South Africa

We encourage users to post events happening in the community to the community events group on https://www.drupal.org.

This is a group for all users, developers and designers interested in the Drupal Open Source CMS, who are based in South Africa. The goal of this group is to foster the local community, provide local support and to allow the local Drupal industry to grow.


Our user group meet-ups:

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davetow's picture

Freelance Help with Commerce Store Resolver and Payflex API

Good day,
Is anyone interested assisting with 2 issues holding up completion of a project? Urgent help needed, based in South Africa if possible. Drupal 9.4.3 / Commerce latest
(1) we need a custom store resolver to resolve warehouse/store based on proximity to site visitor location.
(2) we need to use PayFlex payment gateway - this requires setting up an interface based on APIs and instructions available from PayFlex. For API, please see https://docs.payflex.co.za/#introduction
If someone can help, I'd just need to know estimated time and approx cost for each.

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rhysonline's picture

Need freelance help with Drupal 7 application

Hi friends. I'm in need of some freelance help with a stalled Drupal 7 application. I'm in Joburg but happy to work remotely. If you have some experience with CiviCRM that would also be helpful. My email is davy.ivins@gmail.com.

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ChandeepKhosa's picture

Freelance Drupal people wanted to help on international projects

Hi everyone,

I am a freelance Drupal Developer in based in London, UK working with a variety of different clients. Sometimes I get busy and would be interested to see if I can find a few people in different time zones to help me out on projects. Anything more than 4 hours/week might work, and in sometimes can be done in your evenings and weekends.

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markpape's picture

Durban Drupal November Meetup

Start: 
2018-11-27 18:30 - 20:30 Africa/Johannesburg
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

[ Drupal DevOps: The challenge of hosting at scale ]

Durban boy Blaize Kaye (now in NZ) returns on Tues, 27th Nov 2018 to speak on the Australian Ministry of Finance's GovCMS hosting migration to the amazee.io hosting platform . Don't miss this DevOps learning opportunity!

Remember, meetups allow us to share, learn & collaborate. We learn faster through shared experiences. Please RSVP.

[ Who is Blaize? ]

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markpape's picture

Durban Drupal September Meetup

Start: 
2018-09-04 18:30 - 20:30 Africa/Johannesburg
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Let's share and learn how to secure our websites from hackers.

Deep Current shares it's recent hack experience and how it now secures its websites as a result. We encourage you to come and share your experiences and best practice in website security.

Agenda:

18:30 - Meet & Greet
19:00 - Welcome & Introductions
19:10 - Presentation / Talk
19:30 - Intermission
19:45 - Unconference
20:30 - Closing

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Richard Banks's picture

August Joburg Meetup

Start: 
2018-08-01 19:00 - 20:30 Africa/Johannesburg
Event type: 
User group meeting

We are going to try something new for August, we will be having a practical evening. If you are trying to install Drupal for the first time, have a bug in a module that you just can't figure out or are just looking for feedback on your latest creation. All are welcome, don't forget to bring your computer along too.

Agenda:

  • 18:30 - Meet & Greet
  • 19:00 - Welcome & Introductions
  • 19:30 - Unconference
  • 20:30 - Closing
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Richard Banks's picture

Drupal Johannesburg May Meetup

Start: 
2018-05-02 18:30 - 20:30 Africa/Johannesburg
Event type: 
User group meeting

Lee Taylor will be doing an introduction to SSH. This will be a hands-on session so bring your computers along as well.

After the talk, we will have an open session where you can show us what you are building with Drupal or get your Drupal related questions answered by the group.

Agenda:

18:30 - Meet & Greet
19:00 - Welcome & Introductions
19:10 - Presentation / Talk
19:30 - Intermission
19:45 - Unconference
20:30 - Closing

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Jason Lewis's picture

Drupal Cape Town March Meetup

Start: 
2018-03-28 18:30 - 20:30 UTC
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Hello

Thank you to all who attended last month's meetup and a big thank you to our generous hosts, Andri and LAB South Africa.

This month's meetup will be back at our regular venue, the Bandwidth Barn in Woodstock, on Wednesday 28 March 2018.

Stew West, Front-end Developer at Amazee Labs, will be our speaker for the night and will be doing a demo of cool new things available in Drupal 8.5.

Don't forget, if you have any interesting projects you're currently working on or have just completed, and would like to showcase it to the community, please feel free to do so.

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Richard Banks's picture

March Joburg Drupal Meetup

Start: 
2018-03-07 18:30 - 20:30 Africa/Johannesburg
Event type: 
User group meeting

Hi Everyone!

Just a reminder that the next Drupal Johannesburg meetup will be tomorrow the 7th of March.

For more details see the meetup page (see link above).

I hope you see you there!

Richard

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Jason Lewis's picture

Drupal Cape Town February Meetup

Start: 
2018-02-28 18:30 - 21:00 Africa/Johannesburg
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Hello everyone!

All the best for 2018!

This year's first meetup takes place at a different location from our usual inner city venue. LAB South Africa, based in Century City, will generously be hosting us on Wednesday 28 February 2018. Their cool office environment with pool and foosball tables makes for a great setting to share Drupal knowledge and catch up on a social level after the evening's talk.

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Richard Banks's picture

Meetup - 7th Feb 2018

Start: 
2018-02-07 18:30 - 20:30 Africa/Johannesburg
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Hi Everyone!

The next Drupal Johannesburg meetup will be on the 7th of February.

For more details see the meetup page (see link above).

I hope you see you there!

Richard

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Richard Banks's picture

Joburg Drupal Meetup

Start: 
2017-11-08 18:30 - 20:30 Africa/Johannesburg
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Hi Everyone,

This is just a friendly reminder that the monthly Joburg Drupal meetup is tomorrow (8th Nov 2017)

We would love to see you there.

This is the last meetup before the holiday season starts, so we will be talking about our plans for 2018.

As always there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions, get help with an issue you are struggling with or show off what you have done lately with Drupal.

If you haven't signed up you can do so here https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Johannesburg/events/jknxknywpbcb

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Richard

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markpape's picture

Durban Meet-up: Headless Drupal with Vue.js

Start: 
2017-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 Africa/Johannesburg
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Get the look you want, go headless!

Hylton Millar from BlueSky will showcase single page applications using 'headless drupal' and vue.js as the presentation layer.

Join us to learn and share from our experiences.

Hylton began developing using pascal in dos many years ago and has now been using Drupal 7 for the last 5 years as his primary development framework. He is currently involved in developing cloud based membership type systems for various sporting bodies and other entities at drupal dev company www.blsky.co.za .

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Jason Lewis's picture

Update: Drupal Camp Cape Town 2017

We have started adding the list of awesome Drupal Camp Cape Town Speakers to the site -https://capetown2017.drupalcamp.co.za/

Be sure join us on 13 October at the River Club in Observatory, Cape Town, for a day of great talks workshopping and networking.

Registration is open - Entrance is free - Seating is limited.

See you there!

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markpape's picture

Durban Meet-up: How to Build a Custom Module in Drupal 7?

Start: 
2017-08-15 18:00 - 20:00 Africa/Johannesburg
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Hey Durbs!

Mark Pape from Deep Current is currently building a custom module on Drupal 7 and is eager to share his experience.

The module is for a client that needs to allow existing customers to login and request back-office "Copies of Documents" and "Reports" via API. The intention is to reduce the need to contact customer support for these documents.

This means the Module makes use of the Forms API, Menu API, HTTP Requests, Database API for logging and reporting of transactions, etc.

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Jason Lewis's picture

Drupal Camp Cape Town 2017

Start: 
2017-10-13 08:00 - 17:00 Africa/Johannesburg
Organizers: 
Event type: 
Drupalcamp or Regional Summit

We’re very excited to announce that the organising of Cape Town’s 3rd Drupal Camp is underway. This year’s event builds on our focus of bringing Drupal professionals, novices, students and clients together, in order to enrich them through a number of informative industry talks, as well as help grow the community in South Africa.

This year's camp takes place at a wonderful new venue, The River Club in Observatory, Cape Town on Friday, 13 October. It is close to the city centre, major roads and many hotels and guest houses.

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Jason Lewis's picture

Drupal Camp Cape Town 2017

Start: 
2017-10-13 08:00 - 17:00 Africa/Johannesburg
Organizers: 
Event type: 
Drupalcamp or Regional Summit

We’re very excited to announce that the organising of Cape Town’s 3rd Drupal Camp is underway. This year’s event builds on our focus of bringing Drupal professionals, novices, students and clients together, in order to enrich them through a number of informative industry talks, as well as help grow the community in South Africa.

This year's camp takes place at a wonderful new venue, The River Club in Observatory, Cape Town on Friday, 13 October. It is close to the city centre, major roads and many hotels and guest houses.

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Jason Lewis's picture

Drupal Cape Town July Meetup

Start: 
2017-07-26 18:30 - 21:00 Africa/Johannesburg
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Hi everyone!

Thank you to all who attended our great meetup in June. It was great seeing you all! A huge thank you to Riaan Burger, for his generosity in making the time and the trip, from Johannesburg, to share his talk with us.

Our next meetup, takes place Wednesday, 26 July at the Bandwidth Barn, in Woodstock.

We're in for a treat this month! We have 2 speakers lined up.

First we have George Ziady, Lead Drupal Developer at X-Team, with his talk - Performance Profiling: A look at PHP and database tools to identify and solve performance bottlenecks in Drupal.

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chuta's picture

DrupalCamp Nigeria + PHP Bootcamp 2017

Start: 
2017-10-20 09:10 - 2017-10-21 09:10 Africa/Lagos
Event type: 
Drupalcamp or Regional Summit

DrupalCamp Nigeria + PHP Bootcamp 2017 is an open source conference, with a focus on accelerated learning for people new to Drupal and also an avenue for Drupal users to contribute back to the Drupal project and community. This annual grassroots conference brings together enthusiastic beginners and experienced Drupal developers and PHP developers, from around the country.

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wavesailor's picture

Integrate Drupal Commerce and Pastel

Hi all,

Has anyone done any integration with Drupal Commerce and Pastel.
Success or failure? Any guidelines? .... or better yet any modules around?

Thx, Grant

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