Drupal Ireland Group

A simple question with far reaching consequences - At a DrupalCamp in a non English speaking country (e.g. Spain), what should be the primary language ?

My arguments

This is my view, and i post it to get the discussion going.

As i see it, if the majority of sessions are in English, it will :

• Bring in more sponsors from the wider (English speaking) Drupal community
• Potentially improve the quality of the sessions, because more Drupal developers speak english
• Improve English speaking (non-local) attendance. People will not invest $$$$ flying and staying in hotels, if they are then only able to understand 10% (or less) of the sessions

Unfortunately i think language choice is a all or nothing issue. Unless the camp is promoted as being in English (or at least 50/50) you face a negative feedback loop.

Not enough English sessions/focus --> Less interest from non-native speakers --> Not enough English sessions/focus

My proposal

The camp is promoted as an English language camp with a native langage 'Track', which would probably focus more on the newbie/introductory level to keep it accessible to local businesses and people with a casual interest. Advanced sessions would be targeted at English speaking (perhaps with translation help for slides / dual slides etc) to attract the people who would invest the $$$ to come to a camp in another country

Anything other than this approach, i think, would result in a very poor attendance by non-native speakers and as a result only a few 'star speaker' sessions would be in English with little recognition from the wider Drupal community.

Discuss :)

I am cross posting this in a few groups, as i'm interested to hear from the potential non native speakers attitudes to camps in non English speaking countries (like Spain)? Link to help : http://translate.google.com/

Drupalcamp Spain

Hey!

A Dublin GTUG (Google Technology Users Group) was recently formed, the first meeting was held last month, and there is one on this month, at 18:30 on Tuesday 31st August in Google's Dublin office. Full disclosure: I am one of the organisers of the Dublin GTUG.

What is a GTUG I hear you say. A GTUG is a meeting where developers interested in Google technology can come along, chat about problems they have, share the solutions they have come across, and meet some interesting people. This month we will have a talk about the Android Scripting Environment and a demo too. We will also have a discussion that will cover [briefly] all the Google APIs and products with the aim of finding out what people are using and what problems they are having.

So, if you want to learn about Google tech, get some pizza, or just see the inside of Google's Dublin office, you should come along. More info on the next meeting is posted in the Google group.

Ireland

This is Michael Haggerty from Trellon. I am on the way to Copenhagen and stopped in Dublin until Monday the 16th.

The more I learn about the webdev community in Ireland, the more interesting I find it to be.

Anyone interested in getting together for an informal Drupal meetup? Happy to dig in on technical issues or just get together for drinks.

M

Ireland

Hi all,

So who's making the trip to Copenhagen for Drupalcon?

I'll be there, and I'll be in Copenhagen and surrounds for the previous week on holidays too.

I haven't booked any accommodation for Monday to Friday just yet.
Is anybody looking to share an apartment or a large hostel room even.
This place
http://www.danhostelcopenhagen.dk
is literally across the road from the conference venue.

Regards
Alan

Ireland

Hi Folks,
Anybody migrated Drupal 6.17 from an Apache box to a Zeus web server box. I have a Drupal site sitting in www.mysite.ie/cms working fine but ISP (Register365) is terminating the service. I did a MySql export and imported up to to the new box. Then I FTPed the original Drupal cms files to a subdirectory /cms (mimic original structure) on the new box. I have a .html redirect file in the Zeus root (Register365 idea) giving me access to the index.php file in the new Zeus /cms directory. So I flicked da DNS switch to point to the new box - DISASTER I can not get past the index page all site links giving ERROR 404s even when I login as admin user. Datatbase upload looks good re tables & records size wise etc. Could I have tripped an obvious gotcha? Clean URLs maybe knocking me out! Any help very welcome.

Regards
Bren

Ireland

Hi,

I'm developing a site at the moment and have hit a brick wall that has me going round in loops for weeks now.

Essentially I have a Acquia Marina subtheme that I have created. All works well except for one thing:

I have fixed width and height of the primary divs that contain the links to meet the design requirements.
My issue is that when there is a single line link it aligns to the top of the div. longer links wrap and are aligned vertically correctly (the font and line height allow them to appear vertically centre aligned).

I have tried using the table method to align them but this throws off my submenus.
I have also tried a few other pure CSS methods to no avail.
At this stage I'm getting to close to offering someone some cash to have a look at this one issue.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated or anybody willing take a look at the problem for cash would also be apprecited.

I just want to get the job done, out the door and get paid.

Ireland

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just heard that the guys in cork are officially launching the new irish (island of ireland) postcode system in july.

http://www.loc8code.com/launch

not sure if an post/royal mail are signed up...but apparently couriers/businesses are already using it.

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I've got several Ubercart sites using Paypal as their sole means of taking CC's. Now I'm doing one for a retailer who already has a CC/Laser machine and I'm wondering are there modules to connect Ubercart with any of the Irish credit card/laser processing companies, or does anyone have any experience with CC & Laser processing in Ireland with Ubercart I'd really appreciate a few pointers.
Thanks
Mike
Indytech - Co Wicklow

Ireland

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