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 7 Layout and Theming
Aspiring Themers!
Come join us for training at BCIT Downtown campus this March 27 - 28 for Acquia's Drupal 7 Layout and Theming course.
In this two day course you'll learn a variety of approaches to making dynamic layouts in Drupal, and how to choose the right approach for your site. You will learn techniques and best practices for configuring a flexible and extendable layout for your site, then you'll learn how to get more control over the look and feel by creating a custom theme in Drupal.
Read moreBeginner Drupal Training
Hello to those who are new to Drupal.
Come join us for training at BCIT Downtown campus this March 18 - 20 for Acquia's Drupal in a Day and Drupal for Site Builders courses.
On March 18 sign up for Drupal in a Day and get a solid introduction to Drupal 7. You will learn about the most essential features and concepts of Drupal through hands on activities. By the end of the day you will be familiar with Drupal terminology and be able to identify how Drupal sites are constructed. You will know how to identify and choose modules to get the functionality you need.
Read moreLooking for an intern
Here’s the scoop: I did pair programming before. It rocked.
So I am looking for someone who knows a bit about Drupal coding and wants learn Drupal 8 while pair programming with me. You need to be in Vancouver. Salary... that’s not really in the cards. However, the win for me is to become more efficient and if I can make enough core progress to take side gigs, we can share on those.
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Drupal Meetup: Panopoly: Building a Powerful Base Distribution
Presenters Matt Cheney and Jeff Pflueger from Pantheon Systems
Description
Panopoly is an Apps enabled distribution of Drupal powered by lots of Chaos Tools and Panels magic. The distribution is designed to be both a general foundation for site building and a base framework upon which to build other Drupal distributions.
This session will rock out with the latest and greatest version of Panopoly, the soon to be released 1.0. We will discuss the major features of the distribution, talk about how the different contributed modules that are working together, and do a live demonstration around key functionality.
Afterwards, we will dig into the technical details to talk about the anatomy of a Drupal distribution and outline the steps that are required to extend Panopoly to customize your own "sub distribution". We will also look at some specific examples where organizations are using distributions to efficiently deploy and manage many, many websites.
Biography
Matt Cheney is a long time Drupal developer who co-founded both Pantheon Systems (a Drupal platform service) and Chapter Three (a design and development shop). He is an active Drupal event organizer (Drupalcon San Francisco, BADCamp) and contributor to Panels, including being the maintainer of Panopoly.
Jeff Pflueger has been passionate about Drupal once Drupal 4 meant that he didn't have to write his own CMS anymore. He works with Pantheon on international and higher education Drupal projects.
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Surrey Drupal Meetup: WED, Feb. 13th: What's New in Drupal 8?
Join us on Wed, Feb. 13th (note the date change)
Since our regular meetup date lands on Valentines Day, we have changed the date to Wed, Feb. 13th.
Join us for a presentation on What’s New in Drupal 8 -
Doug Gough of TenFoldWeb.com will be presenting a short description of each major initiative in Drupal 8. He will also give a few examples of how they improve things for developers and clients.
Here's a list of some of the new features planned for Drupal 8:
- mobile-friendly default themes, Bartik, Seven, Stark
- Views in core
Surrey Drupal Meetup: WED, Feb. 13th: What's New in Drupal 8?
Join us on Wed, Feb. 13th (note the date change)
Since our regular meetup date lands on Valentines Day, we have changed the date to Wed, Feb. 13th.
Join us for a presentation on What’s New in Drupal 8 -
Doug Gough of TenFoldWeb.com will be presenting on the new features coming soon in Drupal 8.
Here's a list of some of the new features coming for Drupal 8
- mobile-friendly default themes, Bartik, Seven, Stark
- Views in core
- Multilingual functionality in core
- New improved theme layer using Twig
- In-place editing using Spark
