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
Cape Town Monthly Meet-up
Last updated by riaan burger on Fri, 2013-03-29 09:34
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When
Last Tuesday of every month
Check the events on the South African page for Groups.Drupal.org for times. -
Where
Bandwidth Barn, Block B, 3rd Floor, Woodstock Industrial Centre, 66-68 Albert Road.
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Who to Contact
- theamoeba, co-organiser
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Regular Attendees
Met someone, this is them... edit this page add your username / name (optional)
- theamoeba, co-organiser
Topics, Themes, Ideas and Projects
Read moreMeet-up Locations and New Local Meet-ups
Last updated by riaan burger on Fri, 2013-03-29 08:51
Please edit this page and add yourself to this list if you are interested in meeting up with other Drupalers in your area or are already attending meet-ups; In the format: Username [National/Local]
- Riaan Burger [Johannesburg/Fourways] - currently attending JHB
- Dinesh Copoosamy [Pretoria/Centurion] - currently attending JHB
- theamoeba [Cape Town] - co-organiser of CPT DrupalCape Meetups.
The Drupal South Africa Community
Last updated by riaan burger on Tue, 2013-04-23 06:59
Local and National South African Drupal community information. Sub-pages to this one are wikis, so feel free to edit them to add your name. Contact a group organizer if you need changes made to this page itself.
You do not need to attend meet-ups to be part of the Drupal community; Using Drupal, reading this, participating on Drupal.org and Groups.Drupal.org all make you part of our community.
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April Drupal Meetup - JHB, 3 April 2013
The next monthly Joburg meetup will be held on 3 April 2013 (the first Wednesday of every month) from 18:30.
An exciting initiative has been launched for this year. A Drupal/Angular project to simplify the running of various usergroup meetups. to find out more check out the following link, https://github.com/drupal-meetup/angular-drupal-meetup-seed and get involved.
For more details and to signup, go to: http://drupal.co.za/content/april-drupal-meetup-jhb-3-april-2013
Look forward to seeing you there.
Robin
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Drupal ZA IRC
The South African Drupal community has an IRC channel, #drupal-za on irc.freenode.net. If you are a local develop come and chat :). If you don't feel like downloading a client you can use the Freenode Webchat (http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=drupal-za). Otherwise you can have a look at the extensive list of IRC clients available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients.
Here is a list of other Drupal related IRC channels you might be interested in: http://drupal.org/irc.
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Democratising the South African Drupal Community
Democratising the South African Drupal Community
I've picked up on a topic that I feel passionate about myself and that I find echoed in the opinions of several people I have spoken to about. The South African Drupal community feels subtly commercially hijacked, especially in Gauteng.
I want to propose that we work together as Drupal users here to democratise our community.
The problem
Read moreDrupalCape March 2013 - Troubleshooting Workshop
Drupalcape is meeting on Tuesday 26 March 2013 at the Bandwidth Barn. We will be holding a troubleshooting workshop where you can bring your Drupal project related issues and as a group we can try and help you solve them.
This post by Roger Saner explains nicely how to get the best answers from your questions: http://groups.drupal.org/node/77228
Location:
Bandwidth Barn
Block B, 3rd Floor, Woodstock Industrial Centre
66-68 Albert Road, Woodstock
Cape Town, Western Cape 7925
South Africa
Top South African Drupal Websites
Hello Everyone!
Thought you may find this interesting. Telamenta is well represented too:
I bought the top list from Amazon/Alexa for the top 14 000 sites in South Africa, then this site also automatically draws the JSON analysis from the git repo of Wappalizer, parses it and uses it as PHP logic to then visit each of the sites and try to figure out the back-end technology used:
http://top-sa-drupal-sites.burtronix.co.za
It's copy is written with a Drupal bias of course ;-)
Cheers,
Riaan
March Drupal Meetup - Jozi, 6 March 2013
The next monthly Joburg meetup will be held on 6 March 2013 (the first Wednesday of every month) from 18:30.
For more details and to signup, go to: http://drupal.co.za/content/march-drupal-meetup-jozi-6-march-2013.
Look forward to seeing you there.
Robin
Read moreDrupalCape Meetup February 2013
There will be a DrupalCape meetup this month (February). We are not planning anything too special. This is an introductory meeting as it is the first of 2013.
Come along and say hi.
Location:
Bandwidth Barn
Block B, 3rd Floor, Woodstock Industrial Centre
66-68 Albert Road, Woodstock
Cape Town, Western Cape 7925
South Africa
February Drupal Meetup - Jozi, 6 February 2013
The next monthly Joburg meetup will be held on 6 February 2013 (the first Wednesday of every month) from 18:30.
For more details and to signup, go to: http://www.drupal.co.za/content/february-drupal-meetup-jozi-6-february-2013.
Look forward to seeing you there.
Robin
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What is the average clients pay for a "good" drupal site (custom design, a few custom types, WYSIWYG, IMCE, a few pages etc.)
DrupalCape 2013
Just to let you know that DrupalCape will not be meeting this month (January 2013) but will start again in February.
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PayPal to support ZAR soon
There is an up coming policy update for PayPal which will enable ZAR for South African users and is set to go into effect on the 20th of Feb 2013.
You can read more about it here https://cms.paypal.com/al/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/upc...
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Looking for freelancers in South Africa
Hi
First, apologies to the group for not posting this as a job. Last time I used it, I got 'spammed' for months for outside outsource companies.
We are upgrading our list of freelance Drupal developers to work in collaboration with us on projects and help with overflow of work.
We are looking for developers who can help us in different areas of Drupal. We do not expect you to know everything, but can make use of your skills where they are the strongest. When replying please indicate your skill level (0 to5) for the following:
Front-end:
Read moreDecember Drupal Meet - Jozi, 5 December 2012
Sorry for late notice. The next monthly Joburg meetup will be held on 5 December 2012 (the first Wednesday of every month) from 18:30.
For more details and to signup, go to: http://www.drupal.co.za/content/december-drupal-meet-jozi-5-december-2012.
Look forward to seeing you there.
Robin
Read moreDrupalCape Meet-Up: November 28th, 2012 - Dev/Design Recommended Practises Workshop
DrupalCape will be holding its 2nd fourth-quarter meeting for 2012 on 28 November, 2012.
The focus for DrupalCape, as we move into the final couple of workshop meetings for the year will focus on project processes. How to estimate and run a project successfully, how to set up a managed development/design environment, and how to review and test code using processes and tools.
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Drupal Advanced Training Course in Cape Town
Drupal is one of the best and most popular ways to build a website. It is flexible, scalable and is continuously improved by thousands of people around the world.
Drupal powers some of the largest sites on the web and is being widely adopted by organizations from small businesses to the White House and leading U.S. government agencies and companies such as eBay, Sony and the New York Stock Exchange.
Our Drupal Advanced Class is aimed at increasing the skills of people who will be building and maintaining Drupal sites. You will learn how to build a new Drupal module and style it using the site's CSS. Here is a sample video from the course...
Read moreDrupal Advanced Training Course in Pretoria
Drupal is one of the best and most popular ways to build a website. It is flexible, scalable and is continuously improved by thousands of people around the world.
Drupal powers some of the largest sites on the web and is being widely adopted by organizations from small businesses to the White House and leading U.S. government agencies and companies such as eBay, Sony and the New York Stock Exchange.
Our Drupal Advanced Class is aimed at increasing the skills of people who will be building and maintaining Drupal sites. You will learn how to build a new Drupal module and style it using the site's CSS. Here is a sample video from the course...
Read moreDrupal Advanced Training in Johannesburg
Drupal is one of the best and most popular ways to build a website. It is flexible, scalable and is continuously improved by thousands of people around the world.
Drupal powers some of the largest sites on the web and is being widely adopted by organizations from small businesses to the White House and leading U.S. government agencies and companies such as eBay, Sony and the New York Stock Exchange.
Read more