Sponsors

Many thanks to the sponsors who have subsidised the cost of DrupalSouth and helped make this possible.

Specialists in Open Source Technologies

Catalyst is a fully New Zealand owned company, directed and staffed by bright and intelligent Information Technology experts who deliver critical open source business systems to some of NZ's largest organisations.

a smarter web company

At heart, Signify is about web development. About creating websites that are usable, accessible, functional, and striking while at the same time meeting the goals of our clients. Our team is passionate about helping you, about our work and about the quality we deliver.
Find out more about our people.

Signify - sustainable business practices:
As a New Zealand owned and operated company, Signify is naturally concerned with sustainable business practices. We are proud to be independently certified as carbon neutral and are actively working on all aspects of sustainability in our business.

Changing the world one node at a time

CivicActions provides strategic Internet consulting, technology planning, visual and information design, web content creative and management, constituent relationship management, e-advocacy, e-canvass and online fundraising tools. Our services empower distributed networks to protect the environment, advance peace, improve public health, promote education, champion social and economic justice and increase human potential.

Building superior computing solutions powered by Linux and Drupal

Egressive provides open source software and business IT solutions that grow with their customers: Drupal sites, business networks, servers performing numerous tasks, enterprise Linux support. They have the technology, and they're not afraid to make it work for you, providing

  • Linux Support and Consulting Services
  • Drupal Web Site Development
  • Drupal Hosting
Solution provider to successful businesses around the net

Encode Ltd is privately held company founded in 2005 by Marek Kuziel to fulfill his vision to create solid web solutions that simply work.

We're part of the Effusion Group - An open community of design and software development companies.

Our dedicated team of hackers loves problem solving and creating innovative products on the Internet. We're always seeking new challenges that help our customers to fullfil their business strategies.

Evolved Development came about due to a lack of suitable full time work, a reasonable amount of smaller contracts and the good fortune of having met Dave Lane of Egressive which is one of the Effusion Group companies.

Primarily, Evolved Development is a web development company with a focus on PHP, Drupal based sites, and web hosting. We also have the capability to develop your site from the ground up or extend your existing site to fit your needs.

Who is Tweeting about DrupalSouth?

Who's Blogging about DrupalSouth?

  • Technorati search for DrupalSouth OR DrupalSouth.net.nz has no results

  • DrupalSouth was a great success. As New Zealand's first nation-wide Drupal event, many weren't sure what to expect. read more

  • Drupal south - morning christchurch! 01 November 2008 By Shiny 0 Okay, so Twisted Hop has awesome beer -- the only Hand Pulled Cask Ale i christchurch... hmmm.. 40 odd geeks gathered at this pub for some Drupal Conferencing. It's a complete "NERD PROM" Some things we'd like to see are: * More New Zealand focused drupal modules - e.g. Payment gateways i'd like to find time to make a Zoomin maps API CCK field. * Maori language translations * More NZ Drupal association membership * Mo

  • Drupal south - morning christchurch! 01 November 2008 By Shiny 0 Okay, so Twisted Hop has awesome beer -- the only Hand Pulled Cask Ale i christchurch... hmmm.. 40 odd geeks gathered at this pub for some Drupal Conferencing. It's a complete "NERD PROM" Some things we'd like to see are: * More New Zealand focused drupal modules - e.g. Payment gateways i'd like to find time to make a Zoomin maps API CCK field. * Maori language translations * More NZ Drupal association membership * Mo

  • Light Fantastic; Backporting A Great Drupal 6 Contrib Theme To Drupal 5 30 September 2008 - 6:14pm — Bevan I recently searched on Themebot for a great contributed Drupal flexible-width theme for DrupalSouth.net.nz and found Light Fantastic. Joshua Brauer created the awesome Light Fantastic theme as part of the Google Summer of Code 2007. Screenshot of Light Fantastic on DrupalSouth.net.nz: See a larger image. read more Feed: Blog Posts on CivicActions.com Original article

  • UPDATE: Buddhika Amila Sampath created the Light Fantastic theme, not Joshua Brauer. Joshua is the maintainer. I recently searched on Themebot for a great contributed Drupal flexible-width theme for DrupalSouth.net.nz and found Light Fantastic. Joshua Brauer maintains the awesome Light Fantastic theme, which was created by Buddhika Amila Sampath as part of the Google Summer of Code 2007. Screenshot of Light Fantastic on the DrupalSouth website: See a larger image. read more

  • To learn all you want to know about Drupal, and probably more, head along to DrupalSouth. The two day event is aimed mainly at developers but there’ll be lots to learn for anyone using the open source content management platform. I’m wondering if it might be too technical for me, but as I’m currently working on three Drupal powered websites as a project manager or webmaster, I’m bound to pick up some useful knowledge. With CivicActions a sponsor, they’ll be sharing some of their work using Dru