Oxford Drupal User Group meetup, Wednesday 1st February 2012

Posted by finn lewis on January 23, 2012 at 11:12pm

Start:

2012-02-01 19:00 - 21:00 UTC

Organizers:

finn lewis

Event type:

User group meeting

This time I managed to post the event a whole week in advance!

Once again, the event is kindly hosted by the Oxford e-Research Centre.

When: The first Wednesday of the month, 7pm - 9pm

Where: Oxford eResearch Centre, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG

What: Drupal chat, presentations, questions, answers, issues, banter, and plans for a DrupalCamp in Oxford in 2012.

Draft Agenda

19:00 - Introductions
19:30 - Presentations: t.b.c.
20:30 - Q and A / share your issues
20:30 - DrupalCamp Oxford 2012 - ideas, plans, next steps
21:00 - Drinks and further Drupal chat at a local pub

As ever, if you have any ideas about how to make this meetup better, just let us know.

R.S.V.P.: http://www.meetup.com/Oxford-Drupal-Users-Group/events/43557372/

See you there!

Finn.

07966 776 903

Comments

Cheers, Finn!

Posted by jp.stacey on January 24, 2012 at 8:26pm

Thanks for organizing this.

Weren't we meant to be talking about... [waves hands] stuff? And voting on it beforehand with a poll or something?

Indeed - thanks!

Posted by finn lewis on January 24, 2012 at 9:09pm

We did suggest polling people to see what topics were in most demand.
I'll dig out my notes and see if this g.d.o can do something for us.
Was it you that was offering a Drush Make talk?

Before Drush Make, there must come... Drush

Posted by jp.stacey on January 27, 2012 at 8:45am

Broadly, yeah. I was sort of expecting to follow hot on the heels of a drush talk, though, as otherwise there's a lot to explain before we start.

Happy to do something, though: should I bring my laptop?

Go on then! You don't get on

Posted by finn lewis on January 30, 2012 at 9:57pm

Go on then! You don't get on too well with my mac do you?

I don't get on well with any Macs, except...

Posted by jp.stacey on January 31, 2012 at 10:38am

... my work one, which runs Ubuntu!

I'll also try to put something together to explain Drush: we'll see how far I get.

Great! Thanks JP. Are you

Posted by finn lewis on January 31, 2012 at 9:28pm

Great! Thanks JP.
Are you thinking you'll start from the basics, installing Drush, installing Drupal with Drush?
Will you be getting on to Drush aliases? I'd be up for doing a quick demo of Drush aliases and how useful it is, if that ties in to what you were thinking.
Either way, plenty of Q&A subject matter to keep us happy fo a bit.

Broadly, yeah

Posted by jp.stacey on February 1, 2012 at 9:17am

Initially I wasn't going to do any drush at all, so I'm not going to get much prepared in time outside of Drush make!

Let's say we:

Start with how to get Drush: I'll probably fudge installing it a bit, as I've already got Ubuntu package installations from the Aegir folks.
Demonstrate some random basic Drush commands: I don't want that to become a free-for-all as it's just worth demonstrating a handful of them, then have an open session at the end.
Plough on with a full Drush make demo: how to download it with drush, plus talking through these makefiles.
Then you can do something on aliases as a kind of "advanced course".
Finally we finish with a free-for-all of people showing their neatest Drush tricks

How does that sound?

poll for favourite topics

Posted by finn lewis on January 24, 2012 at 9:24pm

What topic would you most like to see a talk about at a forthcoming OXDUG meetup?

-> http://groups.drupal.org/node/205033 (edited - previous poll corrupted...)

Vote away! We'll see what's popular and find someone to share their knowledge.

(Thanks for reminding me JP)

We had a great talk on Drush

Posted by finn lewis on February 6, 2012 at 9:48am

We had a great talk on Drush and Drush Make from jp.stacey. He's posted slides and resources here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/207853