Brad will be presenting on Themeing for Drupal 6.
We'll follow the usual format:
6-7 Come to show off you project, ask and answer questions, share tips and tricks
7-8 Presentation
If you've got an advance themeing questions post them here, and we'll try to compile them for Wednesday.
We'll be at Netconcepts as usual (2820 Walton Commons West Suite 123, Madison). Contact me if you've got any questions.
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Topic Suggestion
Blake and All --
I'd be interested in learning the basics of module creation at a future Drupal users group meeting. I know basic PHP, not sure if I know enough to write my own mod, but I've had to modify Drupal code in the past and done so successfully.
Read moreWI drupal questions and deliberation
Discussing Drupal in Wisconsin, our working together, brain storming future needs and general discussion is the Aim here.
Welcome!
Best practice for creating user profiles
Looking for D6 advice, from what I can figure out, there are three options (probably more)
- User management-Profile (add fields)
- Create Content - Profile as content
- CCK
I want to create a site that has two main users: Volunteers and Organizations - so I've set up these two roles now I want to create two profile types, one for each role. How/Where should I create my extra fields so that they are available on registration, editable by the user and searchable.
Help - new drupalee wannabe
Read moreIn need of a graphic designer
We are in need of a graphic designer to work with us on our new drupal site. We are a social networking and jobs site that is in a redesign phase. If interested, post a comment and we can chat.
Read moreMadison Meetup
Like last month we'll do demo's and discussion from 6-7. Come ready to show off your site, talk about recent challenges, and problem solve as a group.
From 7-8 we'll talk about the Views module (Views 1 for Drupal 5 and a quick look at the Views 2 beta for Drupal 6).
Location:2820 Walton Commons West Suite 123
More info at the Madison PHP Meetup group
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