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
April Drupal Durban Meet-up (06-04-2016, 6:30pm)
[Date & Time]
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
6:30 PM
[Venue]
Deep Current
32 Churchill Road
Morningside
Durban (edit map)
...Deep Current is directly opposite Afros Chicken off Churchill road.
[Case Study Topic: New York Gov adopts Drupal]
Mark Pape will be reviewing a Case Study about how Drupal added significant value to the New York Government... “Users have doubled, mobile traffic tripled and pageviews quadrupled to a record high of over 17 million”
[Unconferencing Theme: Drupal 8 Adoption]
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Invitation to Bid: NRF Research Equipment Database - enhancements and maintenance
The Research Equipment Database houses all the relevant information pertaining to state-of-the-art research equipment acquired through either National Research Foundation-Department of Science and Technology funding or other public investments. The database and website is developed and hosted on a Drupal platform and is accessible at the following URL: http://eqdb.nrf.ac.za.
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Gauteng's Back, Ah-Ha!
Hello Everyone,
I really didn't think it would get even better so soon. Last week ended in two amazing meet-ups in Pretoria, Gauteng:
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Drupal Cape Town March Meetup
Hello all,
The year's first Drupal Meetup was very in formative and well attended. Thank you to Rogerwilco for being such generous hosts and to all who made their way north for an evening of Drupal, good company and boerewors rolls.
This month's Meetup is set for Wednesday, 30 March and will be hosted by Quirk at their offices in Salt River.
Read moreDrupal Association Board Elections
Hello Everyone,
The Drupal Association (international) has two board director positions called "at large" which are filled with community-elected candidates. Voting is open right now (until 18 March), so please go vote.
Set some time aside to read the profiles. I opened the ones of interest in tabs in my browser, then read the profiles and ordered the tabs with my first choice on the right. That made it easier to rank them when filling in the voting. In all it took me about an hour and a half.
Some of my personal criteria were competence, Libre/Open Source conviction, ability to communicate well, history with open source and Drupal and code contribution.
https://association.drupal.org/boardelection
Kind regards,
Riaan
Let's meet up and discuss Drupal!
Please join us for our Drupal Pretoria Meetup.
You will have the opportunity to connect with fellow users, listen to an informative talks by our guest speakers and discuss interesting topics related to Drupal.
Read moreDrupal Cape Town February Meetup
Hello everyone!
Wishing you all a prosperous 2016!
The year's first Drupal Meetup takes place at the offices of Durbanville Drupalistas, Rogerwilco. Join us at 6:30pm on Wednesday, 24 February for an exciting and informative start to the year.
We're really excited to have 2 great speakers on the night. First up we have Charlie Stewart, CEO at Rogerwilco, who will be talking about how South Africa is perfectly positioned as an offshore Drupal development hub, for European / US businesses.
Read moreJohannesburg Parkhurst Meetup
Tomorrow's the first Johannesburg Parkhurst meetup of the year. 12-noon to 3pm (12 Feb).
http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Johannesburg-Parkhurst/events/228547625/
I'm really looking forward to seeing to Drupal people again! This will be the first one of the year that I manage to make it to and from what I've heard everyone's had an awesome start to the business year this year.
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Best working areas
Hi everybody, I'm a Drupal developer for about 6/7 years now and I'm planning on moving to Capetown very soon. I was wondering if I could get anybody's advice on the best places for fast internet. (Residential and Commercial)
I know where I've worked from in the past, it's been the difference of night and day depending on the little pockets of a particularly city that are wired with better connections.
Is there any decent way to research this before my move? I've looked at the coverage charts for the internet providers but I'm not sure if those are really trustworthy.
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Web Developer (2-year contract position) @ Western Cape Government
We have an opportunity for Web Developer (2-year contract position) @ Western Cape Government. (Drupal Jobs ad) [CLOSING DATE: 2016/01/29].
Read moremodulecharts.org
http://modulecharts.org shows Drupal projects' usage count ranked each week. Segmented by Drupal core version and module major version.
https://twitter.com/riaanburtronix/status/682446016843542529
Read moreSA Drupal freelancers
I'd like to identify some Drupal freelancers in SA to work with. We all max out our bandwidth sometimes and it would be cool to be able to hand off specific pieces of a build to reliable people.
Read moreDrupal 8 Release Party
Finally November 19th, Drupal 8 will be released. It is going to be a great release that will set a new standard for CMSs.
So, all over the world the Drupal community is organising Drupal 8 Release Parties.
Is there already one in your country? If not? Why not get together with a few likeminded Drupal people and talk Drupal 8, no matter where you are.
If you do organise something, there are some instructions that can help you make your party more visible in this group:
https://groups.drupal.org/drupal-8-release-parties
Drupal 8 Release Party: Johannesburg
Drupal 8 is here! Like you, we are excited about this amazing release. So lets get together and celebrate.
Join us for drinks and a social at Cobblestone Pub at Montecasino from 6pm.
http://www.montecasino.co.za/entertainment/dining/restaurants/Pages/Cobb...
To RSVP and attend the event please go to http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Johannesburg/events/226532991.
To help us with catering arrangements, please be sure to Un-RSVP if something pops up and prevents you from attending.
Look forward to seeing you all there.
Read moreYear-End Drupal User Group Meet-up Social
Hello Everyone,
We'll start with something regular, unconferencing Drupal. Then we'll have a look at some off-the-island technology with two quick demonstrations with QnA, one of a Parrot Drone and one of the Unity Game Engine and some cool route finding routines. Finally, this turns completely social as a year-end Drupal function with snacks and drinks provided by Brave Digital.
Parkhurst Meet-ups will resume in February 2016.
Please RSVP on http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Johannesburg-Parkhurst/events/226008407/
Kind regards,
Riaan
Drupal Johannesburg November Meetup
Hello everybody
Thanks to those who attended the last meetup. The next meetup will take place on 4 November at 6:30pm.
We have a great talk planned for the night. Ivan Breet will be talking about AWS announcements for 2015, based on his trip to the conference in Las Vegas.
The meetup takes place at envisionme offices, 28 Sloane Street, Bryanston (http://goo.gl/maps/K53eD). There is plenty of secure parking available.
Read moreInaugural meeting of Drupal users in Durban and the Durban Drupal 8 Release Party
Our very first Drupal Durban user group meet-up.
Please make sure to RSVP on meet-up.com where you can also get the address and details.
http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Durban/
DASA Governing Board 2016
Thank you to Everyone who voted!
This was the best turnout yet!
I'm proud to present to you, your governing board of 2016:
- Jason
- Riaan
- Johan
- Greg
- Lee
- Renate
- Inky
We're doing better on gender quality than last year, though there's space to do even better. It's still pretty lilly white, which we need to put some decent work into. Cape Town is super well represented and with the amazing success that was their camp as well as interesting better-attended meet-ups, very strong now.
We still have great input from previous years' board members and several people that don't stand for board seats but volunteer their time and labour regularly; So if you want to get involved in the DASA work, please remember, the DASA meetings are open to all. The board is a formality that we need, to have an NPO.
Kind regards,
Riaan
A note on why we vote on GDoSA and not using some other system:
Read moreDrupal Johannesburg October Meetup
Hello everybody
We had an awesome turnout at the last event, thanks to those who attended. The next meetup will take place on 7 October at 6:30pm.
The meetup takes place at envisionme offices, 28 Sloane Street, Bryanston (http://goo.gl/maps/K53eD). There is plenty of secure parking available.
Read moreNews about Drupal Pretoria/Centurion Meetup
What a privileged to be part of the Drupal Community!
On Friday the 28th of August we launched the Pretoria/Centurion Meetup. We were amazed by the amount of Drupalists that joined us on the month-end Friday!
The Drupal Assosiation of South Africa (DASA) has a vision:
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