Sydney March Meetup

Thanks to everyone who attended last month's meetup. Everyone really enjoyed Marco's SEO talk and my talk seemed to go well, even with the hiccups.

This month we have some hot topics, performance and ecommerce

Sign Up!

When: Thursday, March 18th
Time: 6:30pm - 9pm (Show up around 6:30pm for firm 7pm start!!)
Venue: ABC Centre 700 Harris Street, Ultimo ( Map | Directions )

Venue Details

The ABC Centre has some security issues, so it is important that people arrive early and sign in at the security desk so that we can take everyone into the building at once. Everyone just waits and chats in the lobby, so just look around for us if you're new. If you have problems you can call either of us. Many thanks go to the ABC for providing this venue.

Parking is possible at parking meters around Thomas street and Mary-Anne street. But they take a 2 hour max i think. There are carparks behind the abc $15 (enter from Thomas street, but on the chinatown side). Also, you can get all-evening parking at the Citigate (I think that's the name) parking station for (updated) $10 (starting after 5pm, I think, and stays open until well after midight). It's at the end of the Thomas street dead end (Eastern/Chinatown side), which is very close to the ABC's back entrance.

Agenda:

• Greetings and Welcome new people + Announcements
• Presentation: High Performance Drupal by: Murray Woodman
  This presentation will cover various techniques for getting your Drupal site to really fly! Looking at ways to both speed up and scale out, Murray will talk from his experience running a successful high-traffic, data heavy website.
• Presentation: Advanced Ubercart by: Peter Sneesby
  Commercial transactions are important to many websites today, find out how to take your ecommerce websites to the next level using advanced techniques for Ubercart.
• General help/Discussion
• Continued at the pub with + Drinks/food

Remember to sign up, and I'll send out a reminder announcement a day before the meeting with all the latest details. This will also help us plan numbers/audience.

Also look for DrupalCamp Australia July 17th & 18th

Next Month:
- Site Demos & jQuery
Future Presentations:
- See http://groups.drupal.org/node/46530
- How would you like to contribute?

Post below if you can talk about something (anything is ok, everyone has something to share) or if you're are interested in other topics for discussion.

Resources:
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/group/sydney-drupal-users-group
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/groups/drupal-au/
Chat: #drupal-au on freenode : Connect