Posted by theamoeba on June 1, 2009 at 9:00am
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2009-06-13 14:00 Africa/Johannesburg Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
It is time for another meetup :). I have set it up at Wembly Square (same place as last time). Last time was quite a cool success and the venue was great so come along and have fun.
It will be on the 13 June at 14:00.
Here is a map to Wembky Square - http://www.wembleysquare.co.za/contact.php
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Suggested content to cover
This is great, theamoeba - hope it goes well! I might pop in to the Joburg meetup next week, since I'm there. A suggestion for the Cape Town meetup is to have a definite goal in terms of what content the group is going to cover. My suggestion is a "How to install and configure Drupal."
You know, have a Mac and Windows version of MAMP (or XAMPP) available so that people can install it right there, and get introduced to phpMyAdmin, apache and php all in one. Then guide them through a basic drupal install, and then do something somewhat useful, like setting up a blog, changing the colours of Garland, adding a new user role and playing with some permissions.
That's my R0.02 ;)
How about working through this article
In fact, simply working through this article, Building a Drupal site in 10 steps will be a good place to start for newbies.
An even better way to get started with installing drupal is to use <a href="http://acquia.com/downloads'>Acquia's stack installer for Windows or Mac.
thanks for the suggestions.
thanks for the suggestions. i think that is a good idea. i think perhaps it would be a good idea to if we seperated the meetings between the "experts" and the "noobs" and then have leaders for each of those groups. I think this would be better because then the people who know will then be able to chat about more advanced stuff and the beginners can learn.
What do you think?
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Jonathan Wagener
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Hi, this is great :) May I
Hi, this is great :)
May I make another suggestion as a theme for our next meetup?
Then perhaps we can all brain-storm per site and suggest new ideas.
Any takers? Maybe we can run a poll between us of what we would like to discuss most ..
Looking forward :)
Lilian
yeah that would be cool.
yeah that would be cool. like adrian did last time with aegir.
should we pass around a paper and pen at the meetings with suggestions for next meetings or should we run polls online?
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Jonathan Wagener
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Hi again, I think if we get
Hi again,
I think if we get more suggestions for theme's of the meeting, we can run a poll online .. what do you think?
thats a good idea. I am busy
thats a good idea. I am busy working on an interesting app at the moment that I might show at the meetup if it is in a working condition by then. :)
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Jonathan Wagener
http://espresso-online.info
http://twitter.com/jonathanw
something i would like to
something i would like to learn about, perhaps someone in the know could help me on this, is how to write modules that create hooks. in other words i can create a module that makes hooks so i can write another module to connect to it. i would also like to learn about creating views 2 relationships with a contrib module much like the votingapi module.
i have not been able to find any suitable documentation about the above 2 things. perhaps someone could share on that?
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Jonathan Wagener
http://espresso-online.info
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Hiya
Hiya
I will be at the meeting. I am learning drupal and constantly doing it so hopefully by the time of the meeting I will know it better. Hope that isn't a problem as I wont be presenting anything.
Thanks
Tyrone
no problem. just bring
no problem. just bring yourself and your questions. :)
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Jonathan Wagener
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Noobi
Hi
I'm keen to pop in....but I wasn't at the last one, so not sure where you'll be exactly in Wembley square...
StewWest
we will be at sinns
we will be at sinns http://www.sinns.co.za/
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Jonathan Wagener
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confirming
Hiya
Confirming the meeting Sat 13th at 2pm at Wembley Square
Thanks
oops ..
Oh my goodness, a meeting has come up in Johannesburg tomorrow afternoon, so unfortunately cannot make Saturday, so sorry ..
All is arranged for everyone that wants to come, they are expecting you at Sinns restaurant, Wembley Square at 2pm. Same table that we had last time.
So please keep arranging with Jonathan (theamoeba), the organizer of this event.
Looking so forward to the next one!
Lilian
Hi Everyone, We would just
Hi Everyone,
We would just like to know many people will be joining us at http://www.wembleysquare.co.za/contact.php (map at link) at 2pm ..
Just confirm your attendance at http://groups.drupal.org/node/22816.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Lilian
well there will be me and
well there will be me and another person, so two of us.
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Jonathan Wagener
http://espresso-online.info
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Hey guys, We're working
Hey guys,
We're working around the clock getting our new template framework ready for launch, so unfortunately will have to give this one a miss. Hopefully we'll have some decent weather for the next one, so we can organize a braai or something.. :)
Cheers,
Chris
http://www.joomlajunkie.com
http://www.prothemer.com
http://www.inspirechange.nu
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Chris Rault
http://www.prothemer.com
http://www.inspirechange.nu
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I'm just a newbie
Hey oaks and oakets, I'm just a newbie and don't want to waste your time, if it's just one other Guru and me, as it might be wasted on me?
I'm a pal of Roger Saner, who is quite the Drupal Evangelist, and mentioned this meetup.
I usually use Joomla as my main CMS if I don't make my own small one, and thought I'd pop in to see what's up. I'm the type who loves to learn, so I was keen to pop in.
What do you think? Let me know.
come along, we will be happy
come along, we will be happy to have you :)
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Jonathan Wagener
http://espresso-online.info
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Seems like everybody is busy
Seems like everybody is busy this month.
Sorry guys, I got a site that is going live on Monday. So no weekend for me.
Definatly next time! Let's plan something BIG!
Quentin
www.maxheadroom.co.za
Quentin
nevermind :) see u next
nevermind :) see u next time
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Jonathan Wagener
http://espresso-online.info
http://twitter.com/jonathanw