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
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You can also subscribe to email notifications on using our mailing list, or join our group on LinkedIn.
Drupal 7 in a Day Training in Toronto
Get a solid introduction to Drupal 7 in one day. Learn about the most essential features and concepts of Drupal through hands on activities. By the end of this day you will be familiar with Drupal terminology and be able to identify how many Drupal sites are constructed. You will know how to identify and choose modules to get the functionality you need.
Because this class will be an overview and not an in-depth course, it is perfect for people who are on the fence about using Drupal or who are looking for a hands-on introduction.
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How architecture affects the community: a case study of Drupal with two other CMSs
Drupal isn't built like other content management systems. And it's got a large and strong community. Julian Egelstaff will look under the hood at three systems that are all content management systems, but have very different architectures, and very different communities: Drupal, XOOPS/ImpressCMS, and TikiWiki. What effect does the architecture have on the community? Once we've looked at the differences in code, maybe we can see some interesting answers to that question.
Read moreDrupal Ubercart for The Working Centre donations page
Happy new year everyone ... hope you had a good holiday season ...
For our January meeting, our speaker will be Devin Howard of our venue host, The Working Centre
He will take us through the process of using UberCart for building The Working Centre's donations website. This included writing a custom module as well.
Devin will also discuss:
1) The state of the site when he got involved
2) How to install/configure/use Ubercart
3) The customizations they had to do
X-cart-4.4.1 to drupal-commerce-7.x > Suggestions?
I'm in need of advice on Migration & Modules for a move from X-cart to Drupal7.
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Views and Slide Shows
OK. I give up.
I've installed all the modules, libraries, and javascript files needed for slide shows but am now lost as to where to go next. I've looked at the advanced help but they don't help me set up a slideshow.
I used JCYCLE as suggested at the London DUG meeting in November and was able to do a slideshow or two for my Christmas message at (http://emandem.ca/swans/index.html) and (http://emandem.ca/hshs/index.html) but I could not get the EASING to work as shown in the example ... and I could not figure out how to get it to work on my Drupal website (http://palstratford.org)
Read moreNo meeting for December 20th, 2012
There will be no meeting for December 20th 2012, since it is too close to the holidays.
For January, we have a talk on Ubercart, which will be announced in early January.
Happy holidays to everyone.
Read moreShould we have a Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group meeting on 20th December?
Voting started for Drupal Camp Toronto 2012
Drupal Camp Toronto 2012 is less than a week away, and you need to vote on sessions. Make sure that you register and login, otherwise you will not see the vote button for each session.
Read moreDrupal Camp Toronto 2012
DrupalCamp Toronto 2012 is a few weeks aways!
Registration and session submissions have opened, so go over to the website and sign up!
http://2012.drupalcamptoronto.org
You can also keep up to date with news about the camp on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrupalCampTO
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An Outsider's View of Drupal
What happens when you throw a poor sysadmin who has never done web design before into the deep end of implementing a major Drupal project at work? Hilarity? Chaos? Tears? All of the above, and also some observations and lessons one such "Drupal outsider" learned about Drupal, its technical infrastructure, its community, and its health as a free software project.
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Multisite vs. Domain access
I think I am suffering from paralysis by analysis in deciding whether to use domain access or multisite.
I am working on a school board's development of a new Drupal configured website. The main school board website has been developed and launched, and now I am working on the school sites. There are around 30 subdomains that will be used for these school sites.
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Toronto CiviCRM User and Administrator Training
A comprehensive two day hands-on training course covering the every-day use and administration of CiviCRM. This event is aimed at administrators and staff users at organisations that are using CiviCRM, or interested in evaluating it. It is also useful for staff at organisations that develop or implement CiviCRM who need a complete understanding of "out of the box" features and configuration options.
Read moreExtract media filename
Hello everyone,
Newbie question and first post to the local group!
For reasons I can't quite understand, I'm trying to teach myself a little Drupal module development. Apparently just setting things up and keeping them running isn't enough. Anyhow, I've built a little module that takes bits of information, artist name, title of work, etc, and lets you select a cover file. The whole thing gets passed to an external script which is already working (Linux command line I can deal with).
Read moreHow the University of Waterloo team launched on Drupal
For our October session, the University of Waterloo team who worked on the launch of their new homepage site in Drupal will present on the following aspects that were involved in the process:
- Web design process,
- Frontend development work
- Web accessibility considerations
- System admin considerations
Drupal Accessibility Sprint in Toronto (Nov 18 2012)
November 16-18 is an exciting time to be in Toronto if you are interested in Drupal and Accessibility.
Along with:
Drupal Accessibility Sprint Toronto -- #a11ySprint
Read moreDrupal for Developers in Toronto: November 15
This course is suitable for experienced developers who are interested in Drupal. We will cover the fundamentals of site building, module development and theming by building a site during the class. You will be introduced to Drupal’s hook system and learn how to participate in and contribute to the Drupal community.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
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Drupal in a Day Training in Toronto: November 14
Are you curious about Drupal, or debating whether it is the best tool for your marketing website, online magazine, or social network? Drupal in a Day is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Drupal, providing site builders and decision makers key insight into how Drupal works behind the scenes.
Read moreLDAP authentication
Anyone have experience with LDAP authentication.
I am having a hard time getting it to work. No error messages are being returned but I cannot login.
When I configure the server setup, I run the test, but it returns nothing. Is it supposed to confirm that it's working?
Server Properties
sid = BHNC_LDAP
name = LDAP
status = 1
ldap_type = ad
address = LDAP://10.191.200.5/
port = 389
tls = 0
bind_method = 1
basedn = Array ( )
binddn = CN=read only,OU=Contractors,DC=BHNCDSB,DC=CA
user_dn_expression =
Building Communities using Organic Groups
Drupal is used all over the world for running online communities. The Organic Groups module is what powers many of these sites including Energy.gov, The Economist, and groups.drupal.org itself.
Read moreConverting a site to Responsive Design using Zen grid, Omega, Sass and Compass
For our August meeting, Tyler Struyk will be presenting on a variety of tools and methods he used to convert his website into a responsive design.
This will include:
- dealing with menus
- dealing with images
- how to accomplish this with the omega and zen grid theme
- An overview of Sass and Compass that helped achieve the above
