We would like to announce a new membership based association to help organise our efforts: Drupal Ireland!!
At the Drupal Camp Dublin this past weekend, Dermot Frost presented a proposal for and constitution of a formal structure for a membership-based association. Dermot prepared the proposal and presented on behalf of the collected volunteers who have been organising events since 2008. Dermot has previously helped IAHPC, student groups, local and regional political organisations to form governing bodies. Dermot also reviewed the draft constitution with Prof O'Dell in TCD Law School to make sure we covered all the bases.
When asked what other regional Drupal associations have been formally created, he pointed out "We're on the bleeding edge". This will be a good model for other groups.
By forming a membership-based association, we create a platform for participation in efforts to promote Drupal in Ireland, and to promote Ireland-based Drupal development abroad. On a practical level, we also benefit from being able to get a bank accounts to facilitate receiving sponsorship and payment of vendors for events, and are able to apply to use the Drupal trademark. Having specific roles and responsibilities will make it possible to develop and act on forward planning for promoting Drupal in Ireland.
The proposal was unanimously approved by all the attendees at the Drupal Camp on the 20th of Nov 2010. There was great questions asked and feedback given and notes taken. We'll be publishing these notes online as soon as we have the space prepared.
Seven volunteers were nominated and unanimously approved for positions on the committee. They met the day after, and decided who was taking on officer roles. Each of the committee members are working on tasks to provide a platform and structure for participation. We will make a full announcement of the particulars of the committee within the next few weeks.
Committee members:
Officers:
Chairperson: Alan Burke, Galway
Treasurer: Stella Power, Dublin
Secretary: Heather James, Sligo
Regular members: Mike King - Belfast
Edward O' Riordan - Cork
Jonathan Larkin - Dublin
Stephen Kenealy - Dublin
Comments
Congratulations :) When can
Congratulations :)
When can we sign up as members?
can Irish drupaling abroad
can Irish drupaling abroad sign up? (like myself.. )
Absolutely
International (and Irish internationally based) members are more than welcome!
hey, thats great. looking
hey, thats great.
looking forward to joining up and helping out.
We're working on a few
We're working on a few details, such as setting up accounts, paying our vendors from the recent event, and getting sponsorship sorted. Then! We'll be setting up a site where people can sign up as members, and we can begin the real fun stuff :)
sounds great
no way i could get away for the camp but am glad to hear the irish org is going ahead. look forward to getting involved...
mike
any update?
hi heather
just wondering what's happening with this, and do u want any help?
mike
Allowed Value PHP
Hi Really enjoyed the camp and the conference
not sure if this is the right place to be posting this but anyway I am stuck
I have created a new content type called contactdetails in here I have created a text field called forum name.
This field will allow the user to associate the contact details with a forum.
In the Allowed Values text area that comes with this text field I have added some php which will return all the forum names in the site.
I have proven that the values are coming out by o\p them on to a screen but simply put the key value array I am returning is
just not being recognised when I build it dynamically.
2 points on this
1) If I build in manually like so
$topics = array();
$topics['Depression'] = 'Depression';
$topics['Sex'] = 'Sex';
$topics['Drugs'] = 'Drugs';
return $topics;
it works no problem and will only allow users enter values of Depression, Sex, Drugs
2) If I build the keys dynamically it will not work
$sql = "SELECT * FROM {term_data} WHERE vid = %d";
$result = db_query(db_rewrite_sql($sql), $vid);
$my_terms = array();
while ($data = db_fetch_object($result) )
{
$term = (string)$data->name;
$my_terms[$term] = ' '. $term;
}
return $my_terms;
I am certain that the values are coming out as they should as I displayed them out to the screen
but for some reason it will not let me build the keys up dynamically I don't know what else to do ???
Help please !!!
You're going about it the
You're going about it the wrong way.
From your use of "term_data" i will presume you are using the drupal forum module.
Go to admin/content/taxonomy/list , and click on "edit vocabulary" for the Forums vocab.
Scroll down to "content types" and tick "Contact Details"
Now when you go to your Contact Details form , you should see a drop down list of the Forums you have created.
sidenote: if you require any further help , i usually hang out on #drupaluk on IRC. (irc.freenode.net). There's quite a few UK and Irish drupalers on there regularly.
Allowed Value PHP (Fixed)
Hi Justin,
Thanks for the reply the approach you outlined will not work with forums as the forums module then displays the Contact Details as Forum Topics
So the links at the top of each forum will ask you if you would like to Post a New Forum Topic as usual but will also ask you if you want to Post New Contact Details
Maybe if I overwrite this module this would help.
Anyway I found the problem with my PHP Allowed Values code.
I didn't get the vocab ID ! Silly mistake thanks again.
//Get forum terms
//Get Vocabulary term by vocab id
$vocabulary_name = 'Forums';
// find the Vocabulary ID
$result = db_query("SELECT vid FROM {vocabulary} WHERE name = '%s'", $vocabulary_name);
$vid = db_fetch_object($result)->vid;
$sql = "SELECT * FROM {term_data} WHERE vid = %d";
$result = db_query(db_rewrite_sql($sql), $vid);
$my_terms = array();
while ($data = db_fetch_object($result) )
{
$term = $data->name;
$my_terms[$term] = $term;
}
return $my_terms;
Update
Hi all.
Just a quick update as requested above.
We hit a number of problems just setting up a bank account, including a new one last week.
Drupal Ireland is presenting it's first Drupalcamp next weekend.
There will be a session about Drupal Ireland and Drupalcamp Ireland, where I'll give a quick review,
and solicit feedback from the community on future plans.
Alan