Australia wide

Hey everyone!

The videos for DrupalSouth are now on the website!
https://melbourne2015.drupal.org.au/session-recordings

The vids can be found embedded on each session node.

They're also all listed on our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrupalSouth

plus @cafuego is threatening to create a torrent at some point.

Unfortunately, one session was not recorded, and we're not sure why / how that happened. It was the accessibility session
https://melbourne2015.drupal.org.au/session/connecting-accessibility-com...

cheers
Donna

Hi Everyone!

One of my responsibilities as a board member of the Drupal Association, is to personally engage in fundraising to support the work of the Association. This is the first time we've run a board campaign like this, and the focus is on getting Drupal8 finished!

Is it possible to build something like Twitter in 5min in Drupal?

I did a presentation and ran a Drupal workshop in a university in Peru. For the workshop I asked for suggestions on what we could build in Drupal. My original idea was a Leave Application System. A test run with a few students demonstrated that this was incredibly boring. There was just too much config with the Workflow and Rules module. So thanks to Ryan Cross for the suggestion of building a Twitter clone. This was a hit!

Since the original DrupalSouth Christchurch 2008, Drupal communities in Australia and New Zealand have organised major Drupal events with attendees numbering in the hundreds and international speakers for six consecutive summers:

• DrupalSouth Wellington 2010
• Drupal DownUnder Brisbane 2011
• Drupal DownUnder Melbourne 2012
• DrupalCon Sydney 2013
• DrupalSouth Wellington 2014
• DrupalSouth Melbourne 2015
• DrupalSouth ... 2016?

I'm working on a drupal 6 site, with the dinosaurs (I wish), and am using node_save(&$node). I get how to pass in the node values like the title, uid and type. I'm now in search of how to pass in the field values of my node type.
The API says, in many places that,"Modules and scripts may programmatically submit nodes using the usual form API pattern." If anyone can point me to the 'usual form API pattern' description I'd be very happy.

In code I have this:
<?php
$message = new stdClass();
$message->title = $title;
$message->type = 'free_text';

Update: We're incredibly excited to announce that Angela "webchick" Byron will be keynoting DrupalSouth!

Tix on sale now: https://melbourne2015.drupal.org.au/conference/tickets

The call for sessions for DrupalSouth is open closed!

Hi all,

It's been about 18 months since I've done anything in Drupal, and I'm sure there have been a heap of developments since I last installed a site.

I’m giving a 6 hour Drupal workshop in a University next week (over 3 days). I need a example Drupal application that can be built in an hour. (In the workshop we’ll do it over 4 hours). I’d like to demonstrate that Drupal is fun and inspire them to learn more. The students are mainly from Computer Science.

Just before midnight tomorrow (1 August at 23:59), session submission for DrupalGov Canberra 2014 will close.

If you want to share your story about Drupal, Government or Open Source then this is your last chance to get a session submitted and put yourself in the running. All levels of government, local, state and federal, and any associated agencies from the GLAM sector are invited to share their stories at DrupalGov.