Drupal Johannesburg meetup: 2 June 2010, 18:30 @ The Campus, Bryanston

The next Drupal Johannesburg meetup will be held on Wednesday the 2nd of June 2010 (our usual first Wednesday of every month slot), at The Campus (In the Ferrari room, Le Mans Building, 57 Sloane Street Bryanston. The event will start promptly at 18h30. Once again, thanks to IS Labs for the venue :-)

The agenda is still firming up, but will probably consist of:

Thoughts and feedback on May's DrupalCamp: What worked, where we can improve, and other insights.

Improving your user experience with css popups (menus, blocks, views, etc), presented by Skip:

One of the most valuable modules in site development is surely the Admin menu. Why? It reduces page loads significantly and makes almost everything easier to find - without taking up much space. Why not extend that same courtesy to your users... and animate it.

You can, thanks to the Popup module and its little helpers.

Perhaps you would like to have acces to the login form on every page, without actually having the form visible on every page. Or have a view of recent messages a hover or a click away? You can even replace the old stale breadcrumb with a system that shows a popup of other sections on each level.

Beginners can already use the UI to:

• popup blocks in place
• popup menus, that are provided as blocks
• control what popups look like, how they behave and how they are animated

Intermediate users wil in conjunction with views, be able to popup:

• context sensitive breadcrumbs
• node references in views and cck
• views

Advanced users using the popup filter, will be able to popup:

• all of the above
• text
• nodes
• php-generated content
• forms

as well as specify individual popup attributes.

If there's interest, an open question time, where people can get help with problems they are having with Drupal, e.g. "Why is this not working", "How can I do this in Drupal?", "What module should I use to do...?", etc. 

Discussion on how the South African Drupal Community can contribute to promoting Drupal Communities throughout Africa:

There's an exciting initiative in the works to energize African Drupal communities by building a support network to help people unite around Drupal and giving them the tools to support their organizations with Drupal. Joeri Poesen, now working in Senegal,  would like to work together with us and others working in Drupal in Africa to build a uniform, Pan-African Drupal community.

Joeri says that although there are a number of Drupal people in West Africa, they haven't found the time, energy or means yet to unite themselves into local Drupal communities, and cites the South African community as the one African exception, and would like to learn from our approach.

This is a great opportunity for the South African Drupal community to contribute to Drupal on a continental scale, and no doubt there will be a lot we can learn from Joeri which will help grow our local community even more.

Find out more about Joeri here:

http://symbiotix.net/articles/about
http://symbiotix.net/articles/local-drupal-communities-west-africa-one-s...

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