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
PayU Drupal Commerce Module
Along the lines of the iVeri module we are writing (http://groups.drupal.org/node/299583), we will also be writing a PayU module for integration with Drupal Commerce.
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Nimbledoo is about to embark on writing an iVeri module for Drupal Commerce as we cant seem to find an existing module. Before we go down this path we want to check in with the community.
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May 2013 DrupalCape Meet-Up - UX Unplugged
Its been a while and we have missed you. We have had 4 rather cosy meetings so far this year, and with the winter coming on we thought that a little more body heat would be good. Soooo, come and join us!!
This meeting format will take the form of a presentation and then a workshop in which we take a look at two sites which Marco will select, one good, and one bad.
Please take a look at the Eventbrite page here http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6730000613 to find out more about the meeting and also to book a seat :).
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Drupal Association South Africa Meeting
Hey guys,
We'll probably follow the same sort of agenda as last time and just see how much progress was possible since then. I'll try to post notes before tomorrow evening too.
This also cross-posted to Meetup.com at:
http://www.meetup.com/drupal-association-south-africa/
Kind regards,
Riaan
When and Where: Wednesday the 15th of May, 18:30, at Adcorp Holdings, 28 Sloane Street, Bryanston (first building on the left when entering at the gate).
Read moreTop South African Drupal Sites at beginning of May
The to site script runs once, some times fails fetching a site and just continues. Data is based on people using the Alexa toolbar. Detection is open source, so it's easy to circumvent if you don't like your site identified. So these aren't seriously rigorous ranks, but still worth it for fun.
That being said, I also made a mistake in reporting Drupal growth last month. We have three months' data now. The fist month we detected 99 Drupal sites in the 13 000-odd sites checked. The second 86 and this last month 87.
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May Drupal Meet - Jozi, 8 May 2013
The next Drupal Johannesburg meetup will be held on Wednesday, 8 May 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 promptly at 18h30.
Read moreThanks JHB Meet-up for git
Thanks to the JHB meet-up people for pushing me on the git issue.
I gave up the weekend and with advice from Nick to refer to the open source git book http://git-scm.com/book sat down and got to work on learning git.
I'm only on mid-chapter 2, but also read a bit of chapter 3 and already managed to get some stuff done:
On Drupal.org I managed to set up a sandbox and put a theme, Zen Slate, in there: https://drupal.org/sandbox/nightwatch/1981700
Read moreDrupal for more than just websites
Don't limit Drupal sales to just websites. We find that traditional websites make up a smaller part of our business even when they are quite large while innovative new setups from overlays on video on screens in franchise stores to large scale presentations and intricate real-time integrations make up more of our work.
Read moreJohannesburg/Bryanston Monthly Drupal Association Meeting
Last updated by riaan burger on Mon, 2013-04-22 08:40
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When
Third Wednesday of every month
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Johannesburg at Adcorp Holdings, 28 Sloane Street, Bryanston.
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Who to Contact
- Riaan Burger - Organizer
- Ivan Breet - Hosting
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Regular Attendees
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DrupalCape WEDNESDAY 24 April 2013
DrupalCape is meeting on WEDNESDAY, 24 April 2013 at the Bandwidth Barn.
We will be discussing a bit of Drupal history and look at a showcase of sites.
Drupal has been in development since 2001 and over the last decade has seen some significant changes, we will be discussing some of those major changes.
If you would like to have a Drupal site or application you have built be included in the showcase please let us know in the comments or via the profile contact form.
Read moreDrupal Association South Africa Meeting
When and Where: Wednesday the 24th of April, 18:30, at Adcorp Holdings, 28 Sloane Street, Bryanston (first building on the left when entering at the gate).
Hello Everyone,
Over the past month there has been a lot of movement in the Drupal community of South Africa. Discussions have been held on Democratizing Drupal, forming an Association, and how to bring the various groups into contact with one another.
After much consideration between various individuals and myself, I would like to invite anyone and everyone interested, to the first meeting of Drupal Association South Africa.
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Drupal.co.za
Recently, Bianca volunteered a new theme design for the South African Drupal Community website (drupal.co.za).
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Additional SA group pages
With all the new activity in this group Willem suggested we add a couple of pages to make the content more navigable. I have added the following pages: Events, Discussions, Wiki and Jobs. Please log in to see the changes otherwise you may be seeing the old cached version (or just visit http://groups.drupal.org/south-africa/events and you'll see the new tabs). Suggestions for improving usability welcome :-)
Read moreDrupal.org.za (and.co.za) should:
IRC (#drupal-za)
Last updated by riaan burger on Mon, 2013-04-08 11:19
Getting Started
You can read the IRC documentation on Drupal.org, but perhaps a faster way would be to simply install XChat and, rehgardless of your OS platform, follow the Ubuntu XChatHowTo.
#drupal-za
The South African Drupal community has an IRC channel, #drupal-za on irc.freenode.net. If you are a local Drupal user come and chat.
Read moreDrupalCamp South Africa
Last updated by riaan burger on Mon, 2013-04-08 10:58
I've got nothing to add to this page yet, so it is a placeholder to link to from the main wiki... and a wiki itself, so if you have some ideas, go ahead and add some content.
Would a central, like Bloemfontein, location be better or perhaps two a year, one in Johannesburg and one in Cape Town? Maybe just one?
Read moreNational
Last updated by riaan burger on Thu, 2013-04-04 15:48
Three primary goals for a national strategy for Drupal in South Africa:
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Provably and demonstrably freeing our Drupal domains from commercial ownership and control and placing them under nationally representative community control.
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Creating some sort of nationally representative organizational structure for easier contact, organizing events and promoting Drupal and as a precursor to a national association (non-profit).
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Promoting Drupal for the growth of the community and for adoption among currently non-drupal possible future adopters.
Top SA Drupal Sites at beginning of April
http://top-sa-drupal-sites.burtronix.co.za
Looks like Drupal grew the tiniest bit (not significantly) in SA as a percentage of the sites analyzed. Joomla! dropped a bit and Wordpress usage increased noticeably from 56.1% 58.7%.
Internationally, Drupal remained stable for per-site usage but lost out a bit to Wordpress' growth in pages served. We really need D8 to come now ;-) Joomla! lost a tiny bit in sites (probably mostly due to WP's growth in that area) and notably more in pages served (just not up to the task).
Read morePretoria/Centurion Monthly Meet-up
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To be decided.
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Where
To be decided (probably in the Centurion area). Let's make the first one a pub / coffee shop informal meeting.
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Who to Contact
- To be decided (put your name here if you are prepared to coordinate).
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Regular Attendees
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- Add yourself once a first meet-up is in the past
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Potential Attendees
Johannesburg/Bryanston Monthly Meet-up
Last updated by DunnLofts on Fri, 2013-03-29 12:22
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When
First Wednesday of every month
Check the events on the South African page for Groups.Drupal.org for times. -
Where
Johannesburg at Adcorp Holdings, 28 Sloane Street, Bryanston.
http://goo.gl/maps/EH3HA -
Who to Contact
- Ivan Breet - Hosting
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Regular Attendees
Met someone, this is them... edit this page add your username / name (optional)
