Waterloo Region

We have a special guest presenter for our August meeting. Emma Jane Hogbin will join us and share an encore presentation of her DrupalCamp Talk "Moving In: or how to port your content from * to Drupal."

This topic was a huge hit at DrupalCamp and we are thrilled to be able to have Emma present it with lots of extra time for Q&A.

Come on out to the Special 4th of July meeting. We won't have real fireworks. Not inside. But we will have lots of fun discussing Drupal and our projects, discoveries and challenges.

Doors open at 6pm. Meeting starts at 7pm. Suitable for everybody from curious newcomers to confident gurus.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jswaby/sets/72157605580707583/

Here are my pictures from the meetup.. Not sure if others were planning on posting their photos. If you are, post what you think the tag should be so we could aggregate all the pics from the meetup.

Can anyone make a recommendation of who to use for Drupal hosting?

I have my own server but I find it's becoming overloaded and I don't want to get a second server and I may be having some issues with too many SQL connections. I was looking to get a shared hosting solution to compare performance with sites on my server.

I looked at one "Drupal Hoster" and in their terms, it mentions some limitations and the guy that was sitting beside me at the last meeting I think mentioned to stay away from such limitations. Their terms read:

"Acceptable use of DataBase Resources

Thanks for the talk on Theming last week. I learned a lot.

Two things...

1) was it 'Zen' or 'Zen_basic' that was the theme you recommended starting from? Is there a difference?
2) Martin - where can I find that PDF of Zen that you talked about that laid-out all the div's of the basic Zen theme....I want to try a crack at making a theme from scratch using it as a starting point to put your recommendations to work.

If you didn't know:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/drupalcamptoronto2008/

Post your photos on Flickr and tag them with drupalcamptoronto2008

Yay Photos!

What makes Drupal sites unique? Sure, modules do add functionality to a site, but they are mostly under the hood and may not be very visible nor obvious.

It is themes that make a Drupal site stand out. Similar concepts in other products/projects are called templates or skins.

The days where every Drupal site has the blue and grey Bluemarine look are over. There are now a huge variety in how Drupal sites look.

We will discuss themes in Drupal this month, again in a round table format, but before we do that, we will have an exciting presentation:

Since 2006, the Drupal community in Toronto has been holding annual DrupalCamps. Although it says "Toronto", we have seen people from as far away as New York, Winnipeg, and Vancouver come to attend the event.

This year, we are holding the 3rd annual DrupalCamp Toronto event.

The event will be held at the Bissell Building on the campus of the University of Toronto on May 23rd and May 24th 2008.

Attendance is free, but donations are welcome.

We will discuss contributed modules this month, in a round table format. Think about contributed modules:
- which modules do you use all the time?
- which modules do you want to know more about?
- which modules have you tried, then discarded? Why?

The round table discussion will give everybody a chance to contribute and the diversity of our group will give us all a chance to learn.

The first meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal user group will be held on Friday 04 April 2008, at The Working Centre in Kitchener Ontario.

All with an interest in Drupal are welcome.

Topic: Getting to know Drupal (and you) - A round-table discussion of Drupal and our experiences with it.