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[DCMuc16] Can you smell the gingerbread and hot spiced wine? DrupalCamp Munich 2016 is coming
Hey Drupalistas!
We are just a few blinks away from the DrupalCamp Munich 2016 (31.11.-02.12.2016 CodeSprints @ Burda Media // 03.12.-04.12.2016 DrupalCamp @LMU Munich). As you know, this is our 2nd Camp after the great (and 1st) DrupalDevDays in 2010, and we think we will be great hosts again.
So, it's your part to submit your session prosposals until 14th of november and to be part of the special spirit of a camp with friends, Drupal, PHP, Symfony, beer, a lot of socializing, food, another beer, coffee, code sprints, very special welcome-bags, ...
We are thankful of our sponsors so we have a special prizing for students and WWCode. Please contact us for further information.
We look forward to seeing you at DrupalCamp Munich 2016 and to drinking a mug or two of "Gluhwein" or bavarian beer together.
Greetings from our Team
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Drupal Somerset Meet up 054
Join us this Thursday at 19:30!
It's been an exciting month. DrupalCon ended at the beginning of October, and a few of our Drupal Somerset attendees went and can't wait to talk about it!
More importantly, Andrew Crook will be giving us a talk:
"How to migrate a Drush make file into Composer, and show it in a wider context of build/deployment functionality (in a Drupal 7 instance)."
Any Drupal 8 composer-related conversation is welcome afterwards. We will also be discussing the latest news and trends with the web industry.
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Join us this Thursday at 19:30. We will be discussing Drupal 8 and other exciting Drupal and web-related news. More specific discussion subjects coming soon!
If you're in the South West, new or familiar to Drupal, we'd love for you to join us. There's enough tea and biscuits for everyone!
The address for the meet up is:
Indigo Herbs
Unit 8
Adlams Central Park
Wirrall Park Road
GLASTONBURY
BA6 9XE
Drupal Somerset Meet up 052
Join us this Thursday at 19:30. We will be discussing Drupal 8 and other exciting Drupal and web-related news.
If you're in the South West, new or familiar to Drupal, we'd love for you to join us. There's enough tea and biscuits for everyone!
The address for the meet up is:
Indigo Herbs
Unit 8
Adlams Central Park
Wirrall Park Road
GLASTONBURY
BA6 9XE
It is right behind B&Q next to Burns the Bread. Take the turn into B&Q and keep right, the road will take you past B&Q, through a yellow gate and left. Indigo Herbs is in Unit 8 on the left hand side.
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Instead of the usual "third Thursday of every month", we decided to delay this meetup (twice!) due to DrupalCamp Brighton and Glastonbury festival. So, the meetup will be on the 30th June at 19:30.
For this meetup, Dan Bohea will be doing a session for us: "Frontend workflow with Grunt, LibSass, NPM & Bower".
As in all of our meetings, we will also be talking about Drupal 8 and other exciting Drupal and web-related news.
If you're in the South West, new or familiar to Drupal, we'd love for you to join us. There's enough tea and biscuits for everyone!
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Welcome to Drupal Somerset's 50th Meetup!
For this meetup, George Boobyer will be talking "Web Security - from page creation to delivery".
End to end Security:
- In this presentation we will be looking at common threats to the security of your website.
- We will look at the various attack surfaces of a website; from the server, down the wire to presentation in the client browser.
- Then we will explore approaches to mitigating these threats.
Drupal Somerset Meet up 049
For this meetup, we will be talking about Atlassian's JIRA Software - "The #1 software development tool used by agile teams" - and we will be discussing why it is used, how people use it differently and what problems it can solve. This will be an informal discussion where people can share their ideas and people can talk about any problems they experience with the software.
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Drupal Somerset Meet up 048
Hello there,
This evening we'll have a talk by Michael (Media, Marketing and Websites Director) from Indigo Herbs. Indigo Herbs uses a mix of Drupal, Magento and other technologies to run their business and they recently introduced a clever new workflow that uses Drupal to print packaging and labels for their products.
Michael will talk about why and how Indigo Herbs have this system in place and share lessons learned of the implementation.
Furthermore we will be talking about Drupal 8 and other Drupal related news.
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Hello there,
Our next meetup is on Thursday Jan. 21st...which is this thursday!
Emma Karayiannis, maintainer of the Drupal default theme Bartik and currently working as front-end developer at Deeson, will join us (either remote or in person) to talk about Contributing to Drupal. This is the same talk she will give at @DrupalConAsia next month so we're in for a bit of a sneak-preview!
Furthermore we will be talking about Drupal 8 and other Drupal related news.
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Hello there,
With Drupal 8 hot off the press there we're all very keen to dive into, learn and share about the new system.
We aim to reinstate regular meetups and have talks/presentations from fellow Drupalists. This is a great opportunity for anyone in the South West, new and familiar to Drupal, to join in and share the fun!
Indigo Herbs in Glastonbury is kindly hosting this evening.
The address for the meet up is:
Indigo Herbs
Unit 8
Adlams Central Park
Wirrall Park Road
GLASTONBURY
BA6 9XE
Drupal Somerset Meet up 046
Now Drupal 8 is out we aim to meet up regularly again with this being the second 'official' meet up post-drupal8 launch and pre-2016.
This is going to be a pub meet with plenty of opportunity to talk about all things new in Drupal 8. The pub and location itself will be announced nearer the date but it is likely to be in the Langport area.
Please keep an eye on this post for updates or tune into the @drupalsomerset Twitter account.
With a bit of luck we'll have @horncologne as special guest!
We look forward to seeing you there.
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Commerce Kickstart 2
Hi there
I've just joined the South West England group as I live and work in Devon and have been running Drupal websites for 8 years.
I want to extend my knowledge by building an eCommerce site for the charity I work for and have installed Commerce Kickstart 2.
There's little documentation or online tutorials - what there is, it's mainly for previous version or for Drupal Commerce.
Has anyone got a Commerce Kickstart website up and running and created different product types/variations?
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Drupalcamp Bristol
Hi South West,
Drupalcamp Bristol is happening this Friday and Saturday!
Not sure what is going on? The full schedule has now been published here: https://2015.drupalcampbristol.co.uk/programme/sessions
We have a few tickets remaining that can be purchased for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drupalcamp-bristol-tickets-16539815032
We have created a discount code of DIGITAL20 to give you 20% tickets on the Friday, but hurry there are only 20 tickets available with this code and once they are gone, they are gone!
Best Regards
Mike Dodd
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Sprints?
After feeling inspired by the sprints at DrupalCon LA, and following on from the thoughts of mixing up the group activities, would anyone be interested in attending regular sprints in Bristol? Maybe one Saturday or a weekend a month?
I'd certainly be willing to provide some mentoring for new contributors, as well as helping out if anyone wants to do any work on Drupal.org itself or the conference organising distribution.
If people are interested, would any companies be willing to give us some space or provide lunch etc?
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Free Webinar by Megan Sanicki, COO, Drupal Association: Cracking the Community Code
Building communities is an artsy science that is a strategic initiative for organizations of all kinds from nonprofit to for-profit. In this webinar, we will remove the mystery of building thriving online communities. We will look at community building best practices from leading community managers such as Jono Bacon of Ubuntu, and will understand how to use these pro-tips to grow and nurture global communities through a case study on Drupal.
Why Should You Attend This?
o To learn how the Drupal community grows and is nurtured
o To learn about the community management best practices
April social meetup, DrupalCamp update, PHPSW discussion
Usual Drupal social at the Llandoger for beers and Drupal/tech discussions, all are welcome.
A couple of other things that it would be good to discuss:
- Joint talk night with PHPSW (in June?)
- DrupalCamp Bristol update
[Free Webinar] Drupal 8: Frontend for Backenders
Drupal 8 will ship with a fancy new template engine (Twig) and a simpler theme layer. In this webinar, our speaker will show you some goodies from Twig and give you a walkthrough on how to get started with it.
He will also talk about the major problems that people were facing in working with Drupal 7 and what the community has done to make it better. This webinar will show - in both practical examples and on a broader scale - why Drupal 8 will make peace between backenders and frontenders.
Why Should You Attend This?
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Business day on Friday 3rd July, and sessions and sprints on Saturday 4th July. Tickets for both are available from http://2015.drupalcampbristol.co.uk.
There's a create Job, but no create post about a person looking for work...
It would be great if that were fixed... but in the mean time, if anyone's looking for some Drupal hands here in the South West, hit me up.
I'm not looking myself, but my colleague is and he's suddenly available at short notice.
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Drupal Camp Bristol 2015 volunteer intros
Drupal Camp Bristol will take a lot of organising and require help and contribution at many different levels.
It has just kicked of here: https://groups.drupal.org/node/446078 and here: https://trello.com/b/QBuupC0W/general# big thanks to all those who are already starting to help and to those who already started the investigation over the last few weeks.
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