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.
[ONLINE] Getting ready for Drupal 9
Thursday May 21
7:00pm
We have two speakers for our May meetup:
Upgrading to Drupal 8/9 using the Migrate API
This session will provide an overview of the process to upgrading your Drupal 6/7 site to Drupal 8 using the Migrate API. We will talk what tools are available. Also, how to handle site architecture changes during the upgrade process.
Read more[ONLINE] Paragraphs versus Layouts at the University of Waterloo
Thursday April 16
7:00pm
The University of Waterloo is in the middle of its Drupal 8 build and had the debate about whether to use paragraphs or layouts. UW built two MVP of paragraphs and layouts and placed it in front of a group of power users at the University.
In this presentation, Eric Bremner, will walk through the current D7 UW setup, both the MVP paragraph and layout D8 setup. Eric will also share all the user feedback from the testing of both the paragraph and layout versions.
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Feb Meetup: Drupal's versatility, and news in Django
Thursday Feb 20
7:00pm
Drupal's Versatility
Natasha Scott — co-founder and web architect at SonicCat Studios
Read moreSouthwestern Ontario Global Drupal Contribution Event
London (Canada) Drupal Users Meetup, together with Waterloo Region Drupal Users Meetup, is hosting this all-day event as part of Drupal Global Contribution Weekend 2020.
This is the global contribution event for all Drupal users in southern Ontario including Exeter, London, Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph and surrounding areas.
Welcome Drupal newbies and experts alike. This is the event for you! There are so many ways to contribute - code, documentation, patches, writing, translations, and more!
Read moreJan Meetup: Testing part 2 (this is not a test, it's another real event)
Thursday Jan 16th
7:00pm
More Testing!
We didn't get through all our topics last time. So this month we'll continue on with a couple shorter presentations on testing.
Matt Parker — Webmaster, Brady’s Meat & Deli / Senior Developer, Digital Echidna
Read moreNov Meetup: Testing! (this is not a test, it's a real event)
Thursday Nov 21st
7:00pm
Testing!
This month we'll have a series of shorter presentations on testing.
Software Testing Overview
Matt Parker — Senior Developer, Digital Echidna / Webmaster, Brady’s Meat & Deli
Software testing, both manual and automated, has lots of buzzwords, flavours, and types. This presentation will give an overview of the terms associated with testing software.
Test Driven Development for Decoupled Drupal
Read moreOct Meetup: Layouts, Media, Action! Using Drupal 8 core to its fullest potential
Thursday Oct 17th
7:00pm
Layouts, Media & Notifications in Drupal 8
With the release of Drupal 8.7, layouts and media became stable. In this talk, Eric Bremner will demonstrate two sites now using these fantastic tools in full force. Eric will also demonstrate an external authorization that handles Drupal logins and users. He will also show how to use a notification system within Drupal 8 to send notices to different groups of users when content is added.
Read moreSept Meetup: Get smarter about dates
Thursday Sept 19th
7:00pm
Get smarter about dates — Using SmartDate and FullCalendar for better dates and events in Drupal 8
If you've tried to create events, or anything else with dates in Drupal 8 you've felt frustration. No longer.
Read moreAug Meetup: Drupal n' Drinks
Thursday Aug 15th
7:00pm
Traditionally we've had a summer hiatus, but that's too long to go without a meetup. Join us for a drink (alcoholic or non), snacks, and low-key conversation about anything related to Drupal or just the web in general.
We'll be at a restaurant/bar a block away from usual location.
Read moreJuly Meetup: Drupal n' Drinks
Thursday July 18th
7:00pm
Traditionally we've had a summer hiatus, but that's too long to go without a meetup. Join us for a drink (alcoholic or non), snacks, and low-key conversation about anything related to Drupal or just the web in general.
We'll be at a restaurant/bar a block away from usual location.
Read moreJune Meetup: "Home on the Range" Using Laravel's Homestead for Drupal Development
Thursday June 20th
7:00–9:00pm
Drupal North Retrospective
If you went to Montreal this week for Drupal North, we'd like to hear how it went.
"Home on the Range" Using Laravel's Homestead for Drupal Development
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Read moreMay Meetup: "Important Dates" — The U Waterloo calendaring system
Thursday May 16th
7:00–9:00pm
"Important Dates" started as a project with the Registrar’s Office (RO) at the University of Waterloo in 2016 to create an open-data feed of events. Since then the project has evolved to include the development of an interactive calendar platform within the Waterloo Content Management System (WCMS). This platform features one central and two remote push websites, hosting important dates for undergraduate and graduate students.
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Failed Large Web Site Implementation ...
In past meetings, we briefly touched upon expensive commercial Enterprise Content Management (ECM) used by some organizations.
Here is an example of a huge project by a large management consulting company (Accenture, previously known as Anderson Consulting), for Hertz, the car rental company. Cost was $32 million, and followups were $10 million.
The twist here is that the project is a failure, and now there is a law suite for tens of millions.
Read moreDrupalCon Seattle 2019 retrospective
Thursday April 18th
7:00–9:00pm
Some of us have just returned from DrupalCon Seattle. We'll give an update about what we saw and learned. Some topics:
- Layout Initiative
- Contribution Day
- Aaron Winborn Award
- Drupal Diversity and Inclusion
- New Track and session formats
- Largest
Thanks to Lullabot.com for sponsoring pizza.
The Working Centre
Read moreMarch Meetup: Story City - An Interactive, Rich Media Map Case Study
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date/Time: Thursday, March 21, 2019, 7:00pm
Location: The Working Centre, 43 Queen St. S. Kitchener, Ontario.
This session will be a case study of the development of the Story City interactive map for the Vancouver Public Library.
Read moreFebruary Meetup: A Multilingual migration to Drupal 8
At this month's meetup, Natasha Scott will walk through an almost complete bilingual site (French/English) that was migrated from Drupal 6. She will talk a bit about the change going from D6 to D8, the modules needed for multilingual (very little), and the different places and ways translations are supported. Multilingual is a definite strength for Drupal and it’s as good as ever in D8.
Read moreJanuary Meetup: Tools of the Trade
Thursday January 17th
7:00–9:00pm
This month we'll all share something about the tools and techniques that we use to make our work easier, faster, or better. Here's some general topics to get your ideas flowing:
- A browser extension
- An app
- A command-line tool
- Something that you use to test your work
- Something to automate repetitive tasks
Thanks to Drupalize.Me for sponsoring this month's event.
The Working Centre
Read moreOctober Meetup: All kinds of Maps
At this month's meeting we'll be talking about Mapping, mainly using Leaflet.
Thursday, Oct 18th, 2018
7:00–9:00pm
The Working Centre
58 Queen Street S.
Kitchener
Pizza provided by Lullabot!
At this month's meeting we'll be talking about Mapping, mainly using Leaflet.
In this presentation you will see:
- Examples of mapping in both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8
- How to set up a simple map using Address, Geocoder, and Leaflet modules
- How to tweak map settings using custom modules and JavaScript
- How to use Mapbox to make maps look pretty
New leadership for WRDUG
After many years of service, Khalid M. Baheyeldin has decided to retire from leading the Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group. We would like to thank Khalid for his many years of service, and for keeping the group going for all these years. We hope he will continue to provide his expertise and opinions to the group as a member.
Read moreSeptember Meetup: Headless Drupal, and Lando too
Join our monthly meetup of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group.
Thursday, Sep 20th, 2018
7:00–9:00pm
The Working Centre
58 Queen Street S.
Kitchener
Pizza provided by Lullabot!
Topics:
- Mike Sage (Sage Solutions) will show a case study on headless/decoupled Drupal.
- Dave Hansen-Lange (Advomatic) will demo Lando for local development.
