Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group

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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:

Engineering 7 building exterior

Our meeting room is number 1331, just inside the entry doors for E7:

Floor plan of Engineering 7 with directions to the room

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.

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Monthly Meeting: General Discussions

Start: 
2014-06-19 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

For our monthly meeting, we will have general discussions on all things Drupal.

As a fun exercise, let us try to name as much web sites from in and near the Waterloo Region that are built with Drupal, outside the ones we already know (e.g. University of Waterloo, The Working Centre).

Come reaedy to name a few ...

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DrupalCamp Debriefing

Start: 
2014-05-15 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

For our May meeting, those who attended DrupalCamp Toronto we will discuss the sessions they attended, and will catch up on sessions they missed.

So, whether you did go to the camp or not, you will sure find it interesting ...

If you did attend, please join us and share info about what sessions you attended ...

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Drupal Camp Toronto May 2nd, 3rd

Anyone going from Kitchener/Waterloo for Drupal Camp Toronto 2014?

We can car pool. I am confirmed for Friday and will be driving there in a van. Have place for 3 or 4 people.

Contact me if you are interested.

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April meeting

Start: 
2014-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

Our April meeting will be similar to last month's meeting: we will have a free discussion on any topic that is Drupal or web development related.

If you have questions, hints, tips, news to share, then please come over ...

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March meeting: informal discussion on anything Drupal

Start: 
2014-03-20 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

For our March meeting, we will have informal discussions on anything Drupal.

Come over, share your experiences, and learn from others ...

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Introduction to Drupal - Training in Toronto on May 5th

Start: 
2014-05-05 09:00 - 16:30 America/Toronto
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Event type: 
Training (free or commercial)

The course will cover the fundamentals of Drupal. Whether you're a developer using Drupal for the first time, an editor looking for an introduction to Drupal content administration, or a site builder wanting to know how to structure a Drupal website, this course will get you started on the right foot.

You'll learn how to manage content, configure content types, manage taxonomy, users, and views. You'll also learn how to extend Drupal with modules and themes.

FAQ

What's provided? Lunch is provided. We also provide a training manual for each course.

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Drupal Panels Configuration - Training in Toronto on May 6th

Start: 
2014-05-06 09:00 - 16:30 America/Toronto
Organizers: 
Event type: 
Training (free or commercial)

Panels is a popular Drupal module used to create individual pages with complex layouts of your content (3 column vs 2 column layout, with or without a top header or footer, etc). We’ll show you how to use Panels to take over existing pages such as the node creation page, and cover how to use Panels in conjunction with Views to create context-specific displays of your data. We'll explain how to embed views within Panels, create custom block sections, create custom node displays, and create custom administration pages.

FAQ

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DrupalCamp Toronto 2014 - May 2-4 - Humber College Lakeshore Campus

Start: 
2014-05-02 08:00 - 2014-05-04 15:00 America/Toronto
Event type: 
Drupalcamp or Regional Summit

Our 8th annual DrupalCamp Toronto 2014 conference is happening on May 2-4 at the Humber College Lakeshore campus!

We've moved the conference back to our traditional Spring season time slot and have expanded it to 3 days! We'll have 2 days of sessions and keynotes, followed by a code sprint day.

Register Now

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Talks/ideas for Thursday meeting?

Does anyone in the group have a talk that they can give this Thursday?
It could be demoing a recent site that you worked on, or a cool feature that you discovered, or even disappointments with certain things so we can all avoid them?
It does not have to be the full 2 hours. One hour of talk and questions/discussions is enough.

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Meet, greet, and exchange tips, tricks, and secrets ...

Start: 
2014-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

For our February meeting, we are trying out a new format:

It is a combination of a social "meet and greet" in order for the community to know each other better, plus, we will be sharing anything Drupal or web site building related, such as:

  • What tricks have you learned lately ...
  • What secret modules/tools/techniques do you use most ...
  • What have you discovered recently ...

You can also share news about upcoming events, or happenings in the Drupal world ...

The meeting is infromal, not in a "speaker + presentation" format, so there is no stress or pressure on anyone who is shy ...

Come over, have fun, and learn ...

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Anyone has presentations to offer?

We don't have a talk topic nor speaker for February.

Anyone has talks to offer? Adventures? Mishaps? Lessons?

Post a comment below ...

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February Meetup: A Visit from Pantheon's Matt Cheney and Jeff Pflueger

Start: 
2014-02-18 19:00 - 21:00 America/Toronto
Event type: 
User group meeting

Join us for our next Toronto Drupal User Group meetup on Tuesday, February 18th. The meetup with take place at CSI Spadina, located at 215 Spadina Avenue (Suite 120), starting at 7:00pm.

Pantheon's co-founder Matt Cheney and account manager Jeff Pflueger are coming up to Toronto to present about Pantheon's Drupal hosting services.

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Global Drupal 8 sprint in Toronto

The Toronto Drupal Users Group is hosting an event as part of the Global Drupal 8 Sprint.

Details are here https://groups.drupal.org/node/400153

So, you have the choice of participating in Toronto, or in London, as posted earlier.

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Drupal 8 Global Sprint - January 25, 2014

Start: 
2014-01-25 09:00 - 16:00 America/Toronto
Event type: 
Sprint

Join us on Saturday, January 25th for the worldwide Drupal 8 Global Sprint!

The sprint is happening on Saturday at the Centre for Social Innovation Annex at 720 Bathurst Street. We'll be meeting on the 3rd floor in Meeting Room #3.

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London, Ontario Drupal Global Sprint Weekend January 25, 2014 and January 26, 2014

Hello all Drupallers in Southern Ontario ...

As part of the Drupal Global Sprint Weekend, the London, Ontario Drupal Users Group is participating!

If you feel like meeting other Drupallers, and working on Drupal 8 core issues, please participate ...

Here is London, ON event with details.

Lunch is provided by Digital Echidna ...

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Brainstorming Session: Making a Large Complex Site Responsive

Start: 
2014-01-16 19:00 - 21:00 America/Toronto
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

The main site for the Working Centre is a content-heavy Drupal 6 site with a deep and complicated menu structure.

At some point the site will need to be migrated to Drupal 7 or 8. Is it possible to make such a site mobile-friendly while retaining the complicated hierarchies? If so, what would have to change?

We can use this case study as a launching point for a larger discussion on making websites more responsive. If you have some examples to share (of sites that work well or of sites you would like to convert) then please bring the URLs so we can discuss them together.

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Ontario Public Service wants four senior Drupal developers

Cross posting this job post to Toronto, Waterloo and London groups.
Please cascade to other Ontario groups that may have an interested audience.

https://groups.drupal.org/node/394268

Employment type: Full time
Telecommute: Allowed

Senior Developers
• four permanent

Are you interested in being at the centre of cutting edge web solutions that support the delivery of the government's online communications to Ontarians?

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No DUG Waterloo Region meeting for December 2013

Start: 
2013-12-19 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

During the last meeting we collectively agreed that the 19th of December is too close to the holidays, and that there will be no meeting for December.

See you in January, where we plan a group exercise for a web site.

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Toronto Tech Wrap-Up Party 2013 (Charity Event Supported by DUGTO)

Toronto Drupal User Group is participating in the big #TOTechWrap charity event on December 3rd.

Please join us in helping to raise money for the Daily Bread Food Bank! Details below are copied from their event page:

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RSVP ON THE UNIIVERSE PAGE: http://sqz.co/d3KGi9y

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Upcoming Toronto Drupal Events

We've got several events on the schedule, leading up to the end of the year. Check them out on Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/dug-to/

Toronto Tech Wrap-Up Party 2013 (Charity Event Supported by DUGTO)
December 3rd
https://groups.drupal.org/node/377558

December Meetup: Case Studies
December 16th
http://www.meetup.com/dug-to/events/148966502/

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