United Kingdom

First of all a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has helped us so far with preparing, organizing and spreading the word about DrupalCon Paris 2009, all over Europe and even internationally.

This is your event! You are the community. You are the ones who represent Drupal and we want to have you, the representatives, join us in Paris.
So we need your help to spread the word even “louder” and make the DrupalCon even more Drupalicious, for you.

Because:

The thought came up a couple days ago, during the conversation with Robert Castelo.

We could use our office space in Holborn, Central London. I'd suggest evenings Monday 17th to Friday 12st of August, from 6pm onwards.

Let's focus on improving the user experience on Drupal.

There's no agenda yet.

Your thoughts are welcome!

Torchbox is looking for developers at the very top of their game to join their expanding Drupal team. We're in the business of building some big sites, sites which will stretch Drupal. If you're a Drupal super-star then we want to hear from you.

If you're interested then check us out at torchbox.com and email jobs@torchbox.com

Are you just a star rather than a super-start? Are you're still reading Drupal books rather than writing them? We have positions for regular Drupal developers too.

Senior Drupal Developer / Technical Lead

Small digital agency with big clients, London.

Requirements:

Drupal expert: module development, themeing, practical site building.
Expert at all associated technology: MySQL, PHP, Linux, jQuery.
Confident managing technical aspects of entire site lifecycle from initial analysis to deployment and maintenance.
Server administration skills (mostly Ubuntu Linux, occasionally Windows).
Good working knowledge of Mac OSX desktop.

Additional requirements:

Experience using any of the following is highly desirable:

A two-day hands-on session for experienced users, integrators and developers who want to learn more about customizing, extending CiviCRM.

Sign up and more details http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=4.

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.

There's been quite a lot of request for a Zen theming session (http://drupal.org/project/zen) so wanted to know if this is something that most of you will be keen to come along to? if there is enough people that wish to attend, i'll see what can be done, ie:

• A date most of you can attend
• A free venue to host the session or any company wanting to sponsor this event.

If you would like to contact me direct to discuss this further, please use: http://drupalscotland.org/contact

Thanks,

Sun Microsystems, Acquia and Code Positive are pleased to invite you to a half day event focusing on the benefits and challenges of using Drupal in education.

The session will cover a number of topics relevant to the deployment of Drupal in education:

• Suitability of Drupal for brochure websites, course management and delivery, community building, and sharing of information
• Which versions of Drupal to use and the recommended modules based upon your needs
• Designing and implementing the right architecture to meet scalability and security requirements
• Commercial, Enterprise Class support and services available for Drupal and associate infrastructure

Whether you are evaluating Drupal or running in production, this is a great opportunity to learn more about Drupal deployments, put your questions to the experts, and connect with the London Drupal community.

Drupal For education is free, but event registration is required:

Is anything happening with this? None of the pages seem to have been updated in ages.

Drupal For NGOs is a monthly series of events aimed at empowering NGOs to implement and manage their websites by knowing which modules to use and how to configure them. Each month will cover a topic in detail, showcase recent projects, and feature a Drupal question and answer session.

Which topic is covered each month will be decided by a poll, so if there's something you'd like to know more about please cast your vote or make a suggestion.

Sun Microsystems is hosting this month's Drupal For NGOs, and will also be providing presentations on Scaling And Optimising MySQL and Backing Up MySQL Data.

We will also be giving away two Drupal books that Packt Publishing have generously contributed:

• Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions
• Building Powerful And Robust Websites With Drupal 6

Get A Ticket

The event is free, but you will need to RSVP if you would like to attend.

I have a one-off job that needs doing. If this is your area of expertise, please could you contact me with an estimate of how long it would take you to resolve, your rates and references from similar jobs. We have a drupal developer who looks after the whole site, but we are finding this particular area tricky to sort.
Many thanks, below is a brief description,
Caroline
@radarmusicvideos.com

www.RadarMusicVideos.com

Sun Microsystems, Acquia and Code Positive are pleased to invite you to a half day event focusing on the benefits and challenges of using Drupal in your business.

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.

Seeking an ambitious PHP/Drupal developer for multilingual interactive site

We are currently seeking to make contact with a freelance developer to work with us on an exciting and challenging project for a large organisation working with thousands of non-profit organisations. The project will involve 5 months of intensive work (minimum 3 days per week) from May to September 2009 with further, less regular follow-up work later.

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.

A really exciting opportunity for a talented London (UK) based drupal community developer has come up.

You'll be working in a small team where you'll be in charge developing one online community further, whilst managing the development of others during 2009.

You'll be comfortable with drupal themes and a wide range of drupal modules.
You'll not be afraid of either doing module customizations, or you will be able to manage the development of them.
You be a great front end coder
You'll by comfortable around PHP and mysql
You'll know a bit about systems admin

WEB DEVELOPER - BRISTOL

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and innovative senior web developer, with at least 3 years commercial web developing experience.

You should have a good track record of leading a team of web developers in providing creative, online development solutions.

You will be responsible for:-

Supporting the design and brand requirements across 20 magazine websites
Providing ongoing web development technical support to the Online and publishing teams in the creation of dynamic sites.

Venue: Trilby Studio, in Birmingham.
Cost: £2 (includes coffee/tea/munchies and wi-fi access)

I've not imposed any specific topic(s), with the hope that others can volunteer things?

Here are some things that we could do:

I've got Eclipse and Xdebug running on my Desktop machine and should be able to get it functioning on my laptop before next Friday. I could show that working?

PHP Drupal Developer required by our award-winning, leading-edge client to develop new web applications and to consolidate a variety of websites to a single platform. Essential skills: PHP, MySQL, Drupal, HTML, CSS & AJAX. Desirable skills: Perl (or other scripting languages); Linux/Unix; SVN/SubVersion or other source control experience; WebServices / SOAP; and/or experience of other programming languages (e.g. Java, C++, C#, etc.). This is an excellent, long-term, opportunity with an expanding and established organisation.

Interested in creating a website to promote your music?

The Roundhouse and the London Drupal community are pleased to invite you to Drupal For Musicians. An event introducing Drupal, demonstrating some of it's features that are useful for musicians, and showcasing Drupal websites from small personal sites through to large band sites.

This year's LinuxExpo was a lot quieter than previous years (maybe it was the credit crunch kicking in), but we still met lots of interesting people and had some great conversations.

Damian Carvill from Packt Publishing stopped by to give us a stack of new books on Drupal, which I think gave a good impression as we seemed to have the most literature of any of the stands, even the commercial ones (well, apart from the bookshop stand at the other end of the hall). Thanks Damian!

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...

The first meeting went really well and we agreed to have them monthly as there's so much to talk about!

The focus of this month's meeting will be installing Drupal - it's a 'getting started' session. Plenty of hands-on stuff, so bring your laptop!

Venue: Trilby's White Room/Studio http://tinyurl.com/trilbymap

Cost: £2 per person (includes wifi + coffee/tea/cold drinks)

About the Midlands Drupal User Group meetings:
* They are completely open meetings - no experience with Drupal necessary.

We're looking for a drupal developer to carry out some development. There's around 3 days work, with possibility of future work. If you have availability during October 2008 please get in touch.

Venue: http://tinyurl.com/trilbymap

Cost: £2 per person (includes wifi + coffee/tea/cold drinks)

This is the first such meeting that I know of in the Birmingham area so we're finding our feet. The idea came about during a conference at IlluminateICT.

I'm getting together an informal meeting for those interested in furthering the aims of Kendra Initiative and Drupal. We'll be meeting at 3pm Monday September 8th in central London to discuss the following:
http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?KnightDrupalInitiative
http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?KendraWebsiteUpdate

Let me know if you are interested via daniel at kendra dot org dot uk and I'll give you details of where we'll be.

Cheers Daniel

ok, I have just noticed galooph has setup the DrupalCampUK group. Don't know if they have one planned or just setup the group for fun, but we should have one.

My criteria:
- Must be on a weekend so all can attend.
- Must be in a good location.
- Must have Wi-Fi access.

So where to we go now.

Insightshare - a participatory video organisation.
We are creating a global portal to bring together people using participatory video. This mans community, collaborative video, concerned with the process as well as the product at the end.

We are linked to filmforge, transmission and have large partners such as the Global Diversity Foundation and sections of the UN, as well as many small communities and organisations

The main focus of the portal will be the videos and the creators and owners of the videos - the communities.

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.

A drupal webmaster/ person to do basic site upgrades and bug fixing...

...is needed for vibrant music video startup RadarMusicVideos.com. There will be access to the lead developer and potentially to other music based projects. Part time, £50 per week. This would suit a current student looking for opportunities to build their CV and develop professional contacts with other music-based platforms.

Please send your CV to caroline@radarmusicvideos.com

Red & Green is a creative communications agency producing highly effective integrated campaigns across digital and print media for the not-for-profit and commercial sectors.

We are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Drupal developer to join our rapidly expanding digital department. The role involves developing Drupal based websites following the design guidelines and artwork provided by our creative team.

You will have in-depth experience of working in PHP/MySQL, be proficient with
standards compliant HTML/CSS programming and possess web related

Join us for the second installment of Drupal for NGOs at the Greenpeace UK offices in Islington!

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.

Salary: Commensurate with experience

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the IB’s information and communication technology department to deliver a range of world-class web platforms related to the organization's Digital Space Initiative.

An experienced web developer is required to work closely with the programme manager and stakeholders worldwide to create and build upon a number of web platforms aimed at supporting and enhancing the IB's global online community.

Is anyone from the UK thinking of getting to Hungary by train?
It'd be fun to travel together!

Travel details here: http://seat61.com/Hungary.htm

This is a contract role for a drupal developer. We wish to re-write our current website in drupal. It will require use of existing drupal modules and some development. We are looking to start the project asap, good renumeration for the right candidate. Work will be carried out offsite. London developer so we can meetup is preferable but not essential.

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?

Hi All

Course Date: 2008-06-19 09:00 - 2008-06-20 17:00
Venue: 112/114 North Acton Road, NW10 6QH, London
Outline: http://www.nobleprog.co.uk/training/drupal+developers
Booking: http://www.nobleprog.co.uk/node/1175

If you have any questions, please drop me a line or call us:
training@nobleprog.co.uk
tel: +44 20 7558 8274

Cheers,
Bernard

I am in the process of launching many Drupal based membership sites. I am looking for a person who can manage the day to day aspects of setting up these sites.

You need to be very familiar with the following:

Multi-Installs

Adding Content

Cloning An Install's DB, Modules to use as a base for other similar sites

CiviCRM (and its modules)

Integration with PayPal

These are two new African projects that I am about to sign off . The first is self-descriptive and it is the online edition of a magazine named IT Business in Africa which is meant to be a meeting hub for CEOs, CIOs and all ICT professionals in Africa . The second is a public appraisal website for Nigerian leaders.

Hi folks,

I'm a Drupal developer working in the North East of England (Middlesbrough) and I'm looking for other Drupal folk to get a group started. Please post if you're in the North East and fancy joining forces/meeting up etc.

Regards,

psynaptic
Freestyle Systems
Contributions API

It's the first Friday of the month, so if you're not too tired after yesterday's protesting/morris dancing/May pole rounding, come along to the Drupal Drop-In and share your skills, ideas and problems.

Any one coming to the Open Source Forum on May 14th

May 14, 2008, 09:30 - 17:00
One Great George Street
http://www.opensourceforum2008.com

Fintan

Seven days of web design and development events, taking place in central London from 26th May to 1st June, 2008.

A not-for-profit scheme, the aim of London Web Week is to promote the events within it, to raise the profile of the web industry and community both within London and further afield, and to highlight best practices in web design such as accessibility considerations.

I think it would be awesome to have a UK drupalcon in 2009 or 2010. Does anyone have any ideas for where we could have it?

I talking to Warwick University about how much it would cost to hold it there (1200 delegates max.) but has anyone else got any ideas?

Would there be people to help out with the organisation of it, and willing to find sponsors etc?

Answers on a postcard.

I thought it'd be perhaps good for us to introduce ourselves and see where people are, seeing as there 100+ members of the group.

I'm kelly, live in the midlands, near coventry. I'm reasonably new to drupal, not a developer (as in PHP), but build sites with it and enjoy working with it.

I hang out in the freenode #drupal-support IRC channel quite often, helping if I can.

I'm 29, currently not working, and have a number of interests, including music, science fiction/fantasy, history, reading, computing, gaming and crafts amongst other things.

I thought it'd be perhaps good for us to introduce ourselves and see where people are, seeing as there 100+ members of the group.

I'm kelly, live in the midlands, near coventry. I'm reasonably new to drupal, not a developer (as in PHP), but build sites with it and enjoy working with it.

I hang out in the freenode #drupal-support IRC channel quite often, helping if I can.

I'm 29, currently not working, and have a number of interests, including music, science fiction/fantasy, history, reading, computing, gaming and crafts amongst other things.

The April Drupal Meetup in London will join with the first evening of Social Innovation Camp (http://sicamp.org). Come along and talk about how Drupal can help make the world a better place.

The camp is open to people from all faiths, so there will be some Joomla and Ruby types there. This will mean that talk will probably be a little more generic than usual, but it should still make for a very interesting night. Hey, why not hang around for the whole weekend.

More information on http://www.sicamp.org

The April Drupal Meetup in London will join with the first evening of Social Innovation Camp (http://sicamp.org). Come along and talk about how Drupal can help make the world a better place.

The camp is open to people from all faiths, so there will be some Joomla and Ruby types there. This will mean that talk will probably be a little more generic than usual, but it should still make for a very interesting night. Hey, why not hang around for the whole weekend.

More information on http://www.sicamp.org