VanDUG

Vancouver League of Drupalers October 2006

Roland Tanglao - October 26, 2006 - 9:51pm

Vancouver Drupalers

1. MothersClick - great example of organic groups complete with a nice tutorial, beautiful theme, just launched, business model (?),
2. PopSugar - launched in April, 500K uniques per day, 4 comments per second, 5 million in funding, polls blogposts, great aliaes, voting module, i.e. lots of off the shelf stuff, warn module (custom?), flag posts using views bookmark, flag content view that only admins can see, user profile not highly themd
3. flixya - adsense module, extra added fun of NOT hosting videos, using video module with remote video URL option, related content module (?), topless car wash :-), google translate (?)
4. DrupalSites.net - great place to find sites, "interesting" adult section (not my cup of tea!)
5. GoDrupal.com - sell themes for World of Warcraft guild sites, proper theming and use of regions, could be automated, $35 for theme, $100 for installation
6. Attendees - Keith (dodgeball), dale, colin, francis
7. DrupalAssociation - help promote, run drupal.org infrastructure, full time sysadmins, protect drupal trademark, may be a PITA to do enforce trademark
8. Ecommerce gateway questions about Canadian gateways - e-xact (Peter thank me for the plug! :-) !)
9. NowPublic - Victoria plugged it! - demonstrated Madonna Malawi thing! on demand reporting, Victoria worked in a newsroom, spent last year in LA, 131 countries, mostly US and Europe, highlight feature now launched, highlight = firefox extension allows you to automatically capture information and post it to NowPublic, can now phone into NowPublic 1800 number and it gets automatically posted, real time update tool - designed for conferences, 1-866-225-9530
10. Keith's site - eonfire.org (civicspace)- Vancouver dodgeball league

Categories: drupal · Vancouver · VanDUG

Drupal Content Construction Kit - Boris evangelizes it

Roland Tanglao - March 19, 2006 - 6:30pm


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Boris does what he does best: he evangelizes the Content Construction Kit - a way for users to create new types without database knowlegea and without the scaling problems of flexinode He also evangelizes the Views module which allows you to create blocks without PHP!

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

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Categories: drupal · open source · take5 · take5cafe · Vancouver · VanDUG

Vancouver Drupal User's Group March 2006 Intro

Roland Tanglao - March 19, 2006 - 5:00pm


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Everybody introduces themselves. Lots of people doing great Drupal projects in Vancouver.

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March 2006 Vancouver Drupal User Group

2006/03/16 - 6:30pm
2006/03/16 - 8:30pm
Take 5 Cafe, 429 Granville

UPDATE: location is Take 5 Cafe , 429 Granville (just south of Hastings)
After a discussion over at Drupal.org, we've decided to put together a local Vancouver user group meeting, aka VanDUG. Location TBD -- Please show your attendance over at Upcoming.

Categories: drupal · user group · Vancouver · VanDUG
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