meetup

Just want to announce that we are having a meetup on 11th Aug, 2011. The venue should be CNNgo office again, but I will let brent to confirm this.

And if anyone have anything to share, please feel free to shout out. I actually have something from Drupal Camp Taipei 2011, but I cannot join Aug meetup, so may be I share on Sept meetup.

Logistics:

• Date: 2011-08-11
• Time: 19:00 - 21:00+
• Location: (TBC) 30/F, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (http://goo.gl/maps/sdDs)
• Cost: FREE
• Official hashtag: #hkdug

Join the Hong Kong Drupal User Group for the July 7 meetup. First of all, we are glad to announce the formal formation of Hong Kong Drupal User Group. Hong Kong Drupal User Group has continuously growth in  Hong Kong since 2007, and act as a community  for  knowledge sharing, user supporting and fun. With the formal formation, we aim to continuously develop niche Drupal knowledge, sharing the fantastic user experience to all potential stakeholders in Hong Kong.

Meanwhile, our longtime member – Dave Hansen Lange will relocate to Canada after this meetup. He is an active Drupal contributors and a helpful person in community during these four years. We would like to organize a farewell party to him and wish him all the best in future.

Also, we will provide a sharing section about a relationship management contribution named 'CiviCRM' (http://civicrm.org/).  It's functions are well developed to cope with basic community needs. If you are interested, you may try their demo which integrated with Drupal 7.X here (http://d7.sandbox.civicrm.org).

Special thanks to CNNGo.com once again offered us use of their office in Quarry Bay.

Logistics:

• Date: 2011-07-07
• Time: 19:00 - 21:00+
• Location: 30/F, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (http://goo.gl/maps/sdDs)
• Cost: FREE
• RSVP: http://groups.drupal.org/node/158179
• Contact: hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com, +852 9853 0636
• Official hashtag: #hkdug

Schedule (TBC):

• 19:00 ~ 19:10: Farewell party started.
• 19:10 ~ 19:30: Sharing from longtime members in Hong Kong Drupal User Group :)
• 19:30 ~ 19:50: Introduction of CiviCRM
• 19:50 ~ 20:10: Break. Feel free to ask your question and our volunteers will give you a hand!
• 20:20 ~ 20:40: Meeting focus in Hong Kong Drupal User Group formation related issues
• 20:40 ~ 21:00: Discussion of implementation of CiviCRM in Hong Kong Drupal User Group.
• 21:00 ~ 22:30: After event drinks. A 5mins walk from Oxford House, we'll have a cafe sharing section with a free drink at East End Brewery (http://bit.ly/foF3Mg).

Sponsorship:

• CNNGo.com, for meeting room reservation.
• PantaRei Design Limited, for after event drinks.
• There are sponsorship opportunities still available. Email kpyan0l [at] pantarei-design [dot] com for details.

Volunteer:

• Volunteers wanted, contact hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com to help.

Our tentative plan for this session:

1. Add more sites to the directory. Either email me with details or add a comment to this thread if you want it to go live along with others this saturday.
2. Agency/Industry listings - this adds another dynamic to the sites directory.

If you have a particular issue or want to hear our take on some topic please let us know and we'll do our best to cover that within the session.

We'll be meeting at Monimedia in the InnoCentre:

RM 305, 3/F InnoCentre,
72 Tat Chee Avenue,
Kowloon Tong, KLN

Join the Hong Kong Drupal User Group for the June 2 meetup. This meetup will focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) + Drupal 6.x/7.x backend. Is honorable to invite Mr. Eddie Choi, Managing Director of FrontiersDigital (F-D), to give us some SEO tips from macro e-marketing point of view. Special thanks to CNNGo.com once again offered us use of their office in Quarry Bay.

Mr. Eddie Choi ^_[1],[2],[3] had been invited to speak for many marketing conferences in Asia, conducted numerous private workshops held by the government and commercial organizations in Asia, specialty is search and social marketing particularly with a deep understanding of the market in China, too.

The Hong Kong Drupal User Group are open to everyone with an interest in Drupal and are a great opportunity to learn more about what Drupal can do and what folks are building with it.

Here are the meetup details so far:

• SEO tips from macro e-marketing point of view.
• How's Drupal 6.x/7.x SEO related functionality can boost your website overall traffic.
• Live website demo of Drupal SEO related functionality.

Logistics:

• Date: 2011-06-02
• Time: 19:00 - 21:00+
• Location: 30/F, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (http://goo.gl/maps/sdDs)
• Cost: FREE
• RSVP: http://groups.drupal.org/node/152029
• Contact: hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com, +852 9853 0636
• Official hashtag: #hkdug

Schedule (TBC):

• 19:00 ~ 19:10: Kick-off Session. Introduce yourself; enjoy with free pizza and drinks :-)
• 19:10 ~ 19:30: First Session. SEO tips from macro e-marketing point of view.
• 19:30 ~ 19:50: Second Session. How's Drupal 6.x/7.x SEO related functionality can speed up your website overall traffic.
• 19:50 ~ 20:20: Break. Feel free to ask your question and our volunteers will give you a hand!
• 20:20 ~ 20:40: Third Session. Live website demo of Drupal SEO related functionality.
• 20:40 ~ 21:00: Q&A Session. Don't wait and let us know about your issues :D
• 21:00 ~ 22:30: After event drinks. A 5mins walk from Oxford House, we'll have a cafe sharing section with a free drink at East End Brewery (http://bit.ly/foF3Mg).

Sponsorship:

• CNNGo.com, for meeting room reservation.
• FrontiersDigital, for SEO tips presentation.
• PantaRei Design Limited, for after event drinks.
• There are sponsorship opportunities still available. Email mhyiu4c [at] pantarei-design [dot] com for details.

Volunteer:

• Volunteers wanted, contact hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com to help.

I'd like to give a big thanks to those who already submitted their sites to hkdug info discontinued site. I know there are loads more great Drupal sites made in HK out there so want to take this chance to renew my call for submissions! We're working on a whole new design to spice things up and make it all professional looking so I urge you to get your sites in now!

Join the Hong Kong Drupal User Group for the April 21 meetup. During last March 30 Meetup we have a quick review of Drupal 7.x Zen 3.x subtheme development with live demo; this time we will change the meetup as "side-by-side, step-by-step workshop" style. Special thanks to CNNGo.com once again offered us use of their office in Quarry Bay.

The Hong Kong Drupal User Group are open to everyone with an interest in Drupal and are a great opportunity to learn more about what Drupal can do and what folks are building with it.

Here are the meetup details so far:

• The target of the workshop is to provide a brief example and idea of HOWTO create your own Drupal 7.x Zen 3.x subtheme.
• You may use your own design besides example provided as below (BTW, you may need to request volunteers to give you a hand).
• Please prepare your own Drupal 7.x setup before join the meeting (e.g. install XAMPP in your notebook and setup with Drupal 7.x).
• Please follow Edison's HOWTO Create Zen 7.x-3.x Subtheme in Step-by-step (Part 1, Part 2), trial and error, and prepare your question before meeting (We will try to shorten the workshop section into Q&A style if possible).
• Your idea here - Suggestions welcome - Feel free to comment on this post or contact us directly!
• Don't forget that we need AS MANY VOLUNTEERS AS POSSIBLE! We hope to have a 1-on-1 assistance style. Please check below for more information ;-)

Logistics:

• Date: 2011-04-21
• Time: 19:00 - 21:00+
• Location: 30/F, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (http://goo.gl/maps/sdDs)
• Cost: FREE
• RSVP: http://groups.drupal.org/node/142769
• Contact: hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com, +852 9853 0636
• Official hashtag: #hkdug

Schedule (TBC):

• 19:00 ~ 19:10: Kick-off Session. Introduce yourself; enjoy with free pizza and drinks :-)
• 19:10 ~ 19:30: First Session. A quick introduction of workflow.
• 19:30 ~ 19:50: Second Session. Start development and work out the changes.
• 19:50 ~ 20:20: Break. Feel free to ask your question and our volunteers will give you a hand!
• 20:20 ~ 20:40: Third Session. Some finishing and polishing (As much as we can, refer to time restriction).
• 20:40 ~ 21:00: Q&A Session. Don't wait and let us know about your issues :D
• 21:00 ~ 22:30: After event drinks. A 5mins walk from Oxford House, we'll have a cafe sharing section with a free drink at East End Brewery (http://bit.ly/foF3Mg).

Sponsorship:

• CNNGo.com, for meeting room reservation.
• PantaRei Design Limited, for after event drinks.
• There are sponsorship opportunities still available. Email mhyiu4c [at] pantarei-design [dot] com for details.

Volunteer:

• Volunteers wanted, contact hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com to help.
• With Zen development experience recommended.
• With general XHTML/CSS experience recommended.

Thanks to all who attended our last session and contributed some great ideas! We brainstormed and consolidated ideas from the HKDUG presentation to hone it down to the following tasks:

1. Build a directory listing of drupal sites "Made in Hong Kong" as a simple showcase of the talent.
2. Allow the public to submit their sites for display - we need submission guidelines and moderation rules (ideas please?)

Join the Hong Kong Drupal User Group for the March 30 meetup. We will have some follow up sections since January 28 Meetup. Special thanks to CNNGo.com once again offered us use of their office in Quarry Bay.

The Hong Kong Drupal User Group are open to everyone with an interest in Drupal and are a great opportunity to learn more about what Drupal can do and what folks are building with it.

Here are the meetup details so far:

• (20 mins, by Dave) Security of Drupal and cracking Drupal - Follow up section since BarCamp2010
• (20 mins, by Edison) Live demo of Drupal 7.x Zen 3.x subtheme development
• (20 mins, by Joe) Live demo of gallery like functionality development
• (20 mins, by Edison) Review of drupal.org.hk development
• (20 mins, by volunteers) If you've got a tough problem that you'd like some different perspectives on, let's share it - Please kindly propose your problem here so we will able to prepare in advance.
• Your idea here - Suggestions welcome - Feel free to comment on this post or contact us directly!

Logistics:

• Date: 2011-03-30
• Time: 19:00 - 21:00+
• Location: 30/F, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (http://goo.gl/maps/sdDs)
• Cost: FREE
• RSVP: http://groups.drupal.org/node/136909
• Contact: hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com, +852 9853 0636
• Official hashtag: #hkdug

Schedule (TBC):

• 19:00 ~ 19:10: Kick-off Session. Introduce yourself; enjoy with free pizza and drinks :-)
• 19:10 ~ 19:30: First Session. Security of Drupal and cracking Drupal.
• 19:30 ~ 19:50: Second Session. Live demo of Drupal 7.x Zen 3.x subtheme development.
• 19:50 ~ 20:00: Break. Free feel to share your Drupal question/knowledge/idea with each other!
• 20:00 ~ 20:20: Third Session. Live demo of gallery like functionality development.
• 20:20 ~ 20:40: Fourth Session. Review of drupal.org.hk development.
• 20:40 ~ 21:00: Q&A Session. Don't wait and let us know about your issues :D
• 21:00 ~ 22:30: After event drinks. A 5mins walk from Oxford House, we'll have a cafe sharing section with a free drink at East End Brewery (http://bit.ly/foF3Mg).

Sponsorship:

• CNNGo.com, for meeting room reservation.
• PantaRei Design Limited, for after event drinks.
• There are sponsorship opportunities still available. Email mhyiu4c [at] pantarei-design [dot] com for details.

Volunteer:

• Volunteers wanted, contact hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com to help.

Brian is in town for a few nights and he'd like to meet-up with some local Drupalistas. Brian likes vegetarian food so i thought we should bring him to a vegetarian shanghainese restaurant. We'll be going to
Kung Tak Lam
in Causeway Bay
http://www.happycow.net/reviews.php?id=27

At 6pm meet at Causewaybay MTR exit D4.

More about Brian:
http://www.opensourcery.com/people/brian-jamison