Drupal Australia Group

Start:  2012-03-17 (All day) Australia/Sydney Related event (ie. not Drupal specific)

Cross Posted from cocoaheadsau

Hello everyone,

I am a community manager for MongoDB and I'm really excited to tell you that we're bringing a MongoDB conference to Sydney! MongoDB Sydney is happening on March 17, and I wanted to send a discount code to your user group.

You can register for the event here (http://www.10gen.com/events/mongodb-sydney) and use the discount code "MUG" for 25% off.
Propose an amazing talk here http://www.10gen.com/talk-proposal
And have a wonderful time!

If you are interested in learning more about MongoDB or would like some resources for your user group, please don't hesitate to ask!

Thanks so much!

Francesca

New Zealand

Hi, I am working on a fantastic project at the moment that is getting bigger than I can handle by myself and we are looking for a full time Drupal developer to help.

The Front End web site is Drupal (of course), but the project also has heaps of interesting feeds from different hardwares, Private IP networks and all that good stuff. Mostly Drupal but bits of all sorts of interesting things to bite your teeth into.

The essence of the system is reading and displaying power usage from the power grid and solar panels.

So we are looking for someone with ideas and innovation, a drupal background and an keen interest in technology in general, to work with me to develop and the rest of the team to innovate of project.

The company is based in Lynbrook, Melbourne and you will be expected to work in the office. Though it is a fun atmosphere, so that's not a bad thing.

Anyone interested, send me a message and we'll organise a chat.

Australia

Start:  2012-02-13 17:30 - 22:00 Australia/Melbourne Related event (ie. not Drupal specific) Organizers:  mossy2100

Come play pool at a great new pool hall in Melbourne CBD with other PHP/Drupal guys. Has been a regular PHP thing for a while, but I thought there must be a few Drupalers who like pool and beer as well.
This year it will probably be 2nd Monday of each month.

http://www.facebook.com/events/157594504351026

Cheers,
Mossy

Australia

Hi there!

Bouncing Orange have been helping FORM., local organisation to put together a campaign website - in Drupal of course ;) to promote their project of Digital Media Hub in Western Australia.

http://www.midlandatelier.com/dmh/support-us

Your support before February 12th would be much appreciated if you think this project is worthwhile.
We think it is :)

Geraldine Rey
Bouncing Orange

Australia

Who are we?

We're a Brisbane based Web and Graphic Design studio, Orange Digital, located on Petrie Terrace. We're a quickly expanding company making a name for ourselves as the best in the industry at creative web design and development. We love what we do and are passionate about having fun along the way!

What are we looking for?

An equally passionate person to join our team skilled in:

Drupal!
PHP & MySQL
XHTML
CSS
Javascript
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Dreamweaver
Microsoft Paint / Notepad :)

Why work with Orange Digital?

Young company with massive potential and lots of excitement!
Huge variety of projects to work with so there's always something different
You get to be part of the team and have your input into the business - we love to hear your ideas
Relaxed environment and flexible hours

To apply, send your resume along with a list drupal websites you've recently done to contact@orangedigital.com.au and we'll arrange a time for you to come in and have a chat!

Australia

Start:  2012-02-18 (All day) Australia/Melbourne User group meeting Organizers:  realityloop Deciphered

We invite people to come along and pair up for one on one Drupal Mentoring to learn something new or share your knowledge.

This is a free event, please Sign Up below if you plan to come!

And follow drupalmelbourne on twitter or identi.ca for Drupal Melbourne news and announcements.

What is Drupal Mentoring?

Drupal mentoring is where Drupal users, new and old alike, get together and pair up for one on one help with any Drupal related issue, from setting up your first site to writing your first contributed module.

Complete newbies are most welcome!

What you need to bring

• An Ethernet Cable (Usually Blue with Rj45 plugs)
• Your Laptop
• Enthusiasm

Location

State Library Victoria (How to get there)
328 Swanston St, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia

Nearest train station: Melbourne Central
Nearest tram stop: Cnr Swanston & La Trobe Streets

Parking can be found nearby at QV or below Melbourne Central for the day. Coffee and breakfast are available just across the road. Wired internet access is provided.

Australia

ONLY DRUPALERS ABLE TO WORK IN MELBOURNE ONSITE NEED APPLY - This is not an outsourced project

Australian Independent Business Media
CBD & Inner Suburbs

Fast growing online publishing company
2 x Senior Drupal Developers wanted
Permanent Position

We are a fast growing online publishing company located in Melbourne’s CBD with ~35 full time staff.

You will be part of a major web transformation project for all our sites
www.eurekareport.com.au
www.businessspectator.com.au
www.technologyspectator.com.au
www.climatespectator.com.au
www.alankohler.com.au
and more publications and products in planning

We have a fantastic, flexible and relaxed working environment.

1 day a month to work on your own projects and contribute back to the community - only catch you tell us what you have done.

We pay well, but that's not all that matters, we actually appreciate our staff and welcome quirkiness (if that's your cup of tea)

If your a senior drupal dev with experience in online publishing / media and have experience with integrating with 3rd party products please drop me an email - george.khreish@eurekareport.com.au

Thanks and sincerely look forward to hearing from you.

Australia

Hi all,

We are after a drupal freelancer to work with us on an 'ad-hoc' basis for a number of our long term clients, who occasionally need changes, fixes or updates to their existing Drupal sites.

We are ideally looking for a developer who has experience in the following;

• Drupal Development (of course)
• Ubercart
• PHP/MySQL
• HTML / CSS
• Payment Integrations

While this role may primarily start out as a freelance Drupal role, if your skills are a good match to other areas of our business we may use you in that as well, such as PHP/MySQL, Wordpress, and API integration.

We don't mind where you are located as we do not need you to come into our office and you can work from the comfort of your own home :) - What we do need though is access to you via phone or skype during Australian Business Hours.

If this sounds like somehting you are interested in, please send me an email and a run down of why you match our criteria, what your hourly rate is and I will get back to you asap.

Email me: brendang@exstatic.net

Thanks guys, look forward to working with you.

Regards,

Brendan

Australia

Australian Independent Business Media
CBD & Inner Suburbs

Fast growing online publishing company
2 x Senior Drupal Developers wanted
Permanent Position

We are a fast growing online publishing company located in Melbourne’s CBD with ~35 full time staff.

You will be part of a major web transformation project for all our sites
www.eurekareport.com.au
www.businessspectator.com.au
www.technologyspectator.com.au
www.climatespectator.com.au
www.alankohler.com.au
and more publications and products in planning

We have a fantastic, flexible and relaxed working environment.

1 day a month to work on your own projects and contribute back to the community - only catch you tell us what you have done.

We pay well, but that's not all that matters, we actually appreciate our staff and welcome quirkiness (if that's your cup of tea)

If your a senior drupal dev with experience in online publishing / media and have experience with integrating with 3rd party products please drop me an email - george.khreish@eurekareport.com.au

Thanks and sincerely look forward to hearing from you.

Australia

A role is being created in a local (Melbourne) design agency for a "Drupal Beginner".

I chatted with the creative director yesterday. They have some Drupal sites under their belt. They have a 4-year experienced Drupal developer in-house. That guy's time is pretty fully booked, and he will be out of office significantly in the coming months.

They will possibly bring in a consultant to help them ramp up their Drupal exposure and increase the strength of their 'communication vectors' with the local community. The consultant role would be mine.

The beginner would have some in-house teaching from the developer and the process of "How Drupall Does Things" would be overseen by myself and I would step in as technical backstop or finder of further resources as needed. I'd also play a role as a further mentor to the Drupal beginner.

We imagine a PHP programmer who has little or no exposure to Drupal. Or somebody who has some Drupal building history and some exposure at the PHP level and at least knows the basic principles. Straight out of college or university might be considered.

The gig may only be for a few months, it would be a few days a week, in the inner Melbourne metro area. In client office, not remote.

Contact me (contact form initially is a good way) if you have an interest or perhaps know of somebody.

Realistic beginner hourly rates on a sub-contract basis will be paid by the client.

John

Australia

Catalyst is looking for a Drupal developer for our Sydney office. This position is open both Drupal ninja's and newbies alike.

Main thing is that you are passionate, clever and keen on working with a great team of devs here in our central Sydney office. We do more than Drupal, but at least to begin with, you'd be working on Drupal projects.

This is the permanent position and we require that our team generally come to the office during work hours, although there can be some flexibility on remote work based on the right circumstances.

Please get in touch with applications or questions - Andrew.Boag@catalyst-au.net

Thanks.

Australia

A role is being created in a local (Melbourne) design agency for a "Drupal Beginner".

I chatted with the creative director yesterday. They have some Drupal sites under their belt. They have a 4-year experienced Drupal developer in-house. That guy's time is pretty fully booked, and he will be out of office significantly in the coming months.

They will possibly bring in a consultant to help them ramp up their Drupal exposure and increase the strength of their 'communication vectors' with the local community. The consultant role would be mine.

The beginner would have some in-house teaching from the developer and the process of "How Drupall Does Things" would be overseen by myself and I would step in as technical backstop or finder of further resources as needed. I'd also play a role as a further mentor to the Drupal beginner.

We imagine a PHP programmer who has little or no exposure to Drupal. Or somebody who has some Drupal building history and some exposure at the PHP level and at least knows the basic principles. Straight out of college or university might be considered.

The gig may only be for a few months, it would be a few days a week, in the inner Melbourne metro area. In client office, not remote.

Contact me (contact form initially is a good way) if you have an interest or perhaps know of somebody.

Realistic beginner hourly rates on a sub-contract basis will be paid by the client.

John

Australia

I am new to the group but a long time developer of CMS usually based on PHP/MySQL.

I have a new project to manage, which is going to need to be driven by a postgres database due to a second process running on the same database.

The site will require all of the below and many smaller attributes and I need to know whether there are suitable developers who can work this out with a Drupal/Postgres build or whether this is better developed outside of an existing CMS such as Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla et al as a bespoke CMS project based on a postgres database.

It is a parts locator website that has at any one time over 600,000 parts listed. these parts are searchable and filterable initially by the standard Make, Model, Year and then by 6 or 7 more narrow choices such as body type, etc.

Once a part is identified, right wing mirror for a bmw 325 from 2008 for example, then the vehicle wreckers or other site users with the right to list can be contacted through the site.

If a part is not discoverd for a particular search then the user has the ability to send requests to all vehicle wreckers who have identified in their profile that they deal in that vehicle type.

The site has 3 or 4 different levels of user, and all actions by each user, such as searches carried out, requests made should be stored as a history, both for the site user to see and the site administrators to see and analyse.

The site also limits the number of parts each wrecker can list publicly at any one time, but can allow him to choose from his entire stock that he has uploaded, the max number of parts he is allowed to display according to his membership level.

Finally the site also provides specifically formatted files that are loaded directly into software to create the magazine that is sold throughout Australia.

Finally the site has to integrate a second database. this database knows which parts are interchangebal between vehicles. So a search for a wing mirror for a bmw 3 series will initially return all the bmw wing mirrors listed, then the interchange database will provide the part details for identical parts that might be from other manufactureres or from other bmw ranges. So, as above, the 5 series wing mirror may be a direct interchange for the 3 series wing mirror. The site search should then display these parts as iff they were the 3 series wing mirror assembly as well.

As you can see the site is quite specific, the design and wireframes are quite complex but well advanced and a preliminary database minimum structure has been defined, but is not restrictive if deemed to be unsuitable.

The current database of current and historical parts runs to about 8GB at the moment but is 450 odd tables of which only around 200 are used. The original site was developed by a very poor developer and the administration screens I have seen can take 5 minutes to load. The site owner is extremely keen that the site is quick to use both for the admin and the site user. I envisage that ajax will be used in the search and we have considered an Apache/SOLR server but do not know if this will integrate with postgres.

We will be looking for developers very shortly, but need to know whether this users of this Drupal group belief Drupal is an unnecessary complication or a perfect fit?

thanks for your help.

Australia

In the Drupalsphere, as we iteratively and creatively work together over long spans of time to define and deliver "The Way Drupal Does Things" (whether in that context "Drupal " refers to the software or the community), there is a constant and necessary tension between the 'keepers of what has come before' and those who see and present perhaps dimly a vision of what could possibly become the next API or Community process.

We have got so far as we have in the last decade because of the handshaking that goes on between those who offer their contributions at those two foci.

The tension and handshaking is a potent and honourable mechanism that is a huge 'drive-factor' in the system.

The tension does not need resolving, and the handshaking is possibly at times valuably augmented with some hugging. Only when invited, and only where appropriate. ;-)

The community is strong. It welcomes diversity, it welcomes alignment, and it is proud of its welcoming inclusion of people with visible or non-apparent disabilities and limitations; of all ages; and all contribution areas; and all areas of natural focus.

Australia

In the recent past we moved over to Macs I've been using Textmate or Drupal and PHP dev, but recently ran into a Drupal developer using NetBeans and as I use Visual Studio for .Net dev, I thought Netbeans was very good, but as I look around there are other IDEs out there with Drupal support that appear to offer the same level of functionality but executed in different ways.

So without getting in to a war I am interesting in hearing your experiences with, and your view on various IDEs.

Thanks

Marcel

Australia

Our meetups only work with input from you! Without input from the community we will quickly run out of interesting topics, and get bored by having the same presenters all the time.

With that in mind we'd love to see as many of you as possible proposing your own presentations, and topics you would like to see a presentation about!!

Please leave sufficient details for us to contact you and confirm your availability to present.

Presentation:

eg. Custom Formatters (by Stuart Clark) <- you proposed to present, awesome!
eg. Views Wrangling () <- you proposed a topic, not quite as awesome, but still cool!

Discussions Topic:

eg. Book keeping, how do you do it? (led by Brian Gilbert)

Format Ideas:

eg. Can we have lightning talks?

Australia

I am polling the idea of a regular "Non technical" Melbourne meetup group.

"Non-technical" is not yet defined except in the sense that discussion at the technical layer be deflected into the regular Melbourne group.

I am not meaning a group for beginners, who wish exposure to Drupal, although that could be a minor thread in it.

I mean a group for people who perhaps to some extent have exposure already to the technical issues and wish to focus at a professional level on other aspects of the work of successfully delivering Drupal-oriented projects for and within organisations.

If even one other person is interested in even one session to kick start things I will organise. Or defer organization to a person more qualified than I.

Offer open for entire 2012, at least.

John

Australia

Start:  2012-01-24 19:00 - 21:00 Australia/Sydney User group meeting Organizers:  rohroh1974

Its a bit late letting everyone know but the next meetup for Drupal Gold Coast is on the 24th of January at the usual location.

For more information see http://www.meetup.com/drupalgoldcoast/events/48868782/ or http://drupalgoldcoast.com/dgc/node/91

Australia

The spiel. We are a strategic digital agency specialising in Drupal and Magento Ecommerce solutions, with a range of local and international clients.

We presently have an opportunity for an experienced Drupal Producer with street smarts to join our busy, creative design team on a range of high-profile projects.

We reckon technical people should be creative people. People that take satisfaction in finding ways to solve problems. People who ‘get’ communications and understand what’s going on ‘out there’. Thinkers. That’s the kind of person we’re looking for.

And we’ll give you plenty to think about. You’ll be working on some fascinating projects with some interesting people in a growing business. You’ll work on high caliber Drupal projects! everything from government to luxury brands.

The right candidate will have web experience for more than five years and be familiar with agile techniques and methodologies. No mavericks.
This is a contract position for 3 months+, with possible extension and full time employment for the right candidate. You’ll get to take the lead and put your ‘stamp’ on some high visibility, high profile projects. It could also be a lot of fun. For the right person, we’re happy to negotiate a salary and a set of terms and conditions that will make it worth your while. We are happy to remunerate above the current market standards based on your experience.

To apply, please send your LinkedIn profile or resume to careers@demonzmedia.com or call David on [02] 9699 8500. We promote a friendly working atmosphere and are an equal opportunity employer. All applications will be handled in the strictest confidence.

Australia

We presently have an opportunity for an experienced Senior Drupal developer of high calibre to join our busy, creative team on a range of high-profile projects.
If you have experience with large-scale drupal projects, like bad humor and blue flashing lights, we want to hear from you. We are flexible with regards to working hours and tele-commute options and are happy to remunerate above the current market standards if you have the goods.
This is a contract position for a minimum 3 months+, with possible extension for the right candidate.

About us? Demonz Media is a strategic digital agency specialising in Drupal and Magento Ecommerce solutions, with a range of local and international clients.
We like to call Surry Hills home and operate in an ego free zone.

To apply, please send your resume or LinkedIn profile to careers@demonzmedia.com or call David on [02] 9699 8500. We promote a friendly working atmosphere and are an equal opportunity employer. All applications will be handled in the strictest confidence.

Australia