Drupal Brighton July 2010: Drupal 7 - Drupal for the masses?

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Anonymous's picture
Start: 
2010-07-20 19:00 - 21:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
User group meeting

Drupal 7 is about to hit the streets three years after $7m was pumped into it. Around 70 modules of the 6,000-odd out there in the Wild West of the contributions scene have been integrated into core, and a whole load of real cash has been spent on the UI. But will the masses flock to our beloved Drupal? Do we really want them to anyway? (yes, of course!)

This month will be different than usual as there will be no presentation as such; instead we will have a general discussion about Drupal 7, what it means for developers and designers, and how it will impact the industry with initiatives such as http://drupalgardens.com which allow anyone with an internet connection and the ability to choose a name for their site the ability to set up a Drupal site in around 15 seconds.

Whether you use http://Drupal.org Free/Libre Open Source CMS/Web app platform at the moment, or have ever considered using Drupal; whether you want to build a website which just does a little more than Wordpress can provide; or if you simply have nothing better to do on a lovely Summer Tuesday evening in sunny Brighton town than sit in an office and look at the results of a number of simple binary decisions made for you on behalf of an inanimate object or two, then this is the nu meeja event for you ;)

Register here if you can:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/6595964

Comments

Who was the person from Hastings who came to this?

stevepurkiss's picture

Brighton University are looking for a speaker in December in Hastings and I won't be in the UK then - do get in touch with me and I will pass your details on. Just high level Drupal intro for local businesses. This is paid I believe...

Do you mean me?

john humphries's picture

Hi Steve

I was the person who caught the train over from Hastings for the July 2010 event, is it me you are trying to get in touch with?

(I found the July gathering really useful by the way, many thanks for pulling it together)

All the best,

John Humphries - Information Officer
Hastings Voluntary Action
31a Priory Street
Hastings
TN34 1EA

Tel :01424 444010
Fax : 01424 432877
Web :www.hastingsvoluntaryaction.org
Feed : www.hastingsvoluntaryaction.org/indexphp?q=blog/feed
Twitter : http://twitter.com/hvastuff
Facebook: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7347628574

thanks - can you email me pls?

stevepurkiss's picture

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply and glad you enjoyed the meetup!

If you could mail me your email address that would be good and I can forward you the details. Mine's steve at purkiss dot com.