Toronto Drupal User Group
Welcome to DrupalTO (formerly: Toronto Drupal User Group), a meeting place for the Drupal community in the Toronto area for 16+ years!
We are a non-profit organization that hosts Toronto and area Drupal events such as monthly meetups, pub nights, annual conferences, discussions, news and job postings.
RSVP for events on Meetup.com. Follow us on Twitter for regular news and updates about the Drupal community in Toronto.
Toronto February Meetup: Case Study - Kakool.com
Join us this month for a special presentation by Toronto user group member, Jay Julian. Details below:
Kakool is a soon-to-launch Drupal-based entertainment resource (featuring tens of thousands of anecdotes, jokes, quotations, and images) and community. The site uses more than 100 modules and will boast such features as content recommendations and user-configurable profile pages. This presentation/discussion will examine past and present issues & challenges and explore possible future developments.
Jay Julian Payne is the founder of anecdotage.com & kakool.com, a former Hollywood correspondent on KPRI in San Diego, and author of Celebrity Anecdotes: Funny Stories About the Stars.
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday, February 21st
Location: Centre for Social Innovation - 215 Spadina Ave, 4th floor [map]
DrupalCon Boston 2008 : your help is needed
Drupal Boston 2008 is taking place March 3 to March 6, with a code sprint on March 7 at MIT.
See details here http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/
As you can see from the budget below, the attendance fee does not cover all the costs. http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/drupalcon-budget
Therefore, any form of financial support is appreciated. If you are a Drupal user or a Drupal shop, please discuss this with your manager and find ways to spread around the word, so all the costs are covered.
Some tips here http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/can-not-afford-come-think-again
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An Introduction
Hello, my name is Jordan and I am currently a web designer/developer focusing on project / production management.
I am also Co-Founder of PHUG (PHP Toronto User Group) which is a newly created, vastly growing open source community that caters to both designers and developers.
Currently we hold weekly Monday meetings, hold monthly events promoting ideas and projects, and contribute to many open source projects.
Although we have many projects of our own, we are currently working with organizations like Mozilla, Miro, FlashInTo, and so on.
Pluralism Template Ported to Drupal 6 Theme
After walkah's presentation on Drupal 6 Themeing, I ported and contributed a theme to drupal.org. Some really great information that inspired me to contribute a new theme. I did a relatively detailed write up in the showcase forums.
Thanks James, for the great presentation and answering the question we all had.
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FLOSSMETRICS/OpenTTT guides
I was sent this link
http://guide.conecta.it/ which in turn links to 2 PDF documents produced by FLOSSMETRICs and OpenTTT (Both European Union commissioned bodies).
The first is the FLOSS Guide (2Mb) (cc) FLOSSMETRICS - which is an education paper on FLOSS. Which could give people ideas on how to market FLOSS in general. It even includes a section of FLOSS business models.
Read moreToronto January Meetup: Drupal 6 Theming
Join us this month at the Centre for Social Innovation for a look at Theming in the upcoming Drupal 6 release. There have been a lot of changes designed to make a themer's life easier : CSS only themes, info files, the theme registry, etc. We'll have a look at what's new and get you ready for making the next release pretty.
See you there!
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday, January 17th
Location: Centre for Social Innovation - 215 Spadina Ave, 4th floor [map]
Mobile Jam Fest International Youth Creativity Fest using Drupal
Visit http://mobilejamfest.com to see drupal in action. We are always looking for help in moving forward with our missions to connect youth through creativity around the world. If you are interested in being involved please contact craig@mobilejamfest.com
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new www.Prevent-It.ca website uses drupal
I thought some might be interested in knowing that such a high profile site is using Drupal. It's a hybrid site where the flash nav is being given it's params dynamically from Drupal. The project took about a month to build.
See you at the meet tonight.
Alex
Therefore Interactive
Toronto December Meetup
Brave the ice and snow and join us for some warming Drupal fun in what should be a packed meeting! We're going to begin the meeting with a presentation, discussion from Bob Fabian about his work rolling out Drupal for CIPS - Canada's Association for IT Professionals. (click "read more" for full details).
We'll also spend some time talking more about the upcoming Drupal 6 release, specifically (by request) some of the developer API changes that will be required for upgrading modules to the next version.
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday December 13th
Location: Centre for Social Innovation - 215 Spadina Ave, 4th floor [map]
Drupal Hosting - Notes from the November 2007 Meetup
Last updated by christefano on Sun, 2011-05-01 23:52
This is intended as a stub wiki page, add to it as you'd like.
(I hope someone took better notes than I at last weeks meeting)
What we as a group value in a hosting provider:
- Consistency
- Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- Good documentation of escalation procedures
- 24/7 priority support available
- security is easily auditable
- Performance
- Uptime
- Shell Access
- Management tools (cPanel, etc).
(not all these tools are valued by everyone equally - it depends on how much system administration you prefer to do yourself)
Read moreToronto-Based Drupal Development Firms
Last updated by wuinfo - bill wu on Fri, 2018-06-15 16:43
Tonerdrupal2 asked Is there a comprehensive list of Drupal Development Firms?
Well, why don't we, as a group, create one? Lets try to keep it to company name and URL. I think Greater Toronto Area companies would qualify.
General Information
Some general information for anyone looking for development companies:
From the Drupal Handbook Hiring a Drupal site developer
Toronto-Based Drupal Web Design Firms
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of Toronto-based web design & development firms that offer Drupal services?
Thanks.
Toronto November Meetup - Drupal Hosting
Our meeting tonight is back at linuxcaffe, as it says in the header of this group (don't ask ...)
Our theme tonight is drupal hosting - if you've got experiences you want to share, recommendations, questions, etc., come on down.
We've got a few special presentations as well from folks who've been thinking about mass Drupal hosting and tools they've used/developed to make this feasible.
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday, November 15th
Location: LinuxCaffe 326 Harbord St. [map]
Media Center (mc) by Climax Media
Hi Drupalers,
Rob & I created a full flash solution in conjunction with Drupal as the backend.
We thought it would be cool to share this with you guys.
The application is fully flash and includes a photogallery & videogallery.
You could use it to start your online media broadcasting system alongside catchy graphics.
To view the flash frontend: Media Center (mc)
To view the drupal backend: Media Center (mc) Backend
Toronto October Meetup: Come meet the Lullabots!
Team Lullabot is coming to Toronto so for this month's meeting, I thought we'd do something a little different...
Join us Thursday, October 11th at the Center for Social Innovation (4th floor) to meet some of Drupal's biggest rockstars:
- Matt Westgate: co-author of Pro Drupal Development (bring your copy and get it signed!) and original author of the e-commerce package, tinymce, and img_assist.
- Jeff Robbins: the voice of drupal, author of the drupal song, and an actual rock star.
- Angie "webchick" Byron: Summer of code co-ordinator, Drupal Association secretary, and everyone's favourite community member.
- Addison Berry: Drupal Dojo star and Lullabot workshop alumn turned Lullabot.
- Jeff Eaton: the FormAPI guy, the VotingAPI guy, and the man with the best presentations.
We'll have food and drinks and plenty Drupal talk. Note the change of date and location and we'll see you there!
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Thursday October 11th
Location: Centre for Social Innovation - 215 Spadina Ave, 4th floor [map]
Toronto September Meetup
Join us for this month's back to school session where we're gonna talk about some theming best practices as well as looking at some debugging tricks and techniques. Bring your questions and hope to see you all there!
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Tuesday, September 11th
Location: LinuxCaffe 326 Harbord St. [map]
Coverage on Torontist.com
I was contacted last week by Greg J. Smith to do a little interview for a piece he was doing for the Torontoist about our group. I just got word that the post is up! Thanks for the coverage, Greg!
Read moreToronto August Meetup: Drupal 6 - What's new
Join us for our monthly meetup where we'll be looking ahead at the new goodies coming in Drupal 6. I'll provide an overview of both the API changes as well as the new features - with demos! Drupal 6 is in code freeze now, so it's time to start looking ahead and getting excited for what should be another killer Drupal release this fall!
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Tuesday, August 14th
Location: LinuxCaffe 326 Harbord St. [map]
Hamilton Group Created
Hi all,
Just wanted to drop the word that a Hamilton group has been created. I by no means intend to try to split or divert focus from the great discussion and learning that goes on in the Toronto group. I do, however, think that having a group local to Hamilton and area will facilitate meetups which are more convenient for Hamilton / Burlington / Niagara drupallers than the alternative of the hour or longer drive to get to Toronto meetings.
Cheers.
Read moreToronto July Meetup : form_alter for fame and fortune
Based on some discussion on the mailing list, I thought we could spend some time this month looking at the site customization secret weapon : hook_form_alter (and it's _alter relatives). There are some pretty powerful ways you can alter core behaviours without having to hack a single line of core code.
Also, we'd love to see some show and tell, so bring yer best hacks / tricks or design :)
That's not all! July 10th happens to be my 30th birthday, so you're all invited to join us afterwards for drinks an good times. See you then!
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Tuesday, July 10th
Location: LinuxCaffe 326 Harbord St. [map]
