Return of SWDUG!

Sounds fab - would be nice to re-ignite the Drupal scene in south Wales.

I could make 10th - 12th July so if it's then, count me in.

Hi all,

I'm really grateful that you've taken the time to put this together, and I'd love to offer my help. If you want someone to talk, I'm up for it. I'm pretty good at talking, I do it a lot. ;-) I can offer up a recent talk on Jenkins and Continuous Integration (with my friends from Middle Earth), or perhaps something more philosophical, or maybe even something to do with pure Drupal ;-)

I know we've gone over this before, but there were reasons I took pains to try to separate SWDUG away from being organised by companies - yes, yes, I know we did this with SubHub, but I came around to thinking it was the wrong way to organise SWDUG at the time, and that opinion hasn't changed, for me (even though I am grateful for the offer of a venue, of course).

I'd prefer to see the meetup move to a location in central Cardiff, if possible. A lot of people were discouraged from attending by using a location in the bay, before. It would also make it easier for the meetup to survive beyond an individual's tenure at a company, avoid potential embarrassment for the company should they choose to go in a separate direction, allow for the organisation to be shared by different groups (Code Enigma, I'm sure, would be willing to help out), and avoid any undue bias that might present itself. Oh, and give credit to individuals, rather than to people as employees.

I've just spoken to the Owain Glyn Dwr in town, and they'd love to have us there. It's a free venue, too, so it wouldn't cost anyone anything (save the cost of food and drink, but I'm sure we can get sponsors for that).

I guess most folks are pretty easy about it, if they've already made the commitment to come along - mostly I'm trying to consider those that rely on public transport, work in town, or have to come from further afield.

What does everyone else think? I'm not trying to be negative, I'm just really aware of what's gone before, and would rather not go around in circles...

-- J.

On a different note, I've done some work recently with the LDAP module and integration with Active Directory for a client, including some customisation for their specific use case, so I'd be more than happy to share my experiences with that and do a talk. I'm hoping to get the client-side Developers to come to the meetup as well (some new faces), and possibly get them involved with the talk itself.

A couple of our Drupal Developers from the Worthing office may be in Cardiff at that point as well, so it would be great to get them to come along as well as long as that's OK with everyone?