johannesburg

In an effort to expand on and give back to the local Drupal community, the Jozi Drupal crew are inviting you to their Introduction to Drupal workshop on the 8th of May at IS in Bryanston, Johannesburg. The user group for the open source content management system wants to help introduce the framework to new users, while also providing technical and philosophical advice.

Thanks to all those who attended the recent Joburg meetup. It was the largest event by this user group so far and all the feedback has been very positive. A summary of the event has been posted to drupal.co.za.

Check http://drupal.co.za/content/summary-joburg-drupal-meetup-aug-2009.

George

I was just wondering if anyone would be interested in having a Drupal redesign code sprint. We were talking about doing code sprints at the last cape town meetup so perhaps we can do something like this.

For me, it was great to see everyone again, although I was disappointed that there weren't more than 3 new faces among the 15 or so that turned up. We do need to do something to attract more new members. I particularly enjoyed hearing about what new modules people have discovered, and enjoyed the less formal discussions afterwards. The discussion about the direction and future of the group was also very interesting and I think the issues spoken about need to be addressed, perhaps using drupal.co.za to better effect. On these lines, this post on tips and best practices for local Drupal groups is highly relevant. In particular, I think the group leadership needs to be shared between 3-4 people in order to grow and improve the group. For a more detailed summary see my Drupal Johannesburg 11 March meetup notes.

Reminder of the Joburg meetup, this Wednesday evening the 11th March 2009, 18:30 at Obsidian Systems.

For details, see: http://groups.drupal.org/node/19685

Come along to hang out with your local Drupal community :-)

Hey all - don't forget about the meetup this saturday at 13:00 at Obsidian.

Andre from Cerebra is giving a short workshop on CCK and how he used it to create a reviews website.

These events are a lot of fun, and are a great opportunity to learn from other drupalers, so don't miss out!

For more details, check out http://groups.drupal.org/node/12915

Reminder to all Jozi drupal denizens that we have a meetup on Saturday 16 Feb 2008 at Obsidian Systems at 13:00.

Obsidian is on the corner of Kelly and Bosbok streets in Randpark Ridge. From Beyers Naude, traveling away from the city once over the N1 you take the 3rd robot right into Yesterhout, the 1st street left into Kelly the 1st street left into Bosbok and the 1st entrance left into Obsidian parking area.

See you then

Anton

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.

Hello DrupalCampers.

Some things you need to know for the Drupal training next week.

Firstly, there are still a number of seats available for the course, if anyone is interested in joining us , please
contact me at adrian at bryght dot com.

What do I need to bring :

hardware
Your laptop, if you own one. If you do not own a laptop, a computer
will be made available to you, but we only have machines running linux
available.

software
Your favourite web browser. Preferably firefox. Internet Explorer is also suitable, but will likely get you ridiculed. (it's just the truth =) )