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.
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What is technical strategy and why do you need it? And a demo of Drupal + Emulsify + Storybook
Thursday, March 17, 2022
7pm EST
Topic 1: What is technical strategy and why do you need it?
There's two significant changes in the past decade that should prompt us to think differently about tech leadership in web projects:
- Websites can now live forever (enabled by Drupal 8, proven by Drupal 9)
- We now do a lot more upfront strategy when building a website (organizational strategy, content strategy, UX strategy, etc.)
Open Discussion: editor UX, QA, responsiveness, and more
Thursday, February 17, 2022
7pm EST
Is there something in the process of making a Drupal website that you've been pondering? Do you ever wonder how others do things?
This month we'll have an open discussion about a wide range of topics. Here's a few ideas that we'll use to get the conversation going:
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[ONLINE] Theming with Pattern lab + Gesso at the University of Waterloo
Better Documentation with Architecture Decision Records
In this week's meeting, Andrew Berry from Lullabot will share how they are using Architecture Decision Records to capture key solutions to reuse across multiple projects. He will share their process for discussing and identifying possible ADRs to create, as well as the tools they use to support them including log4brains and Tugboat.qa.
Online Meeting Details
Read more[IN-PERSON] Oct Meetup: Drupal Food + Drinks
Come join what might be our last patio meet-up for the year at Graffiti Market on Thur Oct 21 for food, drinks, and Drupal.
Read more[IN-PERSON] Sept Meetup: Drupal Food + Drinks
We're going to try and enjoy the patios for as long as possible.
This month, the WDUG will be meeting on the patio at Graffiti Market. Join us Sept 16th, 7PM for food, drinks, and Drupal.
Please RSVP so we know we have a big enough table!
The patio has a substantial roof, so we'll meet rain or shine. If it's chilly, dress warm :-)
Read more[IN-PERSON] Aug Meetup: Drupal Food + Drinks
It's been far too long!
This month, the WDUG will be meeting on the patio at Graffiti Market. Join us August 19th, 7PM for food, drinks, and Drupal.
Please RSVP so we know we have a big enough table!
It looks like the patio has a substantial roof, so let's meet rain or shine. If it's just cold, dress warm :-)
Read more[ONLINE] June Meetup: Building Case Studies at DocuSign with Drupal
Thursday June 17
7:00pm EST
Online meeting details below
In this case study, Andrew Berry from Lullabot will show how Drupal was used to:
- Support self-service of content for dozens of marketing contributors across multiple regions
- Create pages with fast, beautiful designs with minimal editorial training
- Manage translations of case studies and blog posts where the original source could be in any region
[ONLINE] May Meetup: Using Codeception for testing, enhancing and making Drupal applications
Thursday May 20
7:00pm EST
Online meeting details below
Codeception collects and shares best practices and solutions for testing PHP web applications. With a flexible set of included modules, tests are easy to write, easy to use and easy to maintain. In this presentation, Eric will demonstrated how codeception can be used in Drupal for testing, enhancing and making Drupal applications.
About the Presenter
Read more[ONLINE] Migrate Only Some of the Things: A Drupal 7 -> 9 migration
Thursday, April 22, 7-9pm EST
Online meeting details below
For our April meetup we'll look at a case study of of a Drupal 7 to 9 migration. 420Intel.ca is a news aggregate site for the cannabis industry. The existing site is an older Drupal 7 site, with a lot of unused configuration. The site is actively updated with multiple content items added daily.
Our challenge for this project was to:
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Mar Meetup [ONLINE]: Hosting Smackdown (no sales reps invited)
Online meeting details below
About this meetup:
Shared hosting is more than enough for your grandma's blog, and Facebook needs its own data centres, but what about those of us with sites in between those two extremes? What sort of things should you consider? What makes X better than Y in your particular situation? Come join our panel where we'll talk about options like DIY, Pantheon, AWS, Platform.sh, or Acquia. But we won't have anyone selling those companies in the room.
Read moreFeb Meetup [ONLINE]: Tools to make your workplace and community more inclusive
Online meeting details below
About this meetup:
Why do the underrepresented engineers, marketers, or sales reps at your organization keep leaving — or maybe never apply in the first place? Wondering what you’re missing when it comes to supporting your marginalized colleagues? Join Drupal Diversity and Inclusion Team Lead Tara King to discuss how to engage and support every member of your team.
Read more[ONLINE] The Design Process for Olivero + Intro to PostCSS
Thursday, January 21st
7:00pm EST
Online meeting details below
Part 1: Design Process for Olivero
Olivero is a core initiative to create a new default theme for Drupal 9. Designing a core theme presents unique challenges as compared to designing traditional websites.
Jen will tell the story of what it’s like to design a theme for an open-source content management system (CMS) and will answer questions like:
- What are the challenges we encountered while designing a theme for an open-source community made up of thousands of stakeholders?
[ONLINE] Translations using layouts and paragraphs (using the layout_paragraphs module)
Thursday, November 19th
7:00pm EST
Online meeting details below
Since layout builder does not natively support translations, a case study of using the layout paragraphs module will be shown. Layout Paragraphs provides an intuitive drag-and-drop experience for building flexible layouts with paragraphs. The presentation will include a demo of site that uses layouts/layout discovery with translations and paragraphs.
About the Presenter
Read more[ONLINE] Case Study: Workbench Access permissions and using Media Entities in the CKeditor
Thursday October 22
7:00pm EST
Online meeting details below
This presentation will be a case study of a school website with over 200 editors and cover two of the more interesting problems that had to be overcome.
The first deals with using the Workbench Access module to manage the restriction of editors to their own areas of the site including media. I will go through how this is setup and demonstrate the common use.
Read more[ONLINE] Making Drupal a Media Powerhouse
Thursday September 24
7:00pm EST
Online meeting details below
This week we'll cover two topics relating to media integration in Drupal 8/9:
Responsive Images + Cropping
In this presentation you will learn how to set up responsive image styles in Drupal using core modules (Media + Breakpoint + Responsive Image). There are two different ways to configure responsive images: we'll review both of them and when you would use each.
Read more[ONLINE] August Catch-up
Thursday August 27
7:00pm EST
Online meeting details below
We hope you can join us for an informal chat as we close out the summer months.
Things to discuss:
- What have you been working on for the past few months? Any particular Drupal challenges?
- Did anyone do DrupalCon Global? How was it?
- Topics & presenters for Fall meetups
Timing for this meetup is different from our usual schedule (4th Thursday rather than our usual 3rd Thursday).
Online Meeting Details
Read more[ONLINE] August Catch-up
Thursday August 27
7:00pm EST
Online meeting details below
We hope you can join us for an informal chat as we close out the summer months.
Things to discuss:
- What have you been working on for the past few months? Any particular Drupal challenges?
- Did anyone do DrupalCon Global? How was it?
- Topics & presenters for Fall meetups
Timing for this meetup is different from our usual schedule (4th Thursday rather than our usual 3rd Thursday).
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Fivestar not displaying labels on form in Drupal 8
Are members of WDUG using the Fivestar module with Drupal 8? I have version 8.x-1.0-alpha2 installed on Drupal 8.9.3 and when I go to enter data into a content type with a Fivestar field there's no label displayed.
For an example see [content_entry_no_labels.jpg] at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RsarOCLPQWMoOIKXRb0lCad6cyG_Cycx
If you look at [fivestar_settings_for_graphics.jpg] note that it shows "text display: none"
Read more[ONLINE] Learn about the Webform Module
Thursday June 18
7:00pm EST
Learn about the webforms module - Drupal's fancy form builder. Totally rebuilt in Drupal 8, with an alpha availabled for Drupal 9 as well. We'll discuss various components and how to build (as a sitebuilder), as well as Composer usage and then finish up with a short dive into backend coding of various handlers/plugins for Webform. I will also outline some configuration benefits and risks - and their mitigations.
Presenter: Nick Dickinson Wilde
https://www.drupal.org/u/nickdickinsonwilde
