Ireland
Greetings! This group is for the ever-expanding Drupal community in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Post events, recruiting stuff, or requests for beer expeditions herein...
Next Drupal Camp - Where do you want it to be?
Drupal Camp Belfast was a great success, but now the conversation is changing to where to hold the next one. There is a discussion underway at http://groups.drupal.org/node/33680 to decide just that. Getting a good venue is important, but not as important as having volunteers to help organise and run the event. So if you have any ideas or suggestions, or if you want to volunteer, we'd love to hear from you! :)
Upcoming Local Events
Small regular meetings are held in various parts of the country, usually on a monthly basis. See the list below for upcoming meet-ups in your area.
- Dublin - 6:30pm, 25th Nov 2009 - Longstone Pub (upstairs), Townsend St, Dublin 2
- Belfast - 5pm, 26th Nov 2009 - Duke of York
- Galway - TBD - room 303 in the IT Building on the NUIG Campus.
- Sligo - TBD
Where would you like the next Drupal Camp Ireland to be held?
Case Study: Concern Fast
I have just published a fairly detailed case study for concernfast.org, which went live a couple of weeks back. You can also find the case study on my blog
I hope you all enjoy reading it, and please do ask if you have any questions.
Something I learned today
While theming and developing today I switched from Firefox to Internet Explorer and found that my site had no styles! Ahhh! To save you from possible headaches, here's my finding: IE limits Drupal to 31 stylesheets total. The work-around for the bug is to enable CSS aggregation.
Many modules have their own stylesheets, so when you get to a certain number of modules, plus have your own custom theme, you reach a point like I did today where you pass the threshold. Hope this helps someone!!
CSS/Theming/Layout work | Indytech
Looking for someone to help out occasionally getting site layouts to look right, and teach us a bit along the way. CSS and theming are key skills of course, with other things as needed. Preference is Irish-based Drupaller, but will consider people abroad if we can't find someone local.
Next Drupalcamp Ireland
Has there been any suggestion or plans for the hosting of the next drupalcamp in Ireland?
I may be able to both logistically and financially help with sponsorship for an event in the new year.
In terms of the next drupalcamp does anyone have any idea what format it may take, does anyone want it to focus on any particular aspects? The first camp I went to in Belfast I enjoyed and presented a couple of sessions, however I feel as though their could be more structure to the presentations to absolute beginners.
Thoughts?
Belfast meetup @ Duke of York - thursday 29 Oct.
Informal meetup - pints and drupal chat. everyone welcome.
we're aiming to meet on the last thursday of every month with alternative around christmas.
Duke of York, Donegall Street, Belfast
Developer | NICVA
NICVA - Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action is a non profit membership organisation based in Belfast. We are looking for a developer to enhance our existing online services and build new ones.
Some of our sites include www.communityni.org , www.grant-tracker.org and www.communitybuyer.org.
the successful candidate will be working full-time with drupal - plenty of opportunity to develop your drupal skills.
closing date 16 October 2009
more details at http://www.communityni.org/job/web-developer
Recommend a Xen Based VPS
Hi all,
I need to get my hands on a Xen-based VPS, that will support Ubuntu 8.04.
Preferably In Ireland [or at least Europe].
Digiweb will do Ubuntu 8.10 [even though not mentioned on their site]
http://hosting.digiweb.ie/virtual-servers/business-linux/
Slicehost are good - but in the US.
http://www.slicehost.com/our-servers/
Rimuhosting get good references.
http://rimuhosting.com
Any others - Anyone with experiences with the above, good or bad?
I always made the assumption that Latency from the US would rule out US providers.
But am I right?
Later
Alan
Big up to the Belfast crew!
A fantastic weekend was had by all at Drupalcamp Belfast 2009.
Top notch venue, cracking presentations, lovely grub and coffee on tap.
What more could we ask for?
A big thank you to Stephen, Feargal, Stephen, Chris, Adam, Julie and all the others who put the event together.
Much respect to the sponsors who kept the whole event free [as in beer... well not free beer...but you know what I mean!]
Irish websites using Drupal
Have you developed some sites in Ireland in Drupal?
List your sites here...
Travelling to Drupalcamp Belfast
Hi all,
Is anybody on here travelling to Drupalcamp Belfast from Galway [or somewhere anywhere close to Galway].
I could do with a lift - don't fancy the long drive myself.
I haven't sorted accomodaton yet, so either Friday evening or Saturday would do fine.
While I'm at it - can anybody recommend a cheap and clean accommodation near to the venue.
B&B maybe?
Thanks
Alan
dynamic link with diaspora
This hasn't been specced out yet in any detail I'd imagine. But did anyone else who read this article by Paul Cullen about proposals from the Global Irish Economic Forum at Farmleigh in the Phoenix Park, think Drupal might be part of one possible solution?
a “Gateway Ireland” online portal to link Ireland and the diaspora
Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin.
City selection for DrupalCon 2010 still wide open
Please note that the list of cities from http://groups.drupal.org/node/26241 (as per the BoF in Paris) is just a list of possible suggestions. Please see the draft document that has been proposed for city selection guidelines: http://groups.drupal.org/node/27246
The goal is to publish that document at the end of this week (after incorporating feedback from the community) and to start receiving city proposals immediately after that. Since we need to have recommendations to give to the Drupal Association by October 15 the proposal phase will have to be short. The proposal phase will probably end October 1. After that we will have the proposals reviewed by the events agency to gather their feedback in time for the October 15 deadline.
If you want DrupalCon in your city/country in 2010 please review the document and add your feedback!
http://groups.drupal.org/node/26241
Drupal presentation - OSSbarcamp - need a presenter!!
I was scheduled to give a presentation on Drupal at the OSSbarcamp in Dublin this coming Saturday (open source barcamp): http://www.ossbarcamp.com However something has come up and I won't be able to attend the event at all :(
Would anybody be interested in helping out and taking over the session for me? I haven't prepared any slides yet, so you can basically talk about whatever Drupal thing you want to - just keep in mind the audience will be techy, but not necessarily familiar with Drupal. The session is an hour long - so a 45 minute session plus 15 mins of Q&A.
Any theming expert in Galway area?
Hi.
I was wondering if there is any theming expert in the Galway area.
I have to do a custom theme, and have a few problems.
Guess a 2 hour meeting will be more than enough.
Anyone?
Thanks.
Shay.
new Irish Postcodes system moving out of beta soon
Just got an email from the Irish postcodes guys....their postcode system is moving out of beta now, following a few years of testing.
Their PON Codes (a geo-postcoding system for Ireland) covers Northern Ireland as well, which is useful because the NI postcode system is token at best. The Irish PON code system is very accurate.
Just thought I'd mention it. Here's their website: http://www.irishpostcodes.ie for more info.
Drupal Meetup Sligo
First Drupal meet up in Sligo.
We started the discussion here http://groups.drupal.org/node/24844 but I want this to show up in 'events' listing...
Location to be announced. Well... can anyone offer a recommendation? I'm checking with Glsshouse, so we can eat & relax a bit. They are going to get back to me about the wifi situation.
dublincycling.ie uses Drupal
The new drupal based website for the Dublin Cycling Campaign has just been launched.
http://www.dublincycling.ie/
All feedback is very welcome and if you happen to be interested, the next open meeting is 7pm, Monday 14th September, 2009 in the Smock Alley Café, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. They'll also be sharing a stand with a number of cycling groups at the Electric Picnic in the Global Green area if anyone is passing.
Huge thanks to Stella who answered a considerable number of questions when development was beginning and to the drupal community at large.
Mac OS X Native or Ubuntu virtual Machine
Hi all,
While my main development machine at work is a Desktop running Ubuntu,
I also have a macbook at home.
Up to now, I've been doing development at home using VirtualBox with a Ubuntu guest OS.
It works pretty well, but at times a little cumbersome - having to boot up twice, the Ubuntu OS isn't as smooth as Mac OSX etc.
But it means my environment is pretty much exactly the same, and almost exactly the same as the VPS I use for a few sites.
I'm just curious what others are up to, and especially how they test in multiple browsers.
Regards
Alan
DrupalCampBelfast 09
at drupalcampgalway we offered to host a camp in belfast, so ...
DrupalCampBelfast 09 will be hosted on 26 & 27th September 2009 at www.nicva.org
Camp website at http://belfast.drupalcampireland.org
Register and choose sessions and/or add your own
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