South Africa groups.drupal.org

Getting DrupalCon Portland videos:

Install youtube-dl, on Ubuntu just type:

sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

Update youtube-dl: Run twice!:

sudo youtube-dl -U

Then just run:

youtube-dl -citw --max-quality url "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeDXSh4nHjRlZKs7cj2L_kLI5osP5ERc"

You can resume if it fails and if they add new videos to the playlist, just run it again to get the newest videos too.

Here's an interesting challenge:

Site 1 has subdomains that will not share the user table, but will share modules.

Site 2 has a different domain, but will share the user table with site 1, and has different modules but will share some page content.

They are currently on two different servers, but I can place them on the same machine to share DB etc.

From what I have read I have a hybrid of the functionality between the two approaches.

Multisite or Domain Access? Which one should be used to do the trick here....

Thanks in advance for your tips!

We are looking for a drupal developer that can customise an existing website.

Join us at the Johannesburg Drupal User Group Meet-up to get your free swag. Key rings for casual, and lapel pins for those in suits and more formal jackets (probably more along the lines of the DASA meet). Unbranded other than for the Drupal logo.

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So... Up to now we were comparing our Drupal usage portion of recognized CMSes in our top Drupal websites in South Africa, at 8.3% to Drupal usage for all websites internationally at 10.1% and many of us wanted to beat that number... it's not that far behind... but that is not the whole story (is it ever).
Reference the site we already know:
- http://top-sa-drupal-sites.burtronix.co.za

If we wanted to compare apples with apples, maybe we should consider comparing the top South African websites running Drupal at 8.3% with the top international websites running Drupal... at 24.8%! Time for all of us to stop relaxing so much, fit in another three days worth of work each day and get this done ;-) Or, of course, grow the Drupal community locally!
Reference the new site for the top 100 sites I managed to detect that run Drupal:
- http://top-drupal-sites.burtronix.co.za

There's just so much to write about these stats! These are really very high-end sites being hit hard as the top visited Drupal sites worldwide. Just see how much more popular NGinX is, how much less market IIS has and of course that massive wedge for Drupal.

I'd have loved for the little virtual machine I placed this site on to run the full 15 000 sites analysis that I intended for it, but I wanted to see statistics earlier and it was taking too long. I'll rewrite the statistics gatherer to use a non-blocking PHP rolling cURL solution when there's time one day, then gather more stats and maybe redesign the site for better presentation. For this iteration I just added a varnish cache on top of the site in case it gets some more international hits or goes viral.

Administration Themes 50% (1 vote) UX Elements 0% (0 votes) WYSWYG 0% (0 votes) Menu System 50% (1 vote) Visual Appearance 0% (0 votes) Total votes: 2

I am an Australian Developer just moved here for www.emergingstars.com. The site was on WordPress, I transferred it to Drupal and made it amazing with all Drupal coolness(8 custom modules in total). The stunning thing is I can't believe I transferred almost 56,000 plain WordPress posts into Drupal content types with Taxonomies and Language stuff, that tells us what drupal is capable of.

For the Drupalars, I was wondering if someone from the Group can guide me for my "little" business www.eshockit.com. I have general networking queries only.

I have worked with many Australian Government websites and stuff. I am also available for any help my South African Portfolio is www.emergingstars.com. You may visit and see "Registration", complex customizations and views I have used. work will speak itself.

Contact me for more information.

eConsultant is leading SA Drupal http://www.gcis.gov.za/content/about-us/procurement/awarded-bids12-13

Things remained pretty same-same the last few months. So this month I hoped to have a top international Drupal websites stats page up, but the international one hits all 15 000 top sites and some of those domains look pretty scary, so I set the international version up on it's own vHost just to be extra safe. The South African one also just analyses .za domains of the top 15 000 that are accessed by South Africans while the international one analyses all 15 000 in it's list. That's about six times as much work to do and I've rolling cURL gives my a headache, so it's still a serial script for now.

At the time of writing the site the first time, being a Drupal labor of love project, I also wanted to familiarize myself with stream wrappers. This month's iteration was run on the old, trusty and familiar cURL methods again (that part of the site was rewritten). It was a bit faster (took about 20 hours to handle the SA sites (international is still a day or two from being done) but also slightly more robust. nfvf.co.za wasn't even picked up last month (must have failed that request).

All that just to get to the point that comparing this and last month's stats may only be useful in the ranking changes. Don't read too much into things like IIS losing so much ground to Open Source web servers. That's likely just better statistics this month.

http://top-sa-drupal-sites.burtronix.co.za/report/2013-06-02

Looking forward to see the list of top Drupal sites internationally. Quite excited about it. Maybe it's a good idea to do a few different countries. England, China, OZ, Zim ;-)

The organisation of DrupalSouth is moving into full swing and it was about time to provide an update on how things are going.

Support by Linux Australia

Linux Australia have offically come on board as supporters of DrupalSouth 2014 at a crucial time as we're about to secure a venue and dates for the conference.

Dates are coming

Watch this space, we're very close to finalizing dates for the conference. Hopefully before the end of this month. What we can say for sure is that it will be in February 2014 and the venue will be the best venue DrupalSouth has been hosted at yet!

Sponsors are coming onboard

We've recently invited several organisations to come on board as sponsors and have had a great response. Packages are still available and if you'd like the opportunity to sponsor, please get in touch! We can send you information about our sponsorship packages.

We want international speakers

We'll be approaching international speakers to come to New Zealand and present a talk on Drupal or related. We'd love to hear from people not only from the Drupal Community but also from the PHP Symphony community and jQuery community.

We need help

Now is a good time to extend the DrupalSouth team. We need people to help handle sponsor registration, content administration, keynote and featured speakers and be apart of our session track co-ordination team. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

Start:  2013-06-05 18:30 - 20:30 Africa/Johannesburg User group meeting

he next Drupal Johannesburg meetup will be held on Wednesday, 5 June 2013.

The meetup will take place at Adcorp Holdings (http://g.co/maps/vwjxa).

The address is:

28 Sloane Street
Bryanston

First Building on the left when entering through the gate. Thanks to Envisionme and Ivan for the venue.

The event will start at 18h30.

An exciting initiative has been launched for this year. A Drupal/Angular project to simplify the running of various usergroup meetups. to find out more check out the following link, https://github.com/drupal-meetup/angular-drupal-meetup-seed and get involved.

To signup for this event please use the signup link on this page.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

Robin

The Durban Drupal Group (DDG) plans on hosting its first event called "Bootcamp". This will be a very informal event, spanning 2/3 days, and its objective is to give group members (New) an overall insight into Drupal and its amazing technologies.

DDG has just been formed and will rely heavily on input from other well established groups in South Africa. We have quite a bit of interest and I will therefore make it a point to initiate until it gathers momentum and the group is established.

DDG is looking forward to contributors on this topic to guide us in running a successful event.

The Durban Drupal Group (DDG) plans on hosting its first event called "Bootcamp". This will be a very informal event, spanning 2/3 days, and its objective is to give group members (New) an overall insight into Drupal and its amazing technologies.

DDG has just been formed and will rely heavily on input from other well established groups in South Africa. We have quite a bit of interest and I will therefore make it a point to initiate until it gathers momentum and the group is established.

DDG is looking forward to contributors on this topic to guide us in running a successful event.

I have been asked to gather Drupalites in Durban to startup a local group. Can anybody therefore give me indication of how other groups are functioning and what is the objective for such a group. What is the community contribution and what benefits has to be offered to a member. What resources has to be contributed or demanded. What structure has to be followed in such a group, what skill level is required or not required etc. etc.

I have willing participants and they are keen to become part of it. I look forward to hear from you guys.

I have been asked to gather Drupalites in Durban to startup a local group. Can anybody therefore give me indication of how other groups are functioning and what is the objective for such a group. What is the community contribution and what benefits has to be offered to a member. What resources has to be contributed or demanded. What structure has to be followed in such a group, what skill level is required or not required etc. etc.

I have willing participants and they are keen to become part of it. I look forward to hear from you guys.

Help requested for writing some PHP and Javascript to attach a countdown timer to a Entity Form field. I am a newbie and I live in Durban. Need help or somebody to point me into the right direction.

Help requested for a newbie - Durban

Currently busy on a project that require an Entityforms data field (Date field) to trigger a countdown/countup counter when the data node is displayed.

The date field is: field_date
Module used: Entity - http://drupal.org/project/entity, Entityforms - http://drupal.org/project/entityform
Theme used: Bootstrap - http://drupal.org/project/bootstrap
Custom theme build to subtheme Bootstrap
Attached is the complete counter file set.

I want to be able to have a select option in the declaration of the date field (Entity Form Type) to choose the timer display and to decide whether it should count up or down as well as to what extend be it yearly, mothly, daily or hourly etc.

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Help requested for writing some PHP and Javascript to attach a countdown timer to a Entity Form field. I am a newbie and I live in Durban. Need help or somebody to point me into the right direction.

Help requested for a newbie - Durban

Currently busy on a project that require an Entityforms data field (Date field) to trigger a countdown/countup counter when the data node is displayed.

The date field is: field_date
Module used: Entity - http://drupal.org/project/entity, Entityforms - http://drupal.org/project/entityform
Theme used: Bootstrap - http://drupal.org/project/bootstrap
Custom theme build to subtheme Bootstrap
Attached is the complete counter file set.

I want to be able to have a select option in the declaration of the date field (Entity Form Type) to choose the timer display and to decide whether it should count up or down as well as to what extend be it yearly, mothly, daily or hourly etc.

AttachmentSize jstimer-7.x-1.3.tar_.gz19.59 KB

I suffer insomnia quite a bit. So last night I decided to stay seated in stead of rolling around and get something done at least. After all work items were done and my brain started dying, I referenced this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ4zNu0HtCQ and decided to try it for myself.

Here's a gource video, up to date as of last night from the git checkout of Drupal core and in wonderful 1080p. Don't let the quiet first half fool you into looking away from the monitor. It makes the last 30% or so all the more impressive. Play suitably epic music during video playback and sit back and watch for 5min or so.

Here's the vid (200 meg download):
https://docs.google.com/a/burtronix.com/file/d/0B_4NMU5bbEAFNVNjTnBKNVp3...

I used this for git / gource:

git log --pretty=format:user:%aN%n%ct --reverse --raw --encoding=UTF-8 --no-renames > D.log

gource -1920x1080 --seconds-per-day 0.01 --auto-skip-seconds 2 --max-file-lag 0.1 --background-image url.png --hide filenames,mouse,progress,files -r 60 D.log -o - | ffmpeg -y -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libvpx -b 15000k -cpu-used 0 -b:v 8000k -qmin 10 -qmax 42 -maxrate 500k -bufsize 1800k -threads 8 -vf scale=-1:1080 /home/riaan/.backup-internal-ssd/gource-10-no-files.webm

I suffer insomnia quite a bit. So last night I decided to stay seated in stead of rolling around and get something done at least. After all work items were done and my brain started dying, I referenced this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ4zNu0HtCQ and decided to try it for myself.

Here's a gource video, up to date as of last night from the git checkout of Drupal core and in wonderful 1080p. Don't let the quiet first half fool you into looking away from the monitor. It makes the last 30% or so all the more impressive. Play suitably epic music during video playback and sit back and watch for 5min or so.

Here's the vid (200 meg download):
https://docs.google.com/a/burtronix.com/file/d/0B_4NMU5bbEAFNVNjTnBKNVp3...

I used this for git / gource:

git log --pretty=format:user:%aN%n%ct --reverse --raw --encoding=UTF-8 --no-renames > D.log

gource -1920x1080 --seconds-per-day 0.01 --auto-skip-seconds 2 --max-file-lag 0.1 --background-image url.png --hide filenames,mouse,progress,files -r 60 D.log -o - | ffmpeg -y -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libvpx -b 15000k -cpu-used 0 -b:v 8000k -qmin 10 -qmax 42 -maxrate 500k -bufsize 1800k -threads 8 -vf scale=-1:1080 /home/riaan/.backup-internal-ssd/gource-10-no-files.webm

Along the lines of the iVeri module we are writing (http://groups.drupal.org/node/299583), we will also be writing a PayU module for integration with Drupal Commerce.

Is anyone in the community working on this? If so, would you like to work together?