Welcome to the Drupal Ottawa User Group. We will use this group to develop the Drupal community in Ottawa, to plan local events (DrupalCamps, informal get-togethers, etc.) and to share success stories and planned / completed drupal implementations. Public servants (this is Ottawa after all) interested in deploying bilingual / Common Look & Feel compliant governmental web sites will find colleagues in this group facing the same challenges related to the introduction of drupal in the federal government.
Crash course in Drupal
Sign up for Summer Camp 2009 and come participate in the Crash course in Drupal.
Whether you are setting up a new site or looking to create a development environment for your own site, this workshop should help you get started.
We will be starting with creating an install profile on your laptop and then moving from there to installing Drupal.
Mike
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Modules for bilingual Canadian government site?
Any suggestions for language modules for a bilingual (French/English) government site.
So far, I'm thinking the Internationalization (i18n) module is probably all I need but this is a new area for me, so I thought I'd check to see if there's something I'm missing.
Read moreOttawa May Meetup | Theme: Install Profiles
NOTE: Topics for April/May have been switched (sorry)
Venue Change, RealDecoy has been kindly hosting this event for the last few sessions, but Wirespeak offered up their office in the ByWard Market (78 George St, Suite 2) and in May the weather might be nice to head out to a patio afterward.
Please sign up for this event.
Read moreOttawa April Meetup | Theme: Accessibility with Drupal
NOTE: Topics for April/May have been switched (sorry)
Thanks again to RealDecoy for continuing to host these Drupal meetups. RealDecoy is at 1-205 Catherine Street, which is one address East of Bank on Catherine (right behind the Galaxy Photo building). The entrance is at the side of the building (not the main entrance unfortunately). Just come down the stairs and ring the doorbell and someone will come and let you in.
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Ottawa March Meetup | Theme: DrupalCon
March Ottawa Meetup - Monday, March 9th, 17:30
We will continue to meet at RealDecoy. RealDecoy is at 1-205 Catherine Street, which is one address East of Bank on Catherine (right behind the Galaxy Photo building). The entrance is at the side of the building (not the main entrance unfortunately). Just come down the stairs and ring the doorbell and someone will come and let you in.
Read moreOttawa February Meetup | theme: drupal in government
February Ottawa Meetup - Monday, February 9th, 17:30
We will potentially continue to meet at RealDecoy, but check this space for confirmation. RealDecoy is at 1-205 Catherine Street, which is one address East of Bank on Catherine (right behind the Galaxy Photo building). The entrance is at the side of the building (not the main entrance unfortunately). Just come down the stairs and ring the doorbell and someone will come and let you in.
Please signup for the event, if we can get a decent number of people we can probably move to the basement of the Clocktower. A Google Map to RealDecoy can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/6aor8g
The theme of the February meetup will be "Drupal in government":
- Are you in government, interested in Drupal and not sure if Drupal would be a good fit for your organization, or how to make it happen?
- Are you a developer, interested in selling Drupal services to government, but not sure how to do this?
- Are you interested in learning why having Drupal in government is a whole different ball game than deploying Drupal for private entities?
If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, this meetup is for you. It's also for you if you can share your knowledge and experience on topic!
There is one scheduled presenter at this meetup, Patrick Cormier (founder of the Ottawa Drupal Group), President of Government 2.0 Think Tank Inc., who will address the three points above. Other presenters are welcome.
Read moreDrupal Search Modules & Improvement ideas
Last updated by mgifford on Tue, 2009-01-13 15:52
Hey everyone, let's get together and brainstorm some ideas for improving the drupal search, sorta like we talked about that cold cold night in January.
TODO: Lee, add more content later
Web based configuration options
- weighting of html tags
- ability to define key words to be given more or less weight
- weighting individual nodes, taxonomy and content types more/less (including not show up at all in the search)
- example that is customizable and doesn't include blue smurfs.
User Interface
- simple user interface for basic users that easily expands for power users
Selling Drupal Services to the Government
I just spotted this event and thought it might be of interest to some people in Ottawa - not so much in attending (it's actually in Virginia) - but more with the idea that we might eventually do something on a similar theme here. There also seems to be a live webcast with Brian House of Acquia but its not clear whether this will be accessible to anyone. I've sent an email to the organizer asking for more information.
http://yeatonpartners01-09.eventbrite.com/
Read moreJanuary Meetup
Join us for the first Drupal meetup of 2009 on Monday, January 12th, starting at 5:30pm.
This meetup will take place at RealDecoy, just like the the one in December.
RealDecoy is at 1-205 Catherine Street, which is one address East of Bank on Catherine (right behind the Galaxy Photo building). The entrance is at the side of the building (not the main entrance unfortunately). Just come down the stairs and ring the doorbell and someone will come and let you in.
A Google Map can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/6aor8g
Read moreDecember Meetup - Theme Focus
We're happy to announce the December meetup. Our plan is to focus a discussion on theming in Drupal 6 and will have a number of presentations. The presentations will start at 5:30pm and informal discussions will begin at 7:30.
If you have suggestions for presentations, please leave comments below.
Regular meetups will be held on the first Monday of every month.
NOTE: there has been a location change for our meetup. Initially we had hoped to have our meetup at The James Street Pub again but Mondays are wing nights and they don't want to give up their basement to us.
Read moreJQuery Meetup Tuesday Oct 28
Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I thought this might be of interest to some people here.
There's a JQuery meetup tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct 28) at the Atomic Rooster on Bank Street.
More info here: http://www.startupottawa.com/?p=501
Read moreNovember Meetup
So there's going to be a meetup on November 4th here in Ottawa. Several of people from Ottawa went to Drupal Camp in Montreal, there's the announcement about the DrupalCon in DC in March. Lots of good
Venue: James St Pub (390 Bank Street - the old James St. Feed Co.)
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=390+Bank+Street
Please RSVP if you can make it. There is a growing interest in Ottawa and it is a good opportunity for newbies and guru's to get together and learn from each other.
Read moreNovember Meetup
So it looks like Tuesday is the preferred night with Monday only slightly behind in votes. Thank you to every one who did cast a vote.
For November we will have our meet up on November 4th (the first Tuesday) at the James Street Pub (same place as the last meetups). I will look into getting the room downstairs and will report back once I know what is happening exactly, but for now everyone plan for Tuesday the 4th at James Street and I'll let everyone know whether we are meeting upstairs or down by the end of the week.
Read moreLets get the meetups going again
Hi everyone,
Mike and I have been talking and we want to get the meetups going again. We had a great turn out for the first couple but things died out in the summer (as things tend to do).
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Drupal consulting services?
Does anyone here offers or knows someone that offers Drupal consulting/development?
I built a Drupal website a couple years ago and unfortunately have no more time to maintain it.
Thanks!
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Drupal for Online Consultation?
Hi everyone,
I am currently looking at different technology options to support multiple online public consultations. We have an extensive set of feature requirements - the core of which includes setting up and moderating discussion threads for different topics; various levels of access rights; including background and support materials; and extensive statistical reporting on the discussion activities.
We would probably need to engage a local Ottawa organization to setup and customize Drupal for us, and provide ongoing support.
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Montreal DrupalCamp2008
That's right folks, Koumbit.org has decided to host a DrupalCamp in Montreal! While we are still at the very earliest planning phases here, the idea is to hold a 2-3 day open-space style event in Montreal the first weekend of October.
While bigger and better than the small meetups of recent years, it isn' t as crazy as a quarter-million-dollar DrupalCon.
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