Drupal experience wanted. Applications closed 30 June 2008.

Hi folk. This is a CROSS-POST from My Drupal showcase story (Yay, Front page, Drupal.org thanks Webchick!) that I thought I'd share with the Kiwis specifically.

From time to time certain pages in the admin area cease functioning without any apparent reason. The problem started some months back when I was unable to access the Access Control area. The screen came up blank. In desperation I re-uploaded the core site files and the matter seemed to resolve, but not in any reassuring way! Currently /admin/build/block is doing the same thing - no output at all, a blank screen.
I have run cron and update.php - that has never helped.
Anyone experienced anything similar?

Online retailers BWMsnow and SKATEgear require the professional services of a Drupal vendor or developer to take over the maintenance and future development their websites.

BWMsnow is NZ's largest online retailer of snowboard gear and has been operating for more than 4 years internationally, focussing more heavily on the NZ market in recent years. BWMsnow was NZ's only online retailer of snowboard gear until recently. BWMsnow is a NZ limited company which continues to grows significantly every selling season (March to June).

check: http://civicrm.org/node/324 for details and updates

This event is cancelled. the training group is meeting and having dinner in CBD

Please check: http://civicrm.org/node/323 for more details and updates

lobo

Wellington Drupalers unite for an evening of Drupal tech.

After no objections from attendees, date moved to Thursday 15th

Topics is - Drupal running in non-LAMP environments

Brenda of Catalyst to explain Drupal with postgresql, lighttpd, memcache, and eaccelerator on Debian.
Darryl of Microsoft to explain Drupal running with IIS, and fast CGI on Windows.
Dman will talk on importing HTML static files into Drupal.
Grant of Catalyst to explain using drupal to export/maintain static html that drive a website.

I'm just new here so apologies if this issue has already been done to death!
Sites installed on an apache server present a problem from time to time when accessing admin areas of a Drupal installation. The link points to the Site Admin login (I am on an Ensim control panel). I don't think this represents a serious security risk at the back end - it just isn't pretty! It almost needs something like a URL re-direct or URL aliasing using the built in ability.
Anyone having a solid fix prepared to provide details will be greatly thanked.
Cheers,
Trevor

Hey New Zealand Drupal Chix.

Many organisers of technical conferences, meetups, and dinners want to have more gender-balance in their lineups, but they don't know where to find technical women speakers.

Enter http://speak.net.nz, a simple directory and connections system to help technical women speakers and event organisers to find each other.

It needs a few more women to sign up for launch. The site will launch early April.

If you're a woman working with technology, even if you've never spoken infront of a group before, please register and list your expertise.

Hello Australia!

The rumours are true! From April 7th to 11th, the team from Lullabot will be in town conducting a week of workshops. We'll kick off the week with three days of theming and jQuery. We'll round out the week with a two day intense look at APIs and module development. As usual, you can register for both workshops and save. If you have any questions about the workshops, don't hesitate to contact us.

This is our first workshop outside the United States... join us for what is sure to be a great week!

I'm just started doing my first ecommerce website in Drupal and was wondering if anyone has made/knows of a payment gateway module for Ubercart that works with NZ credit card processors (eg. DPS or Paymate)?

Hi Everyone

We are holding a couple of semi-formal training days here at the office in Auckland. Dates are flexible based on demand, but it will happen after 19 March and before 1 April.

We've been doing an increasing variety and complexity of work in Drupal, and its about time we sat down and shared our knowledge around the team members internally. Rather than just do it beer & pizza style, we are calling in some more expertise and structuring it around a 2 day seminar + workshop event.

*UPDATE* - This event's details have changed and has been postponed a new date. Please visit http://drupalapc.org for more details

I am pleased to announce that the next large gathering of Drupalers will be held in Sydney, Australia from May 18th - 22nd 2008 at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center Darling Harbor in conjunction with the Open CeBIT expo and conference. We're inviting people from all over the region - and that means you!

The conference will feature dual tracks over 3 days and a single theatre over a day and half that will also be open to the broader Open CeBIT audience. We are partnering with the Joomla community to host a website building contest which will be prominently highlighted at the OpenCeBIT Conference. All attendees will be provided free entry to the CeBIT expo (20th - 22nd) and offered discounted tickets to the Open CeBIT conference. We will also be hosting a booth as part of the CeBIT Exhibition to educate and promote Drupal to businesses, government, and individual attendees of the exhibition.

We are planning on having a civicrm training either in NZ or AU. Tentative dates are last weekend of april or 1st week of May. More details on our blog at: http://civicrm.org/node/303

I just heard on the lullabot podcast #53 that lullabot is going to Melbourne to run training sessions in April 2008.

With the Drupal Mini Conf after Linux Conference Australia, and Lonely Planet launching their drupal development in Melbourne, it seems like Melbourne is shaping up to be the “Drupal Capital” of the Southern hemisphere.

I need assistance in the configuration, customization & theming of a Drupal 5.x installation to replace an existing website.

The existing website is www.autosupply.co.jp. The Drupal powered replacement for this site needs to duplicate all of the functionality of the current site and in addition also needs to provide reliable & customizable email marketing/newsletter system. The marketing system would preferably be based on existing Drupal plugins.

WELLINGTON - We are looking to expand our team of systems administrators to support Catalyst's growing range of hosted solutions.

You'll be working exclusively with open source technologies to deploy, monitor and support business-critical systems hosted at Catalyst and within our clients' facilities throughout New Zealand and overseas. This is a great opportunity to join and learn from a friendly and highly professional team working for some of New Zealand's largest organisations. Contact gavin@catalyst.net.nz

Some 80 of the best and brightest open source specialists work for Catalyst IT in Wellington New Zealand. During the last 10 years, Catalyst has cultivated a unique working environment ideally suited to talented, creative and commited open source developers.

It's a great idea to start the art group! We're looking for a Drupalikiwi for Drupal.net.nz if anyone feels the creative urge. Kiwi's are a NZ icon.

Note that the fruit that some people refer to as 'Kiwi' is actually 'Kiwifruit' and that a Kiwi is a flightless bird.

See these links for Kiwi motivating images and details;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi
http://images.google.com/images?q=kiwi&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

If you haven't heard; http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/ and http://drupal.org/node/195913

Congratulations to SilverStripe of Wellington, and Drupal!

Should we bother trying to promote this in High Schools in NZ? How?

Bevan/
Drupal.geek.nz

Checkout a CVS-controlled d6 through SVN: https://svn.civicactions.net/repos/drupal/6/trunk/

Drupal win's packt publishing comp: http://www.packtpub.com/article/drupal-wins-overall-2007-open-source-cms...

irc channel is at #drupalchch on irc.freenode.net

http://drupal.net.nz should be live with a drupal 5 site soon

Be The Change is brought to you by Greenpeace NZ, Oxfam and Forest & Bird Society. Design and development by Method Studios.

See coverage on TV3. I think it will be on the news tonight too. Oh, and keep an eye out for the bus!

Scoopit.

More than a year ago I picked up drupal.net.nz off an expired domains auction site -- probably Expired Domains. I have no personal nor business use for it or interest in it, but I'm not about to give it up to some {insert your favourite swearword here} domain squatter either. Some talk has occurred in the Christchurch DUG about how it could be used for the drupal community. I think this discussion should be opened up to the NZ DUG. Please contribute your ideas here.

I love these images created by Chris Harrison using data from the Dimes project: http://chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/index.html

I was thinking about getting posters made for my office wall (so I don't get lost while navigating the internet!). I was quoted $75/$100 for A2/A1 for one copy, and about $500/$950 for 20 copies. Who'd be interested in paying $25 to $70 for one of these posters?

Cross posting to TVIC and and NZ20 google groups...

Bevan/

During today's hackfest

We are attempting to break and subsequently fix Drupal 6 from CVS head, running on Postgres!

what you're working on

any Drupalers heading to the Gala awards evening on the 17th?

Monday 8th October 2007 - Announcing the New Zealand PostgreSQL Users' Group

NZ PostgreSQL Users' Group (NZPGUG) will bring together NZ's PostgreSQL users
to discuss the world's best database server.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. It has more
than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned
it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.

NZPGUG is open to professionals, students, and enthusiasts. Activities include

Help get drupal 6 closer to release. Fix bugs, review patches, play patch bingo, upgrade modules, or just get coffee for the rest of us! :)

Followed by dinner and drinks, perhaps @ the china kitchen? Open to suggestions...

Presentations, demonstrations, discussion topics also welcome. Volunteer or add your ideas on the wiki page.

Add yourself to the wiki page so we can count attendees.

Update: THIS FRIDAY

Beers at the Hop with/near/alongside egressive/effusion.

a group of drupalers from Catalyst want to have a hackfest. Who else is up for this?

what will you do?
1. create that awesome module you've been thinking of, and contribute it
2. add that sweet-as feature to you existing module
3. help the catalysters in their crusade to do more postgres testing/support/patching
4. play bug bingo
5. ask brenda, she'll have something that needs testing/diagnosing/patching/reviewing.

Want to live and work in New Zealand?

We are expanding our drupal work, and are looking for more developers who love drupal.

Other Opportunities within catalyst to learn and work with other opensource technologies as well as drupal including php, perl, java, ruby, erlang, more...

send your CV to brenda@catalyst.net.nz. Please include links to modules you've contributed or patches/testing/benchmarking you've done on drupal.org, or another open source project.

http://catalyst.net.nz

Anyone interested in a Drupal meet up in Auckland? Perhaps at one of the Belgian pubs in Mission Bay (De Fontein) or the city (De Post?).

I'm a drupal developer based in Christchurch, New Zealand. I have 2.5 years experience in professional web development, the last year and half with drupal. I'm a very talented themer. I have advanced skills in CSS, usability and accessibility. I am confident programming php. I have experience creating custom drupal modules. I am an A+ computer science student at Massey University. I am active in the drupal community. See my CV for more info and my portfolio: http://cv.bevan.rudge.net.nz/

We are looking for one or more contractors or employees to help us with various Drupal-based projects. The ideal applicant would have at least one year Drupal module development experience, and able to work to our timezone from their location (ideally Australia and New Zealand, but other places considered). As integration and scripting are often part of our projects, unix/linux experience would be advantageous.

Please send any questions to me at lyricnz[at]gmail[dot]com

Thanks!

lets make the first one a meetup, with plans to do more tech and skills sharing at the second one.

LOCATION = Shooters.
(Courtenay place)
they have long tables suitable for actually talking (not just standing around).

combined with PHPUG -- feel free to also RSVP here:
http://php.meetup.com/346/calendar/5972715/

anyone?? preferably with lotsa skillz sharing and good coffee.
Who's interested?

Nominations are now open for the first New Zealand Open Source Awards.

Check their website: http://www.nzosa.org.nz (built in drupal, of course!)

LCA have opened request for papers onwards to interested groups. Is there a NZ drupaler who would like to submit a paper?

Feel free to contact me if you need review/support/beer.

linux.conf.au 2008 Call For Presentations

linux.conf.au isn't just a Linux conference. It is a technical
conference about Free Software, held annually in Australasia.
We invite submissions on any Free Software related subject; from
Linux and the BSDs to OpenOffice.org, from networking to
audio-visual magic, from deep hacks to Creative Commons.

This came across the WebGrrls mailing list, and is probably of interest to Drupalers too.

(from the press release:)

The concept is simple: national teams compete against each other to build website in 24 hrs, putting national pride and web prowess to the test.
And the real winners of the competitions? The not-for-profit organisation who is presented with a stunning, fully functional website.

I recently assisted in a total conversion of that high-profile (also astonishingly high-traffic) Sorted.org.nz to Drupal 5. Released last Sunday.

All the heavy lifting, Design, Content conversion etc was done by the Sparks Interactive team. I'm sure they won't mind me making this announcement partly on their behalf.
I assisted mostly in a remote mentor/sharpshooter role with a few of the tricky bits.

Close up article about Open Source, with interviews of a some awesome kiwis including gnat and Siggy.

Video is free download from tvnz.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/1090817

and also on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y068GJ1OEC8

When: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 6:00 PM

Where: Catalyst IT
Eagle Technology House, 150-154 Willis Street Level 2
Wellington

If you're late and the doors are locked, then phone 021 739 733 or 803 2384

Details (and RSVP) at
http://php.meetup.com/346/calendar/5636010/

I'll be doing a presentation on memcached.

We'll have pizza as usual, $5 contribution.

The international Linuxchix Website has been reborn.

www.linuxchix.org

The site was redeveloped using

debian linux
apache2
php5
postgresql 8.2
drupal 5.1

New Zealanders involved in the relaunch

• Brenda Wallace (Developer)
• Cristina Radulescu (QA tester)
• Joh Clarke (Systems Administator)

hi all!
Is there anyone out there who would be keen on joining a great team towards
building a Heritage resource for non profit organisation called the Audio Foundation?

We are currently in the planning process and there is a funding application in towards the project, but we cant guarantee this will be successful - though it is at the second stage now, so its looking good.
but its a work of love at this point.
Part time of course!

Hi there NZ!

I'm really in need of some Drupal developers based in NZ, preferably Wellington. There's seemingly not many of us (yet) so we are exploring everything from freelancers to companies specialising in Drupal to fulltime employment roles.

We have a multitude of exciting new and established projects we need people for now! ;)

P.S I trust this is appropriate place for this sort of story...

Are there any Drupal users in Auckland keen for a meet up?

Is there anyone else in Christchurch or Canterbury who'd be keen to make Chch's first drupal meetup? How about at some bar on the strip this on Friday December 1. Any other suggestions?

Kia ora all,

I use Drupal on about 10 million websites and I thought it was about time I met up with some other people who did the same. I also offer free hosting (including Drupal) for non-profit progressive groups incase anyone wants to have a fiddle with drupal but hasn't got their own server.

Simon