New Zealand

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

The LCA2010 funding programmes are due to close this Friday so get
your applications in quick!

These funds are designed to fund delegates who contribute to the Open
Source community who, without financial assistance, would not be able
to attend LCA2010.

• InternetNZ Oceania Programme - funds people living in
  Australasia-Pacific Region

• InternetNZ Kiwi Fellowship - funds people living in New Zealand

• Google Diverstiy Programme - for people in diverse groups.

To apply, see: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/register/funding

DrupalSouth organisers are almost ready to book a venue and announce dates for DrupalSouth Wellington 2010. However we need to pay a deposit in order to confirm the venue and hence dates. Thus we are now accepting sponsors for DrupalSouth.

Experienced PHP developer needed now for some project work!

Great opportunity for you to showcase your strong PHP skills with this market leader. Your experience developing Drupal websites is of particular interest to this client. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work to deadlines are critical to this role.

This position also needs someone to be based on-site in Auckland City

To find out more, please call Paul or Patrice at Candle on 09 3096534 or email your resume and cover letter to pj@candle.co.nz.

Following in the success of DrupalSouth Christchurch November 2008, DrupalSouth Wellington will be held on Saturday & Sunday 23-24 January 2010, just after Linux.conf.au Wellington 2010, will feature excellent overseas and home-grown speakers & attendees, such as;

• Angela Byron (webchick); Drupal 7 core committer, Drupal community nurturer, and co-author of Using Drupal
• Addison Berry (add1sun); Documentation lead, recipient of $100,000 Knight Foundation grant for Drupal documentation, co-author of Using Drupal
• Emma Jane Hogbin (emmajane); co-author of Front End Drupal, uber-documenter, Drupal evangelist/speaker and community all-rounder
• Dan (dman); Numerous drupal modules and high-profile NZ websites including The Vintage Aviator and Sorted.org.nz
• Others, yet to be determined.

To get updates, subscribe to the NZ Drupal group, follow @DrupalSouth on twitter and get involved!

http://softwarefreedomday.org.nz/

What is software freedom day?

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The principles behind FOSS are underpinned by the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. You can read more about the four freedoms here.

Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business - in short, everywhere!
What's on in Wellington?

Drupal Developer!

-Great Location
-Dedicated, Innovative,Creative Team!!

Seeking a Drupal developer to join a NZ digital Media solutions provider who use the internet and mobile channels to make it easier for their clients to communicate with their target audience.

Seeking candidates with:
-Drupal customisation and development experience
-PHP
-MySQL

If you would like more info or would like to apply for the role please send an email with your CV ASAP to lasini@recruit.co.nz for a quick response.

This is an update about Em Space training services.

We were using the CAE training labs (in Melbourne) for training, but this was a bit too rigid. So we've limited ourselves to corporate training, training teams at our clients' premises.

However, we now have a flexible training service that can travel around. This means we will be able to train in unusual places with minimal preparation in advance. This also means that we can use our own offices for training - avoiding the pain of booking venues, but also keeping our space flexible (not having to lock it up with cheap desktop PCs).

Just wanted to let everyone know there will be a Drupal meetup in Auckland on August 5, 2009 at 6:30 PM at the Mink Cafe in Parnell (http://www.minkcafe.co.nz/about.html).

If you are able to attend, please let me know through this event, or my contact form, so we can get an idea of how many people will be attending.

Thanks and hope to see you all there!

I just noticed that the Labour party is now using Drupal on their main website:

Click to see full-size screenshot

Does anyone know who worked on this? It would be great to see a write up about it.

I'm going to be in central Auckland next Friday 3 July and am keen to meet with other Drupalers in Auckland, perhaps for drinks and/or dinner after work?

We need some extra Drupal capacity for the foreseeable future particularly in respect of making the following D6 modules do what they are supposed to do

• Organic Groups
• Views
• Panels

Also php/mysql work in relation to civicrm.

Our work is primarily with the non-profit sector, helping others do their 'good work' by doing good work for them.

If you have experience in the above areas, or are a general all-rounder who is keen to extend your knowledge in to these areas, please get in touch.

I was shown a bit of software the other day called Artiseer (http://www.artisteer.com) and thought it was worth sharing with the group as it might be of great assistance to a number of people. It's a (windows based) tool which allows you to generate good looking Drupal themes by clicking buttons (colour schemes, pictures, layouts, page styles, buttons etc). Its fantastic for people such as myself who are absolutely hopeless at doing the graphical side of site development. So far I've only played with it and not done anything production worthy but it looks promising.