DrupalCamp Gauteng 2016
“Digital rights are human rights in this day in age and we have an opportunity and a responsibility to enable others, less technical than ourselves, to enjoy freedom, privacy, and security.” — Jeffrey A. “jam” McGuire, 2014 (and at the opening keynote of DrupalCamp Cape Town 2015).
DrupalCamp Gauteng 2016 runs over two days, the first themed for Drupal business and the second themed for the Drupal community and technical / development talks.
Day 1 of 2 - Business
GPL software business models have unique opportunities to serve the market, the public and developers better.
Day 2 of 2 - Community and Development
Drupal is a developer community as much, if not some times more than a software solution for building internet applications.
Sponsors
Please contact info@dasa.org.za if you want to sponsor DrupalCamp Gauteng 2016.
Platinum: R 15 000, Gold: R 5 000, Silver: R 2 000
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Travel and Stay
Day 1 of 2 - Business
Day 2 of 2 - Community and Development
Music in Africa at the Goethe-Institut
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Day 1 of 2 - Business
For over 200 years, the industrial-age business model has brought us enormous wealth and prosperity, but there is a growing sense of unease surrounding the unsustainable nature of this well-worn paradigm. Around the world, companies are experimenting with a new way of doing business, one that favours purpose, mastery and autonomy over profit, which we will explore in more detail in this talk.
Getting the spooks off your internet!
Amazee Labs is an active community member. Our involvement includes maintaining modules, contributing to Drupal core, presenting at and attending each DrupalCon since 2008, sponsoring and organising Camps and more. Dania shares some insights of how the global Drupal Community ticks and brings up suggestions how we can close the gap between South Africa and the rest of the global community.
Yonder has been using Joomla as a development platform for 5 years. Join us on a journey of migration to Drupal.
Gartner research suggests that 75% of IT projects are considered to be failures by those who initiated them. More often than not, failure originates from poor planning. Ineffective project management creates stress, impacts profitability and destroys reputations. Zoe's presentation will outline the basic tenets of effective project management.
As entrepreneurs and sales people we get very excited when the decision maker said yes only to wait in vain for a proposal or agreement to be signed. There are many reasons for this. Understanding what the reasons are and how to manage the decision making process is a skill that will turn a “we’ll come back to you” into a “Lets do it!”.
Lunch will be served in the courtyard.
Drupal is frequently criticised for being unwieldy. For being tough to use and tough to support. These are uncomfortable truths for us Drupalists. In his thought provoking talk, Charlie will unpack some of reasons behind Drupal's poor rap. And he'll offer suggestions as to how we, the local South African community, can improve perceptions of our favourite platform to the benefit of our businesses.
MusicInAfrica.net is an ambitious pan-African website/ nonproft start-up with a mission to support the entire African music sector, promoting knowledge exchange, networking and music discovery. The site is developed in Drupal 7 and has been growing impressively since its launch about 15 months ago. In this session we get to explore some of the amazing music functionalities that they are trying to achieve in Drupal as well as the general challenges that are associated with running a big Drupal website in South Africa.
The talk will look at internet rights, the digital economy and the contribution that the open source software community can play towards a digital economy.
Day 2 of 2 - Community and Development
Africa can only be ripe for DrupalCon when they can boast of the requisite talents that can support its mass adaptation by organizations that use Drupal. There should be an continental emergency declared for Drupal talents. No one can do this for us, we must do it for ourself. And the time to start is now.
Scratching my own itch, using Open Source (Software and Hardware), to build a basic access control system. Open Home Automation Bus (OpenHAB) is software with components to manage home/building automation with protocol-neutral interconnects in a single platform catering to various vendor-specific devices. Temperature, access, lights and other devices monitored and managed.
"Building RESTful APIs": Starting with identifying API usage in the real world (fun demos), we'll then discuss the basics of REST APIs, we'll compare Drupal modules like Services, RESTful, and RESTful WS, and finish off looking at JavaScript techniques to 'consume' APIs.
What is next after installing Drupal 8? It doesn't look like much right off the bat so some work is required. We're going to look at a couple of things you can do with Drupal 8 without working too hard.
When you have critical client infrastructure that rely on and require assurance that every line of code was legitimately contributed or at least reviewed by a known entity and you need to know that with mathematical certainty, you need to sign your commits. Every enterprise client should require this and every Drupal service delivery shop should provide this without a second thought. Anything other than provable trust in contributions is, well, not provable and thus not reliable. This is GPG signed commits.
Lunch will be served in the courtyard.
When looking at complex websites, it may be easy to assume that Drupal is the correct hammer. We discovered the hard way, that some projects need a tool specifically designed for the job, and sometimes your preferred toolset, is the wrong one.
One of the greatest obstacles to the successful take up and usage of Drupal in South Africa is skill-related. There’s a shortage of knowledgeable devs in our industry; and there’s a growing frustration from end users that they’re simply not equipped to make the most of their platforms. Presenting an overview of the Drupal Academy’s goals and the training programmes it can offer.
Drawing on a variety of local, African and international influences, Bongeziwe creates a soulful afro-folk sound with lyrics in isiXhosa. Since 2006, Bongeziwe has performed at countless open mic sessions, clubs and festivals all over the country.
We meet at Craft in Parkhurst where we can all decide which of the many street venues we prefer. Specialities are in old pub, crafted foods and craft beer, coffee and street cafe foods.