North West UK

We are delighted to invite you to Drupal For Enterprise, an event focusing on the common benefits and challenges of using Drupal in a business organisation.

Whether you're evaluating Drupal or are already using it, this event is a great opportunity to learn from the experience of other organisations, put your questions to the experts, and connect with the Drupal community.

Presentations

We welcome suggestions for presentations - even better, do you have a talk you'd like to give?

These are the topics we plan to cover:

We are delighted to invite you to Drupal For Developers, an event focusing on using Drupal as a development framework. Whether you're evaluating Drupal or are already using it, this event is a great opportunity to learn from the experience of other developers, put your questions to experts, and connect with the Drupal community.

A full list of presentations will be finalised by the 18th of July, keep watching this space.

Just a reminder, we have a mailing list at nwdug@googlegroups.com :)

Following on from the announcement last month about http://www.anythingnorthy.com/, this month is going to be a theming night. We're going to start work on the theme basing it on the ideas of the group!

So bring along along your ideas, designs, images, complete themes if you like! but anything and everything related to a theme for our *n site

See you at MDDA Manchester as usual from 6pm, then onto the Old Monkey for light refreshments afterwards

Anyone want to meet early for food? Hopefully we can do better than a sandwich this time?

Any thoughts as to when a June meeting might be held?

Can I vote for it not to be between the 11th to 19th when I'll be away.

Would hate to miss the first meeting after I joined the group.

Kind regards
Ian

May's meeting is on Thursday 15th at the MDDA at 6pm. See http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/472183 for details.

As always, admission is free, and you're welcome to bring your Drupal questions and problems.

April's meeting is on Thursday 24th at the MDDA at 6pm. See http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/472181 for details.

As always, admission is free, and you're welcome to bring your Drupal questions and problems.

March's meeting is on Thursday 20th at the MDDA at 6pm (note the change of day: we no longer clash with GeekUp Leeds, but we do clash with the Ruby on Rails group. Oh well, nothing's perfect! On the plus side, we'll go out for a drink with them afterwards). See http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/449341 for details.

The topics for the evening will be "Drupal resources" and "Your top Drupal tips", but if you have a talk, project or demo you'd like to share, you're more than welcome to do so.

As always, admission is free, and you're welcome to bring your Drupal questions and problems.

Hi Folks,

Not sure if you may have picked up on this, but http://drupalmodules.com/ looks like it may well come in handy here and there!

All the best
Steve

That was a good night: thanks to everyone who turned up, nice to see you all, old faces and new.
Now, this is a wiki page, so quick, add your links and notes here before you forget:

February's meeting is on Wednesday 20th at the MDDA. See http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/419074/ for details.
As always, admission is free, and you're welcome to bring your Drupal questions and problems, as well as any projects you'd like to demo.
See you there!

This is a wiki page, so jump in and add any links that came up in the various discussions.

Useful modules:
http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
http://drupal.org/project/cck
http://drupal.org/project/views
http://drupal.org/project/content_access
http://drupal.org/project/nodeprofile
http://drupal.org/project/og

Virtualization software (Mac):
http://vmware.com/products/fusion/
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/

Running a big site with Drupal:
http://drupal.org/node/191293
http://www.workhabit.org/database-scalability-and-drupal
http://drupal.org/information.dk

Thanks to everyone who turned up on Wednesday, especially those who had quite a journey! It was a good night.
If you'd like to do a talk or have a topic you'd like someone else to talk about at the next meeting, please post something here to let us all know. I'm hoping to put together something about theming in Drupal 6, but other suggestions are more than welcome.