Hello Everyone,
This Friday is the first Drupal user group meet-up for Pretoria / Centurion. It's already looking like it will turn out to be a great success under the stewardship of Renate (organiser) and Stuart (venue host).
Please make sure to RSVP on the meetup.com group:
http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Pretoria/
We now have two very successful monthly Johannesburg meetups, a successful monthly Cape Town meetup and we're looking to the future. The Durban meetup starts on the 19th of November:
http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Durban/
And today, we're announcing a new meet-up again. This one is also in Pretoria, but it is planned to switch to monthly meet-ups in 2016 only.
Pretoria / Arcadia meet-up will be a day time one, from noon to 3pm and will be mid-week, so office hours. Another thing that will set it apart a bit is that it will be themed. Well, themed where possible. The theme? NGO and Government.
To kick things off we are doing a meet-and-greet. A special format meet-up that does not have a speaker and is intended to get all the parties together to meet and discuss the requirements and nature of the new meet-up.
The first Pretoria / Arcadia (NGO & Gov) meet-up will be on the 16th of October, 12 noon:
http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Pretoria-Arcadia-NGO-Gov
Please sign up to the group to be kept abreast of planning and get notices of events and please also RSVP to the event if you plan to come:
http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Pretoria-Arcadia-NGO-gov/events/224870872/
Your host and organiser will be Seaparo Phala and his team.
This is an area that we haven't specifically addressed yet, so we'll need the help of all of the community to pull this of as an awesome success. We need to get the word out. Please let everyone know that you know who may be interested. With a successful meet-up like this we can help our government deliver better service, our tax money will be better spent, we'll serve our public servants our volunteers and aid workers at NGOs and in general help good people make good things happen!
Kind regards,
Riaan
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Hello Everyone,
A final call for this meet-up:
http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Pretoria-Arcadia-NGO-Gov/
Everything is looking good and by RSVPs alone so far it will be a great success. We even have a bit of a loose plan for the first meet-up:
I'm catching a lift with Greg, we'll likely grab a few things from Woolies before heading through, maybe to be there 20min early or so. The event is scheduled for 12 noon.
Four of us will speak for 5 to 10minutes:
Seaparo Phala (CIO, Department of Arts and Culture) will open the meet-up with a general touch on open source in government.
Riaan Burger (Drupal Consultant at Burtronix) will describe DASA, mention pain points for Gov/NGO Drupal use and how they can be addressed and engage on how we could take this meet-up forward (host some in Cape Town, frequency (monthly/quarterly) and times).
Johan du Bois (ICT Team Leader at Western Cape Government) will talk about some of the projects they are working on and how, as GPL projects, they can benefit government use of Drupal.
Greg Mckeen (Managing Director of Telamenta) will round off the business side describing the Blue Ocean we're working in and how there are many options of service provision available in the market.
We can then ask if anyone wants to join Riaan, Johan and Greg on a panel for questions and answers from the attendees.
Kind regards,
Riaan
Thanks Riaan. If anyone has
Thanks Riaan.
If anyone has any specific business items they would like me to place into my talk, please let me know either via this comments section or the Contact Form on my account. I would need a small writeup and possibly a screenshot or two. We would like to include as much information as possible on the various Drupal shops and what they are doing, specifically oriented around the NGO & Government space.
Regards,
Greg