A group for Drupal users in southern Ontario, mainly from Kitchener, Waterloo, as well as Cambridge, Guelph and surrounding areas.
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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. 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, and get help with any problems you're having. You will also have opportunities to share your knowledge with others and gain experience presenting to a group.
Where
In-Person Room
Our new meeting room is in the Engineering 7 (E7) building at the University of Waterloo. E7 is on the east side of campus right next to the bus terminal. View google map.
To park in the B or Q visitor lots next to the bus terminal you will need to use the AMP mobile pay app: https://aimsmobilepay.com.
The building looks like this:
Our meeting room is number 1331, just inside the entry doors for E7:
Online option
Online meeting link will be posted on the event page on the day of the meetup. We are committed to providing a strong online meeting presence, and have worked to make sure that comments from in person attendees are audible to those attending online. Please let us know if you have any problems with the online meeting format.
Converting 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
Drupal 7 Theming & Layout in Toronto: September 14
You know how to make flexible content types, how to structure your site with custom paths and menus, and how to create dynamic lists of content with Drupal. And yet - you've found the limitations of the core block system to place the content on your site. Now you want to know how you can get control of where content is placed in your page structure.
Read moreDrupal in a Day Training in Toronto: September 13th
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 moreCall for presentations/topics
Hello all,
We have a presentation on Organic Groups by Andrew Berry for September.
We don't have a topic for August 16th though.
If you think you have something interesting for others, then please propose a talk. It can be as little as half an hour, show casing a site built with Drupal, anything new in the Drupal community, ....etc.
Post below ideas and topics you have.
Read moreSession topic change
Due to a medical emergency, the presenter for the previously scheduled session for tomorrow will not be able to make it, and we rescheduled for July.
We will be talking about Drush for tomorrow's session.
Read moreUsing Drush for faster management of your Drupal sites
Did you know that Drupal has a command line interface?
Indeed, it is called Drush (DRUpal SHell).
You can do a lot of things faster from the command line, instead of loading web pages and clicking on things. It works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X.
For our June meeting, Andrew Berry and Khalid Baheyeldin will be presenting all you need to know to use this marvellous tool.
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Blackoutspeakout, June 4
Many Canadian non-profit organizations are protesting the latest federal budget, here:
http://www.blackoutspeakout.ca/
If you know of any organizations that use Drupal and would like to participate, you're welcome to use and/or recycle this simple D6 sandbox module (based on a similar module created for the US sopa campaign earlier this year).
http://drupal.org/sandbox/adixon/1611860
or just use this command to grab it:
git clone --recursive --branch master http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/adixon/1611860.git blackoutspeakout
Read moreStrategies and methods for building communities and fighting spam
As your community site grows, your page rank improves, and traffic increases. This attracts more spam, and increasingly more intelligent spammers: Bots and humans alike.
For our July meeting, long time Drupal site builder, designer and enterpreneur Ivan Raszl will describe four levels of spam protection that allow your sites to grow by allowing in legitimate users and keeping spammers out.
Read moreDrupal Accessibility Sprint in Montreal June 15-17, 2012
Montreal's local Drupal Association is hosting a 3 day Accessibility code sprint running from 9-5 (and possibly later) on June June 15th, 16th and 17th. Everett Zufelt of and Mike Gifford will lead the sprint which will be held at the offices of Evolving Web, 114-300 rue du Saint-Sacrement, Montreal. Wheel chair access is via rue Le Moyne. Ten dollar Parking can be found nearby on rue University.
Weekend attendees will need to buzz 114 to get access to the building.
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Theming From the Ground Up
In this session we will explore the world of Drupal theming from the ground to the tree tops. Topics include:
- Basic structure of a theme
- What's new in Drupal 7
- Where does that code come from?
- Customizing Drupal's HTML output
- Demo: Creating a custom theme
- The road ahead: Initiatives and proposals for Drupal 8
Great Drupal Web Designers in the Waterloo Region
Hi everyone,
I'm a Drupal freelance programmer in Kitchener-Waterloo looking to build a network of great Canadian Drupal theme designers (individuals, not entire companies).
D.org profile: http://drupal.org/user/473174
If you are interested in working with me to create websites, please add your comments to this page.
How it would work is, if I come across a project that needs both back-end and front-end development, I will fully develop the backend and then ask you to create the Drupal theme and if they have a PSD, arrange the theme to match their desired look.
Cheers,
Yonas
Drupal 7 and schema.org for a more structured Web
Two years or so, we had a talk about the Semantic Web by Stéphane Corlosquet, who was one of the contributors to Drupal core in the area of Semantic Web.
Now that Drupal 7 has been out for a while and has this feature out of the tar.gz file, it is time for a recap, specially that we do have a large user, University of Waterloo, who use the Semantic web on their Drupal sites.
Schema.org is a joint initiative from the major search engines to build a collection of schemas that webmasters can use to markup their HTML pages.
Read moreDrupal in a Day Training in Toronto: May 11
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 more
Drupal themes - unable to change from default color scheme
I have been having a hard time switching from default color schemes on a number of themes I have tried to install.
I have installed Mayo, Pixture & Bartik and I get an error message when changing off the default scheme.
I contacted the host provider, who took a look and didn't find anything wrong with permissions. Also looked at the htaccess file and the SymLinksIfOwnerMatch option, to no avail.
Error message returned is:
Read moreOpenLayers and OpenStreetmap session
In this session Ralph Janke will introduce two very interesting technologies for websites.
Openstreetmap is a volunteer driven movement to make cartographic information public domain. Ralph will cover the community as well as technological aspects of Openstreetmap and how standard and customized map can be used on Drupal sites without legal headaches.
OpenLayers is a javascript library that allows the display of rendered map tiles (or other images) on websites. It also allows additional information to be displayed on websites.
Read moreReplace My Account with User's First Name & Last Name
Would someone be able to tell me how to replace text My account with name of user logging in?
I tried the String Overrides module but that doesn't seem to be dynamic.
Fields are fname & lname.
I have tried &[user:field_fname] & ![user:field_fname] to no effect.
Read moreDisplay of views from Drupal 7
I am in the process of creating a document management system. I created a new content type with the multiupload widget to allow for multiple files to be uploaded for categories defined in taxonomy. Then I used a view to display the records. The issue I am having is in regard to the display of the views. When attaching files, I have enabled the addition of multiple files per entry. This are defined in the view as comma separated values.
Read moreSite Show and Tell: The Working Centre and Wingham Radio
For our February meeting, Paul Nijjar will demonstrate how a new site for The Working Centre is put together.
This is a Drupal 6 information site about the job search process. He will illustrate some of the major components of the site, apologise for the large number of modules in use, and share some of the difficult lessons he learned in working with his first major Drupal project.
Also, the Wingham Radio Station will show us how their Drupal site is put together, and what they learned.
If you have a site that you want to show to the community, please comment below.
Read morePlacement of Elements in Block
I am relatively new to Drupal and am having a hard time trying to figure out how to place elements within a block.
I understand that the elements can be ordered in the administrative page, but one of my elements is still hidden.
Is there something in CSS that links to the block name in Drupal?
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Seven Steps to Make Drupal 7 Rock Mobile
How can site builders and developers improve the user experience on mobile of sites they build in Drupal 7? This session will cover seven (or even more!) steps to help ensure a consistent and friendly mobile experience for visitors of your Drupal 7 sites. Some of the topics I'll cover include:
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