South Africa

I'm looking at having the a Drupal Cape Town meetup sometime in March.

The first question is of course if there are Drupal enthusiasts in Cape Town who would like to meetup once in a while. I assume there is a need for it, so I would propose to meet on a Saturday, both 2nd and 9th of March is possible for me.

Please post preferred days, dates and possible venue's. It would be great if you can offer your own office or meeting space:-)

A few ideas for this meetup that I got from the Jo'burg meetup agenda:

1. Opening: Introductions

   • Who you are, what you do

We're looking at having the first Drupal Johannesburg meetup sometime in February.

We need to decide on a date for the February meetup. As it stands, the meetup will be held at the Obsidian training centre (or bar area) in Randpark Ridge (courtesy of Anton de Wet), but we need everyone's input as to the date and time. I personally feel that a Saturday would be good, so that we can all avoid traffic and have a more relaxed meetup.

Hello there Everyone!

I've been at Drupal for about a month now and have experience in PHP, but getting pretty stuck now and then and looking for someone that I can pay by hour just to get me over the big hurdles.

I'm transferring my site http://www.filmmaker.co.za (9000+ subscribers) to a Drupal site at http://www.filmmaker.co.za/planet and would really like someone that has a understanding of Drupal core and good at css (nothing major).

Hello guys.

I am going to be spending more time actively promoting Drupal in South Africa again, and to that end I am going to be organizing a DrupalCamp in johannesburg , mid july 2007.

This course is going to be significantly different from the previous course, due to the wealth of training materials having been produced since the previous course took place.

I would also like to organize 2 drupal meet ups. One in cape town, say around the 7th of June. And one in johannesburg on around the 7th of july.

Hi all.

I've gone bossies: I'm relatively new to Linux - (K)ubuntu; almost new to XAMPP and all the PHP, MySQL etc. that goes with it; completely new to Drupal and brand-spanking new to this site. I've been having a blast :-)

So, of the 45 subscribers here, 80% are Gauteng - cool. But of the 45 subscribers, how many are "active" or "regulars" ???

Just a reminder that we still have some spaces open for the DrupalCamp being run from 24 July to 28 July (during the evenings).
There is a cost of R2500 for the 5 evening course, which includes meals and training materials.

please register here

Hey guys,

This is for myself, or at least the company that employs me, but I thought it would be good information for anyone that does pop past the Drupal group here:

Do we have some freelance and permanent Drupal experiences (at any level) developers in South Africa? How's the availability of them in terms of time and employment ratio? What salary or hourly rates apply.

Gotta tell you, I have done some freelance work, but I have no idea what the market looks like or what one should offer as a salary for such a developer. We'll need to employ someone like this in the near future (likely end August) and I need to put it in the budget now.

The price for DrupalCamp has been set at R2500 for the 5 evening course. That includes training materials and supper.

This is equal to about $420, which is not a lot considering that some of the other DrupalCamps are charging $900 per person for a single day. There are only 10 positions available per course, so please sign up if you intend on joining us.