Calgary

The DrupalCon North American Regional Organizing Group is looking for input from us, the Drupal community, to help pick the location for DrupalCon North America being scheduled for 2012 (and beyond).

They have put together a brief "straw poll" intended to gauge community interest about various cities that have been suggested as potential good locations.

Drupal Camp Alberta is fast approaching, and we are still in need of some speakers. In particular we would like to see some more design and business track proposals.

If this is something to which you can contribute, we would encourage you to submit a proposal to drupalcampalberta@redwall.ca. Feel free to post comments here if you have any.

Drupal Camp Alberta will take place September 11th and 12th at the University of Calgary. Register by August 15th to be entered in a draw to win an iPad. http://drupalcampalberta.org/register

Attention Drupalists of the Pacific Northwest and beyond! We know you have brilliant ideas, in-depth knowledge, wonderful experiences, and tried and true lessons you would like to share with the Drupal community. This is your chance! Today we are inviting you to submit your session proposals.

Submit your Proposal Here Before August 6th! - http://pnwdrupalsummit.org

SOLD OUT

Join us in Calgary this September for Drupal Camp Alberta 2010.

For details on speakers, registration, and sponsorship, visit www.drupalcampalberta.org.

Spread the word, Vancouver will be hosting the 2nd Annual Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit this coming October 2 and 3, 2010. Save the date!

We will be posting updates on G.D.O. as we finalize the details. Also follow @drupalsummit on twitter.

Venue:
UBC Robson Square
800 Robson St.
Vancouver, British Columbia

It’s official, Vancouver will be holding the 2nd annual PNW Drupal Summit this coming Fall. Details to come...

Manning Publications, the publisher of titles such as Drupal in Action
http://www.manning.com/gildesgame/

and jQuery in Action
http://www.manning.com/bibeault2/

have a user group review program. If you'd like a free copy of one of these books you can register here:
http://www.manning.com/ugprogram/

Drupal Camp Alberta 2009 will be held July 10th and 11th at the University of Lethbridge.

Check out http://www.drupalcampalberta.org for full details and to sign-up.

(please don't use the g.d.o sign-up feature; sign up at the web site instead)

Simple post to promote COSSFEST. Hopefully the Calgary Drupal community can send people to COSSFEST. Any one wishing to speak contact Shawn Grover (sgrover@open2space.com). I'm already planning to do a site building presentation but given some volume I'm sure we can get a Drupal track going.

Marc

Apologies if this post is not relevant to the group....

The Calgary Open Source Systems Festival (COSSFEST) is under active planning for an April/May 2009 event. We have the start of a new website in place at http://www.cossfest.ca. We are looking for someone with better graphic design skills than myself, and with enough spare time to bring this site to life. There are a few things we'd like the site to do that I have no experience with (online paid registration, etc).

Hi all --

I'm passing through Calgary this coming weekend and was hoping to connect with folks. I put up an Upcoming entry: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1153433/

This won't be a Drupal-only meetup, but I've called the STIRR Canada folks, and some other people from Banff Venture Forum might be around as well.

Venue suggestions?

In just two weeks, Drupal designers and developers from Alberta, BC, PEI & Montana will gather at the University of Lethbridge for Drupal Camp Alberta 2008.

In the past week - we secured our speakers & sponsors, opened registration and are expecting approx 100 attendees - many of who are holding out on registration right now :-)

DCA08 is unlike any corporate conference you've ever attended - and for good reason. Focusing on "Drupal" - an open source content management system and application framework, DCA08 is a low-cost, highly collaborative "unconference" held in at the University of Lethbridge, in Southern Alberta, Canada.

Gone are the days of sponsored vendor presentations and for-profit registration fees. Our peer taught, volunteer-run sessions will by heavy with "doers", and light on the "talkers".

Join us July 3 & 4 from 8am - 5pm both days (Networking event on July 3rd)

After a short discussion with the powers that be at the University of Lethbridge, I have full approval to host Drupal Camp Alberta 2008 in June or early July.

Our facilities are top notch http://www.uleth.ca/conference/ (open WIFI, theatres, breakout rooms, entertainment and fitness facilities, AND campus housing summer rentals) - so we are going to take the bull by the horns and spread the word.

I know the organizers for DCV08 put it together at the speed of light, we are going to follow suit.

While rating modules is against the spirit of the Drupal contrib. community, I'm sure many of you have seen www.drupalmodules.com - which has some great peer reviews and suggestions for modules for your next project.

One of the main drawing points to Drupal as a CMS is the size of the community, the quality of the code base (and contrib modules), but also the dizzying array of module choices available to us. Drupalmodules.com helps reduce the noise - and so far, the top module list is bang-on.

One new module I found through this method is the "Admin Role" module.

My experience at Drupal Camp Vancouver left me wanting more from our own web dev community here in Lethbridge.

DCV08 sold out in two days, was 21ドル bucks (including lunch and a shirt) and was the best exchange of info from frontline developers I've seen in a long time!
I'd love to offer the same experience to Drupal developers in Calgary and the rest of Southern Alberta. It would be super cost-effective (but realistic?) to take over the Galt for a two day Drupal camp of around 100 people. I'm unsure if developers from Calgary would make the trip.

Hello Neighbours to the North!

You might not know it, but there's a budding Drupal community just a bit South of you in Lethbridge.

We've started our own group (awaiting moderation) and would love to connect with other themers and Drupal developers in Calgary and the rest of Southern Alberta! I'll post again when our group is ready for prime time.

I recently returned from Drupal Camp Vancouver 2008 and would love to see a similar event in terms of quality and size of community. Whaddya think?

M.

The Calgary Linux Users Group is hosting a Drupal Workshop on 15 Jul 2007. This workshop will take place at the local Calgary DeVry building (corner of Memorial Drive, and Barlow Trail) in room 216 from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Details about the workshop can be seen on CLUG's site and on my personal site.

This workshop is free and open to the public. A donation to CLUG is encouraged, but not mandatory, if you are not a member of CLUG.

Since I know internationalization is a big deal to Canadians, I figured I'd cross-post this to some groups. Please don't kill me, this is important. :) There's very little time to get these patches in before code freeze! (June 1)

The following patches desperately need reviews from people familiar with internationalization of site content. The goal is to get Drupal 6 to have internationalization right in core:

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- translation of site settings, content types, user profile fields
and so on by storing translations of their string properties with

So the Calgary DUG has made it to double digit membership. Are we ready for a real live meet-up? Whadya all think?