South Africa

Hi Everyone,

In the last few meetups we talked about getting a Slack group up and running to help us keep in touch in between meetups and to organise our meetups along with other events in the future.

You can join the group by visiting http://slack.drupaljhb.co.za/ enter your email and you will get an invite to join the group.

I hope to see you online.

Regards,

Richard

Hi all

I need to find a someone to provide ad hoc dev and design support for a couple of small Drupal sites I maintain (for non profit companies I help).

Right now I need to hire someone to develop an extension to integrate Payfast (or a similar local gateway) into a CiviCRM 4.7.16 module on a Drupal 7.54 site.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Davy (0842078148)

Hello Everyone,

With a bit of a dip in association-like activity on our local front it is perhaps a great time to highlight the fee and open elections for the director-at-large position on the board of the international Drupal Association. Elections are about to start and in fact, some of the process started a little while ago already with a call for those interested to serve to submit their profiles.

Profiles of the 2017 candidates: https://assoc.drupal.org/election/18/candidates

Yup, very exciting (and quite scary at times) ;-) I'm standing as a candidate too and my primary goal with this year's candidacy is to generate participation in and awareness of the process. On Wednesday the DA will start promoting the election and the candidates, but we can post about it in the mean time.

My profile: https://assoc.drupal.org/election/2017-director-large-election/candidate-8

As you can see, you're all welcome to post comments to the profiles. Actual voting will be between the 6th and 18th of March and works pretty similarly to how we used to do it for the local DASA in that you rank candidates and to vote, you have to have been a member of Drupal.org for at least a year. You can read more about the elections:

Drupal Association Board Elections: https://assoc.drupal.org/drupal-association-board-elections

It is remarkable and encouraging to see just how much of the Drupal Association work-flows are similar to the ones we used for DASA and it is a heck of an interesting learning process getting to know more. We did very well in years past here and while I have to admit that the chance of winning this election is on the low side for me, the process is very enjoyable and with such incredible candidates we all win by having one of them win. On the off chance though, I'll still have enough time to make sure I can contribute to our local community in meaningful ways as I did before.

Let's bring South Africa and Africa to the stage!

With my kindest regards,
Riaan

Lauro Scott-Parkin passed away on the 9th of December in a motorcycle accident.

He was loved by many within and outside of our circles, incredibly involved in our community and was a valuable personal friend of mine.

In our community Lauro was involved from the very start. From way before we even rebooted the meet-ups he was a linchpin and glue at the Drupal team of the company he worked at at the time and he continued those relationships, as all that he made, positively throughout the years. He contributed to all our events and in his capacity as the owner of Ingen Media, sponsored our conferences. But more than that, he made connections happen, bringing people together and building a community. Fair and very positive, he turned potential conflict into friendship and positive relations. There will be no way to ever replace his absence for us.

I'll miss the odd nights after midnight wandering streams in the suburbs and sitting on street corners under a starry night discussing plans for our Johannesburg community, collaborations and plans to make this world a better place. He was always positive and was such a role model for me that I often mentioned him to my daughter as an example. I recall him excusing himself from a social moment to go home to prepare Talia, his wife a nice salad for later that night. He seemed to be able to manage to stand his place full in friendship, in business and in a very rich personal life too. I will miss him terribly and have so many unfinished plans with the man!

To Talia, the many friends I know through him in our community and the many, many personal friends and family he had that I know will feel his loss so dearly, my heart and thoughts are with you and I hope his personality will survive him in your lives in the positive way he lived and interacted with all of us.

AfrikaBurn is the spectacular result of the creative expression of participants who gather once a year in the Tankwa Karoo to create a temporary city of art, theme camps, costume, music and performance!

And they need a new website, which is where you come in. Looking for a part time backend developer - it is a short term position, available immediately, location flexible. Site is on Drupal 7.

Site git repo: https://github.com/AfrikaBurn/website

For more information, contact jobs@afrikaburn.com
In the spirit of the event, volunteers are also welcome.

Hi all,

You can can now visit Drupal Camp Cape Town's new Facebook page for the latest Camp news, from venue info to After Party updates.

Like it and stay informed about the big day: https://www.facebook.com/DrupalCampCPT/

See you on 21 October!