Bristol and The West, UK

We encourage users to post events happening in the community to the community events group on https://www.drupal.org.

There is now a thriving Drupal community in Bristol.

Freelancers and developers from the many Drupal shops are regularly meeting up and sharing Drupal knowledge and experiences.

We're now meeting once a month, on the third Wednesday of the month.

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If you haven't come along to one of the meetups yet, or haven't come along in a while please do - the more the merrier.

Twitter feed for events, news, jobs etc.: http://twitter.com/drupalbristol
Slack channel: drupalinbristol.slack.com

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Bristol Drupal Drinks

Start: 
2024-02-21 18:00 - 22:00 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Some of the Drupal community within Bristol meet each month for casual drinks and friendly conversation, the location changes, whilst we hunt for the perfect burger place but stays within central Bristol.

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Bristol Drupal Drinks

Start: 
2023-08-22 18:00 - 22:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
User group meeting

Let's reignite Drupal user group meet-ups in Bristol!

We'll start off casual with drinks at a different location every month (until we find somewhere good for most people) but suggestions for a venue we can host show and tells and talks would be great.

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DrupalCamp Bristol 2019 (cancelled)

Event type: 
Drupalcamp or Regional Summit

DrupalCamp Bristol is returning on June 28th 2019 at The Station, Silver St, BS1 2AG.

The speakers and sessions have been announced, and tickets are available from https://2019.drupalcampbristol.co.uk/tickets. Early bird tickets are still available until June 3rd 2019.

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Beginner talks - Views and OOTB

Start: 
2019-03-27 19:00 - 21:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
User group meeting

Tom Metcalfe - Views for beginners:

An introduction to views. We'll start from scratch and build a fully functioning news list showcasing the features of views. We'll also cover some of the advanced features of views.

Oliver Davies - Out of the Box Initiative Update:

Oliver will be presenting the 'Out of the Box Initiative Update' session that he saw at DrupalCamp London - https://drupalcamp.london/session/out-box-initiative-update.

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Build and launch your Drupal app with BLT

Start: 
2019-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
User group meeting

BLT (https://blt.readthedocs.io) is a CLI tool that quickly bootstraps your
Drupal project.

Whether you are a CI beginner or a seasoned DevOps pro, we will look at how BLT makes following Drupal best practices for composer, automated testing, continuous integration and artifact based deployments easy!

Nick Downton is a Technical Architect at Acquia's Professional services division. He has an interest in DevOps, application performance and security topics.

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Deploying PHP applications with Ansible, Ansible Vault and Ansistrano

Start: 
2019-01-23 18:30 - 20:30 Europe/London
Event type: 
User group meeting

We're back for our first meetup of 2019!

This month, Oliver will be giving a talk on deploying Drupal and other PHP applications using Ansible and Ansistrano. For more information, see https://opdavi.es/deploying-php-ansible.

We'll also have some news on DrupalCamp Bristol 2019, as well as the general community and Drupal updates.

Thanks to Microserve for hosting the event.

Note that signups are registered on Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/drupal-bristol/events/257908676.

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Drupal Bristol: October meetup

Start: 
2018-10-24 18:30 - 21:00 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Details TBC

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Cancelled - Drupal Bristol: September meetup

Start: 
2018-09-26 18:30 - 21:00 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

As there are no signups for this event, I'm marking it as cancelled and will move on to the October meetup.

Talk

With the launch this month of Drupal 8.6 with all of it's new features (https://dri.es/drupal-8-6-0-released), it would be great to have a talk/demo about it at this meetup. If anyone is interested in doing that, please get in touch via email or in the comments!

Venue

TBC

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Drupal Bristol: August 2018

Start: 
2018-08-22 18:30 - 21:00 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Talks

  • Adrian Bateman - How to COPE with External Entities
  • Ashley George - SSO much fun!
  • Alison Bancroft - Collaborative archiving and Drupal 8

Venue

Microserve Ltd
11th Floor, Colston Tower
Bristol
BS1 4XE

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Drupal Bristol June meetup 2018 - Testing workshop

Start: 
2018-06-27 18:30 - 21:00 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

This month we're doing something a little different - a workshop on automated testing with Drupal. If you want to learn more about automated testing, or if you're not sure how to start testing your Drupal modules, we'll cover some of the theory before writing our first test and building up a new module from scratch.

You will need to bring a laptop with a Drupal 8 site running. There is a pre-configured environment available at GitHub - opdavies/drupal-testing-workshop which uses Docksal and has it's PHPUnit add-on installed

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Drupal Bristol July Meet-up 2018 - Beginner talks

Start: 
2018-07-25 18:00 - 20:30 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

We are running a beginners night in July.

Talks are:

  • Views: A beginners guide - Tom Metcalfe (@blwd_uk)
  • Configure all the things: A beginners guide to configuration management - Oliver Davies (@opdavies)

Venue: Edo (https://www.edo.co)
The Quorum
Bond St
Bristol
BS1 3AE

NOTE: Edo reception will only be open until 6:30. Anyone arriving after that won't be able to enter the building

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Drupal Bristol May Meetup 2018

Start: 
2018-05-16 18:30 - 21:00 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Speakers

  • Chandeep Khosa (@chandeepkhosa) - Encrypting your Drupal site
  • Tim Banks (@timakbanks) - Usability for Drupal Developers

Venue

Circle Interactive (https://www.circle-interactive.co.uk/):
CREATE Centre
Smeaton Road
Bristol BS1 6XN

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Drupal Bristol April Meetup 2018

Start: 
2018-04-18 18:30 - 20:30 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Speakers

  • Nick Downton (@nedsbeds) - Profiling with Blackfire.io
  • Oliver Davies (@opdavies) - Having fun with Drupal 8, PHP Libraries and the Drupal.org API

Venue

Proctor & Stevenson - https://www.proctors.co.uk/
The Old Printworks
178 Easton Rd
Easton
Bristol
BS5 0ES

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Drupalcamp London 2018 - Agency Leaders Dinner

Start: 
2018-03-02 19:00 - 22:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
Drupalcamp or Regional Summit

Piyush Poddar (Axelerant) and Michel Van Velde (One Shoe) are co-hosting a Drupal Agency Leaders Dinner at Drupalcamp London 2018. And you're invited to gather with other Drupal Agency peers.

The Dinner is at Union Tavern and will take place after CXO day of Drupalcamp London 2018. It’s a traditional pub with a central bar and an excellent seasonal menu of innovative gastropub dishes.

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Drupal Bristol March 2018 meetup

Start: 
2018-03-21 18:30 - 21:00 UTC
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Cancelled

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February 2018: DrupalCamp London preview

Start: 
2018-02-21 18:30 - 21:00 UTC
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Venue

Lamp Bristol Limited
6 Lower Park Row
Bristol
BS1 5BJ

Speakers

  • Justine Pocock - Why designers don’t use real content
  • George Boobyer - Browser Wars 2018 - Implementing a Content Security Policy
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January lightning talks

Start: 
2018-01-17 18:30 - 20:00 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

We're starting the year with lightning talks so if you have something to talk about for roughly 10-15 minutes get in touch!

Speakers:

Tom Metcalfe - Using the Google Calendar API
Alison Bancroft - From Grassroots to Enterprise
Oliver Davies - Taking Flight with Tailwind CSS

The Halo offices are here:

Unit 2.2
Temple Studios
Temple Gate
BS1 6QA

As usual there will be pizza and drinks.

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Cancelled: DUG 2017 Christmas Social

Start: 
2017-12-20 19:00 - 22:00 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Join us for the Bristol DUG 2017 social! We're planning some food and drinks (not too much as its a Wednesday night) and we'd love it if you could come.


Cancelling due to low signup numbers.

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Bristol November 2017 meetup

Start: 
2017-11-22 18:30 - 21:00 UTC
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

We're at Microserve's new shiny offices in Colston Tower this month. The address is:

Microserve
11th Floor
Colston Tower
Colston Street
Bristol
BS1 4XE

We have Oliver Davies talking about TDD - Test Driven Drupal.

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Drupal Bristol September meetup

Start: 
2017-09-27 18:00 - 20:00 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

This months DUG will be at Sift Towers on Baldwin street. We have one speaker for tonight:

Jesus Larrubia - Controlling entity display through code

Points for discussion:

  • Paying developers for features (Paragraphs)
  • Ads in modules to fund development
  • Wordpress style auto-updates

Address for the venue:

SIFT
6th Floor
Bridge House
48-52 Baldwin Street
Bristol, BS1 1QB
United Kingdom

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