Austin

Fellow Drupalistas,

Over the last few months, over 40 people have approached me asking for assistance in installing Drupal.

I felt that an installfest would be a great way to help them get started, as well as introduce them to the local Drupal community.

Lauren Roth suggested that we actually hold several install fests -- one a month or so until the majority of the people interested can get up and running.

We have spoken with Joey and Dustin about using the ACTLAB on Wednesday July 8th, but we don't have a confirmation yet.

I just received an email with a 60% offer for Packt's new Drupal book -- Drupal 6 Content Administration. It looks like it's pretty basic stuff, but I wanted to forward the info anyway, in case someone might be interested.

Here's a link to the book:
http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-6-content-administration/book/cprmss

and here are the discount codes
To order the print book, your code is: drup6coa (25% off )
To order the eBook, your code is: pal6ca (60% off )
To order both the print and eBook together, your code is: drl6ebok (25% off print book 90% off ebook)

-Lynn

TopSide Media is an Austin based Search Marketing firm. We would like to refer Drupal projects to Austin providers. These might be part of a larger project we are working on, where we would be your client, or it could be a simple referral to one of our clients.

I've attached a diagram of channelAustin's Open Media System integration for purposes of sharing how we are integrating Open Media tools with our Synergy Broadcast System. Diagram indicates the three environments - Linux (Ubuntu), Windows, and Mac - and shows the pathways between workstations, encoders, servers, and archive.

The red line indicates a pathway that is incomplete as of this writing.

I just posted, on GeekAustin, an interviewwith Austin's own Lauren Roth on Drupal Theming.

http://geekaustin.org/2009/06/22/lauren-roth-on-designing-theming-for-drupal/

I'm looking forward to meeting some of you tomorrow night at the presentation. Daniel and I have been teach SQL classes on Wednesdays for the last several months, so I haven't been able to make the meetings.

-Lynn Bender
http://geekaustin.org
http://linuxagainstpoverty.org

Echo Earth Media is searching for a qualified Drupal module programmer for custom module development as well as modifying existing modules to extend functionality. On this particular project a fast turnaround is required, however, we hope to build a relationship with someone who will be available to work with us on future projects as well.

If interested, please send a message with links to work you've done and contact information to:

Creative Director
john@echoearthmedia.com
http://www.echoearthmedia.com

Thanks!

Jackson River (www.jacksonriver.com) is growing and we're looking for experienced Drupal developers (especially those with strong theming chops) to join our team.

About us: a small consulting group with virtual offices in NYC, Washington DC, Austin TX and San Francisco CA. We have a smart, web savvy staff of consultants, project managers and developers. We LOVE our clients...you can check them out here: http://www.jacksonriver.com/clients

What

It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup! This month, Lauren Roth has invited us to join forces with the Austin Drupal Meetup Group from meetup.com and try a new venue, the UT ACT Lab.

From the meetup.com announcement:

Elegant Functionality Requires More Than Hacking Bluemarine

One of the greatest benefits of a Content Management System like Drupal, is the ability to separate the visual presentation (Theme) layer from the site logic. This is accomplished by placing your theme files in site/all/themes. The rest is up to your abilities to write & edit PHP template files, use hooks, and customize CSS for use in customizing the presentation of your site. The callbacks may seem a bit labyrinthine, but by making a sub-theme you can get well on your way.

Sound tough? It is not.

Come out next Month to learn how to get started! Lauren N. Roth will be giving short presentation to get you going and recommends bringing a Localhost installation on your own computer. Even if you are an experienced Drupal developer, write modules, and have been pimping out sites for years, let's get together, discuss best practices and demystify the design process. If you write modules, some themer needs to handle your output after they enable your module, so it would be fantastic to build a little elegance into the module itself!

Come out, ask questions, share your experiences and help others make some amazing Drupal sites!

When

Wednesday, June 24, 7:00 pm

This project has 3 parts:

channelAustin is seeking help to properly set up exim4, postfix, or even sendmail on its web server for purposes of having email function properly for its Drupal installation. We have a Sun Server in-house with Ubuntu, Drupal, and CiviCRM. Our ISP is Grande Communications (but that will be changing soon (this week even)). And our mail server is handled pro bono by Primus Networks here in Austin.

UPDATE: We have filled this position. Thanks.

What

It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup! Several people have suggested that we devote some time specifically to beginner topics. With that in mind, we'll devote the first 45 minutes to an hour on a beginner topic. Any suggestions?

Also, let's try to have some specific intermediate to advanced presentations scheduled. If you're comfortable presenting, please reply with a topic or topics that you would be interested in covering and approximately how much time you would need for each. If we have more topics than we have time for, we can spread them out over future meetings. If there are any specific topics you'd like to see presented, please post those too.

When

Wednesday, May 27, 6:30-8:45 pm

If you've used CiviCRM, particularly the CiviEvent feature, you'll know that for creating events there is a field for the Start Date and one for the End Date. This is great if your event (or class) is a one-day only event. There doesn't appear to be any provision for the same event taking place for more than 1 day, such as a class that meets from 1:00 to 4:00 PM on a Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. How have any of you who have started to use, or are considering using, CiviCRM for event registration (for classes or other purposes) dealt with this?

Hi all,

I am in the Northern New Jersey area (a little ways from NYC), and am considering a relocation to Texas. I have a single-person studio doing marketing communications with a web/drupal/flash focus. For those of you in a similar business, how are things going in the Austin area? I'm trying to get a feel for what the market is like.

I've been using drupal for a couple of years, and do light to medium informational sites in drupal (communications is my thing, not application building).

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

We could use some help to set up mail on our Ubuntu server. It's been recommended that we set up POSIX, although it's not clear that this is absolutely essential. The Ubuntu server has Drupal and CiviCRM. The main purposes for mail right now is for users getting password confirmations, for people to send us mail through the contact form, and eventually for sending users other types of notifications. We have CiviCRM but are using Constant Contact right now. We may switch to using CiviMail. So we may increase the way we use mail on the server in the future.

channelAustin has been working with a team of developers in Denver at Denver Open Media on our implementation of the Open Media Project tools here. The Denver developers were funded by a $380,000 grant from the Knight Foundation. We have not incurred any costs for this other than staff time. We have had excellent local volunteer support for our Ubuntu server from Rich Vasquez . He has also contributed to the project by writing open source code in Ruby for data to move between an MS access db on an XP machine to MySQL on the Ubuntu box.

We have an immediate need for a drupal template designer and troubleshooter to address issues related to database website interface. Acquia marina template has been customized. Some look & feel work needed. This project in development and interface requires troubleshooting for usability. Site is active but has not been "publicly launched".

Looking for someone with flexibility and creativity who is effective in Drupal. As the project manager, I would appreciate working with a local freelancer, in Austin, TX, for some face-to-face.

Two weeks ago I attended the Open Media Camp in Denver, organized by Denver Open Media. I was representing channelAustin. There are 7 community media centers / stations now part of a network that are collaborating to develop and implement open source tools. One thing we talked about was the need for open standards for video metadata. We want to work with the Open Web Foundation, and are asking them to help create a framework and process for developing open standards for video metadata. It's bit a complicated and is explained here: Open Media Metadata Standards Proposal. If anyone here in Austin is interested in this, or any other aspect of the Open Media Project, please contact me.

Our company has an overflowing pipeline of drupal work, and we're looking to hire someone with decent HTML/CSS skills who'd love to get payed learning PHP/Drupal/Javascript development. Compensation will be industry rate, not intern rates, of course.

Your responsibilities will be to:
1. Implement CSS/HTML designs, and be able to understand what part of a blog entry "$title", and "$content" might refer to.
2. Gradually learn jQuery/PHP/MySQL development so we can pay you more for your work [ or someone else can, for that matter ].
3. Have a good sense of when you should be able to answers questions yourself, and when you should ask me to help you get over a roadblock[1]. I'll work hard to make sure you are only given tasks which are within your skill set.

The "perfect candidate"[2] will:
+ Be able to look at a PNG and make HTML and CSS look like it. We will not design anything in ways that make this task difficult. Pay range is somewhere between $25-35 an hour [based on experience]. You'll almost certainly need to live in Austin, TX.

Did any one see this?
http://geekaustin.org/2009/04/16/who-wants-to-learn-drupal/

Who wants to learn Drupal?
Posted by LinearB Thursday, April 16, 2009
Posted in: News and tidbits

Daniel and I already have a pretty full schedule for the spring GeekAustin free classes. However, following the kerfuffle surrounding the City of Austin’s website design, quite a few folks came to us asking if there were any local resources for learning Drupal. There is at least one Austin Drupal user group, but it’s members are mostly folks who already have some facility with Drupal.

StarVision Sports organizes and operates sporting events and creates multimedia content for youth, college, and professional athletes, teams and organizations.

The job entails building custom sites using existing and custom Drupal modules. Looking for a self-started accustomed to a dynamic environment. Ideal candidate will have experience with (Drupal and others) content management systems, web technology, internet commerce, multimedia, and a little flair for design would be a bonus. We will consider candidates with less than expert Drupal experience if fluent in PHP and MySql.

We're looking to revamp our website in the next couple weeks so that we can add more products to our product line. We'd also like to install ubercart.

What

It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup! Several people have suggested that we devote some time specifically to beginner topics. With that in mind, let's try devoting the first 45 minutes to an hour on a beginner topic. Any suggestions?

Also, let's try to have some specific intermediate to advanced presentations scheduled. If you're comfortable presenting, please reply with a topic or topics that you would be interested in covering and approximately how much time you would need for each. If we have more topics than we have time for, we can spread them out over future meetings. If there are any specific topics you'd like to see presented, please post those too.

When

Wednesday, April 29, 6:30-8:45 pm

Open Learning Exchange is recreating its Global Learning Library using Drupal as the front end.

We are putting a team together to finish the first iteration of this tool my the end of May.

The goal is to develop a simple interface that allows users to:

1. upload a group of files and links as a collection
2. browse/search/preview/evaluate collections in the library
3. add collections to a personal library
4. download a zip file containing all files and links in the collection along with their metadata
5. create saved searches with email and rss notification

Hi all, I think that the last few meetings have been very good, but think a little structure might make them move a little more smoothly.

I propose the following as a starting point, if people would comment, on whether or not we should do such a thing, and if so how the structure should be.

6:30 intros
6:45- 7:45 Introduction topics (For newer members of the drupal community maybe this could be done in a series)
7:45-8:00 transitions (maybe a showcase of a site?)
8:00-8:45 Advance topic (Module work / Themeing work / advanced drupal configuration)

Following the success of last night's Austin DUG meetup, I would like to know if there is interest in our group purchasing the Lullabot series of video tutorials (there are 2 @$75 and 1 $30) to view as a group. Please let me know if you are willing to participate. The total # of participants will simply pay proportionally for the cost of the videos.

Alternatively, if anyone knows of any good free video tutorials we could use let me know.

I'm hoping there is enough interest in having separate educational meetups outside of our DUG monthly meetups. Is that too much?

I saw this on refresh, and people were interested in Drupal Calais last night so I am reposting it here

In addition, we will be hosting a session of where Drupal is with Semantic
Web and going with RDFa. For all you developers and designers that work with
CMS, you will defintely be interested to know that Drupal is the major CMS
that has gotten on the Semantic Web boat. Come and discover all the new
features that can be done with the new versions of Drupal. We will also have
a hands-on session of using Drupal and Open Calais to create Linked Data!
This session will take place most probably on the afternoon of Saturday
March 28.

Is the DUG mainly for web developers and programmers? I'm interested in
using Drupal to build my own content sites for e-commerce. Do the members
discuss internet marketing and e-commerce? Or is it mainly the mechanics of
the Drupal platform?

Thanks,
larry

I saw this on the Refreash feed, and am reposting here. Tonight Tom Tague from Reuters will be talking about Open Calais, there web services that help to tag content, as well as provide rdf, of relevant information. There is a group of modules (full disclosure: that my company phase2 developed) use this services into drupal. It should be good stuff for anybody interested in web publishing.

Semantic Web Austin Meetup at SXSW: Monday March 16
from Refresh Austin Google Group by juanfeder...@gmail.com (Juan Sequeda)
Hi Everybody

Denver Open Media will do a presentation on its Open Media Project today, March 14, at 5:30 PM at BarCampAustin at 311 East 5th Street in Austin. DOM staff are in town for SXSW and to do work at channelAustin .

What

It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup! Several people have suggested that we devote some time specifically to beginner topics. With that in mind, let's try devoting the first 45 minutes to an hour on a beginner topic. Any suggestions?

Also, let's try to have some specific intermediate to advanced presentations scheduled. If you're comfortable presenting, please reply with a topic or topics that you would be interested in covering and approximately how much time you would need for each. If we have more topics than we have time for, we can spread them out over future meetings. If there are any specific topics you'd like to see presented, please post those too.

When

Wednesday, March 25, 6:30-8:45 pm

Anyone attending SXSW? Any meet-ups in the month of March?

Is anyone from Austin going to the Drupalcon in March? I've never been and wondering if I could tag along with someone or get some thoughts about it. More info at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/

cheers
Selwyn

On Tuesday, February 10th at 7:00 p.m., Refresh Austin is having a meeting and on the agenda is a presentation on jQuery. Since jQuery is the Javascript library included with Drupal, I thought some people here might be interested. More details about the meeting are available on the Refresh Austin web site.

UI Designer desired for a contract to hire opportunity in the heart of Austin, Texas.

The right candidate will have experience with:

• PHP, HTML and some Drupal
• web application development
• working in a corporate (team) environment
• deployment and practices
• innovative (designing and implementing)

Must have positive attitude to work in an open group setting.

Company is known for the cool, hip Austin-like vibe.

Friday afternoon HH's.

Email me if you are qualified and interested.

Respectfully,
Vaco Technology
banderson@vaco.com

Who

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers! Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate.

What

It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup!

Approximately 10-15 people interested in learning Drupal, by the end of February. We will provide location and computers. Is there anyone out there that can help us out?

Our company is looking for a variety of positions, but we have an immediate need for a technical project manager. This job will entail a lot of Drupal work, as well as working with other applications (largely CRM). We work primarily with non profit clients developing and deploying websites, CRM systems, site production and maintenance, and much more. Click through to read more or email me at tj.griffin - at - jacksonriver.com.

Hi all, For those of you at the meeting this week that were interested in the full Node Version Module that I talked about, My old boss put it up on GitHub at
http://github.com/casefoundation/drupal-full_node_version/tree/master

I was going to set up a site with it so people could see it in action. At that point if anyone is interested maybe we could get togeather and hammer out any major issues.

For those of you who do not know what I am talking about, this is the abstract of the talk we were going to give about Full Node Version

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channelAustin seeks Open Source Developer for Short Term Project

Summary

channelAustin, Austin’s community television station and digital media center, seeks an open source developer with expertise in PHP for a short term turn-key project to develop code that enables seamless communication between a MySQL database and an Microsoft Access database.

Scope of Work

Who

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers! Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate.

What

It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup!

So. I'm just throwing this out there. Looking at the members on the Austin Drupal Users Group, both here and on LinkedIN, it is very apparent that we have quite the Drupal community. Just a simple glance shows that we have a wide range of experiences and skill levels. I think this could prove valuable to all of us, both technically, and as a means of networking. It's been a while since we have had a meet up, and I simply want to query the amount of interest there is in having another one. Perhaps then we can facilitate a more active A-DUG.

After several weeks of tangling with code I have release a new version of the JQuery Menu module that now provides an api for parsing hierarchical arrays into jquery click and expand menus. I have also released two new modules which make use of this api: the Advanced Taxonomy Blocks and the Advanced Book Blocks modules.

We have a Video based social networking site that's about 90% done, but our Drupal development and theming guys couldn't finish the work. We're looking for someone who can dive into the completed code, understand it, and add the features that are still needed. You will need to finish the site to get it launched and then take care of bugfixes and new features as the site grows.

The site is in Drupal 5 on MySQL 5 and memcache. All servers are running Redhat Linux.

Requirements:
Drupal 5, including custom module development.
AJAX (jQuery)

Plusses:

channelAustin is pleased to announce it has recently been chosen by Denver Open Media and Civic Pixel as one of 6 public access television / community media centers in the country for a Beta site implementation of their Open Media Project modules. http://groups.drupal.org/open-media-project

channelAustin, http://www.channelaustin.org, is looking for Austin Drupal and CiviCRM developers to join us in this amazing project that will help us integrate the interactive features of the web.

channelAustin is Austin's community TV station located in East Austin at 1143 Northwestern Avenue.

Hello,

I am new to Drupal. And would like to take a class that provides an overview of Drupal as well as hands on experience working with Drupal.

Are there any basic Drupal classes in the Austin area?

Thanks,
Ron

I need some help figuring out the best way to implement keyword relevance ranking in my search results set when conducting an OR search on node content. I have implemented a theme_search_form_alter to build a custom search_block_form and I have everything working with the exception of getting the results to rank properly based on keywords entered into the search_block_form.

Found someone Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I'm currently using an overseas Drupal dev team to help with my website development (mainly because I'm self-funded and on a shoe-string budget). The manager from this team will be in Austin on Tuesday, November 4th. I'm meeting with him for lunch, since we've never met. If folks would like to join us to learn about their offshore Drupal dev team, drop me a line. It's a great way to contract out development, especially module development.

Send me an email if you're interested: matt@door64.com.

Matt

Nice Kicks is an Austin based online magazine currently using Wordpress and have reached our limits with the platforms capabilities. We are looking for a developer who can build us a website on the Drupal platform to incorporate features listed below:

• Blog (daily run of news)
• Pages (more static content rarely updated)
• Forum (for readers to interact with one another)
• Member Profile pages (social networking similar to myspace or facebook)
• Marketplace (where members can list items for sale)