I am happy to announce the formation of DrupalZA, a new DUG (Drupal User Group) for South African Drupal users, developers and designers.

Additionally I would like to announce a DrupalCamp in Johannesburg which is a a primer course, for already existing web developers that I am planning to teach somewhere around the end of June 2006. My friends at Obsidian Systems have kindly offered the use of their training center and the course will run for a total of 5 days, for 4 or 5 hours every evening.

The goal of this course is to teach some of the skills necessary to build Drupal based solutions, and how to use the tools available to you to accomplish your goals. Several Drupal developers and contractors will be coordinating on developing the courseware for this course, with the aim
of being able to have online courseware, and material to teach at the other DrupalCamps happening all over the world.

If you would like to help setting up the curriculum, please join the DrupalCamp group on groups.drupal.org.