September Meetup: Lightning Talks @ Sift Digital

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rsaddington's picture
Start: 
2013-09-18 18:00 - 20:30 UTC
Event type: 
User group meeting

Meetup at Sift Digital offices in central Bristol, you can find us here:
http://www.siftdigital.co.uk/contact

We'll have a decent size meeting room with computer and projector for a lightning talks session. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk for full details.

We've got quite a few talks so will be starting at 6pm sharp - We'll have the room from 5.30 so feel free to arrive before 6 if you can.

We'll have ten minutes for each talk and 10 minutes for questions. If we don't use up the 10 minutes question time, we'll just drop straight into the next talk.

The running order will be:

6.15pm Intro and Kickoff

6.20pm Chris Hall - The long awaited Entities talk

6.40pm Tom Metcalfe - An Intro to Drupal Commons

7.00pm Rich Saddington - Commerce Tips and Tricks

7.20pm Tim Marsh - Managing lots of sites with Aegir

Pizza Served

7.40pm Fabrizio Meinero - Translation Management Tool

8.00pm Dan Bohea - Omega 4

8.20pm Piers Shepherd - Creating responsive sites with Bootstrap 3 and Drupal 6

8.40pm Ian Smith - The Bristol Digital Ladder

We'll wrap up after the last talk around 9 and head to the usual Llandoger Trow for a beer or two.

If you're planning to attend, please use the signup process so we let can the security chap in the building know who to expect.

Hopefully see (alot of) you there...

Comments

November!

lisarex's picture

I'll miss this one by a couple days, but I'll be around for the November meetup.

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not been for ages...

andykisaragi's picture

but since this is just downstairs i'll be there!

think it's a little ambitious to try and squeeze any more talks in though, realistically including q&a these are probably gonna be more like 20 minutes each don't you think? don't want drupal to interfere with dinner

Looking forward to it!

chrisjarvis1's picture

Apologies, I have been a bit slack recently due to an expanding family but I will be there.
All the talks sound great and really looking forward to the Omega 4 talk. I'm a big fan of Omega 3 and it looks like there is a lot of changes... actually a complete overhaul and haven't had time to look myself.
Also good work to Chris and Rich for sorting this out guys.

After promising for a long

mdixoncm's picture

After promising for a long time to actually attend one of these ... I think this Wednesday might actually be free! Really keen to come along - and very happy to do a talk about pretty much anything if you need someone to fill the time - equally happy not to :)

Will try and drag some of the other Minds along too

Cheers,

Mike.

Cool, will be good to catchup

rsaddington's picture

If you've got a short talk ready to go we can simply add you, just let me know what it's about. Or you could do one at the next meetup, planned for Mid-October, where we'll prob go for longer talks.

Let me know as I'll publish the updated lineup with timings tomorrow.

Cheers

Rich

wrong place!!

rsaddington's picture

whoops

food

ismithuk's picture

should we each stick a couple of pounds in a tin and get some pizza in?

Me too

chris_hall_hu_cheng's picture

I am happy to chip in for pizza if that is on the cards.

Always happy to chip in for Pizza ;)

I'm always up for pizza!

blacklabel_tom's picture

I'm always up for pizza!

Can we use your hat?

rsaddington's picture

:)

+1 for pizza

rsaddington's picture

Who wants to co-ordinate? There's a snappy pizza nearby: https://www.snappytomatopizza.co.uk/site/restaurant/details/15

+1

dddbbb's picture

I'll be substituting my dinner with driving to Bristol so I'm definitely up for pizza. Happy to chip in.

I'm out

T-lo's picture

I'm now out.. free dinner beforehand :)

Really looking forward to

DerekAhmedzai's picture

Really looking forward to this.

I'm in, virgin to this group

i-sibbot's picture

I'm in, virgin to this group so go easy

Parking

dddbbb's picture

I've not been to Sift Digital before. What's my best bet for parking?

Parking

mint5auce's picture

The NCP multi-storey, literally right next door, it's cheaper after 6pm from what I remember.

Jubbly

dddbbb's picture

Jubbly. Many thanks.

Looking forward to it

Tim Corkerton's picture

I'll be there, Happy to chip in for pizza

Can't Wait

Mike Dodd's picture

I'll be there to, Happy to chip in for pizza

Better to be a geek than an idiot.
My software never has bugs. It just develops random features . . .

Pizza is official

rsaddington's picture

Pizza has been added to the lineup - please chip in on arrival...

Cheers

Rich

Pizza update

ismithuk's picture

On arrival please place 3 English pounds in a hat provided by Mr Saddington, so don't forget to bring some change with ya :)

Sounds Good

Bhagesh Sachania's picture

Apologies for the recent slackness in signing-up /attending.

Looking forward to this one, so see you all later!

Cheers
Bhagesh

Well - I nearly made it ...

mdixoncm's picture

Well - I nearly made it ... then got stuck in the office until 8:30 :(

next time ...

+1

DerekAhmedzai's picture

Learnt a lot yesterday, thanks to everyone who gave a talk. You're all awesome :)

+1 And if anyone was

ismithuk's picture

+1

And if anyone was interested with what i had to say at the end ...
Send me an email at ian.smith.uk@gmail.com cheers m'dears.

What a great selection of

piersg's picture

What a great selection of presentations! They make me realise how much there still is to learn, but open my eyes to the opportunities these new techniques offer if you're prepared to get stuck in and learn. Thanks from me too to all those who shared their experience and knowledge.

Can't wait to investigate Piers' D6/Bootstrap theme...

WTF? Football spam?

dddbbb's picture

Anyone else in this group getting bombarded with spammy football posts (email notifications only)? Not sure who the group owner/moderator is but is there anything you can do to block them? Cheers!

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s6/sh/263ce8b6-9625-4adb-b9cb-e301c5383a8...

Top work last night btw. Really enjoyed it.

Cheers

i-sibbot's picture

Really nice to meet all the like minds. Looking forward to attending future meets.

Looking forward to the next

blacklabel_tom's picture

Looking forward to the next round of talks now!