Welcome to VANDUG!
The Vancouver Drupal Users Group (VanDUG) is the local meeting place for Greater Vancouver people interested in Drupal. We were formerly known as the Vancouver League of Drupalers, but that's a long story.
The group mostly hangs out on Slack at https://vandug.slack.com/. We also post our meetings on Meetup.com at https://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Drupal-Users-Group. All are welcome, it's listed as a private group to keep out the griefers.
We've been holding semi-regular virtual meetings during COVID-19.
Recent Posts
Drupal Brunch with Amye Scavarda
Amye Scavarda is a Drupal colleague from Portland Oregan who's in town this weekend to speak at Wordcamp Vancouver! She's a project manager for open source content management systems based in Portland, Oregan and a Drupal Camp Portland organizer. Let's give her some Drupal people to talk to while she's here (WordPress people also welcome)!
Amye is only available on Sunday, so for a change of pace let's try a completely social brunch meetup.
Date: Sunday June 13, 2010 10:30am
Location: Two Parrots Perch & Grill, 1202 Granville St, Vancouver
Cost: What ever you order to eat
We'll probably need to make reservations, so I would appreciate it if you sign up or contact me if you're coming. Equally, if your plans change please remember to take yourself off the list.
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Anyone have a SugarCRM consultant reference?
I'm looking around at the best customer relationship management options for a client of mine. We're considering Salesforce.com as that has some Drupal integration already but since I'm an open source developer I'm also looking at SugarCRM.
Is there anyone that specializes in SugarCRM customization in the Lower Mainland that someone here could point me to? I'd prefer to work with local people if possible but if someone has a recommendation outside of the city I'd appreciate it too.
Read moreJune 2010 Meeting: Content Deployment Your Client Can Use/Project Management with Open Atrium
Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday June 24, 2010 at Appnovation Technologies for the Vancouver Drupal User Group June meeting. This month we have two presentations: A Content Deployment Workflow Your Client Can Use presented by Owen Loy and Katherine Bailey of Work [at] Play; and Project Management With Open Atrium with Steve Krueger of The Jibe Multimedia.
Date: Thursday June 24, 6:30pm
Location: Appnovation Technologies, L200-560 Beatty Street, Vancouver, BC [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome
This month we have a door prize! One lucky attendee will win a Drupal Pet, donated by Dee-Ann LeBlanc, a local freelance writer, editor, course developer, and trainer specializing in Linux/OS X, CMS, open standards, and open source.
For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterward.
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Bellingham Drupal Users group forming
After discussing with various WWU and #drupal-seattle folk, we've decided to kick off the Bellingham Drupal Users Group or.. bhamDug. or something to that effect. I know quite a few drupalists who can't really commute to Seattle or Vancouver, and much like the Bellingham Linux Users Group, there is a thriving community around here.
So if you live in Skagit or Whatcom Counties, or just wanna hear whats going on up here, join up on the new bellingham group:
http://groups.drupal.org/bellingham
May 2010 Meeting:
Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday May 27, 2010 at Appnovation Technologies for the Vancouver Drupal User Group May meeting. This month's feature presentation: Mobilizing your Drupal Website with Oliver Walker.
Date: Thursday May 27, 6:30pm
Location: Appnovation Technologies, L200-560 Beatty Street, Vancouver, BC [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome
For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.
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Combining PNW IRC channels
Hey everybody!
So currently there are three Drupal channels for Pacific Northwest cities - #drupal-portland, #drupal-seattle and #drupal-vancouver. Right now there is a lot of overlap between these channels - people who hang out in two or three, but a lot of the time the individual channels are pretty dead. Additionally, since the Drupal Summit last year, there seems to be more of a broad community feeling between all the groups than there has in the past. So I was thinking maybe we should just do away with the three channels and form a new #drupal-pnw channel. It would bring more of us together and for many remove the need to join two or three channels individually. Local-only discussions could still happen on the groups, as it does already really.
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