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.
Drupal North Regional Summit - June 25-28 - Toronto, Canada
Drupal North is a FREE 4-day conference focusing on how to make amazing websites with Drupal 8.
The inaugural 2015 event will be hosted in Toronto, Canada on June 25-28th at Ryerson University’s Rogers Communications Centre.
Who Should Attend?
Drupal North will run sessions — for more than 500 attendees — in the following tracks for a wide range of skill levels.
Read moreJanuary 2015 Meetup: Caffeinated Drupal (Case Study) & Migrating to Drupal 8 (Part Deux)
January's meetup will feature case studies about using Drupal to promote sustainable coffee choices for consumers and part two of migrating a Drupal 7 website to Drupal 8.
- Date: Monday, January 19
- Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
- Location: CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst St.
- Room: Meeting Room #4 on the 3rd floor
More details are available on the Meetup.com event page. Please RSVP there.
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Here’s Drupal - Tonight on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Tonight on the Tonight Show, Jimmy welcomes semantic content deconstruction, node.js, and musical guest high-stakes distributed application development. Here's............Drupal?
Oh yes, the blue drop made a big splash on the Tonight Show web site, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at it.
The world tuned in when Jay Leno handed the Tonight Show legacy over to new host, Jimmy Fallon. Behind the scenes, away from the cameras, an entirely different transition was taking place, led by CP+B, Four Kitchens, Lullabot, and NBC Digital. A new website for the Tonight Show was being launched.
Read moreDrupal Sprint Weekend 2015 - January 17th in Toronto
Join us on Saturday, January 17th for the Toronto segment of the worldwide Drupal Global Sprint Weekend! More than 35 cities around the world are participating.
RSVP at our Meetup.com event page.
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Domain Access & Rules
I am trying to create rules for emails to be sent when new content is added across a multi-domain environment.
Unfortunately, at the moment, it seems to only email the people associated with the site where the content is created. It does not send emails to those subscribers on other sites where the content is published.
What I have right now:
Content is of type
Parameter: Content: [node], Content types: Alert Item, Event, News
AND
Text comparison
Parameter: Text: [site:url], Matching text: www.xxx.ca
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No December Meeting
There will be no December meeting for the Waterloo Region Drupal Group.
Happy holidays and happy new year ...
See you all in January 2015 ...
Read moreDecember 2014 Meetup: Migrating to Drupal 8 (Case Study) & How to Review Drupal Code
December's meetup will feature presentations about migrating a Drupal 7 website to Drupal 8 and how to review Drupal code.
- Date: Monday, December 15
- Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
- Location: CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst St.
- Room: Meeting Room #4 on the 3rd floor
More details are available on the Meetup.com event page. Please RSVP there.
Read moreCreate UNC path for file system
I am trying to setup a web farm in windows environment, but am unable to connect to a remote file server using a UNC path.
Does anyone have any recommendations or hints on how this is done, or can it be done?
Read moreFollowup on the Drupal 7 SQL injection vulnerability
As a followup to the Drupal SQL injection described here
https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005
If you are running Drupal 6, then you are not vulnerable, unless you have the dbtng module installed. You could stop reading now.
If you patched or upgraded the Drupal 7 site an hour or two after the security advisory came out, you are probably safe.
However, if you patched after that, you could have been compromised in the time window between the fix being available and you applying it.
Please read the following document
https://www.drupal.org/PSA-2014-003
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Thinking of enabling comments
I've been thinking about enabling comments on my Drupal-based blog (which is low traffic but has been around a long time). Until this point I had user-accounts disabled in order to prevent spam-bots from creating a lot of accounts. Several years ago I opened the flood gates and at one point there were as many as 30 accounts/day created by spam-bots. Even with captchas and Mollum spammers still seemed to find a way to sign up. I'm wondering what modules or processes group members are using on their site to combat the tide of spam. Cheers and thanks!
Read moreObject Oriented Programming for Drupal 8
For our November meeting, our guest speaker will be Nik Alexandrov (nafes on Drupal.org)
Drupal 8 makes a significant transition from procedural to object oriented programming (OOP).
In this talk, Nik will be providing us with an introduction to OOP.
Topics covered:
- OOP basic principles and approaches.
- Simple class development example.
- OOP and interfaces.
- OOP in application to Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 development with real life examples.
This will be part 1 of the talk. The second part will be in or after February.
Read moreImportant security patch for Drupal 7
If you are running Drupal 7, there is an important security patch for you to apply today to prevent any possible exploits that may be developed in the next hours or days.
Details are in SA-CORE-2014-005.
Read moreMonthly Meeting
We have our monthly meeting this Thursday, October 16th at 19:00 at our usual venue, The Working Centre on Queen St. in Kitchener.
The folks at the University of Waterloo may have a talk to share with us on some stuff they did.
This will be followed by the usual discussions on anything Drupal ...
Read moreSoftware Freedom Day, 20 Sept, Drupal as a Career
I will be giving a talk on how to make a career out of free software, specifically Drupal.
This is happening on 10:30 am on Saturday 20th Sept 2014, at the Queen Street Commons (across the street from our usual Drupal Users Group venue).
More information can be found at: Software Freedom Day Kitchener 2014.
Read moreMonthly meeting
Our monthly meeting will be held as usual, on the third Thursday of the month (except for July/August), at 19:00 to 21:00 at The Working Centre in Kitchener.
We will have free discussions on any Drupal and/or web development topics ...
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Enabling clean URLs on an existing site where SEO matters
I have a site that has 25000+ nodes that currently does not use clean url's and has a fairly good search engine rank. I'm thinking about enabling clean url's but I'm concerned about the hit I'm likely to take from the search engines due to duplicate content after they are enabled.
Read moreSeptember Meetup: Continuous Integration with Drupal
RSVP here or on www.meetup.com/dug-to.
Join us at our next Toronto Drupal User Group meetup on Monday, September 15th at 6:30pm.
We'll meet at CSI Annex in Meeting Room #4 on the 3rd floor. CSI Annex is located at 720 Bathurst Street (5 minutes south of Bathurst Station).
Read moreNo meeting for August
There will be no meeting for August. Enjoy your summer, and see you in September ...
Read moreMonthly meeting: General discussions
For our July meeting, we have a general discussion on whatever topics those present chose to discuss.
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Partnership Opportunity
Enviro Commons (prototype built with Drupal 6) is a national platform to address the climate crisis by working together. With tools and functionality on 4 Dashboards - for individuals, business, non-profits and governments - the platform is designed as a network solution to address the barriers local and small initiatives cannot. The climate crisis is a big problem that requires a big solution. Here are some examples of existing functionality of the platform:
- The sense of powerlessness to impact and to influence governments, businesses and each other is addressed.
