Australia wide

We're just compiling a list of Australian Universities using Drupal, and are sure to not know about a lot. If you know of any, please list them in reply to this thread.

Cheers!

I am doing some pro bono work for a not-for-profit club located in Sydney, which is struggling to avoid closure after some very serious recent mismanagement.

Club XYZ need to set up a shopping cart for selling tickets to attend dinner + screenings at Club XYZ of the Rugby World Club matches, which start in NZ on 9-sep-2011. They need the income from this to help get their head securely above water again.

We need to start selling $45 tickets and collecting money from members and visitors within 2-3 days max.

Wondering if anyone has experience of using Drupal 7 with a Microsoft SQL database (rather than MySQL)

The organisation I'm working for prefers Microsoft SQL database for integration issues with other systems.

Would appreciate hearing any other experiences of this type of implementation

Peter Giles

http://www.gardenproject.net.au

We will run workshops and code sprints to physically (and remotely) work together to implement online technology for Not for Profit Groups.

These sessions will be aimed at people who have design and/or tech skills or for those wanting to learn new skills in these areas. We plan to start July 2011

Technologies we like: Drupal, Open Atrium, WordPress, BuddyPress, WPMU, CiviCRM and all the stuff that plugs into these frameworks.

Hi all

Hi All, my clients have always been at the lower end of the scale, tens to hundreds of users (not thousands), usually only peaks of a dozen or so concurrent users. So I have been very successfully using very cheap US based shared hosting plans. Mainly justhost.com and dreamhost.com
I have had some downtime occasionally, but it has been shortlived, client have not noticed for the most part (usually happens at peak times in US, which is middle of night here in Aus.), and in the end, you get what you pay for - and I have not paid much at all, so have been happy.

Hey guys

Trying to get an internal tender up in the department I work for to move away from Mysource Matrix to a more open source CMS and system. Our IT guys are throwing up a number of road blocks mostly around the misconception that open source isn't used by governments and we should go for a proprietary solution.

I kinda need a list asap and I have already looked at http://groups.drupal.org/node/19885

I need to know what websites people have done with drupal or open source for Government and for Tourism related businesses, especially so if you have worked with ATDW feeds.

I need to know if any organisation in Australia or New Zealand is using any of the Acquia support services and what your experience has been. I can be contacted via this forum or directly ozyank at fareast dot com dot au. Thanks.

Does anyone have any firsthand advice or experience in using Location module for Australian locations? I have client that is looking for functionality including geo locating nodes, and then finding specific nodes within x km of user/other node. Most likely would use post code as a primary location mechanism.
My trawling of d.o. Suggests Location module should assist, and appears very popular.
Any experiences or alternatives for Australian context?