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
Afrikaans translation
I know there has been a few queries for this before. And people who wants to help.
Just a reminder there is a project for this. Join and help:
http://localize.drupal.org/translate/languages/af
DrupalCape May meetup (25/5/2011)
The next DrupalCape meetup will be held on Wednesday the 25th of May 2011. Agenda for the evening has been confirmed and can be viewed below.
Where:
The Bandwidth Barn
Buitengracth Centre, 125 Buitengracht Street
Cape Town, Western Cape
Meeting Agenda – 25th May 2011:
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June Drupal Meet - Jozi, 1 June 2011
The next monthly Joburg meetup will be held on 1 June 2011 (as usual, the first Wednesday of the month) from 18:30 at the Campus, Bryanston.
For more details and to signup, go to: http://drupal.co.za/content/june-drupal-meet-jozi-1-june-2011.
Hope to see you there.
Robin
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Just another reason that proves Gartner is a prostitute
In this Gartner report they don't even mention Drupal directly but allude to it via a small reference to Acquia. What a load of horse-shit. They make the criteria so narrow that they can only include their "sponsors" and exclude any open source CMS's.
It just proves that proves that Gartner is a prostitute - Their research is paid for by the enterprises that "sponsor" them and thus they only feature products from those "sponsors"
http://www.idgconnect.com/download/6261/magic-quadrant-web-content-manag...
Read moreLeveraging Facebook, and efficiently managing the tools available for community communication and growth
I'm wanting to get a discussion going, primarily about creating a Facebook page for the South African Drupal community, secondarily about the other communication tools at our disposal and how best to use them.
Read moretechboard.co.za - A job board for South African Tech workers.
I am sure all developers hate recruiters equally. That is why I recently launched this site. It is meant to be a place where employers and employees can
connect directly.
I plan on only allowing high quality job ad and no ads from
recruiters.
Please have a look at:
I would love to get some PHP and Drupal jobs on there so feel free to post a job if you are hiring. It's free.
Also if you are looking for work, check in from time to time or subscribe to the rss feed: http://techboard.co.za/jobs.rss
Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome.
Drupal from the ground up: Building the CharityDrive Website (Cape Town)
The main aim for the saturday / workshop vibe, is:
- Get a site up for Charity Drive.
- Train drupal newbies / intermediates while we do it via hands on site creation from start to finish.
- Hang out
I thought we could start around 9am, stopping for Lunch (bring your food, or we'll pop out) and carry on till mid avies, and possibly go out for supper in town... you may come and go as you please.
The Bootcamp will include a site basically starting from scratch with the following:
* WAMP, vhosts and hosts setup (Windows)
May Drupal Meet - Jozi, 4 May 2011
The next monthly Joburg meetup will be held on 4 May 2011 (as usual, the first Wednesday of the month) from 18:30 at the Campus, Bryanston.
For more details and to signup, go to: http://drupal.co.za/content/may-drupal-meet-jozi-4-may-2011.
Hope to see you there.
Robin
Read moreMay Drupal Meet - Jozi, 4 May 2011
The next monthly Joburg meetup will be held on 4 May 2011 (as usual, the first Wednesday of the month) from 18:30 at the Campus, Bryanston.
For more details and to signup, go to: http://drupal.co.za/content/may-drupal-meet-jozi-4-may-2011.
Hope to see you there.
Robin
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DrupalCape April Meetup - Bryan Gruneberg on GIT - (20/04/2011)
Sorry for the late announcement.
The meeting will include feedback from our recent committee meeting and a talk by Bryan Gruneberg about implementing, configuring and using GIT in your Drupal development environment. The talk will be somewhat technical by necessity, however don't let that phase you. Bryan is a great speaker and you will benefit from listening.
Good time to interact with other group members and have some fun too!!
See you there!!
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Drupal Joburg Meetup - Wednesday April 6, 2011
Just a reminder of the monthly Joburg meetup this Wednesday at 18:30 at the Campus, Bryanston (as usual, the first Wednesday of the month).
All the details and the sign up form are at: http://drupal.co.za/content/april-non-blocking-meetup .
Hope to see you there.
George
Read moreCyrve - Scratch your own niche
Just read this post from Mosche Weitzman at Cyrve about positioning in the Drupal ecosystem. It provides some good directions to be thinking in for developing the Drupal ecosystem here in South Africa.
Read moreClean urls Hetzner
Hello everyone,
I'm a belgian student Marketing and i'm currently in south africa for my internship.
A part of my internship work is to make a website and so I made my first drupal site.
Today I migrated the site to my Hetzner webhosting.
The website is located on a multiple domain name, so one webhosting package, 1 site and 4 subwebsites.
I don't succeed to enable the clean urls with Hetzner.
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As Drupal professionals and Drupal shops, we work with Drupal version...
Drupal Showcase
A write up at http://drupal.org/node/1093842 with a new site we released, talking about the state of affairs with the South African payment gateways among other things..
May help some peeeps here.
Read moreDrupalCape Monthly Meet Up
Meeting Agenda – 30th March 2011:
• Intro & notices - 10 minutes 18:00
• Business or related topic - Guy Bedford: Feedback – DrupalCon Chicago - 20 to 40 minutes
• Module Focus or Skeleton - Dependent upon DrupalCon feedback session
help required using .htaccess to do a 301 redirect
Hi,
I have a page with a URL alias that had a spelling mistake. I want to fix it but I also don't want to lose the traffic that has been coming to the site via the misspelt alias. So I added the following line to my .htaccess file just below Drupal's rewrite rules:
redirect 301 /Hampton-Court-SA http://www.mysite.co.za/hampton_park_sa
This would have worked except for the fact that Drupal seemingly adds a query string at the end so the redirect then fails. The URL in the browser ends up being this:
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Drupal vs Wordpress - the debate simplified
Hi Folks
Recently I have had more people asking me for a "Wordpress" site, where more often than not, what they actually mean is a site built on a CMS. Whether it's Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc they really don't know the difference. It seems that the name "Wordpress" is starting to encompass the concept of a CMS.
So that obviously starts the conversation of how Drupal is different to Wordpress (my usual answer: "they're similar but different - Drupal is a lot more powerful")
Read moreIE6
If you haven't seen it by now. Microsoft has now 'officially' started supporting getting people off IE6.
10 years later (IE6 is now 10)
Spread the word:
http://www.ie6countdown.com/
SA IE6 users are still 8.4%
This from Drupalcon program:
http://twitpic.com/478jgy
Drupal Joburg Meetup - Wednesday March 2, 2011
Just a reminder of the monthly Joburg meetup next Wednesday at 18:30 at the Campus, Bryanston (as usual, the first Wednesday of the month).
All the details and the sign up form are at: http://drupal.co.za/content/march-drupal-meet-jozi-2211 .
Hope to see you there.
George
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