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.
DrupalTO October 2015 Meetup: Getting Started with Drupal VM
Join us at our next DrupalTO meetup on Tuesday, October 13th at 6:30pm.
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Waterloo Region: Location in Drupal - Where Is It At?
Join us at our next Waterloo Region Drupal User Group meetup on Tuesday, October 15th at 19:00.
- Date: Thursday, October 15, 2015
- Time: 19:00 to 21:00
- Location: The Working Centre, 58 Queen Street S., Kitchener
Our guest speaker for October is long time Drupal consultant, developer and evangelist, Martin Anderson-Clutz.
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You are invite join our Kitchener Waterloo meetup.com group
I have created a meetup.com group. http://www.meetup.com/Kitchener-Waterloo-Drupal-Meetup. I predict this will attract many new members to our meetup. I have seen local KW groups on meetup.com grow from 3 to 55 in a matter of a month. https://groups.drupal.org/waterloo-region will still remain active.
Read moreWaterloo Region September Meeting: Exploring Drupal 7 RestFUL module
In Drupal 7, there are 3 modules available that allow you to expose your data through an API: Services, RestWS and RestFUL. We will give a summary of the difference between them, then dive into RestFUL module and how you can use it for your CMS. Along the way we will be showing examples of how we implemented it at the University of Waterloo.
Read moreDrupalTO September 2015 Meetup: 1st Time Contributing to Drupal & Drupal 8 Meets AngularJS
Join us at our next DrupalTO meetup on Tuesday, September 15th at 6:00pm.
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DrupalCamp Montréal 2015
L’Association Drupal de Montréal est fière de vous inviter au DrupalCamp Montréal 2015, un rassemblement annuel de passionnés de Drupal de Montréal et ailleurs. Le DrupalCamp Montréal s’adresse à tous ! Les conférences vedettes et les sessions seront présentées en français et en anglais. Une grande variété de sujets pour un public de tous les niveaux de connaissances.
Association Drupal de Montréal is proud to invite you to DrupalCamp Montréal 2015, an annual gathering of Drupal enthusiasts from Montréal and beyond. DrupalCamp Montréal is for everyone! Keynotes and sessions will be presented in both English and French, and will speak to a wide range of topics and skill levels.
August 2015 Meetup: Learn About Drupal 8 & Command Line Basics
Join us at our next DrupalTO meetup on Monday, August 10th at 6:00pm.
Read moreJune Meeting
Our last meeting before we break for summer is now upon us.
We will have a general Question and Answer session on any Drupal related topic, and an update on Drupal North which is happening next week ...
The Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group's meetings are held monthly except for July, August and December.
Attendance is free.
The meetings happen on the third Thursday of each month, 19:00 to 21:00. Our next meeting is on May 21st, 2015, 19:00 to 21:00.
We meet at The Working Centre at 58 Queen St. S. Kitchener, Ontario.
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Time restrictions on date field
I have used date module to create date field for project.
Some people are putting in 1:00 for time rather than 13:00, so the event shows up as taking place at 1 am. Is there a way to change the time format to 12 hour format, or restrict the available times to say from between 7:00 and 22:00.
Read moreBackdrop CMS: a Drupal fork ...
For our May meeting, Nathan Vexler and Khalid Baheyeldin will be talking about Backdrop, a fork of Drupal.
We will cover the following topics:
- What is Backdrop?
- Why Backdrop?
- Porting a Drupal 7 module work with Backdrop
- Migrating to Backdrop from Drupal 7 (and comparison to migrating from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8)
- Pros of Backdrop
- Cons of Backdrop
- Discussion: Will Backdrop see sizeable adoption?
Drupal 8 Highlights and Live Demonstrations
Drupal 8 is currently in beta, meaning a final release is coming soon! There’s no better time than now to get a head start and begin preparing for its inevitable launch.
This talk will feature live demonstrations of the most important highlights of Drupal 8. You’ll learn about the most important new features that will benefit developers, themers, content administrators, site builders, marketers and more. We'll also review Drupal 8 development tools, including Drupal Console.
Read moreApril 2015 Meetup: Drupal Console, Services & RestfulAPI on Mobile, Drupal 8 Migration and Drupal-Specific Hosting
Join us at our April 2015 meetup for the Toronto Drupal User Group on Tuesday, April 14th at 6:00pm.
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Freeform Solutions is looking for Drupal and/or CiviCRM developers. Work from anywhere in Canada.
Check out our latest job posting here: http://www.freeform.ca/en/were-hiring-drupal-andor-civicrm-developer.
WORK FROM HOME FROM ANYWHERE IN CANADA.
JOIN A LEADING TEAM AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD!
About Freeform Solutions
Read moreFreeform Solutions is looking for Drupal and/or CiviCRM developers. Work from anywhere in Canada.
Check out our latest job posting here: http://www.freeform.ca/en/were-hiring-drupal-andor-civicrm-developer.
WORK FROM HOME FROM ANYWHERE IN CANADA.
JOIN A LEADING TEAM AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD!
About Freeform Solutions
Read moreMarch Meeting: Drupal OOP and Drupal North
For our March meeting, we have a double feature ...
Our main talk is our postponed session from February on Drupal OOP.
Drupal is moving more and more towards Object Oriented Programming (OOP) with every new release. It was first implemented in DBTNG, The Next Generation for the Database access layer which went into Drupal 7. Now with Drupal 8, right around the corner, more and more of Drupal is OOP.
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Forcontu is offering 10 x Drupal Training Scholarships
Forcontu is offering 10 x Training Scholarships for the Expert in Drupal 7 online course (valued at USD1350). If you want to apply, complete the form before April 15, 2015. On April 16 we will announce the 10 winners of a scholarship to join the course completely free. The course will be conducted from May 4 to December 4 (7 months).
More information and registration at:
http://www.forcontu.com/en/10-drupal-training-scholarships
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Fatal error upgrading d6 to d7 - flag module
Has anyone ever come across this:
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/helenejulien/public_html/sites/all/modules/flag/includes/flag/flag_flag.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/sitename/public_html/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 3175
I removed the flag module from the sites/all/modules folder and removed it in the systems db table. Still can't get past it. Tried all kinds of variations - different versions, only changing the status on the rows in the systems table, etc.
Read moreMarch 2015 Meetup: Drupal Smorgasbord: Drupal 8 Features in Drupal 7, Drupal 8 Migration & Docker
Join us at our March 2015 meetup for the Toronto Drupal User Group on Monday, March 16th at 6:00pm.
Read moreNo February Meeting
Please note that there will be no meeting for February 19th.
The Drupal OOP talk has been moved to March 19th.
Read moreFebruary 2015 Meetup: Remote Data with Drupal 7 Views & Drupal 8 Theming with TWIG
February's meetup will feature presentations about Integrating Remote Data Into Drupal 7 and Exposing it to Views (Colan Schwartz) and Drupal 8 Theming with TWIG (Chris Luckhardt).
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