Welcome to the Drupal Ottawa User Group. We will use this group to develop the Drupal community in Ottawa, to plan local events (DrupalCamps, informal get-togethers, etc.) and to share success stories and planned / completed drupal implementations. Public servants (this is Ottawa after all) interested in deploying bilingual / Common Look & Feel compliant governmental web sites will find colleagues in this group facing the same challenges related to the introduction of drupal in the federal government.
Planning Session for Drupalcamp Ottawa - 235 King Edward, 2nd flr
[edited to change date to Aug 14]
Looks like there is enough interest in starting an Ottawa DrupalCamp this year. But if it's going to happen, we'll have to start getting things organized. The proposed agenda for this meeting includes:
- Venue
- Date
- Keynote speaker
- Format (i.e. unconference or structured?)
- Theme(s) and streams
- Budget
Last week I sat in on a planning meeting for the Montreal DrupalCamp, which was very helpful, and I'll be able to report on how they're handling things this year.
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This wiki page is for organizing the first ever Drupalcamp in Ottawa. Feel free to modify and add information as you like.
Read moreDrupalcamp Ottawa - Are We There Yet?
It's probably inevitable that sooner or later, Ottawa is going to have it's own Drupalcamp, perhaps with a major focus on government and NGOs. And because there's been quite a surge in government interest over the past year, I'm wondering whether this might be the year it happens.
With all the GoC buzz I'm pretty sure that there'd be a fair number of attendees, especially if it was held on a weekday (or Friday + Saturday), so the only question in my mind is whether there are enough people who could help with the organization of the event and could help with presentations and such.
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DrupalCamp WI, July 28, 2012: Sessions and registrations being accepted!
DrupalCampWI 2012 is currently accepting registration and session submissions! The camp is Saturday, July 28, 2012 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The camp is appropriate for Drupal beginners and experts alike. We also hope to have some conference and "unconference" content specifically focused on Drupal in Higher Education.
Register: http://midwest-developer-summit.com/content/register
Propose a session: http://midwest-developer-summit.com/node/add/session (requires login)
language detection and URL aliases/paths
Hey everyone,
I'm trying to figure out a way to resolve an issue on a site for a client and maybe one of you guys have had a similar issue and can offer some insight. I'm actually a bit surprised that there is little discussion about this (or at least little that I can find on google).
So it breaks down like this. I have a multilingual D7 site, with language detection set up to use the URL path prefix.
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Time to Discuss Drupal 8?
I'm wondering if there are enough folks in Ottawa who are interested in getting together to talk about Drupal 8.
Angie just put out some slides for talking points - http://webchick.net/drupal-8-slides
A few of us will get to the Accessibility sprint in Montreal - http://groups.drupal.org/node/229943
Would be great to have a few other core contributors in town.
Let's see if there's interest and then pick a date.
Read moreDrupalCon Munich Ticket for Sale
Hello all,
I was one of the first to buy a ticket to the DrupalCon Munich, unfortunate I wont be able to make it.
I am willing to transfer the ticket for $450.00
Please let me know if you are interested.
Thanks
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Drupal Accessibility Sprint in Montreal June 15-17, 2012
Montreal's local Drupal Association is hosting a 3 day Accessibility code sprint running from 9-5 (and possibly later) on June June 15th, 16th and 17th. Everett Zufelt of and Mike Gifford will lead the sprint which will be held at the offices of Evolving Web, 114-300 rue du Saint-Sacrement, Montreal. Wheel chair access is via rue Le Moyne. Ten dollar Parking can be found nearby on rue University.
Weekend attendees will need to buzz 114 to get access to the building.
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Free Drupal Workshop at Artengine this weekend
I'll be giving a basic intro to Drupal workshop at Artengine this Saturday courtesy of our open workshop series.
www.artengine.ca/resources/workshops-en.php
Please signup if you intend to come.
LIKELY TOPICS: Installing Drupal on a laptop, Importing/Exporting to web server, installing modules, themes, creating content types, views, multilanguage sites with i18n, etc..
Read moreWhy big government sites run Drupal
Sorry if you've already seen this, but it's a great article about Drupal in government so I thought it would be good to have a link to this on the Ottawa group page: http://www.govtech.com/policy-management/Why-Big-Sites-Run-Drupal.html
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Accessibility Code Sprint in Montreal - June 2012
Hello everyone,
Montreal's local Drupal Association is planning to run a 3 day Accessibility code sprint in June. Everett Zufelt of and Mike Gifford have both expressed an interest in helping to lead the sprint. We're currently looking at June 15-17 as our dates. A facility has not yet been booked, but Montreal's Notman House has been suggested. It was used successfully for our i18n sprint back in September. We're holding the sprint from June 15th to 17th at the offices of Evolving Web, 114-300 rue du Saint-Sacrement
Monteal.
Drupal in a Day Training in Ottawa: May 18
Are you curious about Drupal, or debating whether it is the best tool for your marketing website, online magazine, or social network? Drupal in a Day is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Drupal, providing site builders and decision makers key insight into how Drupal works behind the scenes.
Read moreLooking for a private Drupal consultant in Ottawa to help me spiff up my current site
Hi, I have a web site (http://crashcourse.ca) that is currently running on Drupal, but I am by no means conversant in Drupal and would like to find someone local to spend a few hours with me and bring it up to date, where I can watch the process and get a handle on new features so that I can make simple changes on my own but I still have access to that local expert on occasion if something larger comes up.
Read moreDrupal training in Ottawa
Someone in my organization was asking about Drupal training in Ottawa (he was signed up for a course this month with icourseottawa but it was cancelled).
Anybody know of other Drupal training in Ottawa, or good online options?
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jQuery Mobile code sprint - Drupal 7
Overview
We want to use jQuery Mobile with Drupal 7. We're continuing to extend the excellent module(s) in the Drupal/jQuery Mobile family created by Jason Savino.
http://drupal.org/project/jquerymobile
Here's a high level overview of what we want to do
- Update current module to use latest build of jQuery Mobile
- Fix the code formatting in jquerymobile
- Add missing theme elements for use with jQuery Mobile (i.e. tables, Views lists, panel panes)
- Extend the Views integration
- Build out some Drush tools
- Write documentation
Technical Details
Read moreMobile Tools Code Sprint - Drupal 7
Mobile Tools code sprint for Drupal 7.
Our goal is to have a beta release (or if we're feeling good, an RC) for Mobile Tools
We'll be setting up a list of tasks to perform, create a branch to work on and lots of other stuff to ensure we're as efficient (and fun) as possible.
From a high level here's what we need to do
- Build the Themekey integration
- Complete the CTools/Context integration
- Build the Browscap integration
- Rebuild the Mobile Tools config/admin pages
- Bug fixes and more bug fixes
Looking for help with a Community Currency Exchange System for Ottawa
There's a small group of passionate individuals planning a new community currency for Ottawa. The system (named Ottawa Community Currency Network) will target individuals and businesses and aims to promote trade without the use of cash. We're currently looking at various technology options to use and one of the contenders is Drupal (v6), and specifically http://www.CommunityForge.net / CForge, which uses the mutual_credit module. This code is currently maintained by a single individual, Matthew Slater.
Our goal is to get a prototype website up quickly with the basic functionality of a mutual credit trading system and looking like this HTML mockup: http://www.ottawaccn.org. I'm in the midst of doing that now.
Our future goal is to expand the functionality to include mobile payment, notifications by SMS, geo-tagged information to support "real-life" markets, multilingual support and more - eventually even tie-in with other community currency systems. Interested in helping out?
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Alfresco Lunch and Learn - Ottawa
Hi all…
Sorry this is short notice - had lots on the go last few weeks (Some of you got this email directly)
We are co-hosting the Official Ottawa Alfresco Lunch & Learn this Wednesday.
Along with showing off Alfresco SHARE capabilities… we will be showing a cross integration with the new Drupal7 WET (discussing CMIS+solr). Note that this is not a Techie “how-to” but an official Alfresco lunch and learn (There will be a few people from Alfresco Corporate which were with OpenPlus at GTEC 2011) – so should be good... And I will also be discussing Procurement vehicles.
Read moreBuilding multilingual sites webinar
I just wanted to note that on Wednesday (Jan 11) Acquia is having a webinar on building multilingual sites. There's more information here: http://www.acquia.com/resources/acquia-tv/conference/building-multilingu...
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