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.
It's about time for another Montreal meetup...
Howdy folks. I guess that it is about time for us to start planning another Montreal meetup.
As discussed previously, the next one should probably not be limited to Drupal developers. In fact, I'd like to invite anybody interested in Drupal but put a special focus on NGOs, non-profits and advocacy groups using Drupal... but then that's just me. Who would you like to invite?
As for a date... ummm... I dunno, how about the 29th? This would give us time to get the invites out in time for orgs to adjust.
As for a place... ummm... I dunno... any suggestions?
Finally, as usual I will try to secure a small budget for this activity from koumbit.org gang. Of course, your contributions are welcome too.
Read moreReport from the Montreal Drupal Developers Meetup - July 28th and 29th
Koumbit.org was honoured to host Montreal's first ever Drupal Developers' meetup this last weekend. Having a great tool is only a part of what makes the Drupal community strong. The rest stems from the increasingly vast network of individuals and organisations that are proactively providing each other with technical, logistical, financial and emotional support. While we are still at a relatively early stage in the whole "coopetion" game, there are many reasons to be hopeful and Koumbit is dedicated to helping in any way that it can.
Communications Research Centre Canada deploys Drupal 4.7 site
Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), an Agency of Industry Canada, is Canada's primary federal laboratory for research and development in advanced telecommunications.
If you're looking for an example of a Drupal-powered Government of Canada site with CLF, please visit http://www.crc.ca.
CRC's Drupal 4.7x site was launched on June 21, 2006.
Read moreMontreal Drupal Developers Meetup - July 28 - 29 (+30?)
A chance for Drupal developers from the Montreal to meet and hack together. Koumbit.org will provide some drinks/food/other for the occasion.
The meetup has been moved to:
Café Art Java
837, Mont-Royal E.,
Montréal, Québec,
H2J1W9, Canada
514-527-9990
See you at on Friday 18:00.
Ok, let's do a hack session at the end of July!
My good buddy chx is coming to visit from Hungary at the end of July (the 27th - 31st). Let's show him a good time by doing some kind of hacking session some place in town. Any ideas on good venues, and anyone interested in coming?
How I picture this working is all the Montréal Drupal developer-types all meet at some public place with their laptops and do some pair programming, bug fixing, etc. I don't have the money to sponsor folks, but maybe we could all chip in and get some pizzas, etc.
If you're interested, please DON'T sign up to this event below, but instead go click the "sign up" button on Omar's Montreal Drupal Developers Meetup event.
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OK Ottawa! What Next?
What is your interest, how should we go about developing an Ottawa Drupal community? Plan a few informal get together's, organize the first DrupalCampOttawa...?? Join forces and organize an event in Montreal for the Quebec - Montreal - Ottawa corridor? Go on our own way?
gosling has informal meets at the Black Bear Pub in Ottawa, every Friday, at 16:30 - is that a good idea we could reuse? What time and where?
patrick cormier
G2TT | IMN | Slaw
Government of Canada IM Day 2006 | Web 2.0 "Track"
Last week, the planning committee of the Fall 2006 Government of Canada "Information Management Day" (GC IM Day) met, and we flushed out some ideas on what topics to put on the schedule. In our current planning, one track will have the "Leading" flavour, in the sense of leading change, and that one or two sessions under that track will specifically deal with Web 2.0 implementations in the Government of Canada - existing, proposed and suggested.
IM Day is an event planned by Public Servants for Public Servants, held in Ottawa every Fall. It is very well attended by key individuals in information management throughout federal government. There are chances are that our keynote speaker (not selected yet) will be "web 2.0 enabled" this year...
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