Vancouver

What are the pros and cons for using Drupal Advanced forum or phpBB?
demo of Drupal Advanced forum is here: http://socnet.shellmultimedia.com/forum
this demo used Blue Lagoon Stacked styling
how to style your advanced forum is here: http://drupal.org/node/234042

For a good example of using phpBB with Drupal 6, see here:
http://www.teenrc.ca/phpbbforum
you can download phpbb skins from the internet
Drupal has module for phpbb. drupal.org forums has a drupal 6 version

I like the style of phpbb for the posts with the author pane on the right hand side.

Looking for a part time Drupal advisor - mostly to telecommute. Vancouver - Sunshine Coast area.
Start up looking for trouble shooter - developer - junior - need ASAP.

Please contact:
Stephanie Clarke
info@myriadstrategic.com

I attended Open Web Vancouver session on Thursday, June 11, 2009 with Angie Byron. We were talking about the lack of good looking themes for Drupal. So Angie encouraged designers to create and submit themes to Drupal.org.

I asked about a checklist or guidelines to developing custom themes for Drupal. How do you know when your theme is complete? Some themes on Drupal.org say RC1, alpha, beta, dev. What do these versions mean if anything?

I would like to collaborate with other Drupal theme designers. I am writing a specifications document for a Drupal 5.x theme. What types of design items do you include in your theme design projects? I am starting with this:

A. Custom Graphical User Interface Design

1. Website layout - Custom Drupal theme including graphical header and footer and navigation menus that appear on every page. Blocks for Staying Connected, Sign up for Updates, and Register and Sponsors will also be themed. Global styling for H1, H2 tags, main content text is also included.

List of topics that should be covered as a good intro to Drupal. Reference to original posting: http://groups.drupal.org/node/23499.

• Installing Drupal
• Common administration tasks
• Basic theming
• Contributing and finding answers
• Popular modules
• • Please add your idea here!

• Views tutorial

I just cam across this: http://serviceweek.mozilla.org: "Mozilla Service Week [Sept. 14-21] is all about community – your community. We want you to find a way to use technology to make a difference in your neighborhood, your school, your library, your town. We welcome any act of service, no matter how small."

I'm vaguely competent in Drupal basics but I keep hitting a bit of a wall. I'm building a site that would allow people to log in, set themselves up as a provider or a consumer (so to speak), and fill in details about who they are or what they need. Then the site could suggest to the consumers what providers are in their area and might meet their needs. I'd also like to allow for commenting on providers and consumers and rating them.

I hope this isn't too vague, but that's the gist.

NorthStudio and the Victoria School of Business and Technology are once again proud to host the second annual Drupal Camp Victoria, in Victoria, BC September 11th and 12th. Just like last year, we have timed Drupal Camp to happen around the Great Canadian Beer festival. Please go to http://drupalcamp.northstudio.com/ for more information and to sign up.

Cross post from the Alberta group as I know there were some attendees from Vancouver last year. (and Seattle isn't that much further of journey)

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)

Ryan Dempsey will be covering image handling in Drupal. New Drupal users are often frustrated by the fact that there is no image handling included by default in Drupal core. Searching the module repository only adds to the confusion as there are so many different options to choose from with regards to image handling. We'll look at a few popular recipes to get images onto your Drupal website. This talk is geared to those that are fairly new to Drupal, though it would help to have a very basic understanding of CCK and Views.

We Drupaler's of the Pacific Northwest have been given a special offer for Open Web Vancouver 2009 on June 11/12. The first 10 people using the discount code: DRUPALISTA at registration get 25% off on their ticket.

This is going to a great conference. Not only are Drupal notables like Angie Byron, Karoly Negyesi, and James Walker presenting, there's many presentations relevant to what's happening in the Drupal community. There's presentations on mobile technology, mashups and cloud computing, and Vancouver Drupal's favorite son, Boris Mann, is speaking on semantic web. I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention presentations by locals Rick Vugteveen and Djun Kim.

Please join us Thursday June 11th at 5:45pm for a Drupal Birds of a Feather (BoF) session and social gathering at the Open Web Vancouver conference. The conference organizers have graciously given us a conference meeting room at no charge so there is NO CHARGE for attending. Community leader and Drupal 7 core maintainer Angie Byron will be there, and we may have appearances from other luminaries in the Drupal community.

After the BoF we'll head out for food and drinks.

Date: Thursday June 11, 5:45pm

Here we are finally, live and work getting in the way of good beer and Drupal get togethers!

Come one, come all!

Garrick's Head Pub
It's in the Bedford Regency, right in Bastion square. They have several of the micro-brewery offerings on tap, Pipers Pale Ale is good, but when that is as close as it gets to "Micro" one yearns for more.

Be there at 7PM, Wednesday the 10th of June!

Cheers!
Gord.

Intermediate/Senior PHP / MySQL Developer

Appnovation Technologies, a Vancouver based Drupal development company seeking an Intermediate/Senior Level PHP/MySQL developer to work on a full-time basis at our Vancouver office. The applicant must have at least 5 years of web development experience.
Experience:

* PHP/MySQL: 5+years
* Web Development
* HTML
* JavaScript
* jQuery or other Ajax Libraries
* Full understanding or project lifecycle
* Drupal Development

Bonus:

* Experience with Linux/Open Source software

Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday May 28, 2009 at Workspace (note, different location this month) for the Vancouver League of Drupalers May meeting. This month's feature presentation: Integrating the World, One City at a Time with Jim Pick.

We still have a slot available for a mini-case study if someone wants to volunteer.

Date: Thursday May 28, 6:30pm
Location: WorkSpace, 21 Water St in Gastown. (Close to Raincity) [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome

For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.

We are seeking to hire an experienced & talented programmer to work on a variety of web projects.

We are interested in both full time employees and contractors.

About the company:
At Tidal, we are always looking for the best and the brightest to join our team. We are seeking outstanding people with exceptional talent and the drive to fulfill their potential. Here is what you will find if you work here:

• Your opinion counts! Everyone is treated with the utmost respect and as an equal
• We encourage a healthy work life balance and follow the work hard, play hard mentality

Interesting link: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/vancouver_bc_wants_to_be_an_open_ci...

Need a (really) strong and efficient programmer to build me a site similar to metacritic.com in scope, look/feel and functionality but for hotels.

I'm looking for someone who can handle the full development of the website: Design, CSS/HTML, PHP and Drupal integration. Strong PHP skills are absolutely required.

At this stage, I'm more just concerned with having it built solidly and to spec - the design is secondary.

My budget is $500-650 for this project.

If you're interested, please email me with your phone number, sample work and any questions you may have.

I'm building a Drupal 6 site for a client that needs newsletter subscribe function. I have installed SimpleNews module. The site will not be using the member login function. I would like to add a name field to the newsletter subscribe box. How do I do this? I have knowledge of PHP/mySQL but I'm new to modifying Drupal modules.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Step by step explanations are very helpful.

Katy :-)

www.seascapewebdesign.com

I am looking for design and maintenance assistance with my personal drupal site (rosslaird.com). I am an author and teacher of creativity, and will be releasing a new book in the fall (as well as launching a new creativity program). This new book project requires a redesign of the front page of the site (which will be a modification of the acquia marina theme), an upgrade from the current drupal 5 to drupal 6, some css color customizations, and some work with blocks for book ordering, program registration, etc. This is a small project but might be of interest to a designer who wants to make connections to the world of publishing, social services, and the wider creative arts community.

I have good knowledge of drupal and have maintained my own site in drupal for about 6 years. The assistance I require involves css, a bit of php, and front page development. And, of course, I would want to "help" with the process of the redesign. A drupal 6 test site is already set up with the correct theme and modules (but not front page development).

If you are interested in this project, feel free to drop me a line:

Hello,

I have a small job for any Drupal developer with time to help. I simply need to integrate a Drupal view (already built) with a Flash element (also already built). Flash is already reading data from an xml file, so perhaps exporting the view to xml on page load would do the trick. Or perhaps services/AMFPHP.

Note, I'm not looking for advice on how to do this myself this time around as I'm swamped with other things. I'm looking for someone who can take this task off my hands, I'll pay for your time.

Thanks,

Ryan

Teligence is seeking a full-time, in-house Drupal developer with a passion for user experience and compelling design. This four-month, contract position reports to the Online Marketing Manager, and requires an individual capable of creating and implementing design mockups to a professional standard in minimal time.

Responsibilities:
• Working with a team (project manager, graphic production team) to refresh the front-end design of all Teligence brand sites within the Drupal CMS, including:

http://www.livelinks.com
http://www.redhotdateline.com
http://www.vibeline.com

I am posting to see if there are plans for another Drupal Camp in Vancouver this year. Last year was great.

thanks

ImageX Media is pursuing a Director of Sales & Marketing – someone who can push the boundaries and catapult our growing business into the stratosphere. As a leading edge Drupal website design and development company located in the Best Place on Earth (also known as South Surrey, British Columbia), we have a lot to offer a talented and motivated individual. If you know your way around the web, are passionate about the power of open source, are super savvy with Drupal, and love to network, we’d LOVE to meet you.

Doug Gough of ImageX Media will be teaching us the basics of creating a Drupal module. Use some of the most common Drupal API hooks, such as hook_user, hook_nodeapi, and form_alter to create a basic module that reacts to changes to user information. Create a theme function to style the output of the module.

Please RSVP if you'd like to join us.

Place:
ABC Restaurant - Fleetwood
15373 Fraser Hwy
Surrey, BC V3R 0A1
(604) 583-3228

Time:
7:00 - 9:00 PM on May 14

Status: Full time & contractors

We are seeking to hire an experienced & talented programmer to work on a variety of web projects.

We are interested in both full time employees and contractors.

About the company:
At Tidal, we are always looking for the best and the brightest to join our team. We are seeking outstanding people with exceptional talent and the drive to fulfill their potential. Here is what you will find if you work here:

• Your opinion counts! Everyone is treated with utmost respect and as an equal

Hi Guys,
You may be aware the newest version of module 'Devel' (6.x-1.16) if you'd like to update the module. There is at least one conflict with 'Administration Menu' module as far as I found.
They changed the menu links to arrays from strings, so you would always have an error message like

I'd like a proposal on redesign and Drupal development for www.interactivemale.com and www.livelinks.com. Work will be completed in conjunction with our internal development team.

The sites have been wireframed and our requirements spec is complete.

We are interested in a preliminary meeting immediately, and are requesting proposals by April 24. We would like to launch the new sites in June of this year.

If you are interested in quoting on this work, please contact me at shantel.shave@teligence.net or 604.629.6055 x 3435.

Shantel Shave
Online Marketing Manager
Teligence

Thought someone in Vancouver must have implemented this before...

I need a tool to sync a copy of Drupal's files directory with S3. Backup and Migrate seems to allow me to save regular copies of my database to S3 (though I haven't tested it yet) . Is there a similar tool for files? In this case, I'd like to just keep the latest snapshot, similar to rsync.

Hello

I have a test Drupal web site.
The majority of the content is in slovak language.
I have created a story with title: Test of slovak charakters in Title (ľ,š,č,ť,ž,ý,á,í,é,ú,ä,ô,Ľ,Š,Č,Ť,Ž,Ý,Á,Í,É,Ú)
I have entered this story by going to Administer/Create Content/Story, switching my keyboard to SK - slovak (Slovakia) and typing the slovak characters.
Look at http://www.sk-bc.ca/slovo/?q=node/190

I need to export the Drupal DB.

My ISP does not offer MyPhpAdmin, so I had to write my own php scripts to export MySql table structures and data.

The script:

I am building a realtor site with Drupal. The property listing module from netrift.com works great!
See http://www.netrift.com/content/ulisting

I have a question about setting up a specific menu for the realtor to edit listings.

I set up a user role for the realtor to add/modify/delete property listings and blog entries. I also set up a menu

LinuxFest Northwest is coming up soon -- April 25-26 in Bellingham, http://linuxfestnorthwest.org

We are planning to hold a mini-DrupalCamp at LinuxFest -- see http://groups.drupal.org/node/20345 for format.

However, deadlines are approaching! Only a few people (from Vancouver I think?) have signed up to give formal talks on Saturday (Jakob assures me that even though the deadline is past, if you sign up now (4/8), you can still get in). Please do so if you want to give a formal talk on Saturday.

Automation is the name of the game for efficiently maintaining multiple websites and Drupal has the tools to do it! Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday April 23, 2009 at Raincity Studios for the Vancouver League of Drupalers April meeting where Robin Puga will step through the process of deploying Drupal sites using Ægir as well as review the current state of the project. Robin will also cover some techniques used to deploy complex sites using Install Profiles in Ægir.

This month instead of a case study we're doing lightning talks. Leave a comment if you're interested in giving one.

Date: Thursday April 23, 6:30pm
Location: Raincity Studios, 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400 in Gastown. [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome

For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.

Who?

We are Work at Play Social Media Labs, a small 25 or so person company leading some of the most innovative projects in social media.

We work with clients like Viacom/MTV/Brash Entertainment/NBC and Mattel to make the web a better and more interesting place.

What?

We are in need of some Drupal Development Ninjas. You know who you are. You contribute to Drupal or are very active on Drupal.org. You have contributed or have maintained Drupal modules (or you want too). You can cite all the differences between 5.x and 6.x.

VentureWeb is a growing online marketing and web development agency based in beautiful Squamish BC.

We are seeking a talented web person to join our team on a contract but leading to full-time placement. Please submit your resume, portfolio, code samples and cover letter including salary expectations to: info @ ventureweb.net.

No phone calls at this stage please!

What we offer you:

I'm happy to announce we have confirmed that Angela Byron ( aka webchick ) of Lullabot will be speaking at Open Web Vancouver 2009! We've got her scheduled for two talks, including a keynote on Women in Open Source, as well as a second, Drupal-focused talk. The actual event node for this is here:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/19942

The website for the conference is of course here:

http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/node/add/talk

If anyone is interested in submitting talk ideas, you still have until the 15th of April!

Agentic Communications is a progressive web development agency that works with non-profits in both Canada and the US to develop sophisticated Drupal websites to engage and motivate people to advocacy. We're a small boutique agency located in Vancouver BC Canada. Our website is www.agentic.ca

We're looking for a Web Developer position, which develops client websites by planning, implementing, and maintaining the Agentic methodology. This is a full-time employee position.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Career Opportunity - Web Developer

HB Lanarc is seeking a creative, focused, and technically skilled person to join our team as a web developer. This position, based in Vancouver, would provide support to HB Lanarc’s urban planning and design, landscape architecture, development planning, green infrastructure, climate and energy program and urban agriculture service areas.

Doug Gough of ImageX Media will be teaching us the basics of creating a Drupal module. Including how to use some of the most common Drupal API hooks, such as hook_user, hook_nodeapi, and form_alter to create a basic module that reacts to changes to user information. He'll also cover how to create a theme function to style the output of the module.

Well, the weekday is moving again, now to Tuesday, and while I'm at it, let move locations too!
Garrick's Head Pub
It's in the Bedford Regency, right in Bastion square. They have several of the micro-brewery offerings on tap, Pipers Pale Ale is good, but when that is as close as it gets to "Micro" one yearns for more.

Be there at 7PM, Tuesday the 31st!

Also, we won't be conflicting with the Web Posse group meeting on Wednesdays.

Cheers!
Gord.

Linuxfest Northwest 2009 this year will include the efforts of SeaDUG and many Vancouver drupal users. Bellingham is about 1.5hrs north of Seattle, 1 hour south of Vancouver, BC. This year we're expecting between 800-1000 attendees. There are various after parties being held on saturday night. So stick around and enjoy Bellingham! There are some cheap lodging options as well.

Hi all,

A friend of mine is getting into Drupal and is far more advanced than I am with customizing the system using PHP. I'd asked someone else I know with some advanced Drupal experience this question, but they weren't able to help me either, so I thought I'd post it here on his behalf.

Agentic Communications is a progressive web development agency that works with non-profits in both Canada and the US to develop sophisticated Drupal websites to engage and motivate people to advocacy. We're a small boutique agency located in Vancouver BC Canada. Our website is www.agentic.ca

Currently, we're looking for a System Administrator. The Sysadmin is a hands-on individual responsible for overseeing a number of in-house and collocated Linux servers and Virtual Private Servers. This is a 0.25 FTE position that could be done on contract.

Duties and Responsibilities

Our Seattle Drupal Group has decided that instead of holding a Drupal Camp in April, we will instead hold our spring camp at LinuxFest Northwest. That will be held on April 25-26 in Bellingham, http://linuxfestnorthwest.org

Hi folks,

I'm working with SeaDUG and Linuxfest Northwest to bring together a mini drupalcamp at Linuxfest Northwest 2009. Its April 25-26th, and last year we had one room for one day, with every session packed. This year I'm hoping to get at least one room for two days, and if there is demand for it, we can move to two rooms as well.

We're looking for those who wish to present, come mingle with other F/OSS people, etc. The event is free, and we have room for non-profit exhibitors (free), and commercial exhibits.

More information: http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/

Hi Vancouver,
I have a client that wants to add some extra functionality to the Webform module and I was wondering if any of you had any experience with this. I am trying to create depended questions. The survey has about 15 questions but each question has about five subquestions which are conditional to the first answer.

For example, question 2. is a 'yes' or 'no' question and if they answer 'yes' they need to choose from a variety of options but if they answer 'no' they can move on to question 3. The customer wants the sub questions to be invisible unless required.

Inspired by events like Launch Party and the like, what do people think of having a night of lightning talks for the April meeting? Say four to six 10 or 15 minute slots for people to come up and talk about something cool, interesting or informative.

Thoughts?

Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday March 26, 2009 at Raincity Studios for the Vancouver League of Drupalers March meeting. Mack Hardy from Affinity Bridge is researching the current state of of geo location and mapping tools in drupal 6, and will report his findings to the group. And perhaps we can coax some DrupalCon DCers to discuss some highlights.

We still have a slot available for a mini-case study if someone wants to volunteer.

Date: Thursday March 26, 6:30pm
Location: Raincity Studios, 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400 in Gastown. [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome

For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.

The Vancouver PHP Association is proud to announce we're holding Open Web Vancouver 2009 this coming June 11th and 12th. While registration is not yet open we are currently looking for talk submissions:

http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/

The easiest way to keep up with conference goings-on is just to subscribe to the news feed:

http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/news/feed

Update: I've just confirmed that Angie Byron ( aka webchick ) will be speaking at the open Web Conference! Angie will be doing 2 talks, including a keynote.

Simple post to promote COSSFEST. Hopefully the Vancouver community can send people to Calgary. 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