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
July 2009 Meeting
I don't have anything formal in the works, but RockSoup (aka Jared) is coming up for a visit and has a very cool sounding Drupal community thing he'd like to discuss. Here's a teaser (I've paraphrased a little):
I am planning a Drupal Event in late October here in Seattle more like a regional DrupalCon than a DrupalCamp. The focus will be more on folks already in the "Drupal Ecosystem", people who spend much of their time designing, configuring and engineering Drupal. We will not have a focus on the "beginner" track as we have had in the past.
Let's all get together to hear what he has to say and catch up on all the local Drupal gossip that's fit to discuss.
Date: Thursday July 23, 6:30pm
Location: The Irish Heather, 210 Carrall Street in Gastown. [Map]
Cost: What ever you eat and drink.
Jared has some flexibility in his schedule, if Thursday July 30th works better for more people please speak up quickly and we can move the day. Likewise, if someone has an alternative location they think will work better than the Heather, please speak up. Is there a Gastown restaurant with a large dining area that might work? What's the Cambie like at 6:30?
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Drupal Social #13, Where have you been?
The last meetup was the largest yet, somewhere around eight people showed up and we nearly closed the pub!
Who?
Great people, hope to see some new faces at the next one.
What?
Great beers on tap, Drupal talk, hobby talk, anything really.
When?
Wednesday, July 15th 2009 at 7PM PST
Where?
Garrick's Head Pub
It's in the Bedford Regency, right in Bastion square.
Why?
There aren't enough holidays to go around, so I am making one up.
Monthly Meeting Date
Could someone please comment if there is a date set for this month's User Group meeting. I see it says 3rd or 4th Thursday of the month, just wondering if one has been chosen.
Thanks,
Jared
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Drupal Advanced Forum vs phpBB Forum
What are the pros and cons for using Drupal Advanced forum or phpBB?
demo of Drupal Advanced forum is here: http://shellsn.com/forum
this demo used Blue Lagoon Stacked styling
how to style your advanced forum is here: http://drupal.org/node/234042
For a good example of using phpBB with Drupal 6, see here:
http://www.teenrc.ca/phpbbforum
you can download phpbb skins from the internet
Drupal has module for phpbb. drupal.org forums has a drupal 6 version
I like the style of phpbb for the posts with the author pane on the right hand side.
Read moreNeed checklist for Drupal theming. What makes a complete theme?
I attended Open Web Vancouver session on Thursday, June 11, 2009 with Angie Byron. We were talking about the lack of good looking themes for Drupal. So Angie encouraged designers to create and submit themes to Drupal.org.
I asked about a checklist or guidelines to developing custom themes for Drupal. How do you know when your theme is complete? Some themes on Drupal.org say RC1, alpha, beta, dev. What do these versions mean if anything?
Read moreneed requirements/specs for Drupal theming including design and coding
I would like to collaborate with other Drupal theme designers. I am writing a specifications document for a Drupal 5.x theme. What types of design items do you include in your theme design projects? I am starting with this:
A. Custom Graphical User Interface Design
- Website layout - Custom Drupal theme including graphical header and footer and navigation menus that appear on every page. Blocks for Staying Connected, Sign up for Updates, and Register and Sponsors will also be themed. Global styling for H1, H2 tags, main content text is also included.
