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
ICT Team Leader (aka Senior Drupal Developer) - Western Cape Government
Department: Premier
Component: e-Government for Citizens, Cape Town
Salary: R 532 278 – R 627 000 per annum (Salary level 11) – all-inclusive salary package.
Enquiries: Luke van Blerk at (021) 483 9776 / Mushfieqah Salie at (021) 483 3387
Reference number: DOTP 2015/10
Closing Date: 6 February 2015 @ 16:00
Position Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 6 months
Drupal Jobs ad: ICT Team Leader (Senior Drupal Developer)
February Drupal Meetup - Jozi, 4 February 2015
Hi All
This is the first Meetup of 2015 and we are kicking off with a bang.
The Meetup takes place at envisionme offices and starts at 6:30pm.
Address: 28 Sloane Street, Bryanston
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/K53eD
Thanks to envisionme and Ivan for the venue.
To signup for this event please use the signup link on this page or go to http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Johannesburg.
Call for Speakers
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Drupal Cape Town January Meetup
Hello Everyone
Happy New Year! Wishing you all a great 2015.
Join us on 28 January for the first Drupal Meetup of the new year. Come connect with fellow users, listen to an informative talk by our guest speaker and discuss the upcoming year in Drupal.
If you’d like to share anything on the night, about yourself, Drupal or anything web related that you feel will benefit others, please bring it along. If you have any Drupal or web related questions or are stuck on something, feel free to share it with fellow attendees and get some answers along the way.
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Drupal SA sites hacks
Hi All,
I am curious to know who of you were affected by the recent hacks by these guys: https://www.facebook.com/Hamzah.Uygun.Gov
They targeted quite a few SA sites as evident in their Facebook timeline and reports in the media about Sasol and others:
http://www.fin24.com/Tech/News/Hackers-hit-Sasols-website-20141203
http://www.enca.com/technology/cyber-hactivist-strikes-sa-sites-again
http://ridgetimes.co.za/25879/sasols-website-gets-hacked/
December Drupal Meetup - Jozi, 3 December 2014
This is the last Meetup of the year and it would be great to get together and close out the year on a high.
Ivan Breet will be talking to us about what he learnt at the AWS re:Invent Conference in Las Vegas (reinvent.awsevents.com).
The Meet up takes place at envisionme offices and starts at 6:30pm.
Address: 28 Sloane Street, Bryanston
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/K53eD
Thanks to envisionme and Ivan for the venue.
To signup for this event please use the signup link on this page or go to http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Johannesburg.
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Mobile detection and Varnish, using HTTP Headers
Hi all
I am working on a fairly large site for which we have recently built a responsive template, but want to push the mobile/desktop abilities further by using some form of mobile detection.
The site is built mainly off Views and Contexts, and I have therefore been looking at using a Context + Mobile Detection combo to serve a few different blocks. I have tested with Context Breakpoints, Context Mobile Detect, and more.
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Best credit card processors for Drupal in SA
Hi! I would most appreciate recommendations for commerce credit card processors in SA for ZAR as 2checkout.com is just not doing it for me anymore :)
What I need is to be able to accept credit cards and on fulfillment set order to complete and add a role.
I'm guessing it's between SagePay and Payfast? If any have multicurrency capabilities even better.
Your thoughts would be fabulous, thx! Lilian
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Play with Firefox OS at a Mozilla event in Cape Town
This Saturday Mozilla is running an event where, amongst other things (rumours have it there'll be free schwag), you'll be able to play with Firefox OS.
It's at the Bandwith Barn at 9:30 am (yeah, you read that right...turns out some people are morning people).
More info: http://mozillainsouthafrica.splashthat.com
Read moreSecuring Drupal - Request for Speakers
In light of the recent Drupal Core vulnerability (https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005) and drupal.org's Public Service Announcement (https://www.drupal.org/PSA-2014-003) I would like to know if there is anyone would would like to speak at the Drupal Meetups about Drupal Security. This goes for both Johannesburg and Cape Town Meetups. This could be one speaker for both or separate speakers for respective regions.
Some things to cover could be:
- Default configuration to make your Drupal installation secure.
- Recommended modules.
Drupal on TechSnap
Just registered on Reddit for the first time to mention the recent Drupal core vulnerability for the TechSnap show. Maybe it will make the show, but some upvotes will help if you have a moment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/techsnap/comments/2krx0w/drupal_core_highly_cri...
Read moreNovember Drupal Meetup - Jozi, 5 November 2014
We have an exciting lineup for the next Drupal Meetup including a guest speaker, Ravick van der Merwe.
Ravick van der Merwe is a commercial lawyer with specialisation in contractual and intellectual property law.
He holds the qualifications of LLB, LLM (Intellectual Property), CIS and is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa.
Lee Taylor will be talking to us about Drupal Performance and Varnish Cache.
The Meet up takes place at envisionme offices and starts at 6:30pm.
Address: 28 Sloane Street, Bryanston
Read moreDrupal Cape Town October Meetup
Hi All
Join us for another informative Drupal meetup on Wednesday 29 October.
Register at http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Cape-Town/events/214547192/
We're in the process of finalising a great speaker for the night. Details to follow soon.
Remember, if you’d like to share anything on the night, about yourself, Drupal or anything web related that you feel will benefit others, please bring it along. If you have any Drupal or web related questions or are stuck on something, feel free to share it with fellow attendees and get some answers along the way.
Read moreA Few DASA Updates
Hello Everyone!
Just a few DASA Updates:
- The DASA Website
- DASA Membership & Donations
- Webmaster Needed
- National Drupal User Group Meet-ups
- Vote in the DASA Elections
Intellectual Property Talk at Next JHB Meetup
We are very fortunate to have an intellectual property lawyer come talk to us at the next Drupal meet up in Johannesburg.
As this field is very vast and to help him prepare we though it would be worth canvasing the community for some topics. Please post your questions in the comments.
Read moreLoud, Drunk Fiasco at JHB Meet-up?
Without a breathalyser one can't assert that there was any drunkenness at the Johannesburg meet-up last night, but in my personal view, the behaviour exhibited was certainly consistent with that and was very disturbing.
While Cape Town meet-ups are going from strength to strength, looking professional, highlighting their speakers and presenting the kind of image that would encourage anyone, even those up here that just see the photos of speakers on podiums delivering great slide shows to want to participate, last night's Johannesburg meet-up felt like an over-served pub towards the end.
Read moreVoting for DASA governing board now open, here:
Voting for the Drupal Association South Africa (DASA) governing board is now open, here:
From today, Wednesday the 1st on October 2014 until midnight Friday the 24th of October (SAST) voting is open.
Vote right here in this thread.
- Anyone a member of GDoSA (groups.drupal.org/south-africa) can vote, as long as they were a member before the 10th of September 2014.
- Vote by supplying a list in order of preference of up to 7 candidates.
- Only one vote per person, the latest of multiple votes cast by one person invalidates the preceding ones by that person unless the latest is invalid, then the latest preceding valid one, if one exists will count.
- Adam and Riaan will tally the votes < one week. Counting 7 points for the highest preference and one less point for every one thereafter per vote.
- Greg will audit and publish the results.
Candidates' are:
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Board Members
I'm Freda Browne, I am a qualified Human Resources Manager with 25 years human resources and recruitment experience. My introduction to Drupal was very coincidental and very exciting. I have 7 years of content management, views and content types experience in Drupal. I feel that I was taught by the very best tutors there are in South Africa.
Read moreOctober Drupal Meetup - Jozi, 1 October 2014
Join us for the next Jozi Drupal Meet up taking place at envisionme offices and starts at 6:30pm.
Address: 28 Sloane Street, Bryanston
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/K53eD
Thanks to envisionme and Ivan for the venue.
To signup for this event please use the signup link on this page or go to http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Johannesburg/
Look forward to seeing you all there.
Robin
Read moreDrupal Cape Town September Meetup
Hello Everyone
Join us for the September Drupal Cape Town Meetup at the Bandwidth Barn.
Please note that this month's event is on a Tuesday night.
If you’d like to share anything on the night, about yourself, Drupal or anything web related that you feel will benefit others, please bring it along. If you have any Drupal or web related questions or are stuck on something, feel free to share it with fellow attendees and get some answers along the way.
Please be sure to Un-RSVP if something pops up and prevents you from attending.
Read moreDASA: Call for Candidates
Hello Everyone,
From today, the tenth of September, until next week the 24th of September we're calling for candidates for the Governing Board of the Drupal Association South Africa.
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