Posted by Joe Vallender on May 1, 2012 at 7:55am
Following on from this comment, I'd like to get some comments both from people requesting a talk (or whatever) or people committing to do one on a given topic.
We can worry about where and when later. It would be in addition to the regular informal meetups in the pub.
I've posted a few notes like this before and not had a particularly good response, but more and more the Bristol Drupallers I speak to are asking when 'something useful', so fingers crossed for this time!
I figure we can leave this thread here until we have enough content planned, then find a date and venue.
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Pick a topic, any topic
I'll generally be happy to do a talk (assuming I'm in the country and around Bristol, that is!)
Some potential topics on offer:
- performance
- deployment
- devops (puppet, repo-management and so on)
- panels
- geospatial
- infrastructure (apache/nginx/varnish/zeus/etc)
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I'm additionally frustrated that I couldn't attend the pub meet last wednesday, because I would have liked to have joined in the conversation about this.
My work organise a couple of social/tech user groups, namely for one of our principal technologies Salesforce, but also for CA Plex.
We have held an event at the Elephant before, in their upstairs function room, which was quite good (though we had to provide our own projector). I asked our organiser, Amy, and she said it was free to hire, so long as £200 made it over the bar, otherwise there was a deposit that was lost.
We also run nights at Totos bar, which is also really good, they have a screen and projector already up, but I think it's a similar agreement regarding minimum bar spend to secure the venue.
For the record, our last event had just over 20 people, and apparently we covered £260 on the bar. Sounds about right, 3 pints per person. (though I think I can account for about 6 myself :D ) - maybe we should each try to keep tally at the next Drupal SW meeting?!
Amy has also said we'd struggle to book up a venue + projector like that without at least someone "putting a credit card" behind the bar (in the first instances), incase it turns out Drupal users are actually a bunch of violent drunkards who punch holes in the toilet walls.
Other people might know completely different to this though, you often see function rooms free for hire..?!
Regarding the post above, I would love to hear some talks on Deployment/Implementation, I think that whilst one thing a lot of Drupal developers have is development skills, when it actually comes to securing, launching and optimizing sites and servers, it's a bit of a black art.. (well, it is for me!)