Groups - Events

Last month's meeting at Poacher's Arms seemed to work out well for everyone, so we'll plan to return for this month's meeting. Jeremy Richardson of rTraction will be talking about the 10 essential Drupal modules, ones their team use on almost every project. It should be an interesting discussion for people with a broad range of Drupal experience, so I hope we'll see you all there.

Attention all Brisbane Drupalers!!

Our next meet-up is coming up quickly with the aim to bring along all your friends, family and colleagues who are new but interested in Drupal, Drupal dabblers, or those interested in furthering their Drupal skills.

So start the round-up at your workplace, interest groups or family -- get the word around that Saturday 30th May is our first Drupal skills day!

• Anyone interested in enhancing their Drupal skills?
• Have questions regarding the benefits of Drupal?
• Is there a module that is inhibiting you from going forward with your site?

We'll be happy to give spontaneous help on topics such as inserting images into content, getting WYSIWYG editors running, first time with Views...

For our regulars, please come prepared to sit alongside others or just to chat and join the fun.

Bring your laptops, your Drupal skills (no matter what level), your questions, your websites and most of all just come along and meet up with the current regulars who are interested in sharing any knowledge they've gleaned along the way.

Morning-tea provided by Marmaladesoul, so please remember to sign up.

Looking forward to seeing you there and meeting some new faces!

As a reminder, we are doing several Saturday events this year so that our friends from the Sunshine Coast can travel down and participate.

Date: Saturday, 30th May
Time: 10:30am - 1pm followed by lunch somewhere nearby

PLEASE NOTE: we have a different venue this month. We will NOT be at Cafe 26 but at iLab in Toowong (thanks Chris for arranging this).

Venue: i.lab in Toowong

http://www.ilab.com.au
Level 1, 80 Jephson St, Toowong

BarCamp Bangkok 3 will be held on 23-24 May 2009 (See BarCamp Bangkok site). A Group of CMS users/developers in Thailand is trying to organize a kind of CMS Showdown at the event.

Currently there are three teams participating: Joomla!, WordPress and Drupal. Anyway this CMS Showdown still call for participation from other CMS. The event is not actual competition but fun event of porting prototype theme to each CMS within the BarCamp night. All results from the Showdown will be released as GPL.

Come and join us if you're Drupaller living in Bangkok at the moment!

Here is the original text from BarCamp Bangkok site:

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Note: For Thai version, please read here.

You might hear of CMS Showdown, the competition among top CMSs to create a web site with the same requirement. Now we gonna have it in the night of BarCamp Bangkok 3!

What to do?

Not the actual competition like the original one (with the measurement on time and line of code), we just want to create something useful for Thai web site owners and developers. The goal is to port a single theme/template to each CMS's own theme/template system before dawn! The final themes/templates will be released under GPL and are freely available for everyone.

How to participate?

Each CMS has a team. Now we have three teams participating:

• Joomla! (team leader: @JoomlaCorner)
• WordPress (team leader: @iMenn)
• Drupal (team leader: @kengggg)

If you want to join any of these teams, please contact the team leader to get to know each other and prepare your supply for the SHOWDOWN!

If you're other CMS developer (e.g. Typo3, DotNetNuke, ...) and want to join, please contact @markpeak (markpeak@gmail.com) for the account and tools setup.

What to bring?

We will provide hosting facility and account for each team (including SSH and FTP). You need to bring your own laptop, power cord, and any other tools necessary for your web development approach (e.g. Firebug, your favourite IDE/editor)

More details will come on Saturday (23rd) daytime slot and the showdown will begin after dinner.

Discussion meeting in Second Life to discuss 3D Space linkup to external content management system for http://openvce.net - Initial meeting for invitees only.

Two full days of Drupal. Multiple tracks:

• Development
• Design
• Site Building
• Community
• Business

Plus Ubercart's Ubercamp!

Come to Denver. Learn about Drupal. Share what you know. Meet others. Collaborate!

Only $20 for both days! More info and registration at http://drupalcampcolorado.org

A two-day hands-on session for experienced users, integrators and developers who want to learn more about customizing, extending CiviCRM.

Sign up and more details http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=4.

We've been busy the last few months but we're back, along with the hot and steamy summer weather.
前幾個月我們忙昏了，不過呢…我們與濕熱的夏天一同回來了喔。

Join us this Saturday and enjoy a couple Drupal talks:
這個週六歡迎您加入我們，一同分享一些新奇的Drupal話題。

• Jacopo Alabiso, will introduce the combined use of the Services module and Flash.
  Jacopo Alabiso, 將會介紹Flash與Services 模組如何結合使用。
• Ronan Berder (myself), from Wiredcraft, will introduce some basics of grid-based designs and grid frameworks.
  來自Wiredcraft公司的Ronan Berder (就是偶啦), 將會介紹一些基本的格子（grid-based ）設計以及 格子框架（grid frameworks）。

We'll be waiting for you, Saturday May 23, 2009, 2:00 PM at the following address:
2009年5月23日 周六 下午2点，我們將在這個地方恭候您的大駕：

Building C, 4/F, 1147 Kang Ding Lu, Shanghai (duh!), on Google Maps (except for the floor number)
上海市静安区康定路1147号C栋4楼(未定，也有可能是3樓)，地圖

If you're lost, give me a ring: 136 71 94 33 52
如果您不小心迷路了，別客氣，打電話與我聯繫：136 71 94 33 52

第3回　Drupal Japan Group 関西のミーティングを開催します。
参加希望者は「sign up」ボタンをクリックして、参加申込みを行ってください。

Drupal Japan Group in KANSAI will be holding its 5/24 18:00-21:00 meeting at the following place. Please signup!

日時：２００９年５月２４日（日）　１８：００〜２１：００　★途中参加・退場も自由です
場所：すかいらーく京都駅南店（京都駅徒歩３〜５分）
→GoogleMapで地図を確認
参加費：飲食代実費（すかいらーくで飲み物・食べ物を頼んで割り勘します）

●電源およびWiFi（無線LAN）があります。ノートパソコンを持参されると便利です。
●参加人数およびお店の混み具合などで場所を移動することがあります。
その際は、kyokoまで連絡を下さい（E-mail:kyoko-_-n★di.pdx.ne.jp）★→＠にしてね。

参考までに、前回のミーティング内容を記載しておきます。
今回もプレゼンテーションを行ってくれるSteinさんは日本語ペラペラな上、Drupalのスペシャリストです。
グループレッスンを受けているような感じで勉強できます。

• 「Drupalのココが難しくてつまづいている」
• 「viewsがわからない！」

などなど、どんなことでもDrupalで悩んでいる方はぜひご参加下さい！
もちろん単にDrupalが好きって人も、誰でも参加OKです。

●前回のミーティング内容
・いま作っているサイトの紹介や困っている点
・参考になるビデオキャスト
・Menuの作り方
・ViewsのRelationship
・ViewsのTheming
・preprocess functionについて
・バージョン管理の方法
・テスト環境と本番環境の作り方

Seattle Cowork Thurs May 21, 2009 3-6pm
Location: StartPad.org
Cowork (3-6pm) signup : http://groups.drupal.org/node/22380
Cowork wiki: http://groups.drupal.org/node/7689
Preceeds monthly meeting (6-8pm): http://groups.drupal.org/node/22037 at StartPad.org

StartPad.org (north of Pioneer Square)
811 First Avenue, Suite 480 - Seattle, WA 98104 - 206-388-3466
Between Marion and Columbia
http://www.startpad.org/
http://www.lostinseattle.com/LIS/building/map_colmanbldg.html
Host: Mike Koss (mckoss)

Twitter: http://twitter.com/search?q=%23seadug (#seadug)

IRC: freenode.net #drupal-seattle
IRC://irc.freenode.net/drupal-seattle
More info http://groups.drupal.org/node/19491

Add a comment if you plan to bring treats!

This meetup we will make a Drupal 6 theme from scratch. The focus will be more on learning the Drupal theme layer and different methods to manipulating the presentation layer.

Please bring a laptop or have access to a server where you can load Drupal 6 and have access by ftp / ssh to make changes to theme files.

DaveB has scheduled the same lab at Purdue where we met last time (WTHR 212; WTHR=Wetherill Hall).

Please tell us your coming (by the signup button)! Pizza and beverages will be provided. Bring a friend and be ready to get geeky with Drupal!

The next Galway Drupal meetup will take place on Wednesday June 10th.
Venue: room 303 in the IT Building on the NUIG Campus

Dirección: Calle Arístides Aljovin 357, Depto 2 - Miraflores (oficina de Social Media) - Detrás del Hotel Marriot
Teléfono: (0051)(01) 445-3831

Esta va ha ser la última reunión de Coordinación antes de pasar a Producción. Por lo tanto es tu última oportunidad para hacer propuestas.

Necesitamos que nos ayudes con lo siguiente:
- Proponer más locales potenciales
- Proponer más auspiciadores potenciales
- Proponer más comunidades que puede participar en el evento
- Haz tu propuesta de los mejores medios de publicidad para este evento y por qué: TV, Radio, Diarios, Blogs, Afiches, Volantes, un sitio web? Como es que la gente se va ha enterar del evento
- Paquetes de Auspicio | Cosas prácticas en las que los auspiciadores pueden invertir

Bendiciones!

The sprint will be held at One Shoe http://www.oneshoe.nl/ in downtown utrecht which is one of the largest Drupal developing companies in holland. We have space for 20+ people in their nice and spacious office. Utrecht has lots of opportunities to go out in the evening, and with the Drupal Jam on Friday, this is bound to rock for all attendants.

Starting time will be at 10:00 in the morning on both days.

All people that care for UX are welcome. We can use: Graphic Designers, Coders, Copy Writers, Themers and CSS Ninjas

Confirmed Participants so far:

Leisa Reichelt
Mark Boulton
Dries Buytaert
Gabor Hojtsy (Gábor Hojtsy)
Damien Tournoud (DamZ)
Erik Stielstra (sutharsan)
Bojhan Somers (bojhan)
Roy Scholten (yoroy)
Bart Feenstra (Xano)
Gaele Strootman (gaele)
Kristjan Jansen (kika)
Thomas Moseler (eigentor)
Konstantin Kaefer (kkaefer)
Philip Vergunst (skilip)
Willem Mol (Whatdoesitwant)
Berend de Boer (berend)
Maarten Verbaarschot (mverbaar)
Johannes Haseitl (derhasi)
Steve De Jonghe (seutje)
Clemens Tolboom (clemens.tolboom)
Thijs Zoon (teezee)
Floris Derksen
Nasir Barday
Marieke Van Den Berg (Dalticom)
Baris Wanschers (Baris Wanschers)

We have reached 17 Attendees now. So the open Signup is closed for now. If you still want to take part send me a mail so we'll see if we fit you in. And those who are not on location: Join us online

We are currently looking for Sponsors to get some european Core Devs to Utrecht. If you own a Drupal-Shop or just want to contribute to the improvement of Drupal UX: Sponsor a Developer (Travel and Hotel expenses) We will credit you by placing of logo and backlinks, as well as placing your logo on posters on the sprint and putting promotional materials you send us in exposed places.

Sponsored by:

The Sprint is meant to hit the UX issue queue, which is long and winded, and fix as much as we can. The date is right after the DrupalJam on June 26, so a lot of Drupalers may be on location.

Bojhan and Yoroy worked out a detailed plan for the issues to work on, in detail look here: http://www.bojhan.nl/ux-sprint-the-plan/#more-148

We plan to work on the following issues:

Menus
Creating a menu item is mainly troubled by lack of connection with the actual page you are linking to, we will work on many issues regarding validation and optimizing the menu’s listing page.

Blocks
The current interaction of Blocks is optimized for moving a lot of blocks around, but not particularly for just adding one block. We will work on patches, to optimize the first-time experience of adding a block.

Taxonomy
The taxonomy interface has been left untouched for many years, while categorizing your content is a fundamental task., We will work on a number of critical issues that keep people from learning how Taxonomy works..

Text
Our users are task driven and time starved, yet we give them descriptions that need a lot of thought to understand. We will work on removing and rewriting descriptions that don’t get their main point across.

Modules
The current mockups for the module page still leave a lot of issues left untouched. We will work conceptually on improving the experience of installing and managing modules.

Dirección: Nueva oficina Dokeos Latinoamérica - Pasaje Los Pinos 190, Of.901 - Miraflores (referencia: esquina con cuadra 2 de av. Benavides)

Esta reunión de Drupal debería desarrollarse con una parte de traducción de podcast de Inglés a Español, una parte desarrollo de módulo Drupal-Dokeos y una parte de preparación del evento del 19 de Septiembre

El 20 de mayo se celebrará la reunión mensual del grupo de User Experience de Panamá - UX Panamá. Este evento se llevará a cabo en el Restaurante La Esquina (área bancaria, Ave. Ricardo Arias. Esto es atrás del Hotel Marriot, a un costado del Sushi Express). Más información

Gracias al permiso de Jorge Arango podemos asistir los miembros del grupo de Drupal de Panamá junto con los de UX Panamá a este evento. Sería genial que los miembros del grupo de Drupal aprendan de lo que es user experience debido a que esta es una parte primordial a la hora de construir una aplicación web; ya sea un portal, un sistema de información, etc.

Si quieren asistir al evento, coloquen un comentario aquí o escríbanme a danilo.dope at gmail dot com para confirmar cuantos van a asistir.

Saludos ...

PD: no estoy organizando el evento, pero coloco mi nombre en los organizadores ya que por parte de drupal Panamá, estoy llamando a los miembros a que asistan ;).

We're at Manchester University again this month, though there has been a room change due to exams. This month it's at the Samuel Alexander building, room A202, University of Manchester, just off Oxford Road.

It'll make life easier if we can meetup at the Kro Bar opposite the Students Union and then head over to the Samuel Alexander building together.
If anyone gets lost, tweet Dan or call him on 07976 357732.

Admission is free, and you're welcome to bring your Drupal questions and problems, as well as any projects you'd like to demo.

This month there'll definitely be discussion about the upcoming DrupalCampUK.

We usually have a good turnout of people, ranging from complete beginners with the software to full-time developers, so if you're looking to learn more about Drupal, this user group is a great place to start.
We like to have a mix of demos, breakout sessions and general Drupal banter with time for questions and one-on-one help.
There's the added option of moving on to a nearby pub for refreshment afterwards...

Thanks again to Farzana and the National Centre of e-Social Science for organising the venue.