A group for Drupal users in southern Ontario, mainly from Kitchener, Waterloo, as well as Cambridge, Guelph and surrounding areas.
Who
All Drupal enthusiasts are welcome to join us for discussion and demonstration of topics for beginners and beyond.
What
Topics range from implementation examples and demonstrations to tutorials and workshops to round-tables, question and answers and panel discussions.
When
Meetings are held monthly, except for July, August and December. Attendance is free. We meet on the third Thursday of each month, from 19:00 to 21:00.
Why
Learn about different aspects of working with Drupal, including development, site building, design, and more. Coming to a meetup is also a great opportunity to network with others who work with Drupal.
Where
Our new meeting location will be at the University of Waterloo, Hagey Hall room 119. Campus map
How
Hagey Hall (HH) is near the south-west corner inside the ring road (the road that goes in a loop around the main campus). Convenient parking is right across the road in H lot ($5 payable by credit card on exit). There are many transit stops near campus, including an LRT stop on the east side of ring road. View transit stops on Google maps
If approaching from H parking lot, look for the yellow/light wood doors in the big brown/red brick building:
If approaching from the north side, you'll be looking for a new glass entrance that looks like this.
Inside the door there may be a map of the building. Room 119 is towards the west side.
To get there, walk through the building until you come to an open, modern space. It looks like this:
The doorway to get to Room 119 is to the left (right if you came in the north entrance). Look for "Drupal meetup" signs.
Join
In order to get email notifications of new posts in this group, make sure you register for an account. Once you have an account, visit your user profile, then select Notifications, then Subscriptions, and enable emails from this group.
You can also subscribe to email notifications on using our mailing list, or join our group on LinkedIn.
Gitlab Presentation At the KWLUG
Most of you would have heard the news about Drupal.org moving all its repositories to Gitlab.
In case you didn't, here are the details.
So, you may want to attend this Monday's talk on Gitlab at the KWLUG, at the KW Innovation Centre, because in the future, you will be using that for collaborating on patches, modules, ...etc.
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Continuous Integration has never been so easy
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
Speaker: Andrew Berry
Do you want to run tests, check code coverage, check coding standards, and generate coverage reports every time someone in your team pushes code changes? In this session, we will show you a set of tools to implement Continuous Integration to your development workflow, and to make the business case for Continuous Integration (CI) to non-technical stakeholders.
Read moreMay Meeting: General Discussion
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
For our May meeting, the speaker had to cancel due to unforseen circumstances. So, instead of Composer, we will have general discussion on anything Drupal.
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Drupal 8 themes (on Linode) not displaying correctly (Bartik okay)
I recently set up a new Drupal 8 site on Linode. The default Bartik theme looked fine, but other themes do not display correctly, an in some cases cause issues like not even being able to log-in when I append ?q=user.
On the same Linode I have an installation of Drupal 7 (for another site) and things look fine.
Read moreMonthly Meeting: DrupalCon Debriefing ...
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, April 19th, 2018
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
For this month's meeting, we will have a DrupalCon round table discussion. Those who attended the conference will share their experiences, what sessions they attended, what 'vibe' is in the air, what is the 'pulse' of the Drupal community, and much more.
Read moreDrupal and Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 and CELA
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, March 15th, 2017
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
For our March meeting, we have a double feature ... both focused on accessibility ...
WCAG 2.0
Read moreDrupal 8 Theming with Pattern Lab
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, February 15th, 2017
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
For our February meeeting, Tyler Struyk and Eric Bremner, both with the University of Waterloo, will do a presentation on Pattern Lab and how they are using it with their Drupal 8 project at the University of Waterloo.
Read moreJob Posting: WLU Looking for Drupal Developers
Mark Weiler wants everyone to know that there is a new job opening for a web developer at WLU in Waterloo.
Here is the job posting.
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Templating with Twig in Drupal 8
In this session we will look at some of the cool stuff you can do with Twig in Drupal 8. Topics include:
- What is twig?
- Twig filters
- Drupal specific filters
- Using variables and conditionals
- Adding classes
- Creating paths, urls, and links
- Attaching libraries
- Embeds and Includes
Along the way you'll also see how themes are structure in Drupal 8, some tips for structuring theme files, and more.
Read moreOpen Scholar at the University of Waterloo
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
Monthly Meeting: Decoupled Drupal Using Ember
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, October 19th, 2017
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
With Decoupled Drupal being in vogue with many of its users these days, we have a session on just that.
Previously, we had talks on Decoupled Drupal using AngularJS.
Read moreLaravel, a PHP Framework
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, September 21st, 2017
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
The summer vacation is over, and this means that the Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group meetings are to resume.
For a long time, Drupal has been a self contained system, with almost all components developed in-house. Before Drupal 8, we've had calls to 'get off the island', and explore what is out there.
Read moreDUG Meeting: Avoiding The Boom/Bust Website Cycle
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, June 15th, 2017
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
Our speaker for January is Dave Hansen-Lange (dalin), a long time contributer to the Drupal project.
The topic is: Avoiding the boom/bust website cycle
Dave will talk about how to ensure that your clients remain satisfied, while also making income more consistent.
Read moreMonthly Meeting
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, May 18th, 2017
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
For our May meeting, we don't have a set topic or speaker. The meeting will be about anything the attendees like to discuss, whether it is questions about Drupal, sites they have built, cool things they have found, ...etc.
Anything goes ...
If someone has a topic on this short notice, please contact me, and I will update this announcement.
Read moreCorrection: Open Scholar Talk is for June
The date for the Open Scholar talk was set for May, but the speaker is not available for that date. The Open Scholar meeting will be on June 15th instead.
Meanwhile, if you have a proposed talk for May 18th, please contact me.
Read moreMonthly Meeting: Accerlated Mobile Pages (AMP) in Drupal
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, April 20th, 2017
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a web technology that aims to improve a web browsing experience by reducing page load and render times. The AMP project is supported by Google and in many cases, providing an AMP version of a website can lead to preferential placement in search results, especially, but not limited to searches from a mobile device.
Read moreDirector At Large Voting closes today!
If you have not voted yet, for the At Large Director position, please do this now. Voting closes today!
Almost anyone who has been active on drupal.org with a user ID is eligible to vote.
Review the candidates and vote here:
https://assoc.drupal.org/election-post/18/vote
Read moreGuelph job posting: Senior Drupal Developer/DevOps
A Guelph based firm is looking for a Senior Drupal Developer/DevOps.
The job posting can be found here:
https://jobs.drupal.org/giantgoat-web-development/job/13834
Read moreMonthly Meeting: Using Migrate for Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 Migration
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, March 16th, 2017
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
Paul Nijjar is the webmaster for the KWLUG, and he has taken it upon himself to migrate from the current Drupal 6 site to Drupal 8. With the migration almost complete, Paul can now share with us all the secrets of this process.
During our meeting Paul will:
- share his (sometimes arduous) experiences in this migration, and
Live stream: ‘Composer: what is it and how should Drupalers use it?’
Live stream version of the Composer & Drupal presentation from the last meetup.
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The topic is: Composer: what is it and how should Drupalers use it?
From how to install Composer for use with Drupal, to common usage patterns, this
talk will offer an introduction to Composer and a head start on how to use it.
Composer describes itself as a, 'Dependency Manager for PHP.' We'll talk about
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