North West UK

We're at Manchester University again this month, though there has been a room change due to exams. This month it's at the Samuel Alexander building, room A202, University of Manchester, just off Oxford Road.

It's another change of venue this month - Thanks to Farzana and the National Centre of e-Social Science, we'll be meeting at the Roscoe Building, University of Manchester, just off Oxford Road.

Due to problems at the MDDA, this month we will be meeting at the
Revolution Bar, Deansgate Locks -
http://www.revolution-bars.co.uk/deansgate (just opposite Deansgate
train station). We've booked the lounge area from 6.30pm onwards. To
find the lounge, just head for the rear right hand corner.

If anyone gets lost, give me a shout on 07976 357732.

Seeya there!

Dan

This is the press release that you can use to announce the event in your blog or mailing lists.

The next Drupal Ireland event is taking place on Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th April in the DERI building at NUI, Galway and will run from 10am to 5pm both days. Registration is free and you can now sign-up for this event at http://www.drupalireland.com.

Presentations in two tracks: White belt and black belt

The first Drupalcamp to be held in Manchester, brought to you by the organisers of the North West Drupal User Group. BBC Manchester are very generously providing us with space at New Broadcasting House.

Registration is now open! — Please visit http://drupalcampuk.eventbrite.com/ to sign up.

More information to come shortly!

Our usual monthly meet-up... but elsewhere. We have a change of venue this month. Ecobee are kindly hosting us at the OpenSpace Co-operative in Hulme. See http://www.openspace.coop/location

You're welcome to bring your Drupal questions and problems, as well as any projects you'd like to demo.

We usually have a good turnout of people, ranging from complete beginners with the software to full-time developers, so if you're looking to learn more about Drupal, this user group is a great place to start.

Our usual monthly meet-up at the MDDA in Manchester. You're welcome to bring your Drupal questions and problems, as well as any projects you'd like to demo.

We usually have a good turnout of people, ranging from complete beginners with the software to full-time developers, so if you're looking to learn more about Drupal, this user group is a great place to start.

We like to have a mix of demos, breakout sessions and general Drupal banter with time for questions and one-on-one help.

There's the added option of moving on to a nearby pub for refreshment, usually The Old Monkey.

http://conference.phpnw.org.uk/phpnw08/

Although not directly Drupal related, I though this would be of interest. The North West Drupal User Group will be exhibiting at the conference too, so come along and say hello!

Admission is free, and you're welcome to bring your Drupal questions and problems, as well as any projects you'd like to demo.

We usually have a good turnout of people, ranging from complete beginners with the software to full-time developers, so if you're looking to learn more about Drupal, this user group is a great place to start.

We like to have a mix of demos, breakout sessions and general Drupal banter with time for questions and one-on-one help.
There's the added option of moving on to a nearby pub for refreshment, usually The Old Monkey...

Hi Guys,

I am just starting out developing with Drupal and wondered what sort of level most of the guys in this group are at?

I am familiar with php, mysql, linux etc but the site I am planning to build at the moment will be my first drupal site.

Just wondered if I would be a burdon to the group/meet ups or if it would be a good idea for me to get involved.

I will also be looking to pay a local drupal developer to work on certain aspects of the project and certainly with the initial setup (e.g use of available modules etc.)

I'm in the process of looking for sponsorship and a suitable venue in Manchester for a Drupalcamp. I'm aiming to make it a two day event, but other than that, I'm after some input on the format and content.

So, what would you like to see at your ideal Drupalcamp Manchester? Who would you like to see talk? What topics are you most interested in? Would you prefer to see talks, workshops or a mix of the two? I'm open to ideas, so please fire away and help make Drupalcamp Manchester an event to remember :-)

Dan

There's going to be a Drupal meeting in Birmingham on Friday 26th September.

See here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/14929

A few of us from the Manchester group are hoping to go, so if you'd like to and want to discuss sharing a lift or other travel arrangements, do so here!

A few links, please add your own:

DrupalCampUK
http://drupalcamp.org.uk/
http://groups.drupal.org/drupalcampuk

Drupal.org redesign
http://groups.drupal.org/drupalorg-redesign-plan-drupal-association

Szeged videos
http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions

Free T-Shirts!

Yes, somehow we managed to blag a couple of XXXL T-Shirts to give away this month!

Once we've all recovered from that excitement, we'll be continuing work on http://www.anythingnorthy.com/, so, bring along along your ideas for what you would like to incorporate into the site and we'll see where the evening takes us!

Feel free to also bring along any Drupal questions, talks or demos. We all like to see what everyone's doing and we all happy to help if someone's stuck with something!

Flame Digital is a rapidly expanding digital marketing and design company situated in the Northern Quarter of Manchester. The combined abilities of our team have formed an award winning company, with a roster of high profile clients from many different sectors.

We're currently looking for an experienced PHP developer to join us on a contract basis.

Here is a request for proposals for a project to create an online database and website for WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) UK.

Feel free to submit a proposal for this project and get in contact with any questions, recommendations and suggestions. If you know of anywhere else we could publicise this, then feel free to repost it there or let me know and I will.

Feel free to add any links/notes to this page from the various discussions we had.

Drupal podcast:
http://www.lullabot.com/podcast

Free Subversion accounts:
http://www.assembla.com/
http://www.unfuddle.com

Free but not free and good apparently
http://beanstalkapp.com/

Intro to Subversion movie:
http://blog.clickablebliss.com/2006/04/26/introduction-to-subversion-scr...

Subversion Stuff
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
http://svn.haxx.se/
http://subversion.tigris.org/
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

Textmate:
http://macromates.com/

Pixelmator:

Agh, forgot to add this here.

We'll be looking at version control, and .... anything anyone's interested in!

Bring yourselves and your questions/demos/biscuits to the MDDA in Manchester at 6:00pm.

More info: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/867396/

See you there,

James

Media Horses LTD is a small Online publishing startup company. We are looking for a Contractor web developer to work on the development of a Software Testing Community Website.

The website would need to be configured to contain the following sections:

Home Page
Testing News
Testing Library
Blogs
How Do I…? / Tutorials
Tool Downloads
Book Reviews
Community Feature

We would prefer someone with experience though All applicants are welcome.

We'll be continuing work on http://www.anythingnorthy.com/, this month.

So bring along along your ideas for what you would like to incorporate into the site and we'll see where the evening takes us!

Feel free to also bring along any Drupal questions, talks or demos.

See you at MDDA Manchester as usual from 6pm, then onto the Old Monkey for light refreshments (a.k.a. beer).

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.

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.

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

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:

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!

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/contemplate
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

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.

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.