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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November 7 meeting: any presenters or topic discussions?
Hi.
I have a schedule conflict and will not be attending the Nov 7 meeting.
So, are you folk willing to discuss hosting on Nov 7 without me?
Or would you prefer to discuss another topic?
Any alternate topic suggestions and/or volunteer(s) for leading the discussion?
Read moreVolunteers for Ontario Linux Fest (Saturday October 25, 2008)
There is an Ontario Linux Fest on Saturday October 25, 2008 (that is two weeks from today).
Like last year, it has a Dot Org pavillion where open source projects can distribute literature and ask questions. Unlike last year, where Joomla had a presence there, and Drupal did not, we like to be present.
The day runs from 9:00 am to 6:30 am, so we need 2 or 3 volunteers who can answer basic questions on Drupal, and hand out some flyers.
Read moreDecember meeting: Drupal Hosting round table discussion
In December, we will be discussing hosting for Drupal.
Our own Andrew Berry (deviantintegral), will present us with what he had to go through for a client, then we will follow with a round table discussion.
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Drupal Performance Benchmarks 5.8 vs 6.3
Here is the link to the Drupal 5.8 vs 6.3 performance benchmarks mentioned in the meeting on October 3rd:
http://vision-media.ca/resources/drupal/drupal-performance-benchmarks-58...
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Losing connection to mySQL server
I try not to post support questions here....but I couldn't find any relevant posts on drupal.org....I have issues with a Drupal 5.10 site of mine where it seems to be over-loading the MySQL server. I get the odd (too common) "Unable to connect to database" screen that you get upon installing Drupal if you don't have the database setup and the settings.php files configured properly.
I certainly have that covered as the site is about 8 months old.
Read moreArguments...I need help
Thanks Khalid for the talk about Views, etc the other night. I know I've been needing to learn more about Views (specifically arguments) and this talk got me fired up to get some experience with it. I've been battling with arguments since Friday trying to get it working on some sites of mine...to no avail tho.
Read moreFriday Oct 3: pants.module: An introduction to Drupal module development
Ever wanted to get into extended Drupal by writing modules? Is that developer streak inside you yearning to express itself?
Then you are in for a treat on our next meeting ...
We have a special guest speaker James Walker (walkah). James is a co-founder of the first Drupal hosting company, Bryght (now Rain City Studios), and the training director at Lullabot. Not to mention that he has been developing for Drupal for more than 7 years!
Read moreIs tomorrow's meeting still on?
I assume it is...I just wanted to make sure as I'm looking forward to it.
Read morelooking for a local themer
I could use a hand with some Drupal theming. I build/manage a bunch of sites and could use some help on various theme issues but I have an upcoming project that may need some heavier/more-formal theming.
Please contact me ASAP and it'd be helpful to see a live portfolio of some of your work.
Read moreFriday Sep 5: CCK, Views and Panels
The power of Drupal lies not only in its awesome core and API, but how this API can be extended to provide more functionality through useful modules.
Some of these tool function so well together that they allow one to create sites without writing any PHP code.
One such tool set is composed of the following Modules:
- CCK: the Content Construction Kit, allows defining fields and content types which are groups of fields.
- Views: Allows lists of nodes to be presented in various formats, and various criteria.
- Panels: Allows a combination of blocks to grouped into custom "section" pages.
This trio of tools allows someone who is not a developer/coder to create fairly complex web sites all from a web based interface.
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Waterloo Drupal Group Meeting: Friday 01 August 2008. Porting * to Drupal
We have a special guest presenter for our August meeting. Emma Jane Hogbin will join us and share an encore presentation of her DrupalCamp Talk "Moving In: or how to port your content from * to Drupal."
This topic was a huge hit at DrupalCamp and we are thrilled to be able to have Emma present it with lots of extra time for Q&A.
Read moreWaterloo Region Drupal Group Meeting: Friday 04 July 2008
Come on out to the Special 4th of July meeting. We won't have real fireworks. Not inside. But we will have lots of fun discussing Drupal and our projects, discoveries and challenges.
Doors open at 6pm. Meeting starts at 7pm. Suitable for everybody from curious newcomers to confident gurus.
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Lullabots in Toronto June Meetup Photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jswaby/sets/72157605580707583/
Here are my pictures from the meetup.. Not sure if others were planning on posting their photos. If you are, post what you think the tag should be so we could aggregate all the pics from the meetup.
Read moreDrupal server hosting
Can anyone make a recommendation of who to use for Drupal hosting?
I have my own server but I find it's becoming overloaded and I don't want to get a second server and I may be having some issues with too many SQL connections. I was looking to get a shared hosting solution to compare performance with sites on my server.
I looked at one "Drupal Hoster" and in their terms, it mentions some limitations and the guy that was sitting beside me at the last meeting I think mentioned to stay away from such limitations. Their terms read:
"Acceptable use of DataBase Resources
Read moreTheme talk
Thanks for the talk on Theming last week. I learned a lot.
Two things...
1) was it 'Zen' or 'Zen_basic' that was the theme you recommended starting from? Is there a difference?
2) Martin - where can I find that PDF of Zen that you talked about that laid-out all the div's of the basic Zen theme....I want to try a crack at making a theme from scratch using it as a starting point to put your recommendations to work.
Drupal Camp Photos on Flickr
If you didn't know:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/drupalcamptoronto2008/
Post your photos on Flickr and tag them with drupalcamptoronto2008
Yay Photos!
Read moreDrupal Themeing Fundamentals: June 6, 2008
What makes Drupal sites unique? Sure, modules do add functionality to a site, but they are mostly under the hood and may not be very visible nor obvious.
It is themes that make a Drupal site stand out. Similar concepts in other products/projects are called templates or skins.
The days where every Drupal site has the blue and grey Bluemarine look are over. There are now a huge variety in how Drupal sites look.
We will discuss themes in Drupal this month, again in a round table format, but before we do that, we will have an exciting presentation:
Read moreDrupalCamp Toronto 2008: May 23 and 24 at University of Toronto
Since 2006, the Drupal community in Toronto has been holding annual DrupalCamps. Although it says "Toronto", we have seen people from as far away as New York, Winnipeg, and Vancouver come to attend the event.
This year, we are holding the 3rd annual DrupalCamp Toronto event.
The event will be held at the Bissell Building on the campus of the University of Toronto on May 23rd and May 24th 2008.
Attendance is free, but donations are welcome.
Read moreWaterloo Region Drupal group meeting Friday, 02 May 2008
We will discuss contributed modules this month, in a round table format. Think about contributed modules:
- which modules do you use all the time?
- which modules do you want to know more about?
- which modules have you tried, then discarded? Why?
The round table discussion will give everybody a chance to contribute and the diversity of our group will give us all a chance to learn.
Read moreWaterloo Region Drupal user group: Inaugural meeting
The first meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal user group will be held on Friday 04 April 2008, at The Working Centre in Kitchener Ontario.
All with an interest in Drupal are welcome.
Topic: Getting to know Drupal (and you) - A round-table discussion of Drupal and our experiences with it.
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