Vancouver

{NOTE: This wrap-up post was emailed to the Drupal Camp Vancouver attendees and cross-posted here for posterity and community sharing - daveo}

THANKS MUCHO

We're a few days past Drupal Camp Vancouver and we, Dave, Dale and Ariane your earnest organizers, want to say "Thanks!" to everyone who sponsored, volunteered, presented, and otherwise helped out to make DCV08 a enjoyable and beneficial event. The vibe and the knowledge sharing resulted in some outstanding collaboration and compelling networking for sure.

The Drupal Camp Vancouver site now has a Presenters' Notes page: http://www.drupalcampvancouver.org/presenters_notes

Presenters, please continue to post here at GDO. The discussion it creates here is goodness. I'll add to the DCV page when I see your post.

When time passes and these discussions move to down the line, think of the DCV site!

And many thanks once again to all our presenters who came out and shared their knowledge.

Hi folks! I've posted slides [PDF, 573K] and an example module [11.5K, Drupal 5] from my talk on integrating the Sphinx search engine with Drupal.

FCV is looking to hire full time or part time Drupal developers and designers to join our exciting team in yaletown. Please contact me for more information: http://groups.drupal.org/user/19607/contact

I really enjoyed the install profile talk that Boris gave on Saturday about install profiles and how they can make everyone's life a lot easier. But I think there were still a couple of things I felt I missed and was wondering if anyone could help clear them up.

1. Boris placed the themes and modules folders inside the Profile folder and said something to the effect that if you install the site using the profile Drupal remembers that your modules and themes are in that folder, is that correct, or did I miss something?

Hi Folks,
thanks for coming out to DrupalCamp Vancouver this past Friday and Saturday. It was great to see such a big turnout. I should give big thanks to Ariane, Dale, and Raincity's own DaveO for organizing this event.

Here are the files from the talk:

I've posted the slides from my talk on slideshare.net - you can access them here. The AJAX demo is at www.katbailey.net/demo/node/56.

Thanks for attending and I look forward to any feedback you'd like to share.

I had a few requests for my slide deck from DCV08.

I've posted them here if you'd like them.

Thanks again for such a great event.

Michael Warf

I've uploaded the slides for my presentation on staging & deployment from this weekend.

http://heyrocker.com/drupal/content/drupalcamp-vancouver-staging-deploym...

Thanks so much to all the dcv08 organizers, and to everyone who came to my talk. It was really great and I look forward to further discussions!

See some of you at DrupalCamp Seattle!

I've posted both slides and tutorial links from my session: Designers Guide to jQuery. You can find them all here:

http://www.stevekrueger.com/braingarden/2008/05/10/designers-guide-jquer...

Thanks to all that attended! If you have any feedback from the tutorials and slides, I'd greatly appreciate it.

I'm looking to catch a ride back to Seattle on saturday night after the conference. The 6pm amtrak seems to be sold out. anyone have room? or any ideas? any buses that leave later? (there is an amtrak bus leaving at 5:30pm)

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

There are two Drupal Camp Events open to All Comers. Regardless of whether or not you're attending Drupal Camp, please check out these events!

I'm nearing the end of my current project and about to start a few others. I'm usually a lone coder but I'm thinking it would be cool to meet up with some other non-elites in Vancouver, newish to Drupal and work on a project or two together. We can learn from each other and perhaps make something cool. I'm sure there are others out there like me kinda between the "I suck" and "I kick ass" threshold, not quite ready for the big leagues but wanting to get there quick. Or am I the only one?

If interested, message me or introduce yourself at Drupal Camp!

Appnovation is a Vancouver based Drupal development firm.

We are seeking a full-time in-house developer to work on various client projects.

The developer must have at least 2 years of PHP development experience and some Drupal development experience. Knowledge of Jquery is a must. The developer must also have experience with cross browser CSS scripting.

To apply, please send an email to jobs@appnovation.com .

Thanks,
Arnold
www.appnovation.com

We are a company which includes Drupal site setups as part of our overall service. We need to have a consistent relationship with a Drupal module developer to do customized work for our clients.

Looking for a drupal themer/developer to help with a project with tight time lines. Go Live date June 1st but must have lead time for testing and tweaking.

Generally this should be an simple project for a seasoned professional. Would like a rough quote and suggestions/ideas.

Requirements:
*2 Sites with unique URLs same layout and theme just different images (possible multi site?)
*Create simple theme with drop down navigation, theme based on sliced and prepared images that will be provided - (mock ups available contact to view)

I was just about to order the new Drupal 6 book from Packt and also the Drupal 5 Themes book when I thought, maybe someone in town is done with their old tattered manuals and wouldn't mind parting with them. Is there anyone in Vancouver willing to sell me their copy of those books and/or Drupal Pro Develpment? I'll wait and see, and if not, I'll happily order new copies online. And by the way, I prefer the old fashioned paper variety. :)

ImageX Media, a Vancouver based Drupal shop is looking for an experienced Drupal developer to join out in-house team onsite at our White Rock location for a full time salaried position with full benefits and incentives. Check out our Drupal job board for more info at:

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.

Hey everyone, I just created a blog post highlighting all of the modules used on my personal website. I'd be interested in hearing some feedback on what everyone else uses. I think this is valuable to beginners and there were quite a few related questions at the last meetup.

Here's my list: http://tylorsherman.com/node/684

Hi all,

I had an idea for a new drupal module and I'm wondering if anyone else likes the idea enough to discuss the work involved and perhaps work on it with me. Or someone may know if this already exists and can just point me to the right direction.

Module synopsis

A module that will export/import a filtered set of supported nodes, with the option to include attachments, comments and revisions. Essentially a node migration module.

Problem this solves

Traction Creative is looking for a full-time qualified PHP/MySQL developer.This position requires a strong communicator with an eagerness to keep up with the latest movements in web development.

The ideal person will be self-motivated and capable of moving concurrent projects ahead to meet tight deadlines. The candidate will be expected to meet with clients throughout various stages of each project.

REQUIRED SKILLS
- PHP/MySQL development [3+ years]
- Experience with implementing LAMP / WAMP environments
- OOP
- CMS solutions (create from scratch or adapt open source)

Carrie & Danielle, Inc. is a lifestyle media company built on the personal brand of its founders, Carrie McCarthy and Danielle LaPorte. Carrie and Danielle’s first book, Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design (Hachette/Filipacchi) went on sale in early April, is already an Amazon best-seller, and is supported by a major publicity campaign and North American book tour.

DPG Associates is looking for a Programmer to join our team on a full-time basis. We are dedicated to professional web site design, software design and application development. We specialize in commercial and educational websites. Ideally, we are looking for a motivated individual who knows how to create, manage and maintain a Drupal CMS. Experience with Drupal is an asset.

The Georgia Straight is looking for a Junior Programmer to join our dedicated yet friendly Web department.

This individual will work closely with other members of the team to build and maintain interactive web-based media and applications. Working under the direction of the Web Manager, this person will help the team conceptualize, design and implement web projects according to appropriate practices and guidelines.

Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday April 17, 2008 at Raincity Studios for the Vancouver League of Drupalers April meeting. This month's feature presentation: Email Newsletters: What the F**K? with Monique Trottier from Boxcar Marketing (formerly Work Industries). Learn how email can complement your web strategy. Email, it's not dead yet!

We still have a slot available for a mini-case study if someone wants to volunteer.

Date: Thursday April 17th, 6:30pm
Location: Raincity Studios, 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400 in Gastown. [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome

For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.

Are you hearing and begining to read all about the semantic web, maybe with Boris wax lyrical about RDFa?

At Boston Drupalcon 2008 with Dries pushing semantic web integration for Drupal 7 in his state of Drupal presentation, get your fill by attending the semantic web track, during the Open Web Vancouver Conference at VCEC on April 14-15th.

I'm a Vancouver web developer who recently settled on Drupal as the CMS for me. Great software, great community. I'm going through a "baptism by fire" of sorts in that I'm using Drupal right away on a new project. My client is high profile and insists on a very short time line. I should have said no can do, but I'm foolishly masochistic about these things.

I need help!

I'm looking for someone who can sit down with me over a laptop and a few coffees and provide a bit of guidance. Just a few hours of your time in the next few weeks would be awesome. I can pay.

Are you interested in video on the web and looking for a project to hone your skills? Do you want to raise your karma and your profile in the Drupal community?

Every month Roland and I try to live video stream and record the monthly meetings, but we need help! If you're looking for an opportunity to try out video recording, audio recording, or live streaming, let us know. We aren't looking for fancy, and there doesn't have to be a lot of equipment involved. If you have a current generation Macintosh notebook and an Eye Sight camera, you can help! In fact, we need someone to live stream the Thursday March 26th meeting.

We'd also like to explore student sponsorship opportunities. If you know someone in the local video and/or educational community who could help, please introduce us!

After significant discussion, wondering and mustering, a rag-tag team of volunteers has stepped up to wrangle Vancouver Drupal Camp.

Details: {See Attention all Drupal Enthusiasts}

Date: May 9-10, 2008
Where: Friday sessions at SFU Wosk Centre for Dialouge (Hasting and Seymour), Saturday sessions at Workspace (21 Water St., Gastown)
Who:You and about 80 other people (first come, first served - stay tuned for registration mid-April)

Linuxfest Northwest (http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/) is a Bellingham celebration of all things Open Source. The Seattle Drupal Users Group is very interested in doing presentations, and would like to man a booth, but are looking for more volunteers.

If you're interested in helping in some way, check out the LFNW wiki page on groups.drupal.org:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/9970

We really need people to sign up to man a booth. We'd like to get this all in place before April 1st.

Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday March 27, 2008 at Raincity Studios for the Vancouver League of Drupalers March meeting. This month's feature presentation: Making Diamond Sparkle - Forums & The Business Objects Community Site with Tony Chang from Business Objects and Angus Pratt from Pratt Web Services.

We'll also have a mini-case study on the SurDel Girls Soccer website by Andrew Tuline and, as always, general Q&A on any and all things Drupal.

Date: Thursday March 27th, 6:30pm
Location: Raincity Studios, 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400 in Gastown. [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome

For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.

Help us plan great presentations!

Use this wiki page to suggest presentations you'd like to see. Just edit the page and add it to the list. I will also use it to show you what's tentatively planned. Please note, I'll my be best to keep things up-to-date but nothing is confirmed until the actual meeting is announced.

If you'd like to give a presentation, from the list or otherwise, please contact me via the contact form: http://groups.drupal.org/user/171/contact.

Web Developer:
- You will work with a multi-player web team.
- You are good with people, and have the ability to work on a team.
- You are committed to sustainability.
- You are looking for a full-time on-location position.
- You are someone who can create clean, semantically coded CSS/HTML/javascript/AJAX/PHP sites and templates
- You are experienced in web development and passionate about open-source

Duties:

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.

Hi there,

I am working on a drupal project and need help from an expert drupal developer. The idea is to create a number of custom modules. I would like to work together with some one that has good experience and knows the drupal framework very well. This is a side project, not a full time project. The project has huge growing potential. I will explain all the details in person.

If someone is interested please contact me via my personal contact form at http://groups.drupal.org/user/15781/contact.

Thanks

Hi I'm a Drubie (Drupal Newbie) but I've already finished my first site in Drupal on my personal LAMP server, it's for the student union at SFU that I'm involved in. Now I'm in the process of trying to transfer the site to SFU's servers, my Drubieness is getting me stuck and I was wondering if anyone could lend some advice.

This is what the webmaster I spoke to told me about getting Drupal to run on their servers:

I am very new to using drupal and have been teaching myself. I do not have a tech background either. I was wondering if there might be anyone out there that would or could provide some tutoring/mentoring type help. I am not asking for a lot nor will I abuse it. I generally like to figure things out myself but find I am getting stuck on a few things and am not getting better at understanding or using drupal. I have completed one site already for a former boss; its not great and is very basic, but its not hideous either.

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

Please submit resumes to: kevin.menic@gmail.com

Specific skills required:
Experience with Drupal and other open source CMS an asset
Experience with Drupal Multisite is an asset.
Strong html, css & JavaScript skills
Able to work with PHP & MySQL
Experienced with web services, xml, and ecommerce.
Strong Quality Assurance skills – able to review work and thoroughly test out the project to ensure all features are effectively working

My company, airG, is starting to hire some more web programmers. Pretty much we are looking for anyone with some experience and can handle php or perl.

We actually have put up a few "interviews" of a couple of employees as an example of life at airG.
John, Software Developer - http://airg.com/careers/profile_JohnK.htm
Rob, Tech Team Lead - http://airg.com/careers/profile_Rob.htm

Job Posting:

Web Developer

Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday February 28, 2008 at Raincity Studios for the Vancouver League of Drupalers February meeting. This month's feature presentation: JavaScript the Smart Way - Getting started with jQuery with Katherine Bailey of Raincity Studios. Katherine will discuss getting JavaScript goodness into Drupal without a bottle of aspirin.

We'll also have our regular mini-case study segment and general Q&A on any and all things Drupal.

DRUPALCAMP BOOSTERS: If you're interested in organizing a DrupalCamp Vancouver event you're invited to come at 6pm. Background here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/8657

Date: Thursday February 28th, 6:30pm
Location: Raincity Studios, 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400 in Gastown. [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome

For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.

Wanted: Experienced Drupaller, preferably with some background in CiviCRM, who is enthusiastic about democratic reform and wants to help the 2009 BC Referendum on STV (the Single Transferable Vote) pass.

Fair Voting BC is taking the lead on advocacy for this referendum and we are basing our website on Drupal and CiviCRM. We would like to make sure that our website starts out and remains reliable throughout the campaign (the referendum date is May 2009).

Okay just an awesome Idea that came to me the other night..
Why do we all collectively make others more rich by paying them over-inflated housing costs?
Can't we band together as drupallers! In our own house.

The ad reads.. 10 Awesome Drupal Enthusiasts seeks large house.
-In a central Vancouver location.

I'm thinking cheap rent, save like students.
And do house Projects, build a name and eventually pay rent with the money earned doing development work.
Yes this involves a lot of trust and freespirit, and I'm willing to do most of the work.. Who's with me.

Planned so far:

• February 28: Introduction to jQuery
• March 21 or 28: Theming Part 2

If you would like to present please leave a note here or contact me through the site contact form.

If you have an idea for a presentation you'd like to see, please leave a note here.

• Presentations can be as short as 15 minutes or as long as an hour (but please be riveting! :-). Typical length is 30-40 minutes plus questions.
• Subject can be highly technical or highly non-technical, as long as you let the audience know what they're in for when we post the announcement.

Hey all,

So a few of us were chatting after the meetup about the desire for a more extended Drupal geekout, and thinking about possibilities for a DrupalCamp in town this summer... Someone was saying that they thought there was one being organized for April, but didn't really know anything more about it. Does anyone know if this is true and if so who is organizing?

And if not, since the spring is already so jam-packed, I am wondering if it might be a better idea to organize one for a little later on, perhaps June-ish?

Info? Ideas? Input? Please post here!

As promised, here's the list of the local Winter/Spring events mentioned at last night's meeting. The ones I remembered, at least.

This is a wiki page, so please feel free to add any other events you think might be of interest to the group.

Events

• Feb 5: Net Tuesday (Vancouver Launch)
• Feb 7: DemoCamp Vancouver
• Feb 22/23: Northern Voice
• Apr 14/15: OpenWeb Vancouver

Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday January 31, 2008 at Raincity Studios (the old Bryght offices) for the Vancouver League of Drupalers January meeting. This month's feature presentation: Drupal Theming, From Design Draft to Theme with Mark Yuasa, Hubert Florin and Steve Krueger of Raincity Studios. They'll talk about the practical tasks involved in bringing your theme to fruition.

We'll also have our regular mini-case study segment and general Q&A on any and all things Drupal.

Date: Thursday January 31st, 6:30pm
Location: Raincity Studios, 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400 in Gastown. [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome

For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.

I've heard rumors of a theming workshop to happen in the New Year, and I wasn't really into or aware of Drupal enough to have caught the recent BAD Camp.

So I was wondering if there were any intentions by the folks over at Raincity or Bryght (well they're the same thing now), or anywhere else for that matter, to host a theming workshop sometime in the New Year. If so, even preliminary details would be good at this stage, even a promise would suffice :)

(Note: this is a posting I'm passing along. I'm not the employer -- just someone who likes to see good homes for Drupal developers! --r.)

Citizens Bank. Hockey (?!) In the same career opportunity.

Citizens Bank is Canada’s first virtual bank and continues to be innovative in banking. Right now we seek a talented professional to contribute to the ongoing evolution of our online hockey community — a separately branded online presence that combines social networking, editorial content, and online banking for target market segments.