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:
- Johannesburg
monthly, please check meetup.com for dates. - Cape Town
on the third Wednesday of every month, 18:00 for 18:30 - 21:30. - Pretoria / Arcadia (NGO & Governement)
Currently dormant. - Pretoria / Centurion
Currently dormant. - Bryanston / Parkhurst
Currently dormant. - Durban
quarterly, please check meetup.com for dates.
Recent posts
JHB Open source event - Free Beer
Please find below your invite to the next Free Beer Session.
To register and confirm your attendance, please visit: http://freebeer.linux.co.za
Feel free to share the invite with any friends or colleagues who may be interested in attending.
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Hello Awesome and soon to be Awesome South African Drupalistas!
Read moreServer (and Virtual Server) Hosting in South Africa
Hey Everyone!
I've been a long-time client of Hetzner in South Africa. Since '96 in fact and their service have been so good I've not really shopped around much. All these years I used their managed server offerings, but in 2011 I moved from a Windows desktop to a Linux one (briefly stopping on Ubuntu before settling with Mint) - I was just done with commercially provided binaries and lock-in on my hardware. This year I switched over our servers to root servers too (with much help from the SA Drupal community).
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June Drupal Meet - Jozi, 3 July 2013
The next Drupal Johannesburg meetup will be held on Wednesday, 3 July 2013.
The meetup will take place at Adcorp Holdings (http://g.co/maps/vwjxa).
The address is:
28 Sloane Street
Bryanston
First Building on the left when entering through the gate. Thanks to Envisionme and Ivan for the venue.
The event will start at 18h30.
Read moreCode of Conduct for the South african Drupal Community?
How would you guys feel about adopting a code of conduct for the South African Drupal community.
As a reference the Drupal.org DCoC page, the revision of a new CoC after much community input and the implementation of that revision for the DrupalCon Portland CoC.
As you will see from those links, it is an exceptionally positive document and very supportive and encouraging. It can only help welcome new members to our community and the Drupal project in South Africa.
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June 2013 DrupalCape Meet-Up - Aegir Unplugged
To all who joined us last month's meet-up, it was really good to see you
there, and i am sure that you will join me in extending a big thank you to
Marco Pretorius (PHd) for a well-planned and thought out presentation and
workshop about current and future trends in UX.
Please do join us this month for an exploration of Aegir, "The" Drupal
server platform, in the format of a 30 minute presentation and 1 hour workshop
lead by Jonathan Wagener, Technical Manager and Lead Developer at
Amoebasys-Biz.
DrupalCon Portland Videos
Getting DrupalCon Portland videos:
Install youtube-dl, on Ubuntu just type:
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
Update youtube-dl: Run twice!:
sudo youtube-dl -U
Then just run:
youtube-dl -citw --max-quality url "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeDXSh4nHjRlZKs7cj2L_kLI5osP5ERc"
You can resume if it fails and if they add new videos to the playlist, just run it again to get the newest videos too.
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Here's a technical one...... Multisite or Domain Access?
Here's an interesting challenge:
Site 1 has subdomains that will not share the user table, but will share modules.
Site 2 has a different domain, but will share the user table with site 1, and has different modules but will share some page content.
They are currently on two different servers, but I can place them on the same machine to share DB etc.
From what I have read I have a hybrid of the functionality between the two approaches.
Multisite or Domain Access? Which one should be used to do the trick here....
Thanks in advance for your tips!
Read moreSwag at the Johannesburg Drupal User Group Meet-up
Join us at the Johannesburg Drupal User Group Meet-up to get your free swag. Key rings for casual, and lapel pins for those in suits and more formal jackets (probably more along the lines of the DASA meet). Unbranded other than for the Drupal logo.
Top 100 Drupal Websites Internationally
So... Up to now we were comparing our Drupal usage portion of recognized CMSes in our top Drupal websites in South Africa, at 8.3% to Drupal usage for all websites internationally at 10.1% and many of us wanted to beat that number... it's not that far behind... but that is not the whole story (is it ever).
Reference the site we already know:
- http://top-sa-drupal-sites.burtronix.co.za
Which part of Drupal back-end Needs a better glance ?
Need help for networking and business advice South AFrica
I am an Australian Developer just moved here for www.emergingstars.com. The site was on WordPress, I transferred it to Drupal and made it amazing with all Drupal coolness(8 custom modules in total). The stunning thing is I can't believe I transferred almost 56,000 plain WordPress posts into Drupal content types with Taxonomies and Language stuff, that tells us what drupal is capable of.
For the Drupalars, I was wondering if someone from the Group can guide me for my "little" business www.eshockit.com. I have general networking queries only.
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eConsultant is leading SA Drupal
eConsultant is leading SA Drupal http://www.gcis.gov.za/content/about-us/procurement/awarded-bids12-13
Read moreTop South African Drupal Sites at beginning of June
Things remained pretty same-same the last few months. So this month I hoped to have a top international Drupal websites stats page up, but the international one hits all 15 000 top sites and some of those domains look pretty scary, so I set the international version up on it's own vHost just to be extra safe. The South African one also just analyses .za domains of the top 15 000 that are accessed by South Africans while the international one analyses all 15 000 in it's list.
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Update from DrupalSouth 2014
The organisation of DrupalSouth is moving into full swing and it was about time to provide an update on how things are going.
Support by Linux Australia
Linux Australia have offically come on board as supporters of DrupalSouth 2014 at a crucial time as we're about to secure a venue and dates for the conference.
Dates are coming
Read moreJune Drupal Meet - Jozi, 5 June 2013
he next Drupal Johannesburg meetup will be held on Wednesday, 5 June 2013.
The meetup will take place at Adcorp Holdings (http://g.co/maps/vwjxa).
The address is:
28 Sloane Street
Bryanston
First Building on the left when entering through the gate. Thanks to Envisionme and Ivan for the venue.
The event will start at 18h30.
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Durban Drupal Group
I have been asked to gather Drupalites in Durban to startup a local group. Can anybody therefore give me indication of how other groups are functioning and what is the objective for such a group. What is the community contribution and what benefits has to be offered to a member. What resources has to be contributed or demanded. What structure has to be followed in such a group, what skill level is required or not required etc. etc.
I have willing participants and they are keen to become part of it. I look forward to hear from you guys.
Read moreJavascrip Count Down Timer
Help requested for writing some PHP and Javascript to attach a countdown timer to a Entity Form field. I am a newbie and I live in Durban. Need help or somebody to point me into the right direction.
Read moreVideo of Drupal Core Dev (up to date as of 2013-05-22, 1080p)
I suffer insomnia quite a bit. So last night I decided to stay seated in stead of rolling around and get something done at least. After all work items were done and my brain started dying, I referenced this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ4zNu0HtCQ and decided to try it for myself.
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