Drupal Ireland Group

I've removed this (it was a post related to contract design work) because almost all responses I've gotten have been totally off the mark.

For others who might use this group discussion area for posting opportunities, you should allow time to separate the fwe kernels of wheat from the chaff (it's mostly chaff)

Ireland

OK -So! We've done it before, and I'd like to do it again.

Can anyone offer a free venue for training in Dublin?

I'd like to offer it for free or low cost (just enough to cover printing).

Ideally, in February or March.

We mainly need a flat room with tables or desks, and reliable wifi.

Ireland

Hi All

I am Hoping someone can point me in the right direction,

I'm using the D7 Views 3 and custom module,

I have created a view that takes 2 (contextual) filters.
And I have created custom module that creates block form that traverses a taxonomy tree a creating a parent-child drop-down using select lists similar to the way hierarchical_select works, what I’m not sure is the best method off passing the values from the select list to the views-page, (this will involve redirecting the user to that views-page with the arguments)

Currently I'm using the drupal_goto that redirects the user to the views url with the filters and I know there must be a better way or method other than this but I'm not sure what that is?

All suggestion welcome :-)

Regards Gavin

Ireland

My client based near Bognor Regis requires skilled Drupal Developers to work on one of their current Drupal projects that needs code modules optimized to achieve higher performance.

This contract is for 2 to 3 months and will probably extend beyond this. The rate pays up to £350 per day for successful candidates.
Required skills:
• Drupal 6 / 7
• Module development to Drupal.org standards
• Drupal performance tuning
• Profiling with xhprof
• Block, Views caching for authenticated users (authcache etc)
• MySQL Query Optimization

Desirable (but don’t worry if you don’t have it!):
• Ubercart development

If you have the above skills then please respond with an up to date copy of your CV as soon as possible.
If you do not have the above skills or you’re not looking for work, but you know of someone who is and meets the above criteria, then please make them aware of this opportunity and ask them to get in touch.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards

Manny

Bristol & The West, UK

Does anyone know if the Belfast meetups are still happening? If so is the first one of 2012 going to happen on 26th Janurary? I've just moved back from England where I worked for Ixis and now want to get involved in the Drupal community in NI.

If anyone has information or wants to meetup for a chat that would be great!

Kind Regards,
Mark

Ireland

Start:  2012-01-09 (All day) America/Vancouver Training (free or commercial)

A 3 month Drupal Open Source Web Development and e-Commerce Diploma Program is being offered at www.QCollege.ca

www.QCollege.ca - (formerly The Victoria School of Business and Technology - VSBT) is
offering a 3 month Fast Track job-ready Diploma program in Drupal!

www.qcollege.ca/programs-courses/drupal-open-source-development-ecommerce

With so many jobs on the market we are looking to help train up Drupal Developers to support the industry.

Our Full Time, 12 Week Drupal Open Source Web Development & e-Commerce Diploma Program Starts January 09, 2012 - March 23rd

This program will take you from the beginning to somewhere in the middle and get you started from the ground up with Drupal.

In order to facilitate out of town students we are offering a 50% tuition discount to offset travel, and living allowances.

Interested? Check out our website www.qcollege.ca
or the program: www.qcollege.ca/programs-courses/drupal-open-source-development-ecommerce

or contact me:

Q College
Chris Boag
chris@qcollege.ca
1.800.215.6702

Drupal California

Has anyone tried to pull a .make file as an include in another make file from a private git repo?
Tried pulling in via https but there is no way to authenticate resulting in the download of the login page.

Example:

projects[] = drupal

; INCLUDES
includes[da_news] = "git repo/da_news.make.inc"

Ireland

Start:  2011-12-06 17:00 - 18:00 UTC Training (free or commercial) Organizers:  heather patrickfrickel

At Acquia, we developed the free "Hello Drupal" course to help local Drupal communities welcome in new members who were curious about Drupal.

Read more here to find out what "Hello Drupal" is: http://training.acquia.com/hellodrupal

However, we are aware that not everyone has access to a vibrant local community. Our partner, Telementa in South Africa can appreciate that as well, with a geographically dispersed population. That is why Patrick Frickel and I are facilitating Hello Drupal online for the first time.

Who is it for? This is for people who have never used Drupal before. Please pass this invitation along to anyone you know who is brand new to Drupal.http://learndrupal7.drupalgardens.com/

Who is it not for? If you know what a module is, and you've made content types and views before, you might find this course a little slow for you.

How can you join? Apply to join the course. You must be able to commit to attending for the two weeks. See the schedule: http://learndrupal7.drupalgardens.com/content/schedule This includes two live online sessions, and various course discussions. Live sessions will be recorded for review, but discussion participation is mandatory for course completion.

This course is FREE, free as in beer :)

We look forward to welcoming you!

Ireland

From Activelink ..... http://www.activelink.ie/node/7677

Comhlámh is the Association of Development Workers and Volunteers in Ireland. We are an independent membership organisation working together with development workers, volunteers and activists to challenge our society on the root causes of global poverty and inequality and empower people to demand equity in global relations. We are now looking for someone to Redevelop and Amalgamate the websites.
We believe that people acting in solidarity can change the structures of global injustice and poverty. Through awareness raising, research, education and training we empower individuals to take effective action to address global inequality.
Comhlámh is now seeking to redevelop its primary and secondary websites, http://www.comhlamh.org, and www.volunteeringoptions.org. We are also seeking to bring the secondary site http://www.volunteeringoptions.org under the same domain and same CMS as the primary http://www.comhlamh.org, keeping it as a sub-portal of this primary site.
Full details are contained in the attached tender document.

The deadline for submission of tenders is 5pm, Tuesday 6th December 2011.

Shortlisted companies will be invited to present their proposal at our offices the week beginning 12th December 2011.
We plan to award the tender to the selected company by December 21st 2011.
The deadline for completion of the project is the 31st March 2012.
Applications should be submitted via email to keelin@comhlamh.org.
Keelin FitzGerald
Communications and Membership Project Officer
Comhlámh
2nd Floor
Ballast House
Aston Quay
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 478 3490
Web: www.comhlamh.org, www.volunteeringoptions.org

Region: Dublin
Expiry date: 06/12/2011
Date Entered/Updated: 24/11/2011

Ireland

DRUPAL DEVELOPER - £350 PER DAY

My client based near Bognor Regis requires skilled Drupal Developers to work on one of their current Drupal projects that needs code modules optimized to achieve higher performance. 
This contract is for 2 to 3 months and will probably extend beyond this.  The rate pays up to £350 per day for successful candidates.

Required skills:
• Drupal 6 / 7
• Module development to Drupal.org standards
• Drupal performance tuning
• Block, Views caching for authenticated users (authcache etc)
• MySQL Query Optimization

Desirable (but don’t worry if you don’t have it!):

• Ubercart development  

If you have the above skills then please respond with an up to date copy of your CV to mgbajumo@premierituk.com or call me on 0118 902 8800.

Twin Cities Ubercart & E-Commerce

New website coming online in 2012 with an impressive feature set and high profile client base.
We require an experienced Drupal developer to join our team.

The ideal candidate should have proven experience with:
Drupal Module development
Designing and editing themes in Drupal

PHP
MySQL
SQL
Ecommerce development

Candidates based in Dublin or Ireland will be preferred.

Please send us your C.V. and and we can talk about the role in more detail.

Ireland

Hi all,

I'm looking at (finally) getting around to using GIT, mainly to keep a history of theme changes.

Just wondering if people could share their opinions on what should be stored in the repositories. I've seen everything from people just storing the theme they are working on to the entire Drupal install (minus the settings.php file).

I was considering just the sites folder, but I'm wondering if maybe I should go for the entire Drupal install?

What are people's views?

Cheers,
Chris

Ireland

Essential Skills:

Drupal Theming
HTML & CSS
Illustrator & Photoshop

Desirable Skills:

Module Development
jQuery, PHP & MySQL
Aptitude for design

Other Info:

Applicants must possess the ability to take a website from a designer's concept to an end product.
A strong web portfolio is essential
Applicants must be available to work on-location, 8.30am-5.30pm at our offices

How to apply:

Send a portfolio link to jobs@blackthorndesign.co.uk along with a concise CV detailing your skills & experience.

Ireland

Hi all,

May I firstly echo the comments that others have made about Drupalcamp Derry. Even though I missed the first part of the day on Saturday (thanks hangover) it was a great weekend and the open space discussions on the Sunday were really interesting.

Now onto my problem. I know this isn't really a Drupal issue, but I'm hoping it might be of use to some other Drupalistas.

I've noticed in our apache access logs that the majority of requests to our site are coming from bots, I want to exclude a few. I modified my .htaccess file to look like this:

# Various rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on

  # Reject bot traffic
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Baiduspider.*$
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MJ12bot.*$
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Yandex.*$
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Speedy\ Spider.*$
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Ezooms.*$
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^spbot.*$
  RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]

Thing is, the Baiduspider one got blocked successfully with a 403 the first few times, but now it seems to be getting through again and the others are all still getting 200 responses.

Am I going about this the wrong way or is there no way to stop determined bots from getting at your site?

Ireland

Thanks to Feargal O'Kane and his team at BT48 who organised DrupalCamp Derry at Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin. Great looking venue, and excellent wifi. About half the folks came along for a big group dinner and continued the conversation at Halo. The after-camp dinner is becoming a tradition here for the Ireland camps.

There were some great sessions provided as well, and some good debates. (Anyone for a "Drupal Debate" event?)

Thanks to the folks who prepared these great sessions! (20 mins sessions seems to hit the sweet spot).

Using Omega, Context and Delta to build a mobile site - Feargal
Who's site is it anyway, designing for the end user - Gary
We need to talk about mobile - Edward
Display Suite - Alan
Using Vim - Cormac
Designing in the browser - Edward
Contributing to Drupal using Git - Alan

New format better for newcomers and more relevant for attendees

We played some more with the format. We've always been trying to improve the camps and find a way to best accomodate the large amount of new comers the camp tends to attract.

1) We added training

We added intro training - This time we had a 3 hour introductory session for beginners, alongside the presentations for experienced people. I used the "Hello Drupal" materials with 12 people attending. I got a great compliment that someone came in unsure about Drupal, and left super excited about Drupal!

2) Open space for discussions

We followed planned sessions with small group discussions. In the past we found it difficult to get presentations. Everyone is busy, it adds stress to the camp, when really, people want to talk.

We used "Open Space Technology" to quickly (under 15 mins) plan an agenda of small group demos and discussions. See http://tinyurl.com/derryopen for the schedule.

Uploaded with Skitch!

On Sunday we talked about:
Lessons from setting up a Drupal agency - tools and tips to save time and money
Social Media integration in Drupal - why and when.
Drupal.ie - what should it be?

[BTW- I love open space. You could spend weeks trying to make as relevant and interesting a schedule. I saw some people unsure about how it was going to work, but the rules are so simple you can quickly catch on. One thing I neglected to do was be the rapporteur after. If anyone wants me to facilitate Open Space again, I'd be glad.]

3) Drupal Ireland Association - AGM

We held the second AGM on Sunday and voted in the new leadership for the association. Mike King from Red Room is now chairman, and I think there will be a post coming out about that soon and plans about the website being planned, and new ways you can get involved in helping to promote Drupal.

Want to help promote Drupal in Ireland?

The first thing we're going to do is reach out to colleges and universities in Ireland to schedule talks.

• Can you speak at a college or university? Please indicate where you are located.
• Do you have a contact at a college or university that wants a speaker? Please send them to this form: http://tinyurl.com/drupalvisit

We are also looking to build a schedule of events where Drupal should be. For example, BarCamp Belfast on Nov 14th. We'll have more info about this soon.

Ireland

Hello everyone, just wanted to say that I really enjoyed my first Drupal meetup and hope its the start of many, also want to thankyou all for making it so enjoyable and worthwhile.

Secondly I can't remember who it was that asked (I think Stella or Dermot) but I checked and was able to get email ticketing working successfully via redmine, it can be accomplished on either imap or pop accounts and all that really needs to be done is setting up a cron job to read your desired email account. Redmine then parses the email for certain text patterns such as Project: [xxxxxxxx] or #[issue no] and the email address to create the required bug/issue. Also really handy is that it deals with attachements effortlessly.

Ireland

Hi all,

Good weekend, many thanks to Feargal for all the hard work.

I've put my vim config up on github.
https://github.com/cormac/vim-config

Should have mentioned also #vim is the most helpful irc room I've ever come across. Also for getting started, vimtutor is very useful

Ireland

What are some examples of regional Drupal websites? And what purposes do they serve? What are other open source communities doing?

Please edit and add yours!

[We're considering making a site for Drupal Ireland and considering these models - h]

1. Community sites. They provide the space for community interaction, event planning, discussion.
2. Public facing welcome mats for decision makers
3. Websites for the regional association or group.
4. Are there any which are replacements for the Drupal.org Marketplace? listing service providers for an area or region.

1. Community sites

These supplant the functionality of Groups.Drupal.org. These don't seem to have as much about promoting Drupal to non-users. They are inward facing to support the existing community. They also provide local language support.

• UK Drupal community - http://www.drupal.org.uk/ Member list http://www.drupal.org.uk/profile
• Drupal Sweden group - http://drupal.se/community/
• Drupal Italy - http://drupal.it/
• Drupal Israel - www.drupal.org.il
• Drupal Poland - http://drupal.pl/

2. Association web sites

• Drupal Spain "Association" website. drupal.es resolves to http://asociaciondrupal.es/

3. Promoting Drupal outside the community

These are slick petite websites which give basic information about Drupal and point decision makers or new comers to the local contacts.

• Drupal in germany http://www.drupal.de/
• A good example, but not local is Drupal.com - http://drupal.com/

4. The market place

The official market place for Drupal.org is in development. However, it would seem one challenge on the ground is that decision makers are finding it tough to find local Drupal expertise. As well, it's hard apparently to get on the "official" service providers list. Are there local marketplace type websites?

• Drupal.org - Marketplace http://drupal.org/marketplace-preview/all/all/Ireland
  However if you manage a list locally, what requirements do you establish? Who has the rights to manage that list?

• Wordpress has a "Marketplace" - Code Poet - Developer directory http://codepoet.com/browse/project-size/100000-250000/
  There is a very LOW barrier to entry: How to apply to Code Poet - http://codepoet.com/apply/

• The Joomla Ireland community has a community website http://joomlaireland.org/ It's worth noting the "Business directory" is on a different domain http://joomlaireland.ie/

Local User Group Organizers