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
Bristol Drupal Drinks
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.
Read moreBristol Drupal Drinks
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.
Read moreDrupalCamp Bristol 2019 (cancelled)
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.
Read moreBeginner talks - Views and OOTB
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.
Read moreBuild and launch your Drupal app with BLT
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.
Read moreDeploying PHP applications with Ansible, Ansible Vault and Ansistrano
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.
Read moreDrupal Bristol: October meetup
Details TBC
Read moreCancelled - Drupal Bristol: September meetup
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
Read moreDrupal Bristol: August 2018
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
Drupal Bristol June meetup 2018 - Testing workshop
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
Read moreDrupal Bristol July Meet-up 2018 - Beginner talks
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
Read moreDrupal Bristol May Meetup 2018
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
Drupal Bristol April Meetup 2018
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
Drupalcamp London 2018 - Agency Leaders Dinner
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.
Read moreDrupal Bristol March 2018 meetup
February 2018: DrupalCamp London preview
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
January lightning talks
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.
Read moreCancelled: DUG 2017 Christmas Social
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.
Read moreBristol November 2017 meetup
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.
Read moreDrupal Bristol September meetup
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