Welcome to the central meeting point for Australian Drupal users, developers and business/website owners.
Australia has a number of regular Drupal meet-ups. See Upcoming events below, Group Categories on the right for state/city based content and events, or use the handy ical feed.
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The annual DrupalSouth conference can be found at DrupalSouth.org
Recent discussions
DrupalCon Global: July 14-17 (Online)
As many of you would know, DrupalCon is going online from this July 14-17 with 3 full days of presentations, Birds of a Feather discussions and summits for specific industries. This is the first DrupalCon since Drupal 9 was released last month.
The full schedule is available to view now at https://events.drupal.org/global2020/schedule/all and live sessions will run from 13:00 > 01:00 UTC (23:00 > 11:00 AEST) each day. A library of on demand content will be available for attendees for an exclusive period before being made public.
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Drupal 9 release party: New Zealand / Australia
We are celebrating launch of Drupal 9.
❗ This celebration is VIRTUAL. Google meet link: https://meet.google.com/eav-zxyq-caz
❗ Witness live cake cutting.
❗ Live streaming of Drupal 9 installation.
❗ Lightning talks. Got a quick 5 min talk up your sleeve? Bring it along on the day.
LINKS
❗Preparing to Celebrate Drupal 9. https://www.drupal.org/blog/preparing-to-celebrate-drupal-9
❗Celebrate Drupal 9. https://celebratedrupal.org/
Drupal in Government Working Group - Call for Members
Drupal has had enormous adoption by Government clients in Australia and New Zealand, and the DrupalSouth Steering Committee has identified an opportunity to form a Working Group that will drive the following initiatives:
- Enhance collaboration opportunities between governments across all levels within Australia and New Zealand
- Prioritise upstreaming and contribution to Drupal for Government-funded enhancements
- Highlight the stability, security and suitability of Drupal as an open source solution for Government
- Improve, collaborate and share documentation and training resources
Drupal June Sydney/Brisbane meetup: Drupal showcase / lessons from building 250 websites
❗ Drupal meetups are currently VIRTUAL. Register to get streaming link:
* Brisbane: https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Brisbane/events/lzbwlrybcjbmb/
* Sydney: https://www.meetup.com/drupalsydney/events/czsmwpybcjbxb/
✏️ 18:10 Presentation 1:
"The lessons he has learnt over 10 years and 250 websites"
by Scott Massey (Pantheon)
✏️ 18:40 Presentation 2:
"Art Gallery's Collection showcase: using Drupal, Tome static site generator and Algolia search"
by Morgan Strong (Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art)
✏️ LIGHTNING TALKS
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Drupal site helping us get food to refugees
Looking for one or two volunteers to help build a Drupal application
I'm an Australian working for Christian mission organisation in Peru. We’re building a Drupal application to support a project that gets food to those who need it most during the COVID19 crisis in Peru. There are thousands of Venezuelan refugees who normally make a living selling on the streets. But now the streets are empty and they have no source of income.
Read moreDrupal Virtual Meetup: GovCMS and Algolia search
❗ Drupal meetups are currently VIRTUAL. Register to get streaming link: https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Brisbane/events/lzbwlrybchbqb/
❗ Sponsor: Pantheon
✏️ 18:10 Presentation 1:
"Development tips for GovCMS SaaS"
by Si Hobbs [sime] (Lil'Engine)
✏️ 18:40 Presentation 2:
"Using Algolia search with Drupal Search API"
by Ivan Zugec (WebWash)
✏️ LIGHTNING TALKS
Got a quick 5 min talk up your sleeve? Bring it along on the day.
⏰ TIME: 12 May 2020 (Tuesday)
* 18:00 (AEST: Sydney / Melbourne / Brisbane / Hobart / Canberra)
* 17:30 (Adelaide)
* 20:00 (Auckland / Wellington)
Drupal 9 porting day (Australia / New Zealand timezones)
DRUPAL 9 PORTING DAY
Tue, 28 April 2020 was announced as Drupal 9 porting day as some projects will admittedly not be as easy to migrate to Drupal 9.
Gábor Hojtsy (Drupal 8 core product manager and initiative coordinator coordinator) is committing his time to be available in European times to consult on fixing deprecation issues and would love to see you there!
Read moreDrupal Australia virtual Meetup April 2020: Testing
❗ Drupal meetups are currently VIRTUAL. Register to get streaming link: https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Brisbane/events/lzbwlrybcgbsb/
✏️ 18:10 Presentation 1:
"Using jest to test Drupal twig templates"
by Lee Rowlands [larowlan] (PreviousNext)
✏️ 18:35 Presentation 2:
"Accessibility testing tools and techniques"
by Janna Malikova (Tomato Elephant Studio)
✏️ 19:00 Presentation 3:
"Cypress.io: JavaScript End to End testing framework"
by Vladimir Roudakov (Tomato Elephant Studio)
✏️ LIGHTNING TALKS
Got a quick 5 min talk up your sleeve? Bring it along on the day.
Getting ready for Drupal 9 (part of Drupal Global Training Day)
Virtual 2 hour workshop "Introduction to Drupal Commerce" is coming to Brisbane as part of Drupal Global Training Day.
WORKSHOPS
Date :: Sat, 04 Apr 2020
* 09:30-11:30 [Brisbane time]
* 10:30-12:30 [Sydney/Melbourne time, AEST]
* 07:30-09:30 [Perth time]
AGENDA
- What is Drupal 9?
- How and when to upgrade to Drupal 9?
- Upgrading Drupal 8 to Drupal 9,
Drupal.org needs your support
The Drupal Association is doing an important drive for individual, organisation and supporting partner membership in lieu of DrupalCon revenue being impacted by the current crisis.
Full details on how you can contribute are at https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/drupal-association-statement-re-...
If you rely on Drupal as a primary source of income or core software for your organisation's operations, now is your chance to help keep Drupal.org and other key functions to Drupal Association running smoothly.
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