Oxford Drupal Users' Group exists to hold regular informal meetings for anyone in Oxford interested in Drupal.
We usually meet at 7pm on the first Wednesday of the month at the OeRC: 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG, but do check out http://www.meetup.com/Oxford-Drupal-Users-Group/ for confirmation.
Meeting before July 2 OxDUG: anyone interested?
Last OxDUG, a couple of us met up for the afternoon beforehand at Java & Co and worked from there, using their excellent "rolling free wifi with each purchase." Others joined us eventually too, and we ended the day with pre-OxDUG food at Mission Burrito.
Anyone interested in doing something like that this time? It's a bit fiddly for me as I'll need to get a machine with PHP5.4 on it for Tanc's workshop, but hopefully I can spend at least an hour or two there.
Read moreSpecial Drupal 8 meetup: July 2014
On Wednesday 2 July Oxford Drupal Users Group will host a Drupal 8 special!
Read moreSustainable hack day Sushack #2: Drupalers?
In a couple of weeks, 2degrees in Summertown will kindly host the second Sustainability Hackday ("SusHack"). I was wondering if a Drupaler or two might like to join me for the day!
My local volunteer organization Sustainable Witney helps conduct thermal imaging of people's houses. It's been doing this for two successful years now, and there are other groups in Oxfordshire (and maybe even beyond?) that do it as well.
Read moreTraining supported by OxDUG?
At the June 2014 meetup we discussed the possibility of getting better(-value) training, especially for the university in the first instance. This would be supported in part by either OxDUG or an offshoot of it.
People interested
Here's a list of who expressed an interest:
- J-P Stacey
- Finn Lewis
- Karen Leech
- Dan Duke
- Maria Young
- Ben Newton
- Ben Chad
- Richard Gruszka
- Tom Bamford
And volunteered in their absence:
- Aaron Hirtenstein
- Hedley Smith
- Chandeep Khosa
Monthly meetup: June 2014
This event was held last week. Sorry I didn't get a notification out on g.d.o in time: it's best to subscribe to the Meetup group for prompt reminders.
Read moreMonthly meetup: May 2014
Drupal chat, presentations, questions, answers, issues, banter.... Once again, the monthly OxDUG meetup is hosted by OeRC, on Keble Road, OX1 3QG (directions).
This month, we hope to organize a talk in advance: watch this space and the Meetup event for details.
As always, though, here's our draft agenda:
19:00 - Introductions / news / announcements
19:30 - Presentation(s) (t.b.c.)
20:30 - Q and A / share your issues
Oxford Drupal User Group - February 2014
Monthly meetup.
Posting this a little late (sorry!) so we can post our notes here.
Oxford Drupal User Group - January 2014
Here are our notes from January 2014 meetup.
Who's here:
Finn: Agile Collective: Interested in
Grant: NHS: Interested in Git Flow
Richard Clausen:
Tom Wrobel: Classics Faculty
Raz: OeRC: Some freelance Drupal with interesting rates
Aaron: Agile Collective: Finally about to start some development.
Maria: Agile Collective: About to start project managing
Tanc: Agile Collective:
Dave :Oxford University: Department for Continuing Education
Loius: Teach web development at different schools.
Mike: Timber Windows: Lots of agile in their team.
Iain: OeRC
Mike’s demo
Read moreJanuary meetup: moved to Wed 8 Jan?
OxDUG meetups are typically on the first Wednesday of every month. However, last night it was agreed that nobody will want to have the January OxDUG on Wednesday 1st! So please adjust your diaries accordingly.
Meetups are also advertised at http://www.meetup.com/oxduguk/ - you can sign up for them there as they appear.
Read moreOxford Drupal User Group Meetup - Notes from meeting 04/12/2013
Who’s here?
Finn Lewis (Agile Collective)
Aaron (Agile Collective) want to learn something new and make a new friend
Raz (OeRC) - no longer has to use Drupal - but has lots of requests for Drupal sites!
Iain (OeRC)
Nick (Versantas) - primarily Drupal sites.
Tanc (Agile Collective )
Roger (Versantus)
Dave (Freelance Drupal Developer)
Matt (Open Imagination) Drupal Commerce
Carlos (Said Business School) Project manager / some development
Richard (some Drupal)
JP (Freelance / ex-Torchbox)
Grant Valance (NHS) Drupal hobbyist, interested in great
Oxford Drupal User Group Meetup - Notes from meeting 06/11/2013
Last updated by finn lewis on Thu, 2013-11-07 20:58
Wednesday 6th November 2013
These are rough notes from our meetup last night. Do feel free to edit or add to this if you were there.
Draft Agenda
- 19:00 - Introductions / news / announcements
- 19:30 - A tour of www.qualitywatch.org.uk (Johan Gant)
- 20:00 - Test Driven Development in Drupal: discuss.
- 20:30 - Q and A / share your issues
- 21:00 - Drinks and further Drupal chat at a local pub
Who’s here
- Finn Lewis (Agile Collective)
- Dave Balch(Oxford Uni?)
- J-P (Torchbox / Freelance)
- Tanc (Agile Collective)
- Steven Cox (Oxford Uni)
August OxDUG happening?
Is August OxDUG happening? Finn suggested he might not be around, and was thinking about maybe not having an OxDUG then.
Like a swine and a cad I didn't attend July OxDUG, as I went home on rails and completely forgot I had it in my calendar and everything.
But also, like an even bigger swine/cad, I've had to arrange Oxford Geek Night to clash with August OxDUG (keynotes couldn't do any other date.) So I'm not so much asking for myself, as asking for clarity for everyone else!
Read moreOXDUG Notes - 03/07/2013
OXDUG - 03/07/2013
Drupal resources
Mike started Drupal development and learnt slowly through self teaching.
He runs a system that combines Perl and Drupal.
Team of three developers currently.
How do we quickly and efficiently get the team up to speed?
Interested in books, courses, online tutorials.
Books:
Using Drupal
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596515805.do
NB: 2nd edition of Using Drupal, including D7 coverage
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920010890.do
Pro Drupal Development
http://www.apress.com/9781430228387
Programmer’s Guide to Drupal.
Links from OxDUG speakers, 5 June 2013
Thanks to all the speakers from last night's OxDUG. Here are some related links and notes. Feel free to add to this wiki page.
Read moreMonthly OXDUG - meetup - 5th June 2013
THIS IS TONIGHT!
Firstly, apologies, I keep meaning to post these events here in good time, in case anyone does not spot them on meetup.com
So... this is tonight, but just in case this catches anyone who did not know:
Once again, kindly hosted by the Oxford e-Research Centre.
When: The first Wednesday of the month.
Where: Oxford eResearch Centre, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG
What: Drupal chat, presentations, questions, answers, issues, banter...
Draft Agenda
19:00 - Introductions / news / announcements
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Meeting this evening
Do we have an agenda or any talks this evening? I believe that something was mooted about Vagrant on Meetup.
Read moreDrupal England and Wales (Association) - legal entity options
Hi all.
I very much enjoyed taking part in the on-line meeting earlier this week where we continued the discussion about setting up a national Drupal association in England and Wales. A core part of the discussion was around the options for legal entity.
As discussed elsewhere, the main options seem to be
1) Company Limited by Guarantee
2) Company Limited by Shares
3) Industrial and Provident Society
4) Charity
Photograph(s) of our last OxDUG meeting
I've uploaded and made public the photos I took at our last OxDUG MeetUp meeting.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/virbius/sets/72157632955978877/
Read moreMySQL DB versus MariaDB?
Following a number of talks at Drupalcamp London which mentioned MariaDB, we've been looking into using it ourselves in place of MySQL.
Pretty much unequivocally, what I was hearing from Drupalers was that it was a definite improvement. With that in mind, my colleague Dave managed to get it working along with nginx on our shared VM environment.
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