Vancouver Island

Transport to dcvic08

Richard_Pattee — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:13:33 +0000

Hi
If you can walk on the ferries, let me know what your ETA is and i can pick up groups of 6 at a time and shuttle folks to town. I will also be available for transporting people to the ferry at the end of the camp.

Vancouver Island

Drupal Social #5

codexmas — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:40:20 +0000

Short notice, but here it is anyways!

At bart's again, be there!

We will be discussing various things for the upcoming Drupal Camp Victoria in September.

Location:
http://www.executivehouse.com/barts/bartholomews.html

Cheers,
Gord.

Vancouver Island

DrupalCamp Victoria / Beerfest!

codexmas — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:11:59 +0000

First Annual DrupalCamp Victoria

Yay Content! We have been updating the site and now have a proper schedule listing under the Speakers menu

Please register at http://drupalcamp.northstudio.com, this groups node is a placeholder only

We here at http://www.northStudio.com are happy to present the very first DrupalCamp Victoria!

Beerfest Particulars
http://www.gcbf.com/

We have acquired 80 tickets to the Great Canadian BeerFest that will be given out (TBD) to attendees, and (perhaps presenters will each get a ticket). We will also have a number of other prizes.

FYI: Saturday is already sold out

http://drupalcamp.northstudio.com is now live and ready for registrations. Thanks go out to CivicActions.com and Drupal Camp Alberta, who were very graceful and enthusiastic to help.

The facilities are located just outside the core of Victoria BC, check out the map and pictures on our school site: http://www.vsbt.ca

Hope to see many people there we are anticipating space for about 80 people in total, perhaps more if you don't mind being cozy...

Cheers,
Gord Christmas
northStudio.com

Vancouver Island

Project Manager Needed | Raincity Studios Vancouver

Mariska Richters — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:49:14 +0000

Overview

Raincity Studios (RCS) is a full service web agency agency, strategically creating and hosting online communities for businesses, organizations and publishers, including Drupal content management system deployments, graphic design, consultation, traffic-building, information architecture design, custom development, plus a retinue of related services.

Enthusiastic advocates of open source software, RCS actively participates in the Drupal community and our team regularly participate in events about open source software, international entrepreneurship, and technology trends around the world.

Clients include: Sony/BMG artists, Warner Brothers Records, Harlequin books, SPIN Magazine, Mozilla Foundation, COPE 378, Daily Vancouver, Urban Vancouver, New Media BC, The Government of Canada, British Columbia Institute of Technology, University of British Columbia, The Grateful Dead/Rhino records, and over a hundred other projects.

Enjoy your day working with other skilled professionals at our HQ in the Gastown area of Vancouver, Canada, while collaborating closely with colleagues in the French Concession area of Shanghai, China. We are growing and you could be part of our progressive, flexible, and vibrant environment.

Raincity Studios offers competitive salary and extended health care packages, including paid holidays and training incentives. Both the Vancouver and Shanghai offices boasts perks like a stocked A/V lounge and frequent bar-b-ques. Yup, we work hard, but we play hard too!

You must be excited by now, so here are the details:

We seek an experienced project manager to add to our team. The ideal candidate must possess a keen ability to balance project specifications, client requests and production resources, and be a diplomatic - yet assertive - communicator as well as exceptionally well organized. If you are an analytic thinker who performs best in a fast-paced environment managing multiple projects at once, we invite you to apply.

Please email your resume to admin@raincitystudios.com. Include a cover letter outlining your problem-solving skills, salary expectations, and personal/career goals.

Responsibilities

Ensure that projects are delivered on time, on budget and within project scope
Document, schedule and coordinate production resources assigned to the projects
Communicate on a regular basis with clients to discuss project updates, feature implementation and manage expectations
Work with the Sales/Scoping team to assess client requirements and recommend adaptive and effective solutions
Report regularly on project status to the Production Director and Production Manager
Act as company advocate and embody the open source values: community, creativity, integrity, fun and excellence

Requirements

Significant project management experience with/related to open-source web/software development
Excellent command of the English language (spoken, read, written) and numeracy for business correspondence and reporting
Excellent time management, organizational, problem solving skills
Skills and experience in mediation, negotiation, argumentation, presentation and conflict resolution
Attention to details, ability to prioritize and possess a high degree of tenacity
Desire to share, to learn and to do better
Ability to work under pressure while still maintaining a sense of humour and a friendly attitude
Ability to work with a creative and unconventional team

Good to have

Knowledge of Drupal and opens source CMS systems.
Familiarity with Merlin2

To apply for this position, email your resume and salary expectation to admin@raincitystudios.com

Vancouver Island

"Code Tuesdays" #4

rhache@drupal.org — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:06:34 +0000

See wiki page for details or to add topics of interest.

See you there!
Rene

Vancouver Island

"Code Tuesdays" #3

rhache@drupal.org — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:02:09 +0000

See wiki page for details or to add topics of interest.

See you there!
Rene

Vancouver Island

"Code Tuesdays" #2

rhache@drupal.org — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:01:29 +0000

See wiki page for details or to add topics of interest.

See you there!
Rene

Vancouver Island

"Code Tuesdays" #1

rhache@drupal.org — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:01:01 +0000

See wiki page for details or to add topics of interest.

See you there!
Rene

Vancouver Island

"Code Tuesdays" Topic Wiki

rhache@drupal.org — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:56:14 +0000

Join us at Serious Coffee on Yates Street (Corner of Broad) (http://www.viwedding.ca/serious/stores/Yates.html) every Tuesday Night (except for the last Tuesday of the month which is for the Drupal Social).

For the immediate future we will be focusing on advanced theming topics but feel free to suggest any other topics that are of interest to you.

Current Topic LIst

Using Views Arguments
Views Override
How to remove logic from themes (tpl)
Creating body classes in your theme
Using JQuery properly

Vancouver Island

"Code Tuesdays" @ Serious Coffee

rhache@drupal.org — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:19:00 +0000

Gord and I will start meeting every Tuesday night for some relatively advanced coding sessions -- with the exception of the last Tuesday of the month for the Drupal Social. Anyone is welcomed to join us at Serious Coffee on Yates Street (Corner of Broad) (http://www.viwedding.ca/serious/stores/Yates.html). For the immediate future we will be focusing on advanced theming topics but feel free to suggest any other topics that are of interest to you in the comments (Topics covered listed below the fold).

Vancouver Island

Drupal Social #4

rhache@drupal.org — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:12:16 +0000

Please note that we have changed the weekday to the last Tuesday of the Month. Please feel free to suggest any desired topic in the comments.

Still meeting at Bartholomew's pub: http://www.executivehouse.com/barts.html

Vancouver Island

Victoria Drupal Social #3

codexmas — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:58:35 +0000

Hey all, just a reminder, we are meeting at the same place as last time, Bart's. Come one, come all!

Open to suggestions for other locations... They do have pretty good food though :)

See you all there!

Location:
http://www.executivehouse.com/barts.html

Vancouver Island

Help with Creating New Theme

rhache@drupal.org — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:01:07 +0000

Hi everyone,

Just proposing that we do something "productive" if it's of interest to anyone during our next Drupal social (May 26).

We have been using a combination of Layout Gala & Tripoli at northStudio. This has worked out very well for us and I have been very tempted to release the theme on Drupal.org. However, I have decided to hold off because I think that if we put our heads together we could create something that could dramatically change what most people think is possible with a theme.

Current northStudio Theme Features

Easy to create as many as 40 layouts with the same HTML structure.
Fairly easy to change layouts on a per node/section basis, eliminating the need for Panels in most instances.
Tripoli is used as a really good baseline type stylesheets, that is very consistent with all browsers.
Good series of classes.
Function that automatically updates the copyright date.

New Feature Wishlist

More classes: as many as we have, we would like more. I can outline them at the social.
Ability to create the basic site "wireframe" in the theme configuration page. What I picture here is the ability for the user to specify the kind of layout they want and to then be able to enter the basic measurements of their site.
Ability to create new wireframe variations (like above) and to specify on which pages they apply, by path (like blocks). This would be great for pages, like the home page, were you often need a different layout.
Ability to add conditional ie stylesheets in $styles variable from the template.php (kinda like the drupal_add_css function)
Anything else that people have been desperately wanting in a theme.

Hopefully this is something that is something that is of interest to everyone. As a themer who only know enough php for tpl purposes, any help would be appreciated.

In case you are wondering, we have permission to use Layout Gala from the author. As for Tripoli, I need to contact the creator but if it falls through it would be easy enough to create my own.

See you at the social!

Vancouver Island

DrupalCamp Seattle 2008 Details and Event Signup

GregoryHeller — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:09:00 +0000

We've set up an event node here on g.d.o for people to signup for the seattle drupalcamp. All information will eventually be posted on this node.

Here is the short of it (as you may know):
June 27, 28 10am to 5pm
Youngstown Arts Center (site of last year's camp), its about 5 miles south of downtown.

Find out more and signup, space is limited right now to 80 people.

Contribute session ideas

Victoria

Drupal Social #2

codexmas — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:12:48 +0000

Here we go again, meet up is at Bartholomew's pub. Everyone is welcome, come enjoy some food and beverages and lively conversations...

7PM till whenever.

Location:
http://www.executivehouse.com/barts.html

Cheers,
Gord.

Vancouver Island

Drupal Camp Vancouver News Omnibus!

torelad@drupal.org — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:21:35 +0000

Drupal Camp Vancouver marches forward and nows your chance to sign-up as a speaker or participant!

Drupal Camp Vancouver is confirmed for Friday May 9 and Saturday May 10 in Gastown Vancouver. We couldn't get the same location for two days, so Friday is at the SFU Wosk Centre for Dialog and Saturday is at Workspace.

Logo!

We have a nice, shiny new logo thanks to Colin Calnan:

Drupal Camp Vancouver Website

We have our Drupal Camp Vancouver website up at: http://www.drupalcampvancouver.org/ thanks to our friends Richard and Francis at Raincity and Mike Cantelon.

Call for Speakers

We're now accepting speaker proposals on a broad ranges of subjects: http://www.drupalcampvancouver.org/call_for_speakers

Registration is Open

You can now register at http://drupalcampvancouver.eventbrite.com/

We'll be doing regular updates at the website.

Vancouver Island

Victoria Drupalites Social

codexmas — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:43:27 +0000

At long last another meetup, perhaps a bit less formal than usual. After attending the Smith's Pub meetup I am hankering for another Pub adventure. This invite goes out to all those out there who have attended before or are even just curious.

There is a neat little spot just off of the lobby in the Executive House Hotel downtown called the Doubles Oyster Lounge.
http://www.executivehouse.com/doubles.html

Usually pretty much dead during the week, so we could pretty much take the place over.

I am thinking that 7PM would be a good time, though I may be there earlier to have something to eat.

Whats on the table? Whatever you like, come on down and introduce yourself and participate!

The date for the next meetup will be decided upon at this one, so as to keep some continuity happening. Likely at the end of next month, so we can try to keep a regular meet and build more of a community here in the Capital of BC.

Cheers!
Gord.

Vancouver Island

Senior Web Developer - Vancouver | Six Degrees Recruitment

ljanze — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:40:46 +0000

Based in downtown Vancouver, our client is a dynamic new-media company focused on building web applications that create engaging on-line communities.

Currently a team of 9 they expect to double their headcount this year and getting the right 'Fit' is critical. They are seeking someone who is passionate about open source development, has a great sense of humour, is easy going and can meet a challenge head on. They are all intensely committed to what they do and expect the same from anyone who joins them.

You should be an outstanding Web Developer, someone who can create clean, semantically rich CSS and XHTML code and who has intimate knowledge of cross-platform, cross-browser development. You will be able to demonstrate your ability to create standards-compliant web pages from design layouts utilizing leading edge web technologies. Ideally you will also be able to showcase your in-depth knowledge of Drupal as an application framework, AJAX and javascript

Requirements
3+ years experience implementing web design
Expertise with hand-coded xHTML/CSS
Ability to create valid, table-less layouts using CSS
Solid cross-platform and cross-browser development experience
Strong understanding of Web Accessibility and Standards
PHP & mySQL
Experience with Drupal
JavaScript/DOM/AJAX
Flash experience a nice to have

If you would like to apply for this role, please forward your resume and any portfolio links to ljanze@6degreesrecruitment.com

Vancouver Island

Senior Web Developer, Drupal | Inc.com & FastCompany.com

pmaiorana — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:51:29 +0000

This position is located in New York City. We will pay relocation expenses for the right candidate.

Inc.com and FastCompany.com, two of the fastest-growing and most prominent business web sites in the U.S., have a position open on their technology staff. We are looking for a senior candidate who has extensive experience with the Drupal content management platform.

We are currently working closely with Lullabot and other major players in the Drupal community to build large scale social networks for our websites. Initially, this position will be responsible for working closely with Lullabot and our web development team to build the first release of this software. Ultimately you will function as our lead developer on this platform following that release.

This position will also serve as our representative in the Drupal community, and will be responsible for engaging in community discussion, attending conferences, and managing our contributions back to drupal.org.

THIS IS A FULLTIME DEVELOPER POSITION ONLY. FREELANCERS, PART-TIMERS, AND THEMERS NEED NOT APPLY.

Inc.com and FastCompany.com are part of Mansueto Digital, a division of Mansueto Ventures, a growing company focused on four core initiatives: recruit and retain top talent; invest in our properties; practice open book management; and diversify editorial content in our consumer magazines, online and through our Events and Business Resources Group. We are a company that values our customers and employees equally and we are committed to helping them manage and improve the quality of their lives everyday.

Interested parties can email their resumes to pmaiorana@mansueto.com

Washington, DC Drupalers

Victoria meetup at Smith's Pub

Boris Mann — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:44:58 +0000

We had a great impromptu meet up at Smith's Pub last night. First verdict is that Smith's Pub has great food (deluxe mini lamb burger's for $2 each during happy hour, complete with brie and spring greens) and a great beer selection. Unfortunately they were out of Howe Sound Hang Dog Hefeweizen in the 1L bottles, so I had to make do with some Belgium and Dutch beers that were there.

Other merry makers included:

Rob Ellis - tags: Drupal, FreeBSD, Regex, etc. (winner, most powerful tag: regex)
Gord Christmas - tags: Drupal, WebApps, SEO, Design, Print, School (Gord is training lots of people at North Studio and is looking to perhaps start some training and work in Vancouver; I say -- yes!)
Todd Bailey - tags: Nuclear Cool (Todd was a non-Drupal geek friend of mine who made the excellent Smith's Pub suggestion, and also happens to be an expert beer rater at http://www.ratebeer.com)
Evan Leeson - tags: photo, writing, dad, passion, better world now (Evan is a fantastic photographer, we learned he's writing a near future novel, and someone who can legitimately say they smashed their Blackberry to pieces with a giant log)
Kris Krug - tags: Social Media, Art, Photography, Community (from KK: I am whatever you say I am)
Heather Libby - tags: webdesign/interactive, writer, badass shoe rocker -- (quote: "walk in them? Dude, I iron in them...")
Jane Milner

Pictures to be posted to Flickr a bit later after I get home (finally!). Was great to see everyone, we'll have to make it a bigger event next time. Hmmm...DemoCampVictoria? I'll leave it up to Lllllloyd to organize that one (we missed you, buddy!).

Vancouver Island

Meet at Smith's in Victoria at 7:30pm for a pint

Boris Mann — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:03:13 +0000

Kris and I are hopping across the strait to Victoria for some meetings, and were wondering if some folks want to join us tonight (Thursday, July 19th) for a pint. We'll be at Smith's Pub from 7:30pm onwards or so.

Totally casual, just talking about life, the universe, and Internets.

Vancouver Island

Drupal Developer | Tidal Media

jlindstr — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:39:37 +0000

Tidal Multimedia Incorporated (www.tidal.ca) is a local design studio specializing in creating websites and multimedia presentations for our clients.

Pay: $35 - $50+ an hour (depending upon experince)

We are seeking to develop a long term relationship with an experienced & talented freelance programmer to work on a variety of web projects.

Specific skills required:
- Experience with Drupal and other open source CMS an asset
- Strong html, css & JavaScript skills
- Able to work with PHP & MySQL
- Able to work with Dreamweaver including templates, library items etc.
- Strong Quality Assurance skills – able to review work and thoroughly test out the project to ensure all features are effectively working
- able to take a Photoshop source file and translate it into a pixel perfect web site that works across browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari) and works across platform (PC & Mac).
- significant HTML experience

Other information
- Portfolio required – we absolutely need to see previous web sites that you’ve worked on and a brief description of how you contributed.
- You must be able to document your code and programming structure in a concise and easy to understand manner.

If this role is a good fit please forward your resume along with a URL link to your portfolio to krishna@tidal.ca by June 12th, 2007.

Vancouver Island

Hey, Canadians! Internationalization patches for Drupal 6 need review!

webchick — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:53:26 +0000

Since I know internationalization is a big deal to Canadians, I figured I'd cross-post this to some groups. Please don't kill me, this is important. :) There's very little time to get these patches in before code freeze! (June 1)

The following patches desperately need reviews from people familiar with internationalization of site content. The goal is to get Drupal 6 to have internationalization right in core:

- translation of site settings, content types, user profile fields
and so on by storing translations of their string properties with
the locale infrastructure, enabling import/export and simple editing:
http://drupal.org/node/141461 (also watch this video:
http://hojtsy.hu/drop/dtvideo.mpeg )

- translation support for nodes by relating nodes together
(and possibly their revisions): http://drupal.org/node/142280

See http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2007-05/msg00297.html for the full thread.

Vancouver Island

Galiano Digital Media and Drupal Potlatch 2007

nally — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:51:35 +0000

Greetings V-Isle Drupalers,

I regret to not personally having been able to make it to a Van Isle Drupal event yet... but I'd be remiss to not let this group know about an event I'm hosting out on Galiano Island. It's a Drupal hackfest, and anyone interested in following along the events development is very welcome to join the purpose built group here...
http://groups.drupal.org/galiano-potlatch-2007

The flow for the event will go something like this...

Saturday:
Drupal Hacking / Geek-Out session in the morning
Go Play Outside Time in the afternoon (hiking, kayaking, frisbee, golfing, sailing, etc. etc)
Another Geek-Out session in the evening

Rinse Repeat for Sunday :-)

Hope I can meet some of the Victoria Drupalers this way! Otherwise, I'll make it to one of the Victoria events some day soon! :-)

regards

Christian Nally
http://www.sticksallison.com

Vancouver Island

May Meetup @ northStudio.com

codexmas — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:20:21 +0000

We are keen to host another meetup of Drupalites at our office again.
Location is available on our website:
northStudio.com

Mid May is the proposed date from 5pm - 7pm.

Please check you schedules and post comments on this, or other times that would work.

Think about what topics you might like to cover and I will compile a list here.

We will be providing beverages and some snacks, so please post any preferences for those as well.

Cheers!
northStudio.com
Gord Christmas

Vancouver Island

Layout Gala CSS Layouts

rhache@drupal.org — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:44:38 +0000

All of the Layout Gala CSS templates have been uploaded at the following URL:
http://famillehache.com/layoutgala.zip

After sending an email to the creator of Layout Gala, he said that he was honored to have potentially use his templates for creating Drupal themes and said that giving him a simple credit in the code was enough. They had explored the option of creating a GPL licence but decided against it. Let me know if you would like to see his email.

Vancouver Island

Layout Gala License

rhache@drupal.org — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:11:39 +0000

Just letting everybody know that I sent an email to the creator of the CSS Layout Gala site inquiring about the license and the possibility of creating Drupal Themes based on those layouts.

You can find more information regarding the CSS Layout Gala here: http://blog.html.it/layoutgala.

Vancouver Island

Victoria meetup @ northStudio.com

codexmas — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:35:47 +0000

Location information: northStudio.com

Here are some proposed topics:

* Theming
      o CSS Classes and IDs that Drupal generates and why
      o Blocks/Nodes/Content Types
* Tips/Tricks/Gotchas
      o Modules to use
      o How to make drupal do what you want
      o Things to avoid
* Basics of Module Programming
      o Simple debugging
      o How to create a module
      o Overview of how drupal works
      o Hooks are your friends
      o How to find what you need

This list is just off the top of my head on what people might be looking
for. I am happy to discuss most of these topics and would appreciate
anyone else who wants to contribute as well.

If there is anything else that if of interest please respond soon so we
can try to accommodate as much as possible.

Presentations so far will be by Gord and Nedjo

Vancouver Island

25 Oct 2006 Meeting

setaceous@drupal.org — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:12:37 +0000

Vancouver Island

Victoria BC Meetup

nedjo — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:04:00 +0000

Come for an inaugural meeting of Victoria area Drupal users.

Location: MapsWest Geoscience, #211 - 620 View St. Victoria.
Date: Wednesday, October 25th.
Time: 3:30 - 5:30 pm.

Fun, coding, refreshments!

What to bring:
* Stories to share about what you do with Drupal.
* Ideas for skill sharing. What skill building workshops would you like to see, or to offer?

Vancouver Island

First meeting (take 2)!

nedjo — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:10:25 +0000

Come for an inaugural meeting of Victoria area Drupal users.

Location: MapsWest Geoscience, #211 - 620 View St. Victoria.
Date: Wednesday, October 25th.
Time: 3:30 - 5:30 pm.

Fun, coding, refreshments!

Post here if you can make it. Mention what you'd like to talk about and we'll put together an agenda. Can't make it? Please post anyway, with suggestions about your interests and what kind of meeting times work best for you and we'll take that into consideration for the next meeting.

Attendees will include:

Charles Burnett, MapsWest Geoscience
Nedjo Rogers, CivicSpace

Vancouver Island

Inaugural VIDUG Meet-up

ecstaticist — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:47:13 +0000

Let's get together. This is a new group, and we don't know who we are, so let's get together and talk about Drupal. I suggest we hold our first meeting in Victoria, since that provides the best opportunity for the fewest people to travel to the meeting. I hope future meetings can be held in other strategic and beautiful locations on Vancouver Island, with an annual meeting at Tofino.

The purpose of the meeting will be to meet and greet, network, learn, share ideas and approaches, etc.

Special guest(s) to be announced.

So let's get together on June 8th at 7:00pm in Victoria at a location TBD.

Flag your participation on upcoming.org

Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island

Transport to dcvic08

Drupal Social #5

DrupalCamp Victoria / Beerfest!

First Annual DrupalCamp Victoria

Project Manager Needed | Raincity Studios Vancouver

Overview

Responsibilities

Requirements

Good to have

"Code Tuesdays" #4

"Code Tuesdays" #3

"Code Tuesdays" #2

"Code Tuesdays" #1

"Code Tuesdays" Topic Wiki

Current Topic LIst

"Code Tuesdays" @ Serious Coffee

Drupal Social #4

Victoria Drupal Social #3

Suggested Topic for Social

Help with Creating New Theme

Current northStudio Theme Features

New Feature Wishlist

DrupalCamp Seattle 2008 Details and Event Signup

Drupal Social #2

Drupal Camp Vancouver News Omnibus!

Victoria Drupalites Social

Senior Web Developer - Vancouver | Six Degrees Recruitment

Senior Web Developer, Drupal | Inc.com & FastCompany.com

Victoria meetup at Smith's Pub

Meet at Smith's in Victoria at 7:30pm for a pint

Drupal Developer | Tidal Media

Hey, Canadians! Internationalization patches for Drupal 6 need review!

Galiano Digital Media and Drupal Potlatch 2007

May Meetup @ northStudio.com

Layout Gala CSS Layouts

Layout Gala License

Victoria meetup @ northStudio.com

25 Oct 2006 Meeting

Victoria BC Meetup

First meeting (take 2)!

Inaugural VIDUG Meet-up