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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

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).

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

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

Hi Everyone,

Other than the new theme I just proposed, I also would really like to learn more about Views Arguments.

This was of great interest to me when I was the Views argument session at the DrupalCamp Vancouver. However, I cannot wrap my head around it and I thought it would be a good subject to tackle if it's of interest to anyone else. I've got several applications that we can use as examples that would help several of my sites if that helps to get us going.

Please don't hesitate to comment if you have any other topics that you would like to tackle.

See you later!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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:

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.

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.

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:

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- translation of site settings, content types, user profile fields
and so on by storing translations of their string properties with

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.