South Africa

DrupalSouth is excited to announce that we'll be bringing some of the most influential people in the Drupal community over to New Zealand to speak at the conference from the 14-16th of February 2014.

We learn so many new things at our Johannesburg Drupal user group meet-ups. But time is short at the meet-ups and it takes (me) a few weeks to assimilate the new tech and get to use it.

If you guys would like to try it, perhaps we can have IRC sessions in #drupal-sa to share the new knowledge. Maybe also a bit more along the lines of small chunks and specifically making them useful in everyday current Drupal development workflow.

Hello Everyone,

To recap for anyone new:

Here's a list of the top .za websites ranked by access statistics as supplied by Alexa as accessed by people in South Africa. It uses the detection logic from the Wappalizer project.

http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za/drupal/south-africa/2013-09-02

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Hello All,

Our new Top Websites site is live (though still in beta).

http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za

Some initial countries: UAE, South Africa, International, Japan and the Czech Republic (capital is Prague, where the next DrupalCon will be held).

It still features the top Drupal websites in South Africa (http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za/drupal/south-africa/2013-08-05), but now also lists several other countries and top websites charts for Joomla! and WordPress.

For the technically inclined:

Hi folks

For anyone who has a site hosted with Hetzner (the SA version at least) you'll know that they are about to upgrade to PHP 5.4 in September.

I've successfully upgraded all the modules on D7 sites that work happily with PHP 5.4, but not so lucky with D6 sites. The issue lies within Views - both 2x and 3x. Obviously because everyone is spending more energy on D7 modules, this is not being resolved very fast.

I am considering telling my clients, that in order to have a functioning website come end Sept 2013, they either need to move hosting or upgrade to D7.

GDoDSA Newsletter #1

Introduction

The first Groups.Drupal.org, Drupal South Africa (GDoDSA) newsletter. Wow, took quite a bit more time than I thought to compose. I'd love to have a webform available for more structured submissions, and well, subscriptions and a thousand more ideas that would help support our community, but we're taking the long and good path with the Drupal Association South Africa (DASA). Trying to make sure we have an actual non-profit available to avoid the commercial problem we have with the existing drupal.org.za and drupal.co.za domains.

With regards to that, I also commit to moving anything GDoDSA related, contacts, editorial, naming etc. to the DASA as soon as it requests it or become a reality (constitution etc.); I also hope to continue negotiating for a similar commitment from the current "owner" of the Drupal domains in SA.

The DASA meets again for the fourth month this Wednesday. Much have been done, but with a blocking item being a constitution so that we can become a reality, we'll be taking that as our sole topic for this month's meeting and will then, soon after, present the constitution to you all here on GDo. Once we have a constitution, we can start doing things like registering a domain, not owned by any one person, but owned by all of us, legally (with the provision that the Drupal trade mark belongs to Dries of course and is managed by the Drupal Association, so if we ever miss step, that name can be demanded from us too).

In this edition then, the wonderful people that are so often available to help and took a bit of time from their very busy schedules to submit their details for this newsletter. Thank you all, and I do hope to gather more details from everyone else for our next newsletter.

When asking for help, please consider that an offer to help is one of guidance, not an offer to do work. Expect to save enormous amounts of time researching the best technologies or trying to find the right documentation when someone points such things out. Don't expect to hand over code to fix, or ask for a site to be themed or module to be written. That's said, I've met most of the people who submitted their details and they are super friendly.