Toronto Drupal User Group
Welcome to DrupalTO (formerly: Toronto Drupal User Group), a meeting place for the Drupal community in the Toronto area for 16+ years!
We are a non-profit organization that hosts Toronto and area Drupal events such as monthly meetups, pub nights, annual conferences, discussions, news and job postings.
RSVP for events on Meetup.com. Follow us on Twitter for regular news and updates about the Drupal community in Toronto.
March Meetup: Drupal 10 CKEditor 5 Hot Sauce
Join us on Tuesday, March 19th, 2024, at 6:30 PM for an engaging presentation by Rob Loach on "Drupal 10 CKEditor 5 Hot Sauce". We are thrilled to have Rob, who is world-renowned for his fantastic presentations.
Read moreCiviCamp Montreal 2024
CiviCRM has deep integrations with Drupal through entity, webform, etc. This is a CiviCRM event but will have discussions about Drupal woven through many of the presentations and activities during the 4 day sprint following the conference. There are two day trainings before the 1 day conference for those wanting an introduction or a refresher on developing CiviCRM extensions or Administrator Training.
I'm co-presenting the Admin Training, and co-leading a group working on Documentation during the sprint.
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Canadian hosting services offering dedicated servers
Hi,
Can anyone recommend any good reliable Canadian hosting services offering dedicated servers? This is for an organization site in Toronto with many recurring paid memberships, requiring various scripted forms and other functions.
Thanks,
Steven
DrupalTO: D9 EOL Series - Upgrading to D9 Panel Discussion (Part 2 of 2)
Join us on Friday, Nov 19th at 12:00-1:00 pm for our next Drupal Toronto "Lunch n' Learn" Virtual Meetup.
LOCATION: Web Conference
TIME: 12:00-1:00pm
Details:
For Part 2 of our D9 EOL series, we will be hosting a panel of experienced Drupalistas sharing their Drupal 9 upgrade experiences. We will be discussing the challenges and successes that different teams have faced with their sites.
DrupalTO: D9 EOL Series - Demo of D7->D9 progressive upgrade (Part 1 of 2)
Join us on Friday, Nov 12th at 12:00-1:00 pm for our next Drupal Toronto "Lunch n' Learn" Virtual Meetup.
LOCATION: Web Conference
TIME: 12:00-1:00pm
Details:
At Consensus, we’ve been engaged to help with upgrading a number of large complex Drupal 7 sites to Drupal 9. We’ll dive deep into one such site that presented some unique challenges. In so doing, we’ll highlight the power and flexibility of the Drupal Migrate sub-system.
We’ll cover a number of topics including:
Mapping content architecture
Migration tools and plugins
Progressive upgrades
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Read moreDrupalTO - Designing a User-Centric Search Experience
Details
Join us on Friday, March 12th at 12:00-1:00 pm for our next Drupal Toronto "Lunch n' Learn" Virtual Meetup.
LOCATION: Web Conference
TIME: 12:00-1:00pm
Details:
One of the main reasons to redesign a website is that users can't easily find the content. And while designing a great navigation, clear calls to action and engaging landing pages is incredibly important, a great search experience can make or break your user experience strategy, and is essential for large content-heavy websites.
DrupalTO: Design for Drupal workflow and implementation strategies
Join us on February 5th at 12:00-1:00 pm for our next Drupal Toronto "Lunch n' Learn" Virtual Meetup on Zoom.
Registration on Meetup will open 1 week before the event.
LOCATION: Web Conference
TIME: 12-1pm
TWITTER: @DrupalTO and #DrupalTO
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Read moreDrupalTO: Building Enterprise Drupal CMS powered by GraphQL for Decoupled Sites
Join us on Friday, Dec 11th at 12:00-1:00 pm for our next Drupal Toronto "Lunch n' Learn" Virtual Meetup.
LOCATION: Web Conference
TIME: 12:00-1:00pm
Details:
By now, you’ve probably heard the term Decoupled and Headless CMS. And by being a Drupal developer, probably at some point, you’ll be asked to build one. In this presentation, we’ll walk you through the basics of using Drupal CMS for this purpose.
DrupalTO[Online] Goldilocks and the Three Projects: Behat, Behaviour-Driven Development, and the Promise of Getting Customer Requirements Juuust Right
Join us on Friday, Nov 13 at 12:00-1:00 pm for our next Drupal Toronto "Lunch n' Learn" Virtual Meetup.
LOCATION: Web Conference
TIME: 12:00-1:00pm
Goldilocks and the Three Projects: Behat, Behaviour-Driven Development, and the Promise of Getting Customer Requirements Juuust Right
- How does Goldilocks know what she likes and doesn’t like?
- If you were making her a chair, a bed, or a bowl of porridge, how would you figure it out?
- How would you convince her to spend the time and resources needed to determine what is “juuust right” for her?
DrupalTO[Online] COVID-19.ontario.ca Leveraging Drupal in the Information Crisis
The first weeks and months of the COVID-19 pandemic were a challenging time for all. The pandemic presented unique challenges for the Ontario Digital Service (ODS) as we were tasked with passing timely pandemic-related information along to the public: information about emergency orders, testing, benefits, taxes, business supports and more were all in high-demand and changing quickly, as was the growing list of stakeholders. The ODS decided to leverage our favourite CMS (Drupal) to help us meet these demands and we’ll go over some of what we did in this case-study.
Read moreDrupalTO [Online] - How to Write Drupal Migrations
OVERVIEW:
Drupal allows building highly complex content structures ranging from simple blogs to online stores to advanced enterprise publishing with complex content approval workflows. Migrating content into such complex structures is a complex problem for which Drupal provides a simple framework in the form of the migrate module. The module allows data migration from various sources to Drupal in a structured approach—a way which can be controlled, monitored, and audited.
Read moreDrupalto [online] Meetup - Case Study: Embedded Angular for the University of Toronto
Hey DrupalTO friends!
We’re excited to reconnect with everyone for our first DrupalTO virtual lunch n’ learn session on Friday, April 24th from noon until 1 p.m.
CASE STUDY: EMBEDDED ANGULAR FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Martin Anderson-Clutz and Dylan Rieder from Digital Echidna in London, Ontario, will be speaking about how they integrated content managed outside Drupal with an angular app. Their topics will include:
* Integrating Drupal with an embedded Angular application
* Developing a custom Search API processor to index external content
Webinar - Open Source in Canada: How Drupal Empowers Government Innovation and Communication
The Government of Canada has officially endorsed open source. Now, many government departments are choosing Drupal as a preferred open source content management system for websites and intranets.
Join OPIN and Acquia as we reveal how the Government of Canada is innovating faster and communicating more effectively using Drupal. In this webinar, we will discuss:
- Focusing on innovation and improving capabilities, instead of technology maintenance
- Achieving frictionless content publication and launching campaigns faster
Preparing for Ontario’s Upcoming Web Accessibility Requirements (AODA) Webinar
Are you compliant with the current web accessibility requirements in Ontario? How are you preparing to meet the WCAG 2.0 Level AA requirements for all web content as well as internet and intranet websites, that will take effect on January 1, 2021?
Read moreDrupal Virtual Contribution Hour
Continuing from where we left, you are welcome to join on 22nd August for Virtual Drupal contribution Hour.
Every month it's great to make some progress in our journey to contribute back to our Drupal community.
Our aim is to make Drupal developers aware of the contribution benefit, how can they enhance their professional and personal skills.
Our focus is to introduce how to commit the first patch to Drupal.org for the people who have introduced to Drupal already. If you are associated with Drupal, now it is your time to pay back the community. Be a Drupal Contributor !!
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In-Depth Drupal 8 Training - Toronto
Learn how to build a website with Drupal from top to bottom. This is a week-long Drupal class divided into three parts: site building, theming, and module development. You can register for all five days, or for each part individually, depending on your learning needs.
Day 1: Drupal 8 Site Building
Read moreWhat's New and Upcoming with Drupal? (Drupal Toronto's June 2019 Meetup)
Join us at our next DrupalTO meetup on Monday, June 3, 2019 at 6:30 PM.
Read moreDrupal Toronto's April 2019 Meetup: Hot Dog/Not Hot Dog: Artificial Intelligence with Drupal
Join us at our next DrupalTO meetup on Monday, April 1, 2019 at 6:30 PM.
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DrupalTO March 2019 Meetup: Interactive Maps in Drupal - Story City: A Case Study
This session will be a case study of the development of the Story City interactive map for the Vancouver Public Library ( https://thisvancouver.vpl.ca/story-city ). The custom Drupal module developed as part of the project has been released to the Islandora community ( https://github.com/echidnacorp/story_map ) since it includes functionality that should allow any Islandora assets with geographic data to be plotted on a map.
Read moreDrupalNorth 2019 in Montreal
We're super excited to spread some news. We've booked Concordia University's John Molson School of Business in Montreal from Wednesday, June 12 to Friday, June 14 for this year's conference.
Nous sommes hâtes de vous faire parvenir ces quelques nouvelles. Nous avons réservé l’École de gestion John-Molson de l’Université Concordia à Montréal du mercredi 12 juin au vendredi 14 juin pour la conférence de cette année.
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