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
DrupalCape Meeting Wednesday 23rd February
This is the DrupalCape meeting agenda for the 23rd of February.
Please RSVP so that we know how many people to cater for.
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- Topic: “Happy Loving Couples” (with apologies to Joe Jackson) – Module Selection – D6
DrupalCape News
Greetings and I trust that you are all well and having a fantastic month!! Been hot, hasn’t it!? Well, should start cooling again towards the end of Feb and into March, and then I guess we’ll all be complaining again that it is so darn cold – lol!!
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Will you be using drupal 7 for your next project?
Drupal Users Cape Town Meetup
- Venue: Bandwidth Barn, 5th Floor Buitengracht Centre, 125 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town
- Time: 18:00 – 21:00
- Cost: Please remember to bring along your donation of R50 for refreshments
The agenda is as follows:
- Intro & Notices (10 minutes)
- Vision for DrupalCape (20 minutes)
- Annual agenda (30 minutes)
- Monthly meetings (15 minutes)
- Monthly meetings (15 minutes)
Drupal 7 - how ready is it, really?
Hi Folks
I'm about to start 3 new projects, 2 of them are really basic, so I'm definitely going to get myself started on D7 with those.
The third is a bit more advanced, as it contains an online entry system and sponsorship (ie needing Commerce, PayPal, etc).
Is Drupal 7 ready and stable enough for this yet? Or should I just stick with D6 for the moment?
Thoughts on this appreciated.
Inky
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Cape Town Drupal 7 Release Party
Hey hey!
For those, who didn't get this invite.... (sorry if this is a duplicate?)
http://www.drupal7releaseparty.org/south-africa/release-party-siteprebui...
Read moreDrupal 7 has been released - possible problems with some hosts
Anyone here have experience with D7 hosted on Hetzner (www.hetzner.co.za), it seems that there are issues.
Read moreDrupal 7 Release Party
Hi guys,
I'm in Cape town and noticed that no one had put up a release party yet. I haven't relly had time to meet up with local Drupallers (especially since writing the D7 book took so much of my time). At any rate, I thought it would be nice if we could all meet up and have a drink - the release of D7 is a great excuse.
I've posted a release party signup form here:
http://www.drupal7releaseparty.org/south-africa/release-party-siteprebui...
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Drupal 7 Release Parties
We all know Drupal 7 will be released shortly.
D7 Release Parties are being thrown all over the world in celebration - most taking place Jan 7, 2011.
I know for a fact the African Drupal Community is much larger and more active than most people realize, so why not take this opportunity to show the world where all the African Drupal communities are hiding?
The official site: http://drupal7releaseparty.org/
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OG alternatives
Hi guys
I'm looking for a simpler alternative for Organic groups.
I don't want to use OG because it is a bit overboard for what I want to do, I don't need user->group control + I need to do node access control by other means as well (which OG does not like).
I simply want to have a main page for a user, and then also maintain a relationship to the main page of the user's other nodes such as blogs, events, etc.
Obvious choice is node relations/reference, but before I jump into some custom coding, has anybody got some other ideas/modules to suggest?
Thanks
Read moreFinal Meeting 2010 - DrupalCape (Cape Town User Group)
Hi Guys:
Big apology – we have been run off of our feet this month with a project that needs to be finished a week ago So you will have to forgive my absence.
Okay, we have decided that we should do the following for our last meeting:
When: 30/11/2010
Time: 19:00 – till late or our bums can’t take the seating anymore
Place: Sinn’s – free parking after 19:00 (I think – Lilian?) and good security inside the building!!
So we shall see you then for a fine old time.
Read moreThe Apps for Development Competition - World Bank
Thought some of the clever people might be interested in partaking. Prize money looks nice as it is in $$$$$ :-)
http://appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com/
-Grant
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Jolie O'Dell 38 minutes ago Jolie O'Dell 8 Do Freelancers Do Best on WordPress, Drupal or Joomla?
Some very interesting stats have just emerged about the freelance and contract market for CMS developers and designers.
In its quarterly market report, freelance site DoNanza discovered that even though WordPress devs, designers and SEO pros are in greater demand than their Drupal or Joomla counterparts — and even though WordPress outnumbers Drupal and Joomla in the number of projects for each CMS — Drupal web professionals on average make around twice what WordPress pros make per project.
http://mashable.com/2010/11/04/wordpress-drupal-joomla/
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Drupal Joburg Meetup - Wednesday November 3, 2010
Just a reminder of this Wednesday's Joburg meetup at 18:30 at the Campus, Bryanston.
All the details and the sign up form are at: http://drupal.co.za/content/movember-drupal-group-0311
Hope to see you tomorrow.
George
Read moreDrupalCape User Group Meeting
Hi all:
I have been a trifle busy so, herewith the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting. There has been a change to the agenda in terms of content – please note.
18:00 for 18:15 - (I think sitting around for half an hour get’s a bit tedious – let me know if you disagree :) )
18:15 – 18:30 - intro’s and notices
18:30 – 19:15 - Talk: Building a culture of testing into Drupal development using SimpleTest as a platform – Jonathan Wagener (Talk & Demo) (http://www.simpletest.org)
19:15 – 19:30 - Q&A
Read moreDrupal Joburg Meetup - Wednesday October 6, 2010
Just a reminder of this Wednesday's Joburg meetup at 18:30 at the Campus, Bryanston.
All the details are at: http://drupal.co.za/content/drupal-jozi-meetup-6-oct-2010
Hope to see you tomorrow.
George
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Live Website Development for Multotec Group
We will be creating the new Multotec Group website (Phase 1) with development starting early next week. The Design and Development Team is MediaSourceStudio out of Benoni headed by Shaun Richardson. We will send a link to the live development blog attached to the site once it's active. The idea is to post the development framework and elicit comment so that the DrupalZA community can see the site being developed as it happens.
It may be a good chance to see a site being developed from the ground up. If you would like to participate in the blog, feel free to logon next week.
Read moreAcquia Webinar: Performance Intelligence for Enterprise Drupal
"Drupal has proven to be a high-performance, high-scalability content management platform for mission critical sites at FedEx, McDonalds, Sony Music, Yahoo and others. Success deploying and managing enterprise-class Drupal implementations requires the same best practices and careful attention to detail as any large-scale project – and the focus on performance cannot be overlooked!
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