DrupalCape May meetup (25/5/2011)

Posted by foxtrotcharlie on May 20, 2011 at 7:13am

Start:

2011-05-25 18:00 - 21:00 Africa/Johannesburg

Organizers:

mwmentor

Event type:

User group meeting

The next DrupalCape meetup will be held on Wednesday the 25th of May 2011. Agenda for the evening has been confirmed and can be viewed below.

Where:
The Bandwidth Barn
Buitengracth Centre, 125 Buitengracht Street
Cape Town, Western Cape

Meeting Agenda – 25th May 2011:

Intro & notices - 10 mins (18:00)
Business or related topic - Michael Wagener: Social Media Presence 20 mins
Focus - Community Project: Stew West - Charity Drive 20 mins
Break 10 mins (19:00)
Main Speaker - 40 minutes, Topic: “Googling Your Way to Drupal Success” – Using Google as an effective support tool for building Drupal platforms (Non technical)

Speaker Profile: Ingrid ‘Inky’ Serritslev

Inky is a 3D artist with an architectural background. She has transitioned from the world of 3D architectural designs to being an accomplished, self-employed, designer of note.

Her interests, aside from her business, extend to design in various mediums, and a number endurance sports.

Don’t mess with this lady - she will run, climb and cycle you off your feet, but please do come and listen to how she has mastered what she does with Drupal through her own journey using Google as her primary support tool.

Break Out Sessions - Get answers to you Drupal and related queries 20 mins (20:10)
Socialise & Munch & Drink - 30 mins
Committee Update - Stand-up Committee Meeting 30 mins (21:10)

DrupalCape – Link . Solve . Grow

Tel.: 087 820 2003 Email: info@drupalcape.co.za

Remember, meetups are sheduled to take place on the last Wednesday of every month, so make sure you diarise the following dates:

June: Wed. 29th
July: Wed. 27th
August: Wed. 31st
September: Wed. 28th
October: Wed. 26th
November: Wed. 30th

Comments

DrupalCape May Meetup

Posted by mwmentor on May 26, 2011 at 7:30am

DrupalCape had a fantastic meetup last night. The focus was on getting started with Drupal, and five new folks came along! We had a great presentation, Googling Your Way To Drupal Success, by Inky Serritslev (I will post to Slideshare soon). Roger Saner and Jono Wagener followed up with a demo of IRC, disobey.com, and pastebin.com which was really cool too!! We will be publishing our newsletter during the second week of June with all of the details. Thanks to all who came!!

Design Template

Posted by guybedford on May 26, 2011 at 7:39am

It was a great one. I shall be seeing you guys on irc...

I mentioned there was a design template that can be used for Drupal, which allows designers to understand the standard Drupal elements that need to be considered. For those interested, you can find that here - http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/nica_lorber/design_drupal_template_appr...

Hi Just wanna provide the

Posted by siegoboy on May 26, 2011 at 8:07am

Just wanna provide the working link for that last mail.

http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/nica_lorber/design_drupal_template_appr...

Thanks for that!

Again

Posted by guybedford on May 26, 2011 at 8:34am

Try this one - http://inda.ba/kTIySs. They need to sort out their url linking! Chapter Three have some really interesting design process blogs as well which are useful to read.

Thanks for the link, Guy -

Posted by burningdog on May 26, 2011 at 9:11am

Thanks for the link, Guy - sooooooo helpful! The meetup last night was great - thanks to Inky for the presentation and the pizza. I enjoyed both considerably ;)

Maybe we should add a segment in our meetups: "Drupal for designers" - and have a design section to supplement the geek section. Just a way for us to make drupal more appealing to designers, because goodness knows we need more of them!

DrupalCon sessions

Posted by lukevanblerk on May 26, 2011 at 11:54am

This subject has been presented on at several DrupalCons. I managed to find these 2 session recordings on archive.org.

DrupalCon SF 2010: http://www.archive.org/details/DesignForDrupalATemplateApproach
DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010: http://www.archive.org/details/DesignForDrupalATemplateApproach-CutYourD...

Thanks Inky for the presentation, I definitely learned a couple of things! And thanks everyone else for the input and organizing :)

Useful Theming & Design Links for Drupal

Posted by stewest on May 26, 2011 at 11:24am

Hi there.

I've also shared my latest blog post, with some links and resources I find really useful for Drupal Theming. Hope it is also useful to you.

http://goo.gl/IdGxH = Useful Theming & Design Links for Drupal

Thanks & LESS CSS

Posted by dubois on May 27, 2011 at 10:47am

Thanks for the great links guys. I'm really forward to joining you for more of these events when I move to the city (from the burbs) in July.

For those who use LESS CSS the LESS CSS Preprocessor is quite useful. Just watch out for some implementation quirks in lessphp. And remember to strongarm the developer mode variable on your production sites. (This module plays nicely with CSS aggregation).

Thanks for all the positive feedback

Posted by mwmentor on May 28, 2011 at 10:22am

Hi Guys:

Thanks for your positive feedback and I am glad to see all of the comments. Plenty to think about, so keep 'em coming, if I might say that!!

Have a great weekend!

Regards