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
In order to get email notifications of new posts in this group, make sure you register for an account. Once you have an account, visit your user profile, then select Notifications, then Subscriptions, and enable emails from this group.
You can also subscribe to email notifications on using our mailing list, or join our group on LinkedIn.
The git distributed version control system (VCS)
Drupal.org has been using CVS as a version control system (VCS) since the project started.
CVS is not only used for contributors to check in code to their modules, but also is used for the packaging system for Drupal that manages releases. CVS is a centralized VCS, has several drawbacks making it frustrating to work with (e.g. cannot move files, cannot check in empty directories, no merging of code, ...etc), as well as lacking features present by more modern VCS's.
Read moreJune meeting: Filedepot document management system for Drupal, and Open Atrium
Many of us hear the need for a document management system from clients, and the community at large, both for internal intranet sites or external sites on the internet.
For our next meeting, Blaine Lang will be providing a demo and overview of a recently released module called 'filedepot' that his company wrote. It provides an integrated document management solution for Drupal. He will also introduce Open Atrium, a Drupal distribution for collaboration and work groups.
The presentation will cover:
- How to install and configure the module
- Drupal integration points
DrupalCon San Francisco debriefing: What is new in the Drupal Universe ...
For our May meeting, we will have an update and a discussion about DrupalCon San Francisco. Those who attended are invited to show up so they can share their observations and thoughts.
The rest will sure have several interesting things to learn as well.
Read moreLara Babalola on the University of Waterloo Faculty of Science migration to Drupal
Our April session will have a presentation by Lara Babalola.
Lara will present on how she migrated the static html University of Waterloo Faculty of Science website to Drupal.
Topics covered will include:
- Establishing an information architecture that is search engine optimized
- Taxonomy usage
- Creating roles and permissions
- Modules used and developed
- Theme design and usage
- Lessons learned
Lara has been working with Drupal for 2 years, and a long time member of the Waterloo Region DUG.
Read moreAdam Doan presenting on how he uses Drupal
This month, we have Adam Doan who is at the University of Guelph and has been using Drupal for some time.
Adam plans to present an overview of some of the Drupal work he has done so far with an emphasis on the challenges faced and how he addressed those challenges. His Drupal work has covered a range of sites from community based sites to purely informational sites and even a little bit of module development.
This is a "from the trenches" presentation that would interest anyone who is building, or managing sites in Drupal.
Read moreUniversity of Waterloo chooses Drupal
In 2008, the University of Waterloo formed a committee to select a web content management system.
In March 2009, the selection was narrowed down to three CMS's, Drupal being the only Open Source one of them. The other two being RedDot by Open Text (a company headquarted locally in Waterloo), and Cascade Server by Hannon Hill.
Later RedDot was selected as the CMS of choice.
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Contributing to Drupal
Want to contribute back to Drupal and the Drupal community? Come to this presentation and learn how to:
- Tips for helping other Drupal users on the forums
- Update and create documentation on the Drupal website
- Connect to the Drupal IRC channels to communicate with others in the community
- Create and submit patches to fix documentation or bugs in Drupal or contributed modules
If there are any other topics in this area that you think would be good to include, please post them below!
Read moreToronto DUG: Running your Drupal business
This is a notice for all members that there is a Toronto meeting this coming Monday Jan 25, and the topic could be interesting to many of us. It is about Running your Drupal business.
I am not planning to commute, but if there are a couple of people willing to go, we can car pool together. Post a comment here if you are interested.
Read moreDrupal Question and Answer
Have Drupal questions? Bring them to this meeting for discussion. Questions about modules, theming, best practices, or anything else are welcome. This is a perfect session for anyone new to Drupal to attend.
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Web Security Basics
Dave Kinchlea will show us the basics of security, with a focus on Drupal. He will cover the following topics: Who is the enemy, What to worry about; What not to worry about; How to monitor; Who to trust.
This is the first of a potential series of presentations on Drupal security.
Read moreFuture presentation ideas
Given the turnout (and the fantastic presentation) at the last meeting, it would be nice to keep the momentum flowing by having a few presentations lined up for upcoming months. Here are some ideas. Would you be willing to take one of these topics on?
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Module show and tell: a few people talk about a useful but obscure module.
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Scaling up Drupal across multiple MySQL backends or multiple frontends.
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A case study in moving to Drupal from another CMS.
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Theming show and tell: maybe making a theme from scratch or using one of the templates.
Custom content type (RSS feed) view error
Hi all. I was showing a friend the views module on a site and I seem to have messed things up to a point where I haven't been able to recreate the view. The error I'm getting is:
Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /home/content/40/4818240/html/sites/all/modules/ffpc/ffpc_plugin_row_podcast.inc on line 86
Oddly enough, a similar view that acts on the same data does not generate the error (OGG feed) (MP3 feed is broke).
Any ideas?
Read moreUpgrading your Drupal installation to the latest version
Upgrading your site isn't quite as simple as reading UPGRADE.txt that comes with the default Drupal installation profile and going off to the races. Depending on the complexity of a site, upgrading can be an involved process. However, with sufficient planning and patience even the most complex sites can be upgraded in a series of steps that on their own are quite simple.
In this talk, Andre Molnar will walk everyone through his upgrade planning process and highlight some tools that he uses to help get the job done.
Read moreDrupal Hosters in Canada
Hi Folks,
Do you know of any large Drupal Hosting businesses with Data Centres also located in Canada?
Thanks.
Lalit
Montreal DrupalCamp 2009 - October 17-18
Just wanted to let all the surrounding areas know that if you're looking for a DrupalCamp that's only a few hours away, we have one waiting at DrupalCamp Montreal 2009: The Education Edition. It's taking place at McGill University on October 17th-18th. We're happy to say that Webchick will be presenting a session or two! We have over 80 attendees already registered and are growing at nearly 10 sign-ups per day!
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October 15: Learn how GATE Village uses Drupal
The monthly Waterloo Regional Drupal Users Group will be on the 15th of October.
As a newcomer to the group I've volunteered to provide a bit of an overview of how GATE Village is put together as way of introduction -- some of the lessons learned, the lessons yet to learn, the innovations we've developed and the future direction.
Read moreToronto iCal Feed
I've created a Yahoo Pipes feed which takes the site-wide iCal feed and filters out all events which aren't in the America/Toronto time zone. This way it's easy to see only the local events in your calendar. Right now there's only one event... but hopefully that will change soon :)
iCal feed and Pipes link.
Enjoy!
Read moreNon-profit volunteer drupal admin seeking assistance
I have assumed a drupal site and do not know how to maintain the security updates. I'd like a mentor to help me out. I do have some familiarity with linux/unix.
Read moreYour Drupal questions answered: round table Q&A session
Note: This meeting is rescheduled from August to September!
For the September meeting, we will have a round table discussion of any questions you have about Durpal, whether they are hosting, development, customization, features, contributed modules, ...etc. Send me your questions at kb at 2bits, and I will collate them and post them a few days before the session for all to prepare answers for the session.
Read moreweb-based forms wizard
Hola!
I posted to kwlug-list asking about a web-based forms wizard; the first response has brought me here to investigate drupal. Quoting my post:
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blockquote> I'm looking for an open-source "forms wizard" such as the one found in Open Office. [...]
The existing project is in PHP, and we're using MySQL (v4) databases.
The set of tasks it should accomplish are:
1) allow non-programmer users to generate web-forms which can save data to the database
2) allow non-programmer users to define portions of the database as "views" which may be displayed in a spreadsheet-like format (optionally editable).
and:
3) validate input data according to preset criteria (eg., "account codes must match regex format" or "value must match an existing value in this other table")
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