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
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Drupal Brisbane October Meetup: WSO2 Identity Server, Mailchimp
❗ Drupal meetups are currently VIRTUAL. Register to get streaming link:
* Brisbane: https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Brisbane/events/lzbwlrybcnbrb/
✏️ 18:30 Start. News.
✏️ 18:45 Presentation 1: Open Source WSO2 Identity Server SSO with Drupal
Single sign-on is important for government agencies to maintain a single authentication mechanism among their systems. Open Source WSO2 Identity Server can connect with Drupal 8 and create an SSO environment for government agencies. My session will consist of both theoretical and practical content.
by Iwantha Lekamge (WSO2, Inc.)
Sydney October 2020: Bug Smash, Drupal vs WordPress, Drupal Career Pathways (virtual)
A spotlight on a number of community members doing great things with and around Drupal: Bug smash initiative, Drupal career pathways and WordPress vs Drupal.
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Drupal in a COVID crisis response project
Sydney September 2020: Sajari, Shorthand and DruxtJS (virtual)
An action packed month with Sajari search, Shorthand storytelling and DruxtJS integration. Maedi Prichard will demonstrate the Sajari search module and the accompanying ReactJS library which underpins it. Janna Malikova and and Dawn Murden present storytelling with Shorthand. Stuart Clark and Brian Gilbert will demonstrate the DruxtJS project, an ambitious and comprehensive bridge between Drupal and Nuxt.
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2020 DrupalSouth Steering Committee - Nominations
The DrupalSouth Steering Committee has been running since July 2019 with the primary purpose of ensuring continuity of DrupalSouth events and facilitating knowledge transfer to support the Drupal Community in Australia and New Zealand.
All 5 seats are open for re-election in October and will be transitioned to rolling 2 year terms over the coming year. Please post any public questions you have in this thread or email elections@drupalsouth.org.
If you're interested in self nominating, full details and a link to the form are available at https://drupalsouth.org/2020_committee_elections
Read moreDrupal Brisbane September Meetup: Apigee API gateway
❗ Drupal meetups are currently VIRTUAL. Register to get streaming link:
* Brisbane: https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Brisbane/events/lzbwlrybclbpb/
✏️ 18:40 Presentation 1: Drupal and APIGEE
Apigee is the Cross-Cloud API Management Platform. This presentation will explain what Apigee is and how Drupal can be used to expand Apigee toolbox..
by Vladimir Roudakov (Tomato Elephant Studio)
✏️ LIGHTNING TALKS
* Shorthand: story building tool by Janna Malikova (Tomato Elephant Studio)
❗TIME: 8 Sep 2020 (Tuesday)
* 18:30 (AEST: Sydney / Melbourne / Brisbane / Hobart / Canberra)
DrupalGov 2020 - Call for Papers
We are seeking session submissions from people connected to Drupal in government to share experiences across diverse backgrounds, topic areas and disciplines.
Submit now at https://drupalsouth.org/events/drupalgov-2020/call-for-papers
Submissions close at 11:59pm 11 September 2020 (AEST).
SESSION FORMAT THIS YEAR
Session submissions can be either standard 20-minute sessions (about a 15-minute presentation plus 5 minutes or so for questions) or lightning talks of less than 10 minutes. You can submit sessions individually or with a co-presenter.
Read moreDrupalGov 2020 - Call for event track lead volunteers
Hi all,
DrupalGov is happening this year on the 4th and 5th November. It will be a virtual event and the call for papers will be coming very soon.
Right now we are looking for volunteer event track leads. As a track lead you’ll be:
- Reviewing proposals/papers to be selected for your event track.
- Providing support to selected presenters in your track.
- Guiding your track to run as smoothly as possible on the event day.
If you’re interested please email drupalgov2020@drupalsouth.org with your preferred track by 7 August.
Read moreDrupal Brisbane August meetup: Recombee / Bugsmash initiative / Lando
❗ Drupal meetups are currently VIRTUAL. Register to get streaming link:
* Brisbane: https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Brisbane/events/lzbwlrybclbpb/
✏️ 18:10 Presentation 1: Recombee and Search API Recombee
Recombee is a recommendations engine which provides (anonymous) users recommendations based on behaviour and content similarity.
by Murray Woodman (Morpht)
✏️ 18:40 Presentation 2: Bugsmash initiative: Patch testing for Lando users
Specific setup overview for Drupal core development https://github.com/simesy/coredev
by Simon Hobbs (Lil Engine)
✏️ LIGHTNING TALKS
Read moreDrupal July virtual meetup: performance / updates / Drupal 9
❗ Drupal meetups are currently VIRTUAL. Register to get streaming link:
* Brisbane: https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Brisbane/events/lzbwlrybckbsb/
* Sydney: https://www.meetup.com/drupalsydney/events/czsmwpybckbvb/
✏️ 18:10 Presentation 1:
"Dawdling Drupal and the Amazing Whizz-bang Updatey Machine"
by Kim Pepper (PreviousNext)
✏️ 18:30 Presentation 2:
"Load test your Drupal website before it is too late"
DrupalCon Global Preview
by Janna Malikova (Tomato Elephant Studio)
✏️ 19:00 Presentation 3:
"What's new in Drupal 9.0"
by Vladimir Roudakov (Tomato Elephant Studio)
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