Drupal Cape Town Meetup - 13 June, 14:00 at Wembly Square

This is great, theamoeba - hope it goes well! I might pop in to the Joburg meetup next week, since I'm there. A suggestion for the Cape Town meetup is to have a definite goal in terms of what content the group is going to cover. My suggestion is a "How to install and configure Drupal."

You know, have a Mac and Windows version of MAMP (or XAMPP) available so that people can install it right there, and get introduced to phpMyAdmin, apache and php all in one. Then guide them through a basic drupal install, and then do something somewhat useful, like setting up a blog, changing the colours of Garland, adding a new user role and playing with some permissions.

That's my R0.02 ;)

In fact, simply working through this article, Building a Drupal site in 10 steps will be a good place to start for newbies.

An even better way to get started with installing drupal is to use <a href="http://acquia.com/downloads'>Acquia's stack installer for Windows or Mac.

Hi, this is great :)

May I make another suggestion as a theme for our next meetup?

• Each person presents the site(s) they are currently building, the business logic/concept, the audience we are aiming for, how we are monetizing the site and what modules we are using to achieve the idea.

Then perhaps we can all brain-storm per site and suggest new ideas.

Any takers? Maybe we can run a poll between us of what we would like to discuss most ..

Looking forward :)
Lilian

something i would like to learn about, perhaps someone in the know could help me on this, is how to write modules that create hooks. in other words i can create a module that makes hooks so i can write another module to connect to it. i would also like to learn about creating views 2 relationships with a contrib module much like the votingapi module.

i have not been able to find any suitable documentation about the above 2 things. perhaps someone could share on that?

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Hiya
I will be at the meeting. I am learning drupal and constantly doing it so hopefully by the time of the meeting I will know it better. Hope that isn't a problem as I wont be presenting anything.
Thanks
Tyrone

Hi

I'm keen to pop in....but I wasn't at the last one, so not sure where you'll be exactly in Wembley square...

StewWest

we will be at sinns http://www.sinns.co.za/

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Hiya
Confirming the meeting Sat 13th at 2pm at Wembley Square
Thanks

Hi Everyone,

We would just like to know many people will be joining us at http://www.wembleysquare.co.za/contact.php (map at link) at 2pm ..

Just confirm your attendance at http://groups.drupal.org/node/22816.

Look forward to seeing you there!
Lilian

Hey guys,
We're working around the clock getting our new template framework ready for launch, so unfortunately will have to give this one a miss. Hopefully we'll have some decent weather for the next one, so we can organize a braai or something.. :)

Cheers,
Chris
http://www.joomlajunkie.com
http://www.prothemer.com
http://www.inspirechange.nu
http://twitter.com/connectr

Hey oaks and oakets, I'm just a newbie and don't want to waste your time, if it's just one other Guru and me, as it might be wasted on me?
I'm a pal of Roger Saner, who is quite the Drupal Evangelist, and mentioned this meetup.

I usually use Joomla as my main CMS if I don't make my own small one, and thought I'd pop in to see what's up. I'm the type who loves to learn, so I was keen to pop in.

What do you think? Let me know.

Seems like everybody is busy this month.
Sorry guys, I got a site that is going live on Monday. So no weekend for me.
Definatly next time! Let's plan something BIG!
Quentin
www.maxheadroom.co.za