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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Overview of Web Accessibility
The presentation will provide an overview of legislation in Ontario and Canada; web-accessibility guidelines, standards, resources, tools and tips; and Drupal and web accessibility.
This session will be presented by Eva Grabinski from the University of Waterloo and Everett Zufelt, accessibility maintainer for Drupal 7. For anyone interested in learning more about online accessibility, this presentation promises to be one not to miss!
Read moreFormulize: Data Management and Workflow Modelling for Drupal
Formulize, presented by Julian Egelstaff from Freeform Solutions, is an open source, data management and workflow modelling tool. It's aimed at non-developers, so they can have have advanced data management capabilities without needed to get down to the code level. Formulize integrates with Drupal, through the use of a special Drupal module that provides the glue to make the two systems work together. We'll look at what Formulize can do and the niche it fills, together with the nuts and bolts of how the integration with Drupal actually works.
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Dreamweaver CS5 claims support for CMS including Drupal
fyi,
I've downloaded a trial of CS5. Dreamweaver claims to support CMS including Drupal. It claims CSS brows layout features like Firebug. And lots of PHP stuff.
University of Waterloo Drupal coverage
I saw this news item on the Daily Bulletin (an electronic newsletter read widely by faculty and staff): http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2010/oct/28th.html
- Paul
November meeting: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a set of techniques that helps your site be ranked higher in search engines, and hence drive more traffic. Since this field is important for all sites, it often suffers from hype, mystery, and unethical tactics as well. Use of the wrong tactics can hurt your site's ranking rather than benefit it.
Glenn Cooke is a local life insurance broker who drives his business growth via SEO. He's achieved top rankings in this ultra competitive niche through the use of ethical white hat optimization techniques.
He'll be speaking about how to get your personal or business site ranked in Google and other search engines, without resorting to spammy techniques. In his talk he'll provide details on changes to make to your site that help with ranking, as well as things you can do offsite that assist with your ranking.
In addition, time permitting, he'll provide a basic overview of how to have success with Google's paid advertising option Adwords.
Read moreDrupalCamp Toronto 2010 schedule published, registration filling up fast ...
The schedule for DrupalCamp Toronto has been published.
http://2010.drupalcamptoronto.org/schedule
The camp is this Friday and Saturday (15th and 16th of October). The fee per day is $25.
Registration is filling up fast.
Please register now!
Read moreWhat do you want Dries to say?
As you know, Dries the founder of Drupal will be present at the Toronto Drupal Camp on 15 and 16 October.
What do you want Dries to talk about? He is asking for suggestions on Twitter.
Read moreRegistration open for Drupal Camp Toronto 2010. Register now ...
[Edited to include full announcement]
.... Only 9 days away!
REGISTRATION
Registration is now open.
It's only $25 per day, and you can register for only one or both days, at
http://2010.drupalcamptoronto.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=1
SPONSORSHIP
It's not too late to become a sponsor. We're looking for everything from
community sponsors at the $100 level, right up to $2500 Platinum sponsors.
Go to
http://2010.drupalcamptoronto.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1
Drupal 7: A Guided Tour
Drupal 7 is rapidly approaching beta, and will soon be ready for wide-spread use. Drupal 7 has been in development for over two years, and is a significant jump as compared to the previous Drupal 6 release. Some features of Drupal 7 I'll demonstrate include:
- The new "Seven" administration theme along with the improvements in the administration user interface
- The new "Bartik" and "stark" themes
- Using Drush to install new Drupal instances
- The new rock-your-socks database API
- Fields! (Also known as "CCK in core")
- Some other new features and changes I'll keep as surprises :)
Update
We will also have about 20 minutes so those who attended DrupalCamp on 15 and 16 October can share their experience with the entire group. What they saw, what they liked, what surprised them, or anything else ...
Read moreDrupalCamp Toronto: mark your calendar and propose your sessions
Cross posted from the Toronto DUG.
Two full days, 15 and 16 October 2010.
DrupalCamp Toronto is fast approaching and we are starting to count down the days.
We are absolutely thrilled to be putting on what will prove to be the best DrupalCamp Toronto ever. We already have a solid line up of sponsors that are helping us put on a great event by keeping admission costs low. If you would like to add your name to this list and join an already impressive list supporting this event contact: sponsorship@drupalcamptoronto.org
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New Drupal distribution for the academic community
Since we have a number of our members from academia, I thought that this was relevant news. Acquia is doing a Web Seminar on the just released Drupal distribution for educational institutions called OpenScholar.
Read moreUniversity of Waterloo hiring Web developers with Drupal knowledge
The University of Waterloo is hiring Web developers with Drupal knowledge.
Details are on Workopolis here http://www.workopolis.com/EN/job/11639234
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OpenAtrium: uses and abuses
OpenAtrium is a drupal installation profile, designed as an "intranet in a box". In other words, it's a way of using Drupal for an intranet, without having to follow a recipe or do much work at all. It is developed by the smart folks at Development Seed. I'm impressed by how it combines a nice looking design with some pretty clever modules that solve some of Drupal's (and organic groups') deficiencies.
Read moreDrupalCamp Toronto 2010 October 15 and 16
As you may already know, there will be a Drupal Camp in Toronto on October 15 and 16.
We have invited a very special guest for the keynote speech.
The teaser site is up here http://2010.drupalcamptoronto.org/
On the site you will find a contact email for sponsorship. It would be great if your organization can sponsor this event to help with the costs.
Make sure you attend, it will be very informative -- and fun -- for you and your staff.
Read moreStackoverflow site for Drupal Questions and Answers
If there is any interest, join the drupal proposal at stackexchage at http://bit.ly/d0e0NA
Read moreHigh Speed Internet in Guelph
Hi All!
I'm moving to Guelph on September 1st and looking for recommendations regarding high speed internet service providers. I don't need phone or TV. Just fast and reliable internet with as few restrictions or caps as possible.
I'm in Montreal now and use Videotron which has been great. It's very fast and reliable. It is a little expensive but I don't mind paying a little more for quality service.
So, if you have an ISP that you would like to recommend, I'm all ears!
Thanks and I hope to meet some of you at the next event.
Eric
Theming and Information Sharing via "Instant Syndicating Standards"
Our August session will have two great presentations:
- Bottom-up Information Sharing using Drupal 7 and ISS (Instant Syndicating Standards)
- Lara Babalola on Theming
Help decide the location for DrupalCon North America 2012
Some of you may have seen this, but for those who did not, there is a strawpoll to help decide where the DrupalCon North America 2012 will be held.
Please read the full post on the association web site, visit the full post on group.drupal.org, and fill in the survey. It only takes 2 minutes to fill.
Read moreGovernment of Canada publishes Drupal theme for Common Look and Feel (CLF)
I got this anonymously today, so publishing to groups that may be interested. Please cross post to other Canada groups that you are aware of.
The Government of Canada's Common Look and Feel 2 ( CLF 2.0 , CLF 2 , CLF2 ) theme for Drupal is available.
The latest version of the Drupal CLF theme can be downloaded from :
http://tbscio.ircan.gc.ca/projects/gcwwwdrupal/files
Screenshots of the CLF theme can be seen here :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51643302@N04/
Read morePutting Drupal in version control
Is there a best practices document for storing your drupal configuration in version control?
Is it even worth putting a Drupal site in version control if you don't hack core?
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