New Zealand

Hi all, a couple of weeks ago I signed up for the Stripe payments NZ beta release. Last week I got my invitation email and gave it a hoon.

I tried with:
- Commerce Kickstart 7.x-2.40
- Commerce Stripe 7.x-3.0-alpha1 (with stripe-php libraries v3.23.0)

Using the Secret Key and Publishable Key from my stripe.com account I have successfully made a test purchase via my website.

The Vision

• Kiwigov is a free open source Drupal 7 distribution developed specifically for New Zealand government organisations.
• Install a fully featured, New Zealand government standards compliant Drupal 7 website in under 10 minutes.
• WCAG 2.0 Level AA out of box!

The Opportunity

Drupal within New Zealand is primed for an outpouring of growth and acceptance in usage. Particularly within NZ's government sector. Imagine... Drupal as the preferred government solution in New Zealand!

The Calling

The organisation of DrupalSouth is moving into full swing and it was about time to provide an update on how things are going.

Support by Linux Australia

Linux Australia have offically come on board as supporters of DrupalSouth 2014 at a crucial time as we're about to secure a venue and dates for the conference.

Dates are coming

Does anyone have any recommendations for a Xen based VPS host in NZ?

I've had shared hosting with Openhost for a number of years but want to look at VPS now. Openhost use Virtuozzo for their VPS offering which I understand is problematic for Drupal (http://omega8.cc/the-biggest-misunderstanding-ever-122).

If anyone is using Virtuozzo I'd be interested to hear about your experiences.

Alternatively are people using VPS from overseas?

Tim

Hi ya,

A few years ago I signed up for a free web hosting account at xtreemhost.com

First it was brilliant, but recently xtreemhost.com have started slashing the functionality they support until today I can't even upload a fresh install of v6.20 - and I shudder to try to install 7.0

They do not support php or stmp email, and I can't even get clean URL's!

Does anyone know of a free web hosting company that supports All Drupal functionality including 7.0

Oh why free? 'cause I am a really, really poor Drupal Guru wannabe :)

Thanks
Grant

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The Wellington meetup in October was a success with a range of people with Drupal interest attending. We had 18 in total and the mix was about 10 developers, 5 account manager/or project manager and a few content / Drupal Users.

Some of the sites being developed in Drupal were of very high standard and this showed with the presentations. In addition to this each project presented some of the difficulties faced such as migration, integrating with other systems and modules to use in implementation.

Only local images are allowed.We're really excited to announce that Mac's Brewery Bar & Restaurant will be the location of DrupalSouth Wellington 2010. The Brewery bar is right on Wellington central city's waterfront, between Te Papa and the Wellington Convention Centre. Yes, that means it's less than 300 metres from Linux.conf.au Wellington 2010 which is the week leading up to DrupalSouth!

Only local images are allowed.We're also excited to announce the website for the event at Wellington2010.DrupalSouth.net.nz where announcements will be made and where you will be able to register in the near future. Subscribe to the RSS feed to get the latest news.

DrupalSouth Wellington will be on Saturday and Sunday 23-24 January 2010 – just after LCA. Note that these are not the dates announced earlier this week on Twitter and a few other places (We were were missing some information we thought we had).

The venue is in central Wellington and is amazing! It is just a few hundred metres from Linux.conf.au and the Wellington Convention Center. Keep listening for the announcement sometime in the next two weeks – as soon as contracts are signed and deposits are paid.

Our sponsors have partnered with us to help make DrupalSouth the biggest Drupal event ever in NZ. They are;

• .nz – who bring you great .nz domains like *.geek.nz
• Catalyst IT – Specialists in Open Source Technologies
• Egressive – Drupal development, Linux support and hosting

We still have space for plenty more sponsorship – please get in touch if you want to be a part of NZ's greatest Drupal event.

We've confirmed attendance of our featured and keynote speakers from overseas;

• Angela Byron (webchick), Drupal 7 core maintainer
• Emma Jane Hogbin, (emmajane), co-author of Front End Drupal, uber-documenter & Drupal evangelist
• Addisun Berry, (add1sun), Drupal documentation lead
• Liz Henry (lizhenry), Blogher.com developer – the largest community for women bloggers, built on Drupal since 2006