Looking for a Senior Drupal Developer to work in Japan
We are seeking senior Drupal developers interested in writing code for both the front-end and back-end of our local and international clients. In this role, you will work with the Marketing and Graphic Design teams to build and maintain company websites, collaborate with other team members on major development projects, and continue to hone your technical skills under the guidance of a mentor.
This position requires critical problem-solving skills, multitasking, a detail-oriented nature, and the ability to work within deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
DrupalSouth Steering Committee - Proposed Initiatives
Since convening in June this year, the DrupalSouth Steering Committee has focused on a range of potential initiatives to support the regional community in Australia & New Zealand.
An overview of these initiatives is available for review in the Google Doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uuuAwdIsofCJHFmnqGD9kqXMFZnTIUoaPA1q...
Read moreAsia Pacific representation at the Drupal Association
Hi everyone,
As some of you might know, I commenced a volunteer role on the Drupal Association Board of Directors (DA) last week. This provides our region with a voice on the DA Board since our last local representative, Donna Benjamin, completed her long and productive term in 2018.
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DrupalSouth Steering Committee Update
Thanks again to everyone who nominated and voted for the DrupalSouth Steering Committee.
The elected members met for the first time last week and have agreed to take on the following roles:
- Owen Lansbury (AU): Chair and primary liaison with Linux Australia and the Drupal Association.
- Nicole Kirsch (NZ): Treasurer and record keeper.
- Pamela Barone (AU): Event liaison and Code of Conduct officer.
- Thom Toogood (NZ): Government liaison and Code of Conduct officer.
- Chris Skene (AU): Corporate liaison and marketing lead.
DrupalSouth - Permanent Committee Election
The Drupal Community in Australia and New Zealand has received 12 candidate nominations to fill 5 seats on a permanent DrupalSouth committee.
Click here to vote until midnight on Friday May 31 (AEST)
To participate you need to live in AU or NZ and log in to Google Forms to ensure one vote per person. No email details will be stored and personal voting choices will be kept strictly confidential.
Meet the Candidates
Read moreDrupalSouth Committee - Call for Candidates
We're pleased to announce the Call for Candidates for the DrupalSouth Standing Sub Committee.
As discussed in the proposal (https://groups.drupal.org/node/534677), the goal of the committee is to drive consistency around governance and knowledge sharing for the Australia and New Zealand Drupal communities.
Full details and the candidate self-nomination form are available here until Monday 1 April, 2019:
https://goo.gl/forms/CuE0DKg72apFHrh93
Please use this thread for any public questions or comments or send private feedback to drupalsouth@gmail.com.
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Save the date!
DrupalSouth is the key event for the Drupal community in Australia and New Zealand. In 2019, for the first time, DrupalSouth is heading under-down-under to Hobart.
Join us at The Hotel Grand Chancellor on the 28th and 29th of November for presentations, discussions, networking and learning all things Drupal!
Two days not enough? We will be holding a code sprint on the 27th of November that everyone's welcome to join.
Stay tuned for more updates via the event website and https://twitter.com/drupalsouth
Read moreDrupalSouth Standing Sub Committee: Draft proposal for feedback
As discussed at DrupalSouth Canberra, a proposal is being put together to form a Standing Sub Committee for DrupalSouth event organisation and other community initiatives that will fall under Linux Australia governance. The goal is to provide more consistency in how Australia and New Zealand Drupal community initiatives and funds are managed rather than relying on ad-hoc volunteers as currently occurs.
This committee will require candidates to self nominate and be voted for by Drupal community members in Australia and New Zealand.
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Wellington Drupal 2018 Xmas Party!
If you haven't haven't been to many meetups this year, make sure you attend this one! We'd love to see you and this is the best chance in 2018 to reconnect we with the Wellington Drupal community.
That's right, we are back in full force for another annual Xmas Party for the Wellington Drupal Meetup group!
We'll be at the Southern Cross in the 'Treehut' space outside. Fingers crossed for glorious sunshine and a refreshing breeze.
Read moreDrupalSouth 2019 - Call for Venue Proposals
In parallel with the lead up to DrupalSouth Canberra this year we've had a local Drupal community team plan and release a call for venue proposals for next year, 2019. Submissions are open to anyone within the Australia and New Zealand Drupal community.
You can view the venue proposal form online with a deadline of Friday August 31, 2018: https://goo.gl/forms/EkTjsqBHY5vvhKoj1
Please use this thread for any public comments or questions about the process, or send private emails to owenlansbury@gmail.com.
Read moreDrupalSouth Canberra 2018 - Call for session Track Chairs
As part of the planning for DrupalSouth Canberra this year I'm putting out a call for people to volunteer as Track Chairs to review session submissions and assist with speakers' preparation.
DrupalSouth will be held in Canberra in November 2018 - dates and venue TBD.
Volunteering as a Track Chair is an essential role that ensures session submissions are reviewed by discipline experts and selected to provide attendees with the best possible conference experience.
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Wellington Jan 7-15
Hello! I am a Drupal developer based in Denver, Colorado and will be in Wellington and surrounds Jan. 7-15; I would love to connect with some local Drupallers while I'm there and/or perhaps borrow a desk for a day or two at a local agency for some coworking and note-sharing. Any user group meetings I should know about?
Lately I have been working heavily in Drupal Commerce 2.x and so any e-commerce people, please reach out!
Thanks, Brad
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DrupalSouth finalised sessions and one day sale on tickets
We're so excited to make our final keynote announcement and to be sharing our finalised sessions that we are rolling back the late ticket fee for 24 hours to $450.
If you know someone that doesn't have a ticket yet - let them know about this deal.
From noon Wednesday 7 November until noon Thursday 8 November (NZDT)
One day sale
Cheers,
Katie
Drupal Agency Leaders Dinner: Auckland 2017
Piyush Poddar (Axelerant) and Chris Skeene (Platform.sh) are co-hosting a Drupal Agency Leaders Dinner at DrupalSouth in Auckland.
You're invited to join peers from other leading agencies to have open discussions on key developments coming out of DrupalSouth. Together, we'll delve into agency challenges, topics on growth and opportunity, and segue into the 2017 Drupal Business Survey results and what these mean for everyone in the Drupal agency community.
EVENT INFORMATION
Date: Wednesday, 15 September 2017
Time: 7:00PM-10:00PM
DrupalSouth t-shirts
Hi everyone, in case you missed it, we're doing t-shirts for DrupalSouth! If you want to ensure you get a t-shirt, please buy your ticket in the next day or two as we need to place the t-shirt order soon. Get your ticket here: https://drupalsouth2017.drupal.org.nz/conference/tickets and please show your support by spreading the word to anything you think may be interested.
Cheers,
Katie
Are you going to DrupalSouth Auckland 16-17 Nov 2017?
DrupalSouth Auckland
DrupalSouth is coming to the city of sails, the city with 50 volcanoes, the city where you can walk from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea in four hours and the fourth most cosmopolitan city in the world... Yep we’re coming to Auckland!
From November 16th-17th, DrupalSouth will be held at one of the newest creative spaces in the heart of the city, Q Theatre. A place built for ideas, collaboration and exploration and somewhere we’ll be calling home for what’s sure to be an amazing two days.
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NZ Collaborative Sprint
Hi everyone,
Alex here, organiser of the Wellington Drupal Meetups.
As discussed in our last event, we are keen to do another collaborative sprint together sometime this year, focusing on a D8 module that needs a lot of love.
The poll is here!
https://groups.drupal.org/node/517017
If there are other modules you think should be on the poll that aren't, post a comment here and I'll update it.
Read moreWhat Drupal 8 module(s) need the most amount of dev support at the moment that the NZ community could collaborate on together?
Drupal 7/8 developer who wants to move to NZ
Hi guys, I'm a Drupal developer from Belgium.
I would like to come in New Zealand for (at least) a few years so I'm looking for some available position. If any of you know anything about a company looking to hire a Dev, let me know :)
Thanks in advance guys!
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Junior/ Intermediate Drupal 8 / PHP Developer Remote
Due to a shortage of suitable candidates for an onsite position, I am now opening this up to anyone who is able to work by remote.
I am looking for one or more intermediate FREELANCE Drupal backend developers to work on a number of projects for a period of three to six months part or full time. These developers should have some understanding of the following:
Drupal 8 preprocess and theme hooks
Drupal 8 custom module plugins and hooks
OOP PHP structured programming
The developers should also:
be familiar with working by remote
have a good grasp of English
Full stack / Drupal 8 / PHP developer required for 3 to 6 months in Auckland
Three to six month contract available for the right person in Auckland, New Zealand.
This is an hourly contract in a relaxed environment
You can work from home but onsite attendance is recommended regularly
The project consists of three Drupal 8 sites for an Enterprise company
You will work in a small team primarily as a backend developer but theming and other full stack tasks may be requested
Custom modules and javascript expertise
Design specs are likely to be high end, high expectation
Applications used: Drupal 8, Drush, Git, Bitbucket, Gulp, Atlassian Pipelines, Jira
Kiwis going to DrupalGov 2017
I reminder to all in Drupal, in Gov, or both ...
DrupalGov Canberra is coming up, http://drupalgov.org/events/drupalgov-canberra-2017
Early-bird tickets are sold, but it's still VERY cheap.
There are now flights direct from WLG to CBR (phew!)
And session submissions are closing tomorrow!
http://drupalgov.org/content/drupalgov-canberra-2017-session-submission
Get along and see what's been happening in GovCMS-land, or if you are keen on Drupal8 instead, have a try with aGov!!
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Stripe payment gateway now available for NZ
Hi all, a couple of weeks ago I signed up for the Stripe payments NZ beta release. Last week I got my invitation email and gave it a hoon.
I tried with:
- Commerce Kickstart 7.x-2.40
- Commerce Stripe 7.x-3.0-alpha1 (with stripe-php libraries v3.23.0)
Using the Secret Key and Publishable Key from my stripe.com account I have successfully made a test purchase via my website.
Read moreKiwis going to DrupalSouth Gold Coast
So, who are we going to be seeing at goldcoast2016??
Sparks has confirmed Sponsorship (Thanks Dave!) and a team of 6 from Auckland and Wellington - all of whom may be storytelling at some point?.
I'm looking forwards to the sprints... have not yet picked out my favorite talks though...
.dan.
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