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Unable to take advantage of the bank holiday bonanza? Not bothered by the royal wedding? Fancy a beer and a chat about Drupal?

Although many of us will be taking advantage of the "take 3 get 11" holiday opportunity, for many of us it will be business as usual and so it is for Drupal Beer and Chat.

As Monday is the bank holiday, we have moved the meetup to Tuesday 26th. You'll be able to find us by the bar, upstairs in the Square Pig, as per usual.

Please RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/London-Drupal-Pub-Meet/events/17278175/

Spring is on the way and it's time for another chance to talk Drupal over your favourite ales, largers and wines. Same format as usuall, come by any time between 7pm and 11pm, grab a drink and have a good chat.

RSVP here please: http://www.meetup.com/London-Drupal-Pub-Meet/events/16913936/

We'll be back downstairs in the function room of the Square Pig for Febraury's meetup. You all know the process by now get a beer and talk drupal, web, open source, startups, technology, whatever tickles your fancy! Things kick off at 7 and we have until 11pm. Look forward to see you there!

Please RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/London-Drupal-Pub-Meet/events/16585261/

The objective of the one-day course is to give you the lowdownn on all that is new and great on and help you make the crucial choice of whether it is the right choice for your project.

Drupal allows us to achieve a lot and quickly with the right mix of tools and techniques. This Drupal training course gives you a head-start and walks you through all the methods used in more advanced dynamic websites. Create complex content types, sophisticated displays of content and its filtering, advanced community features. Learn how to handle multiple types of media from audio podcast to video and present content with attractive effects.

This Drupal course quickly gets you up to speed with building dynamic database-driven websites with Drupal.

It begins with a basic introduction into the main concepts behind Content Management Systems (CMS) and the types of websites they are meant to help create. We then map these concepts onto Drupal as a CMS and take you through installation to creations of a series of websites each one adding an additional layer of functionality.

a.k.a Drupal for Social Media

This is a free event:
Date: Tuesday 8th February 2011
Time: 6:00 to 9:30pm
Location: Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, City of London, EC1Y 8TZ

As a part of the Social Media Week, BrightLemon are bringing together some leading lights of the museum, gallery and education sector to share best practices, advice and case studies that explore the power of online communities and Drupal.

I hope you all had a good break with plenty of time away from the computer and are now settling back into work. After taking December off, Drupal, beer and chat is back for 2011. And what a year it is going to be! Some of you may have noticed that Drupal 7 was released a few days ago. There were launch parties across the world, including a 200 person party here in London.