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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DUG Meeting: ‘Composer: what is it and how should Drupalers use it?’
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, February 16th, 2017
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
Our speaker for February is me (Liam McDermott).
The topic is: Composer: what is it and how should Drupalers use it?
From how to install Composer for use with Drupal, to common usage patterns, this
talk will offer an introduction to Composer and a head start on how to use it.
Composer describes itself as a, 'Dependency Manager for PHP.' We'll talk about
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DUG Meeting: How to Create a Website on a Tight Budget
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, Jan 19th, 2017
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
Our speaker for January is Dave Hansen-Lange (dalin), a long time contributer to the Drupal project.
The topic is: How to Create a Website on a Tight Budget
Read moreDUG Waterloo Group Meeting
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
For our November meeting, we are having an informal group get together, with some new members from the area.
Meetings for the Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group happen on the third Thursday of each month (except for July, August and December). The meetings are held at The Working Centre, at 58 Queen Street South in Kitchener, between 19:00 and 21:00.
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Speakers for November 17, 2016 Waterloo Region Drupal User Group
It's a bit short notice but we seem to be unable to contact our scheduled speaker for November for WRDUG. I'm more than happy to host the space if we have a speaker. I'm also happy to host the space for an informal meeting if members just want to get together and talk shop.
Read moreThree Drupal 8 Sites
Megan McDermott from Woolwich Web Works will show some Drupal 8 sites she has been working on.
Read morePresentation needed for Oct 20
Khalid is out of the country for a while, and we don't have October's presentation finalized yet.
It is possible that Nik will present his ticketing system for Drupal, but this has not been confirmed. Would somebody in the group be willing to show us something for October? It does not have to be a polished or fancy presentation -- showing off a site you developed or a module you worked on would be just fine. If Nik confirms then that will be a fine presentation, but it would be nice to have a backup plan.
The date of the next meeting is Thursday, Oct 20, at 7pm, in downtown Kitchener.
Read moreDrupalTO September 2016 Meetup: Making the Right Decisions for Drupal Content Authors
Data Migration and Import in Drupal
Date: Thursday, September 15th, 2016
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
Summer is over, and kids are back in school. This means one thing: meetings for the Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group are back!
For our September meeting, Blaine Lang and Randy Kolenko of Nextide will be telling us how to get data from external sources into Drupal.
Read moreDrupalTO August 2016 Meetup: Instant Deployments and Tests for Drupal 7, Drupal 8 and Backdrop CMS
No Monthly Meeting for July and August
The Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group takes a break in the summer, so there are no monthly meetings for July and August.
Enjoy the weather while it lasts ...
Read moreDrupalTO July 2016 Meetup: Drupal in the Dark: Offline-ready Decoupled Drupal 8 Using React
DrupalTO June 2016 Meetup: Drupal VM Integration in your Day-to-Day Development Workflow
Monthly Meeting: Tactics for Digital Marketing
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, June 16th, 2016
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
For our June meeting, Carla Wright will be using real examples to review digital marketing tactics from strategy to measurement.
This will include touching on Acquisition Strategies like Social Media and Landing Pages, accommodating Algorithm Changes, evolving your SEO, drawing actionable insights from your data and more.
Read moreQuestionnaire for the June Talk
For our June talk, Carla Wright has a questionnaire, so she can focus on what is most interesting to the group.
Please take a few minutes to respond here: http://goo.gl/forms/9B8rpOsxbfs5OPrE3
The questionnaire will up for two weeks, so Carla can get the results and prepare her talk.
Read moreDrupalTO May 2016 Meetup: GitFlow and Drupal
Looking for Drupal surge capacity relief...
My team (in Guelph) urgently needs a Drupal developer to help out over the next month with a wonderful community organization project.
Anyone interested or can refer someone looking for a spot of work? Some flexibility in approach to work, but timing is pretty critical.
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Webform submission redirect
I am trying to use webform module for a fairly uncomplicated task, where the user fills in details and then after submission the form redirects to another page.
What I discovered is that all my existing webforms and this one are automatically redirecting to the google website.
https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=EXc8V4KpE6iC8Qe-tYGYDw&gws_rd=ssl
Interestingly the URL is sending cookie to the browser, so the original URL is probably google.com.
Read moreHelp needed in overriding form elements in Ubercart
I don't know whether this question is relevant for the group, but I asked it on StackExchange and it sank like a stone. Khalid said it would be okay to ask here, so I am doing so.
The long writeup is on StackExchange: http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/199743/alter-element-info-and-... . That has a bunch of details I am skimming over in this writeup.
Read moreInterested in a group train to Montreal for Drupal North? (June 16-19)
Please note we weren't able to arrange a decent discount with Via Rail. Attendees are booking their own train fares.
The 2nd annual Drupal North Regional Summit is happening on June 16-19 in Montreal.
We're gauging interest in a DrupalTO group train ride to the conference.
Schedule:
- June 16th: Toronto to Montreal (leave early afternoon)
- June 19th: Montreal to Toronto (leave morning)
Via Rail indicated the round trip cost is $253.12 per person. That price guarantees group seating.
Read moreBuilding a single page app with AngularJS and Drupal
Join our monthly meeting of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup.
Date: Thursday, May 19th, 2016
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
The trend of having Drupal run headless continues ... This is where a thin Javascript client is loaded in the browser and Drupal communicates with it using JSON.
The next generation Acquia Cloud interface is being built as a single page application using AngularJS, and is now in public beta at https://cloud.acquia.com.
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