Meeting to discuss possible venues, themes, etc. for a proposal for Drupalcon 2010. It's due March 1st, so this is a very last minute thing, but still worth a try.

Drupal (drupal.org) is a Content Management System, with powerful modularity. The regular Drupal Meetup is the 2nd Wednesday of every month at OpenSourcery.

For the March meeting we'll have a short presentation by Tony Rasmussen. It'll continue a discussion at the January meeting on when to use Contemplate module vs. the Theme Layer.

After that I was hoping to have everyone who's going to DrupalCon in DC talk for a few minutes about what they'd seen and what got them excited.

As always, the meeting promises to generate lots of good questions, answers and hands-on communication. Drupal meetings are free and open to the public.

NOTE: Please be aware that the developers at OpenSourcery will be working right up to event time. We ask that you arrive between 5:50pm and 6:00pm. Thank you!

After the presentation finishes we'll walk over to the Bridgeport Brew Pub for a food and drink.

Drupal Beyond the Web

Justin Miller will treat us to a half-hour version of his DrupalCon DC Presentation, Drupal Beyond the Web.

Modules 101

Each meeting, we want to feature one or two brief presentations (no more than 15 minutes, including questions), highlighting an optional core or contributed module, what it's good for, and any special considerations or tricky configuration issues it has. The idea is to introduce people who are new to Drupal, as well as experienced Drupal users, to solid and useful drupal add-ons. If you're interested in presenting this month, let us know which module by replying.

Workflow, Actions, and Triggers

Melissa Anderson will present a brief summary of a site using Workflow, Workflow Required Fields, Actions, and Triggers to create complex electronic form routing. After that, she'll demonstrate how to build a simplified version of the use case.

reposted from: http://groups.drupal.org/node/22868

Lightning Rounds

It's been a while since we've done lightning rounds, which are generally quick, informative, and fun. Here's what we've got so far:

• YUI Menus by todd_tomlinson (since he volunteered here)
• jhedstrom may be able to cover Context (if it lines up...I have a potential conflict)
• PeterPO on MERCI, which is part of the Open Media Project.

Lightning rounds are generally limited to 5-7 minutes, but this will vary depending on how many we have.

July Drupal Challenge

We'll be voting on a task or challenge that can be solved by Drupal in any number of ways. The July meeting will then focus on solutions people come up with. More information here.

Modules 101

This may be overkill for a lightning session meeting, but if there's time left, and anybody wants to talk for a few minutes about a module no Drupal user should be without, we'll do this too.

Logistics

We meet at the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209. NOTE: Please be aware that the developers at OpenSourcery will be working right up to event time. We ask that you arrive no earlier than 5:50pm. Thank you!

After the presentation finishes we'll walk over to the Lucky Lab NW for food and drink.

July Challenge: Q & A Solutions Using Drupal

We're going forward with a July challenge meeting, and either Jonathan or I will post the final challenge on Monday. A lot of incredibly fun solutions have been proposed to Michelle's suggestion, and unless something more compelling comes along:

"I like the idea of a challenge! If I can suggest one that might be fun, and that probably has many ways to accomplish it: how about a Question and Answer section? Something where a user can post a question, and either a moderator or a user can post answers - but possibly the moderator answer always shows above other user answers or is somehow distinguished."

A couple of requirements:

• Presentations must be Internet-accessible so we can use just one laptop to keep things quick.
• To be guaranteed a time to present, make your commitment on the meeting reminder by July 6th.

This month's topic is going to be a module showcase, or module hidden gems. It will be similar to previous Module 101 presentations, but broader in scope, where presenters will focus on a singlel module that they either a) can't live without or b) have just discovered and want to highlight.

If you would like to present a module, please leave a comment below. Depending on the number of people who sign-up, timeslots should be around 15-20 minutes (maximum, no need to feel pressured to present for that long if you can show off a module in 5 or 10 minutes).

Logistics

We meet at the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209. NOTE: Please be aware that the developers at OpenSourcery will be working right up to event time. We ask that you arrive no earlier than 5:50pm. Thank you!

After the presentation finishes we'll walk over to the Lucky Lab NW for food and drink.

September meeting: * Paris Reports: We'll hear from the folks who attended the Paris DrupalCon about Paris sessions.

* Modules 101: A 5-10 minute overview of a Drupal module. The module is TBD. If you'd like to choose and present let us know in the comments.
* DrupalCamp PDX Roundup: An update on the schedule of events October 9 - 11, as well as an opportunity to pitch in and help with the remaining details.

Logistics

We meet at the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209. NOTE: Please be aware that the developers at OpenSourcery will be working right up to event time. We ask that you arrive no earlier than 5:50pm. Thank you!

After the presentation finishes we'll walk over to the Lucky Lab NW for food and drink.

No need to RSVP, the meetings are open to all.

We're also on IRC in #drupal-pdx on freenode.net

Portland Drupal Camp will be held the weekend of October 9 - 11 at NedSpace Old Town.

Website is up with information and taking registrations, sponsorships, and sessions!

DrupalCamp PDX is a free unconference put on by the Portland Drupal User Group.

@drupalpdx on twitter

dcpdx

• Modules 101: A 5-10 minute overview of a Drupal module. The module is TBD. If you'd like to choose and present let us know in the comments.
• Node Reference and Node Referrer: Two great modules that go great together. Greg Perry from Dorey Design Group will present an overview of using Node Reference and Node Referrer to create relationships between content.
• Announcements: Items of Interest from User Group members

Logistics

We meet at the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209. NOTE: Please be aware that the developers at OpenSourcery will be working right up to event time. We ask that you arrive no earlier than 5:50pm. Thank you!

After the presentation finishes we'll walk over to the Lucky Lab NW for food and drink.

A theme has emerged from recent offers to present, namely, ways to avoid the use of panels. To round it out, I'm hoping one or two of the folks who use Panels will volunteer to do the Modules 101 introduction (what kind of problems does Panels solve and what are the gotchas associated for complete beginners) as well as a more hands-on example of how to use Panels.

Tentative Agenda

• Introductions and Call for Notetaker
• Modules 101: A 5-10 minute overview of a Drupal module for beginners. This month: Panels. (beginner introduction)
• Panels: A more advanced look at how to use panels. (beginner hands-on)
• Content Template: (jnicola) Using node-content_type.tpl.php instead of Panels. (beginner / intermediate)
• Node Reference & Co.: (emptyvoid) Node reference / node relationships / modal dialog API / alternative to panels (advanced)
• Announcements: Items of Interest from User Group members

Logistics

We meet at the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209. NOTE: Please be aware that the developers at OpenSourcery will be working right up to event time. We ask that you arrive no earlier than 5:50pm. Thank you!

After the presentation finishes we'll walk over to the Lucky Lab NW for food and drink.

• Introductions (10 minutes) Be sure to sign up for the Open Source Bridge conference pass raffle on your way in!
• DrupalPDX Demo eliza411 (15 minutes)

We'll take a look at how to request presentation topics for future meetings and how to volunteer to present.

• DrupalCon / Drupal 7 Lightening Rounds (5 min. each / 45 minutes) For those who couldn't make it, or those who missed your favorite session, give a brief presentation on one or two highlights from the conference. Since much of the conference focused on Drupal 7, feel free to highlight a Drupal 7 feature that you're excited about, whether or not it corresponds to a specific session.
• OSCon Booth sarah_p (10 minutes)

Get the details on the DrupalPDX presence at OSCon.

• Announcements and Open Source Bridge Raffle (10 minutes) Open Source Bridge is June 1–4, 2010 at the Portland Art Museum. They have donated a conference pass to be raffled at this month's user group meeting, in addition to offering user group members a discounted registration rate of $200.

Logistics

We meet at the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209. NOTE: Please be aware that the developers at OpenSourcery will be working right up to event time. We ask that you arrive no earlier than 5:50pm. Thank you!

After the presentation finishes we'll walk over to the Lucky Lab NW for food and drink.

Just a friendly reminder that this WEDNESDAY (August 11) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting. What's Drupal, you ask? It's a PHP-based content management system that helps you build the best websites in the world!

We're super excited for this meeting.... We've got two awesome presentations on the agenda:

1. "Janrain Engage: Connecting Drupal with the Social Web" presented by Brian McGinnis, Forest Basford & Larry Drebes (Janrain team members)

Need to quickly connect your Drupal website to the social web? Janrain Engage (formerly RPX) may be just what the doctor (or developer!) ordered. Key team members from Portland-based Janrain will be here to discuss their Janrain Engage service and how it empowers your site visitors to sign-in with their existing accounts on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, MySpace, AOL, or other networks, and then simultaneously publish user comments, reviews or other activities from your site to multiple networks. In particular, the Janrain team will address the current state of the Janrain Engage Drupal module (http://drupal.org/project/rpx ), ongoing efforts to port the module to Drupal 7, and the latest roadmap for future module enhancements--plus important insights into how you can best leverage the power of third-party social networks. It's also a great opportunity to learn how local Drupal developers can get involved.

2. "Git for Drupal (Part II, Advanced Git)" presented by Michael Schwern

At last month's meeting, local git expert Michael Schwern did a great job introducing us to git--even demonstrating for us (with tinker toys!) git's underlying simplicity and elegance of implementation. Now it's time to kick things up a notch by going beyond the theoretical to the practical: In this more advanced presentation, Michael will delve deeper into essential git commands--including how to best create repositories, add files, clone, commit, fork, branch, stash, and merge. Because a Drupal project has some special considerations that other projects don’t, he'll cover some important key action steps (such as using remote vendor branches to track Drupal core and modules, leveraging the benefits of github.com, and merging in your local patches). We'll also open up the discussion to experienced git users in the audience who will offer their insights into best practices for using git with Drupal. With Drupal.org switching from CVS to git, now is the time to embrace version control in your projects and become a power git user!

Finally, here are the meeting details:

Date: Wednesday, August 11 Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks) Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)

It promises to be an awesome meeting... you absolutely don't want to miss it!

For more details on this meeting and to stay current on the latest Portland Drupal User Group news, please visit this web page:

http://groups.drupal.org/portland

See you there, Ben Kaplan

Welcome to the Portland, Oregon Drupal Users Group.

Meetings take place every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm in the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209.

Please come no earlier than 5:50, as people are still working.

We've begun a second meetup on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 5pm at the Lucky Lab on 1945 NW Quimby. We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda.

No need to RSVP, the meetings are open to all.

What is this event? It's an informal meetup each month to work on our own individual Drupal projects in the company of other Drupalers. The idea is that you can work on your own project, ask a question to your neighbor if you're stuck, chat with others about your brilliant Drupal start-up idea, and then take a beer break whenever you want.

If you are bringing your laptop, don't forget to charge it ahead of time (since Lucky Lab's power outlets are minimal).

Here are the details:

Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Lucky Lab Beer Hall 1945 NW Quimby St. Portland, OR 97209 (Yes, they have wifi.)

So get ready to pack up your laptop and see you soon!

Welcome to the Portland, Oregon Drupal Users Group.

Meetings take place every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm in the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209.

Please come no earlier than 5:50, as people are still working.

We've begun a second meetup on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 5pm at the Lucky Lab on 1945 NW Quimby. We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda.

No need to RSVP, the meetings are open to all.

Welcome to the Portland, Oregon Drupal Users Group.

Meetings take place every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm in the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209.

Please come no earlier than 5:50, as people are still working.

We've begun a second meetup on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 5pm at the Lucky Lab on 1945 NW Quimby. We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda.

No need to RSVP, the meetings are open to all.

Join fellow PHP developers for presentations and discussions.

Here's what we've got on the agenda:

1. "A Case Study in Drupal 7: Care Network by Elite Care" presented by Manuel Mejia

Want to leverage the power of Drupal to address your own specific niche industry or market? Learn how this can be accomplished by examining a real-world case study of the "Care Network"—a Drupal distribution that assists staff and family members in creating "Communities of Care" for elderly and disabled people. Built on Drupal 7, the Care Network helps provision services, monitor community residents, and facilitate social interaction.

In particular, Manuel will discuss unique features of the project including real-time location tracking of all individuals on campus, programable alerts using a wide array of sensors, web enabled recording of daily notes and services, and touch screen monitors used to input and display this information. He'll also touch upon the strengths of Drupal as an application platform and how anyone can extend Drupal 7 core and contributed modules to fit their unique project requirements and needs.

1. "Building a Social Network in Drupal" presented by Ben Kaplan

Have you ever wanted to build your own social network? Or maybe add some cool social networking features to your existing website? In this presentation, Ben will demo some of the latest features of the User Relationships (http://drupal.org/project/user_relationships) and Private Message (http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg) modules—two modules he's worked on that allow you to replicate many features of popular social networks.

And what if you also want to leverage the power of other third-party social networks like Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace? Ben will demo the newest features of the Janrain Engage (http://drupal.org/project/rpx) module, including the ability to authenticate with other social networks, map user data from these networks, share content simultaneously across networks, and integrate with popular Drupal modules like Rules and Views.

Finally, here are the meeting details:

Date: Wednesday, April 13

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks and conversation!)

Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)

It promises to be really interesting and useful meeting... you don't want to miss it!

See you there,

Here's what we've got on the agenda:

1. "A Million Pageviews an Hour: Extreme Drupal Performance" presented by Aaron Longwell

The Kentucky Derby is the most watched horse racing event in the world. It's frequently called "the most exciting two minutes in sports," and is nationally televised on 3 different networks and simulcast worldwide. All that excitement results in www.kentuckyderby.com, the race's official Drupal-powered web site receiving more than 1 million page views in less than an hour.

Presented by Aaron Longwell, Chief Technologist at Culture Foundry, this presentation will cover the hardware, software, Drupal modifications and extensions that enabled the site to serve every one of those pages with sub-200ms response times. In particular, Aaron's talk will discuss helpful Drupal modules, Varnish, HTTP in-browser caching, load balancing, redundancy, load testing, Pressflow, Amazon Web Services, and Capistrano--and how each played a part in the Kentucky Derby site.

Even small sites with little traffic can benefit from many of the techniques and technologies Aaron will be discussing. The talk will be relatively technical in nature (there will even be a bit of code) but even non-developers should learn something about the principles behind super high performance web sites.

2. "Location + Maps: Making it Actually Work" presented by Katrin Silvius

In her recent work, Katrin Silvius, senior web developer at One Economy, has discovered all sorts of bugs and workarounds necessary to make location and maps work well together in Drupal. Katrin will discuss some of the things she's learned from her work and we'll open up the discussion to other developers about best practices and nagging problems with implementing location and maps in Drupal.

Finally, here are the meeting details:

Date: Wednesday, June 8 Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab NW at 1945 NW Quimby, for drinks and conversation!)

We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda.

No need to RSVP, the meetings are open to all.

More info to be posted and website to be updated for 2011.

The Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit is an annual event for Drupal professionals to gather, exchange ideas, learn from one another, and advance the Drupal CMS.

A Brief History of the PNWDS:

The Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit was first held in Seattle WA in October 2009 and in Vancouver BC in October 2010. The first Summit was organized by volunteers from the Seattle Drupal User Group, and the second Summit was organized by volunteers from the Surrey and Vancouver Drupal User Groups.

In January 2011 after gathering a rockstar crew of organizing volunteers from the PDX Drupal User Group, Portland OR formally announced that it will host the 2011 PNWDS.

For questions, please contact PDX organizers sarah_p or skjalf.

For sponsorship-related inquiries, please contact Brian Jamison.

Acquia is opening a Portland office, and to celebrate, we're doing an officewarming in our brand new office in the Leftbank building on Portland's East Side.

We're grabbing a keg, a DJ and raffling off an iPad to those who attend, so come on down!

Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit folks are particularly welcome, our office is at the convergence of the Red, Blue, Yellow and Green lines at the Rose Quarter.

We're also a pretty neat place to work, and we're hiring for Portland positions as well.

The last meet up of 2011. Drupal 7 started off the year and 11 months later we're wrapping up with 5-minute lightning talks featuring your favorite D7 modules.

If you've never presented at user group, this is a great chance! Choose something you've enjoyed using. Nothing is too obvious. With over 2,922 Drupal 7 modules, sharing your personal experience is useful to the group! A laptop (with a mouse :) and projector will be set up for you to use if your talk is Internet-accessible or you can set up your own.

Sign up in the comments or just come prepared!

Meeting Details: Date: Wednesday, December 14 Time: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab, 19th and Quimby, for drinks and conversation!) Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)

Come and hang out with us as we enjoy presentations and discussions about Drupal, from novice to expert level. The 60-90 minute Drupal session is followed up with a visit to The Lucky Lab, right down the road.

Meetings happen every second Wednesday of the month at 6pm.

Come and hang out with us as we enjoy presentations and discussions about Drupal, from novice to expert level. The 60-90 minute Drupal session is followed up with a visit to The Lucky Lab, right down the road.

Meetings happen every second Wednesday of the month at 6pm.

What is this event? It's an informal meetup each month to work on our own individual Drupal projects in the company of other Drupalers. The idea is that you can work on your own project, ask a question to your neighbor if you're stuck, chat with others about your brilliant Drupal start-up idea, and then take a beer break whenever you want.

If you are bringing your laptop, don't forget to charge it ahead of time (since Lucky Lab's power outlets are minimal).

Here are the details:

Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Lucky Lab Beer Hall 1945 NW Quimby St. Portland, OR 97209 (Yes, they have wifi.)

So get ready to pack up your laptop and see you soon!

Come and hang out with us as we enjoy presentations and discussions about Drupal, from novice to expert level. The 60-90 minute Drupal session is followed up with a visit to The Lucky Lab, right down the road.

Meetings happen every second Wednesday of the month at 6pm.

We have two presentations scheduled for June:

• Sean from ThinkShout is going to talk about RedHen, the customer relationship management tool built on Drupal 7.
• Philippe Blanc from VisualFox will talk about BIG, the application deployment framework.

The meeting should last about 1 hour, after which we'll head over to the Lucky Lab to socialize.

event post on groups.drupal.org

OpenSourcery, in partnership with Acquia, offers two Portland-based Drupal 7 workshops:

-Drupal 7 in Day (Monday, July 9 from 9:30am - 5pm)

-Site Building with Drupal 7 (Tuesday and Wednesday, July 10 & 11 from 9:30am - 5pm)

Either is is complete on its own, but they combine to make an excellent foundation for site builders and content managers. They're hands-on and suitable for newcomers to Drupal as well as experienced users of earlier versions looking to get familiar with Drupal 7.

Our Portland-based sessions are guaranteed to run, so attendees can plan knowing that the event will not be rescheduled or cancelled based on number of sign ups.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]

Come and hang out with us as we enjoy presentations and discussions about Drupal, from novice to expert level. The 60-90 minute Drupal session is followed up with a visit to The Lucky Lab, right down the road.

Meetings happen every second Wednesday of the month at 6pm.

Come and hang out with us as we enjoy presentations and discussions about Drupal, from novice to expert level. The 60-90 minute Drupal session is followed up with a visit to The Lucky Lab, right down the road.

Meetings happen every second Wednesday of the month at 6pm.

Brewpal takes place on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 5pm at the Lucky Lab on 1945 NW Quimby. We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda.

No need to RSVP, the meetings are open to all.

We're also on IRC in #drupal-pdx on freenode.net

Come and hang out with us as we enjoy presentations and discussions about Drupal, from novice to expert level. The 60-90 minute Drupal session is followed up with a visit to The Lucky Lab, right down the road.

Meetings happen every second Wednesday of the month at 6pm.

Come and hang out with us as we enjoy presentations and discussions about Drupal, from novice to expert level. The 60-90 minute Drupal session is followed up with a visit to The Lucky Lab, right down the road.

Meetings happen every second Wednesday of the month at 6pm.

Come and hang out with us as we enjoy presentations and discussions about Drupal, from novice to expert level. The 60-90 minute Drupal session is followed up with a visit to The Lucky Lab, right down the road.

Meetings happen every second Wednesday of the month at 6pm.

Come and hang out with us as we enjoy presentations and discussions about Drupal, from novice to expert level. The 60-90 minute Drupal session is followed up with a visit to The Lucky Lab, right down the road.

Meetings happen every second Wednesday of the month at 6pm.

DrupalCon Portland is the official conference of the Drupal community. DrupalCon is a biannual event presented to an ever expanding international audience since Drupal became an open source project in 2001. It's produced by the Drupal Association and a fabulous group of volunteers from across the globe.

The Oregon Convention Center will accommodate the largest gathering of Drupal developers than ever before.

New Relic will be playing the DrupalCon conference live stream (http://portland2013.drupal.org) on some big monitors in our office.

Come join us on the 28th floor of Big Pink for some beer, snacks, and Drupal in a hacker friendly environment. Feel free to drop by any time these days. We'll have plenty of power and wifi available.

We know these specific talks will be streamed:

• Tuesday 11:30 to 12:45 Keynote - Dries Buytaert- The Current State of Drupal 8
• Wednesday 9 to 10:15 Keynote - Karen McGrane - Thriving in a world of Change: future friendly content with drupal
• Thursday 9 to 10:15 Keynote - Michael Lopp - The Engineer, The Designer, and the Dictator
• Thursday 3:45 - 4:45 Closing Session

Topics include MERCI and CTools style plugins

Swing on by Lucky Lab around 5pm until whenever for all things Drupal. We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda. See you there!

This crazy Portland heatwave must be getting to me, because we're totally mixing things up for the July Drupal user group!

1. We've got free pizza thanks to the fine folks at Lullabot & Drupalize.me and free beer & drinks thanks to OpenSourcery. So we'll start off the meetup with 30 minutes of socializing and eating (and even some pinballing!). If you or your company would like to sponsor pizza for future DUGs, drop a comment below.

2. No presenters at this months meetup. We'll be breaking up into teams and competing for 1 hour to make the most awesome, fun, random Drupal site using the mystery set of modules provided. Each site will need building, coding and theming of all levels in order to win, so everyone from the n00best-of-sitebuilders to the most experienced Drupal core contributor can help their team.

3. I know that fame and karma are pretty big motivators in the Drupal community, but in case those aren't enough, we'll also have prizes for the winners. The OReilly people have donated a 3 day pass to OSCon that we'll be giving away along with some other goodies.

So remember to bring a laptop and come hungry... for pizza and to win!

We'll still be heading to the Lucky Lab NW on Quimby & 19th after the meetup for continued socializing and revelry.

Update: This meeting has been canceled

The Wed., July 17 Way Out West meetup has been canceled.

Go play games at Metal Toad on Wednesday night instead and/or see you at the Front-End Meetup on Thursday.

Metal Toad Game Night (Wed, July 17, 6pm) https://groups.drupal.org/node/307848

The Drupal Front End Meetup happens every third Thursday at the Squishymedia offices on 116 NE 6th Ave, 3rd floor at 6pm. This group is focused on the theming and design aspects of Drupal development. Come nerd out with us over CSS, Javascript, theme functions and other interesting front-end tools.

Swing on by Lucky Lab around 5pm until whenever for all things Drupal. We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda. See you there!

Meetings take place every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm in the OpenSourcery offices.

After a few super nerdy meetups, this month we will return to the aesthetics end of our front-end spectrum and talk a bit about typography and web fonts.

This will include:

• How to choose good typography, appropriate to your usecase
• Font resources
• Icon fonts + Sass

...and likely more. Speaking of, if you have any tips, experiences, or resources that you think others might find useful, get in touch with me (Mindewen).

The format is going to be several shorter presentations / walk-throughs, 5-15 minutes long. Bring your laptop so you can play along!

The 'Way out West' meetup takes place on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at Server Logic, 9020 SW Washington Square Rd, Suite 120 from 6 - 7pm. This meeting focuses on choosing and using Drupal modules.

Swing on by Lucky Lab around 5pm until whenever for all things Drupal. We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda. See you there!

With all the recent lightning and thunderstorms, it made me realize that we haven't had a lightning talk DUG in a while. So, this month Jesse will be kicking off the DUG with a short demo of the Custom Formatters module. Following that, we'll open things up to anyone who wants to give a 5 minute (or less) presentation.

Post a comment below if you'd like to give a lightning talk or if you'd like to present at a future DUG.

Pizza is being sponsored by the wonderful team at ServerLogic. They also host the Way Out West DUG and the DrupalCon Portland site was one of their recent notable projects. OpenSourcery will also have the kegerator flowing along with a selection of non-alcoholic beverages.

As with last month, we'll start off with about 30 minutes of food and socializing before diving into presentations. Following the DUG and announcements we'll head over to the Lucky Lab on Quimby for more food, drink and socializing.

The Drupal Front End Meetup happens every third Thursday at the Squishymedia offices on 116 NE 6th Ave, 3rd floor at 6pm. This group is focused on the theming and design aspects of Drupal development. Come nerd out with us over CSS, Javascript, theme functions and other interesting front-end tools.

Swing on by Lucky Lab around 5pm until whenever for all things Drupal. We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda. See you there!

Meetings take place every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm in the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209.

The Drupal Front End Meetup happens every third Thursday of the month. This group is focused on the theming and design aspects of Drupal development. Come nerd out with us over CSS, Javascript, theme functions and other interesting front-end tools.

Swing on by Lucky Lab around 5pm until whenever for all things Drupal. We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda. See you there!

Meetings take place every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm in the Phase2 offices at 514 NW 11th Ave, Suite 203. We'll make sure you can get in!

The Drupal Front End Meetup happens every third Thursday of the month. This group is focused on the theming and design aspects of Drupal development. Come nerd out with us over CSS, Javascript, theme functions and other interesting front-end tools.

Swing on by Lucky Lab around 5pm until whenever for all things Drupal. We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda. See you there!

The Drupal Front End Meetup happens every third Thursday of the month. This group is focused on the theming and design aspects of Drupal development. Come nerd out with us over CSS, Javascript, theme functions and other interesting front-end tools.

Sprint time: 10am until 6pm, both Saturday, January 25 and Sunday, January 26

If you're like some Drupal developers or site builders, you've been telling yourself for months that you should start contributing to Drupal core. This sprint is your chance to get started with in-person training and mentoring from friendly, experienced core contributors. It's also a great way to start becoming familiar with Drupal 8.

If you've already started to work on core, come meet other contributors, hang out in person, and work on manageable tasks in the Drupal core queue. The goal is to help you help with core.

Chris Bloom (illepic) will show us Atomic Design/Pattern Lab, along with why and how to use it. For a preview, see his blog post on the topic. Bring your laptop - you're gonna want to follow along!

The Portland Drupal scene is alive and well and local frontend developers are planning a collaborative event for all things design-related: DevSigner. DevSigner will bring together technology-oriented designers and invite them to share their expertise, helping them take Drupal frontend development to the next level. This is an opportunity for frontend devs to come together and learn from professionals beyond their spheres and explore new artistic directions for Drupal development, both classical and technical. This event will help creators expand their horizons through workshops and speaker presentations, as well as educate designers who would like to start creating for the web.

We are still looking for sponsors for this event. If you'd like to help support the first ever DevSigner, visit our website!

Drupal frontend devs, have you ever experienced frustration with Drupal's theming layer? Have you fought epic battles with theme functions or render arrays just to get that one snippet of crucial markup how you need it? Does template.php make you want to cry in a corner?

Jay Mallison and Mike Katsufrakis from Live Axle will tell us all about their adventures in creating a #NearlyHeadlessDrupal site where they are decoupling Drupal's excellent content management abilities from it's less-than-ideal frontend using JSON output and Angular.js.

Last time we met, we talked about Nearly Headless Drupal in Drupal 7. This month, provided we have a space to meet, Erik Baldwin (@CLoudNYNE) will show us how he creates a fully functional, in-browser prototype that can be integrated with Drupal 8 via REST and Twig, or migrated to a D8 theme.

This month Erik Bladwin will be presenting on Gulp! For those of you who don't know, Gulp is a task/build manager best used for automation. Praised by many as easier to use than Grunt with all of the same benefits. Gulp can be used to easily; minify and/or uglify your code, refresh your browser when files have changed, and so much more. If you enjoy automation, and you haven't heard about or used Gulp, this meet-up is for you!

Drupal Global Training Days is an initiative by the Drupal Association to introduce new and beginning users to Drupal. We welcome novice and beginner students to join the Drupal Association for an Introduction to Drupal lesson for FREE. This will be a very basic introduction to what Drupal is, how to utilize it and highlighting where to look on Drupal.org for continued support. Please provide your name, email addresss, and designated Drupal knowledge (Novice or Beginner).

Where: Drupal Association Offices, 209 SW Oak St, Suite 100

When: Saturday August 22nd 9-3 pm

Coffee and snacks provided. Lunch currently will not be provided.

Posted by jessehs on August 18, 2015 at 10:12pm Start: 2015-08-25 17:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers: jessehs Join us for the July edition of Brewpal! On the fourth Tuesday of each month, we get together to work on projects, ask questions of our fellow Drupalers and have a pint.

As you may know, this year we've been rotating the venue of the Brewpal meetup. The criteria includes free wi-fi, a large public space that's family friendly, bar service (rather than table service), all while being close-in and easy to get to by public transit. This month (August 25th), Brewpal will take place at Teote Areperia (1615 SE 12th) the SE Lucky Lab (915 SE Hawthorne).

Topic: "Drupal just wants to hug your database"

Description: "Drupal is one of the more widely adopted CMSs. It is open source and has a huge developer base. However, I rarely hear a DBA mention having to administer Drupal with anything but frustration and pessimism. At Acquia, we have thousands of Amazon instances running Drupal databases. Most sites are quite different from each other, but some basic principles apply to all. Being the DBA for Drupal does not have to be a negative experience! In addition to covering the generic Drupal MySQL configuration tips, I will cover optimization methods for specific features like semaphores, sessions, Views, and the various Drupal caching layers. I’ll also cover the use of query cache in the Drupal context, which while normally frowned upon in the MySQL community, is often beneficial in maintaining a healthy Drupal site. "

There will be pizza, so please register at meetup so that we can order the proper amount. http://www.meetup.com/Portland-MySQL-User-Group-PDX-MUG/events/224733639/

Due to various scheduling conflicts, the August month's meeting has been delayed and wrapped into an early September one.

Drupal Global Training Days is an initiative by the Drupal Association to introduce new and beginning users to Drupal. We welcome novice and beginner students to join the Drupal Association for an Introduction to Drupal lesson for FREE. This will be a very basic introduction to what Drupal is, how to utilize it and highlighting where to look on Drupal.org for continued support. Please provide your name, email address, and designated Drupal knowledge (Novice or Beginner). Greg Boggs of ThinkShout will be providing the training.

Where: Drupal Association Offices, 209 SW Oak St, Suite 100

When: Saturday August 22nd 9-3 pm

Coffee and snacks provided. Lunch will not be provided.

This month's Portland Drupal User Group will be hosted by ThinkShout (433 NW 4th Ave. Ste 100).

Join us at 6pm on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 for pizza and beverages and get to know folks in Portland's thriving Drupal community. All Drupal experience levels are welcome, including newcomers to Drupal.

This month's topic: Getting Started with Drupal 8 and Theming

Joe Komenda will present on Composer-based Drupal 8 installation and theme setup.

Lightning Talks

Bring your 5-minute-or-less Drupal 8 tips related to Installation, Composer, or Theming and we'll have a round of "D8 Lightning Tips" after Joe's presentation. Sign-up sheet will be available at the meetup.

Drupal Global Training Days is an initiative by the Drupal Association to introduce new and beginning users to Drupal. We welcome students to join the Drupal Association for an Introduction to Drupal lesson for FREE. This will be a very basic introduction to what Drupal is, how to utilize it and highlighting where to look on Drupal.org for continued support. Please provide your name, email address, and designated Drupal knowledge (Novice or Beginner). Greg Boggs of ThinkShout will be providing the training.

Where: Drupal Association Offices, 209 SW Oak St, Suite 100

When: Saturday February 6th 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Coffee and snacks provided. Lunch will not be provided.

This month's Portland Drupal User Group will take place at Metal Toad (522 SW 5th Ave. Ste 400) from 6pm - 8pm. Pizza and beverages will be provided.

This month's presentations Dan Linn will talk about Overcoming Imposter Syndrome.

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Alex Ellison will be presenting on common points of confusion for novice Drupal users and easy ways to mitigate this confusion.

Drupal Global Training Days is an initiative by the Drupal Association to introduce new and beginning users to Drupal. We welcome novice and beginner students to join the Drupal Association for an Introduction to Drupal lesson for FREE. This will be a very basic introduction to what Drupal is, how to utilize it and highlighting where to look on Drupal.org for continued support. Please provide your name, email address, and designated Drupal knowledge (Novice or Beginner). Greg Boggs of ThinkShout will be providing the training.

Where: Drupal Association Offices, 209 SW Oak St, Suite 100

When: Friday April 8th from 9:00-3:00 pm

Coffee and snacks provided. Lunch will not be provided.

This month's Portland Drupal User Group will be next Wednesday, May 10th from 6pm to 8:30pm at Acquia (1120 NW Couch St. Suite 630 Portland, OR 97209).

Food and beverages are hosted by Acquia. We're mixing it up this month. Acquia is providing taco bar catered by Los Gorditos, which is a Mexican restaurant nearby that has vegan/gluten free options. Come at 6pm for food and socializing, and get to know your local Drupal community in a casual welcoming environment.

The presentation will start at about 6:30pm.

Amy Vaillancourt-Sals from ThinkShout will be giving us an encore presentation of her popular DrupalCon talk called Demystifying Rendered Content in Drupal 8 Twig Files. We'll have some extra time after her talk, so come prepared to chat about Drupal front end. Read More...

On the second Wednesday of every month at a rotating location, come to the Portland Drupal User Group meetup to talk about Drupal and hear a few presentations.

These meetups are for ALL levels of Drupal users, from those of us who have only briefly heard of it but are interested in learning more to those of us who know a lot of but are always looking to learn more! Come get involved!

Check out the official Portland Drupal Users Group site at http://groups.drupal.org/portland. The site has more information about local Drupal meetups, events and opportunities.

Following the meetup, we will head to a nearby pub for socializing.

Since 2009, the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit has been the premier regional event for Drupal professionals in the Pacific Northwest. More than 200 Drupal professionals have attended and enjoyed our two-day event each year.

The 2018 Summit will take place at the University Place Hotel in Portland, Oregon on the edge of the Portland University Campus on Saturday and Sunday, February 3rd and 4th, 2018.

On Friday before the conference starts, after you grab dinner, join us in the Coos Bay and Astoria rooms (around the corner from the lobby) from 6-11pm for some pre-conference games and socializing.

The Summit has a code of conduct, which all attendees including speakers and sponsor-representatives are expected to follow.

https://groups.drupal.org/portland

NOTE: Updated address!

The new ThinkShout office is across the street - 321 NW Glisan St, Suite 700 - there will be someone in the lobby helping to buzz people in. As usual, we will have food and refreshments provided by the host.

On the second Wednesday of every month at a rotating location, come to the Portland Drupal User Group meetup to talk about Drupal and hear a few presentations.

These meetups are for ALL levels of Drupal users, from those of us who have only briefly heard of it but are interested in learning more to those of us who know a lot of but are always looking to learn more! Come get involved!

Check out the official Portland Drupal Users Group site at http://groups.drupal.org/portland . The site has more information about local Drupal meetups, events and opportunities.

Following the meetup, we will head to a nearby pub for socializing.

This month, we have a guest speaker, Evan Lovely (https://github.com/EvanLovely), the CTO of Basalt (http://basalt.io). Evan is the maintainer of the PHP version of PatternLab.

If you have heard of PatternLab, you know that it is the de facto standard for creating, sharing and distributing design patterns for front end applications. This should be an interesting session.

The first 30 minutes of the meetup will be socializing and dinner, followed by the two talks in whatever order they would like. If you are hiring or promoting an event, there will be a brief opportunity for announcements.
Our meetup rotates each month, so check groups.drupal.org and meetup.com for next month's event, and our social meetup, Brewpal.
FYI there is less than a month to go before session submissions (https://events.drupal.org/seattle2019/submit-session) close for DrupalCon Seattle, coming this spring. If you have never submitted before, now is a great time to talk to someone about your idea - we have several past speakers and track chairs who are happy to help you flesh out your idea.

See > https://groups.drupal.org/node/534929 for official, full description.

RSVP and add to calendar for a reminder here > https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Drupal/events/zpxfrqyzhblb/