Toronto

Our usual monthly meeting is tonight, but our room wasn't booked and we didn't make a plan.

So instead, if you're interested in helping out with the upcoming Drupal Camp, come to the Linux Caffee for 7 pm.

Looking to hire full time person to develop new cms using drupal, and assist in converting some sections of our old site. must be fluent with LAMP, BSD and OSX.

We're in downtown Toronto, so you'll need to live somewhere close so that you can make the 9-5 commute.
please check our standoutjob page to apply for this job, or send resume to jobby@hhmedia.com

This is a job I'm forwarding from an acquaintance. The client in question is interested in having someone guide her through the basics and hand over the reins as early as possible.

She is interested in work for pay or barter: skills include sound editing / video editing, electrical & studio installation (or just tidying up), copy-editing, voiceovers, camera work, sound recording, personal fitness training, academic tutoring and advising, writing, French-English translation.

If interested, please contact Datejie at datejie@gmail.com.

Here's what she hopes to build in the end:

We have a Drupal training in Hong Kong in May 13-15 2008, as part of our Open Application Fabrication effort (www.openappfab.net)
Please see attached brochure and registration form or download from http://www5.uniforce.net/corp/drupal-training-v1.pdf

It's a living training, meaning that course fee includes one year hosting of Drupal portal that you create in the class.

This is the first class of our Open Training Series, and hope to enrich the community every month with new topic should there be enough audience to attend.

The venue is at Hong Kong Science Park.

Welcome:-)

Come celebrate spring with us this month to learn about tips, tricks and tools for managing development. Colan is going to lead us through using subversion and trac and how he and the team at Openject keep on top of things. Interesting discussion is sure to ensue :-)

Note the changed date

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday, April 24th

Hi all.

As discussed at the last Toronto DUG, the Waterloo Region Drupal group is ready to go! We have a venue and a date, now all we need is you. Join us for our inaugural meeting. Our Waterloo Region meetings will be a wonderful addition to your regular Toronto DUG schedule.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/10225

Hello, I need a Drupal expert to tutor me throughout the creation of my site. I can pay $25+/hour for many hours. I would like to get really efficient at Drupal. I am in the core of downtown Toronto but are willing to travel anywhere within the vicinity of the subway route.

email: kaylee008 at gmail.com

Thanks!

I am currently looking for an experienced Drupal developer to work on or consult on 2 projects:

1. Maintenance work & upgrades on an existing Drupal 5.1 retail site (http://everywheremaps.com);
2. Transferring an existing (news publishing) site onto a Drupal setup. The new site will have the following components: user management (protect private content areas), content sydication (for both public users and subscribed users); searchable archive for public content; and ad serving.

Please forward your work experience, availability & hourly rate to info [at] thecreationprocess [dot] com.

Tell us what you have to offer to Drupal Camp

Tell us what you'd like to see at this year's drupal camp, in as much detail as you can imagine.

We'll be spending the March meetup looking at the internationalization / multilingual features in Drupal 6.0 . Lots of work went into revamping the underlying system for the new version. We'll also have a brief look at the translation client & server that Gabor has been working on. Should be an interesting topic for anyone building bilingual sites here in Canada!

Ideas, thoughts and experience welcome!

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday, March 13th
Location: Centre for Social Innovation - 215 Spadina Ave, 4th floor [map]

We're having a first meeting to plan our spring Drupal Camp in Toronto.

It'll take place at the Linux Caffee (Harbord and Grace).

Dzip Studios (Toronto, ON, Canada)

I am currently looking for an experienced Drupal developer to do at most a few days of work on a project.

The position is a contract position.

This contract requires a high level of skill with the following:

Drupal 6.x
Custom Theme Development
CCK
JQuery/Interface

Please forward your résumé and salary expectations to dominic [at] dzip [dot] ca

Thanks!

Fourth Wall Media (Toronto, ON, Canada) is an interactive and digital marketing and communications agency, specializing in custom kiosk applications and digital signage creative. We have and work with some memorable and firmly established brand.

We currently have an opening in our company for an experienced Drupal developer.

The position is a contract position.

The initial contract will be for 3 months with a good possibility for full time/permanent if we find the right person.

The prospective candidate should have a high level of skill with the following:

• Drupal Core 5.x

The Institute for Work & Health is seeking proposals for the installation and configuration of a web content management system that will serve as the back end of a new design for our public-facing website. The request for proposals has been created with Drupal in mind as the chosen CMS, but other systems will be considered provided that they meet our listed requirements. We anticipate that most of our functional requirements can be met using existing Drupal modules, but we seek an experienced CMS developer to select, configure and if necessary customize those modules.

Dear Candidate,

We are a small startup organization founded in late 2006 which provides software for churches using the Drupal platform.
We are currently in the development stage of the final half of the software, but have clients beginning to use it already with reduced functionality.
As we get feedback from these clients and take their comments into account, there are many small changes in the software which need to be addressed in a timely fashion. Most changes are not complex, but some require PHP work in order to modify a specific module's GUI, functionality, or simply wording.

I usually have extra work for drupal developers, php programmers, and web designers.

I’m looking for a variety of people:
- People who work 9-5 and want extra work for after their day job
- People who are freelancers and can do work during regular hours
- People who can handle small jobs like installing a module and setting it up to work with a site
- People who can handle large jobs like deployment of whole sites

You will usually be working with either me or one of my colleagues.

I am working with an organization that serves people with disabilities. They would like to port an existing dynamic web site to Drupal. Due to past disappointing experiences, they would like to start slowly, with a basic Drupal setup, which includes their content, support for events and taxonomy organized data. Some data importing would be involved. They would like to find an experienced developer or shop for the first phase, for first phase rollout in early March, with staged upgrades or customization as required. Some training will be required.

Join us this month for a special presentation by Toronto user group member, Jay Julian. Details below:

Kakool is a soon-to-launch Drupal-based entertainment resource (featuring tens of thousands of anecdotes, jokes, quotations, and images) and community. The site uses more than 100 modules and will boast such features as content recommendations and user-configurable profile pages. This presentation/discussion will examine past and present issues & challenges and explore possible future developments.

Jay Julian Payne is the founder of anecdotage.com & kakool.com, a former Hollywood correspondent on KPRI in San Diego, and author of Celebrity Anecdotes: Funny Stories About the Stars.

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday, February 21st
Location: Centre for Social Innovation - 215 Spadina Ave, 4th floor [map]

The Drupal Help Desk Support Professional reports to the website managers of Astral Media Radio GP. The main purpose of this role is to provide a high level of end-user customer service for these [50+] websites.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the website managers to ensure that the best user experience is provided

• Answer and manage end-user trouble tickets

• Daily troubleshooting and debugging of web related issues

• Provide weekly status reports

• Work with the development team to extend Drupal

Qualifications :

Drupal Boston 2008 is taking place March 3 to March 6, with a code sprint on March 7 at MIT.

See details here http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/

As you can see from the budget below, the attendance fee does not cover all the costs. http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/drupalcon-budget

Therefore, any form of financial support is appreciated. If you are a Drupal user or a Drupal shop, please discuss this with your manager and find ways to spread around the word, so all the costs are covered.

Some tips here http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/can-not-afford-come-think-again

Need a person to upgrade our ecommerce site to the new Drupal version.

This will also include implementing Canada Post, UPS and a credit card system.

Please send us your resume/cover letter @ danna@dannabananas.com.
http://www.dannabananas.com

Hello, my name is Jordan and I am currently a web designer/developer focusing on project / production management.
I am also Co-Founder of PHUG (PHP Toronto User Group) which is a newly created, vastly growing open source community that caters to both designers and developers.
Currently we hold weekly Monday meetings, hold monthly events promoting ideas and projects, and contribute to many open source projects.
Although we have many projects of our own, we are currently working with organizations like Mozilla, Miro, FlashInTo, and so on.

After walkah's presentation on Drupal 6 Themeing, I ported and contributed a theme to drupal.org. Some really great information that inspired me to contribute a new theme. I did a relatively detailed write up in the showcase forums.

http://drupal.org/node/212952

Thanks James, for the great presentation and answering the question we all had.

I was sent this link
http://guide.conecta.it/ which in turn links to 2 PDF documents produced by FLOSSMETRICs and OpenTTT (Both European Union commissioned bodies).

The first is the FLOSS Guide (2Mb) (cc) FLOSSMETRICS - which is an education paper on FLOSS. Which could give people ideas on how to market FLOSS in general. It even includes a section of FLOSS business models.

Need a person to upgrade our ecommerce site to the new Drupal version.

This will also include implementing Canada Post, UPS and a credit card system.

Please send us your resume/cover letter @ danna@dannabananas.com.

OVERVIEW

We are looking for a full time drupal developer to join our start-up. Our mandate is to build and grow a niche social network for live music fans. We operate in a close-knit, collaborative environment and have offices in Toronto and San Francisco.

You’re a talented developer who can build out features to differentiate our online software and maintain the sharpest technical edge. Most importantly, you are a self starter with a passion for music and development.

Join us this month at the Centre for Social Innovation for a look at Theming in the upcoming Drupal 6 release. There have been a lot of changes designed to make a themer's life easier : CSS only themes, info files, the theme registry, etc. We'll have a look at what's new and get you ready for making the next release pretty.

See you there!

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday, January 17th
Location: Centre for Social Innovation - 215 Spadina Ave, 4th floor [map]

Visit http://mobilejamfest.com to see drupal in action. We are always looking for help in moving forward with our missions to connect youth through creativity around the world. If you are interested in being involved please contact craig@mobilejamfest.com

I thought some might be interested in knowing that such a high profile site is using Drupal. It's a hybrid site where the flash nav is being given it's params dynamically from Drupal. The project took about a month to build.

See you at the meet tonight.

Alex
Therefore Interactive

Brave the ice and snow and join us for some warming Drupal fun in what should be a packed meeting! We're going to begin the meeting with a presentation, discussion from Bob Fabian about his work rolling out Drupal for CIPS - Canada's Association for IT Professionals. (click "read more" for full details).

We'll also spend some time talking more about the upcoming Drupal 6 release, specifically (by request) some of the developer API changes that will be required for upgrading modules to the next version.

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday December 13th
Location: Centre for Social Innovation - 215 Spadina Ave, 4th floor [map]

Hello

We are looking for an experienced Drupal Theme Designer/Developer to create a theme to revamp a Restaurant website and possibly two other food product websites.

Please provide the following:

• link to portofolio
• pay rate and availability of flat rates
• start date availability

An example of a website we like is www.yogenfruz.com . Thanks.

EXCITING START-UP LOOKING FOR DRUPAL DEVELOPERS

We are a San Francisco and Toronto based start-up that operates in a close-knit, collaborative environment. Our mandate is to build a niche social network for live music fans. We're currently funded and will be launching a beta product shortly.

You’re a talented developer who can build out features to differentiate our online software and maintain the sharpest technical edge. Most importantly, you are a self starter with a passion for music.

EXCITING START-UP LOOKING FOR DRUPAL DEVELOPERS

We are a San Francisco and Toronto based start-up that operates in a close-knit, collaborative environment. Our mandate is to build a niche social network for live music fans. We're currently funded and will be launching a beta product shortly.

You’re a talented developer who can build out features to differentiate our online software and maintain the sharpest technical edge. Most importantly, you are a self starter with a passion for music.

I am seeking a social network site to be built with drupal. I would like a clone of mypraize.com. I am looking forward to hearing from some of you.

Email me at mike.yupangco@gmail.com

Thanks

This is intended as a stub wiki page, add to it as you'd like.
(I hope someone took better notes than I at last weeks meeting)

What we as a group value in a hosting provider:

• Consistency
  • Service Level Agreements (SLA)
  • Good documentation of escalation procedures
  • 24/7 priority support available
  • security is easily auditable
• Performance
• Uptime
• Shell Access
• Management tools (cPanel, etc).

(not all these tools are valued by everyone equally - it depends on how much system administration you prefer to do yourself)

Tonerdrupal2 asked Is there a comprehensive list of Drupal Development Firms?

Well, why don't we, as a group, create one? Lets try to keep it to company name and URL. I think Greater Toronto Area companies would qualify.

General Information

Some general information for anyone looking for development companies:
From the Drupal Handbook Hiring a Drupal site developer

Does anyone have a comprehensive list of Toronto-based web design & development firms that offer Drupal services?
Thanks.

OVERVIEW

You’re a talented senior developer who can build out features to differentiate our online software and maintain the sharpest technical edge. Most importantly, you are a self starter with a passion for music and development.

Your mission will be to work with our development team, your mandate is to develop features that will make our offering truly unique and drive our rapid growth. Other responsibilities will be to engage in the Drupal community and keep abreast of cutting edge innovations within the Drupal framework.

OUR ORGANIZATION

Busy webshop located in Newmarket, ½ hour north of Toronto, requires reliable full time Web Developer. This is an opportunity to work with a highly talented team of web professionals on interesting and challenging projects. Examples of work you will be called to develop would be creating custom drupal modules, developing custom eCommerce solutions, creating web 2.0 social networking sites and/or integrating with dynamic flash front ends.

Extensive experience/expertise with the following:
* PHP5/PHP4
* Javascript
* MySQL / Postgresql Database
* XML, Web Services
* Linux, XHTML, CSS

Our meeting tonight is back at linuxcaffe, as it says in the header of this group (don't ask ...)

Our theme tonight is drupal hosting - if you've got experiences you want to share, recommendations, questions, etc., come on down.

We've got a few special presentations as well from folks who've been thinking about mass Drupal hosting and tools they've used/developed to make this feasible.

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday, November 15th
Location: LinuxCaffe 326 Harbord St. [map]

Toronto-based medical imaging startup looking for an experienced Drupal developer for custom programming on a
freelance/contract basis. Must be responsible, self sufficient, able to work with limited supervision.

Responsibilities
* Custom PHP/PostgreSQL coding (e.g., Drupal modules and custom DBMS queries)
* Feedback on functional specifications
* Website architecture planning
* Custom module development
* Bug fixes
* Work closely with other developers and designers
* Active participation in the Drupal development community

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

I've been asked by the folks who have resurrected the Revue Cinema as
a community theatre (http://revuecinema.ca/) to help find someone who
can act as a webmaster for them. Their site is done in drupal and they
need someone to help put it right and keep the site going - help their
volunteers to get the content on the site. They estimate 5-15 hours a
month and they are willing to pay - but they don't have a large budget

Hi Drupalers,

Rob & I created a full flash solution in conjunction with Drupal as the backend.
We thought it would be cool to share this with you guys.

The application is fully flash and includes a photogallery & videogallery.
You could use it to start your online media broadcasting system alongside catchy graphics.

To view the flash frontend: Media Center (mc)
To view the drupal backend: Media Center (mc) Backend

Team Lullabot is coming to Toronto so for this month's meeting, I thought we'd do something a little different...

Join us Thursday, October 11th at the Center for Social Innovation (4th floor) to meet some of Drupal's biggest rockstars:

• Matt Westgate: co-author of Pro Drupal Development (bring your copy and get it signed!) and original author of the e-commerce package, tinymce, and img_assist.
• Jeff Robbins: the voice of drupal, author of the drupal song, and an actual rock star.
• Angie "webchick" Byron: Summer of code co-ordinator, Drupal Association secretary, and everyone's favourite community member.
• Addison Berry: Drupal Dojo star and Lullabot workshop alumn turned Lullabot.
• Jeff Eaton: the FormAPI guy, the VotingAPI guy, and the man with the best presentations.

We'll have food and drinks and plenty Drupal talk. Note the change of date and location and we'll see you there!

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday October 11th
Location: Centre for Social Innovation - 215 Spadina Ave, 4th floor [map]

Location: Toronto, ON
Term of Contract:Regular full-time
Salary: commensurate with experience
Application deadline: September 28, 2007
Start date: ASAP

Evergreen is an innovative charity that builds the relationship between nature, culture and community in urban spaces. Since 1991, we have engaged people in creating and sustaining healthy, dynamic outdoor spaces across Canada - in schools, communities and homes. Our entrepreneurial approach to social responsibility creates vibrant neighbourhoods, a healthy natural environment and a sustainable society for all.

Climax Media is a new media development company highly experienced in creating top of the line new media materials.

Launched one month ago, www.shedoesthecity.com is a new site targeting women age 18-34 in Toronto. Fashion, nightlife, arts reviews - this is the ultimate adventure guide for women who are looking for something non mainstream, sassy and fun.

Currently, we seek a webmaster to come on board and manage everything from content management to building innovative sections in partnership with sponsors and essentially building the site up and expanding from its current state.

Launched one month ago, www.shedoesthecity.com is a new site targeting women age 18-34 in Toronto. Fashion, nightlife, arts reviews - this is the ultimate adventure guide for women who are looking for something non mainstream, sassy and fun.

Currently, we seek a webmaster to come on board and manage everything from content management to building innovative sections in partnership with sponsors and essentially building the site up and expanding from its current state.