Drupal Scotland AGM - Financial Reports
Please find attached statements for previous financial year. Note that DrupalCamp 2019 was just before the end of the financial year (31 May), so income and costs for this camp are split between the previous FY and the current one.
Costs for the 2019 Camp:
- Admin (printing, speakers etc): £559.02
- Venue & catering: £1079.14
- Paypal transaction fees: £27.6
Income:
- Sponsorship: £1950
- Ticket sales: £1149.59
Ticket sales were good and sponsorship was beyond our expectation, so we made an overall profit of £1433.83.
Current Status
Read moreHow to build up resilience and keep burnout at bay
Speaker: Jochen Lillich, Freistil IT Ltd, Dublin, Ireland
Drupal Edinburgh - Details and RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Edinburgh/events/266107317/
Drupal Tayside (Dundee) - Details and RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Tayside/events/266262686/
Other locations - please contact the organiser to discuss if you can attend remotely.
We will be welcoming Jochen, fresh from his sell-out tour of WordCamp Dublin and DrupalCon Amsterdam, via video conference from his base in Ireland.
Read moreVisual Regression Testing for Drupal using BackstopJS
Speaker: Adrian Richardson, Senior Developer, University of Edinburgh
An overview of BackstopJS, why Visual Regression Testing is a good thing and how to configure it for Drupal.
The talk will last from 6 pm to 7 pm and afterwards, all are welcome to adjourn to the nearby bar, Hemma, for further discussion and chat where Cathcart Associates will generously provide some refreshments.
More details and RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Edinburgh/events/260141989
Read moreCase study of a Drupal 8 financial platform site
In our festive edition of Drupal Drinks Edinburgh our speaker will be Bruce Davidson. He will give us a look into the development of a financial company's support page on their secure platform. This solution needed several permission types, multiple content types with functionality and secure authentication. He will describe the development, problem solving and deployment difficulties involved in this Drupal 8 site.
The talk will last from 6 pm to 7 pm and afterwards, all are welcome to adjourn to the nearby bar, Hemma, for further discussion and chat.
Read moreA journey into the new Drupal 8 Layout Builder
Aaron McHale, Website Technical Coordinator at the University of Edinburgh, Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability, will demonstrate how he and his colleagues are using Drupal 8 and Layout Builder to build an interactive and engaging online training course at the University focused on how to be more sustainable.
In this talk we will see how Layout Builder will revolutionise the way we build websites and content in Drupal, by achieving things that were never before possible with Drupal Core alone.
Read moreNew Year, New Direction, New Opportunities
Are you considering a career change, a new role, a new team member or to start your own business? Our speakers this month will provide you with information and their experiences to help you with your new direction.
• Founding Fathers - Bryan Gullan is a web consultant and Director of Makkaru which he founded in 2014. Bryan will talk about his experience of starting his own company and what he has learnt over the last 3 years. He will also take questions, AMA-style, so you can ask him anything!
Read moreFostering Community Health with the Community Working Group
The Drupal Community Working Group (CWG) is a volunteer group responsible for promoting and upholding the Drupal Code of Conduct and maintaining a friendly and welcoming community for the Drupal project. The group works to help defuse tense situations, mediate and/or arbitrate intractable disputes, and develop tools and resources to promote community health. It also recognizes community leadership through the annual Aaron Winborn Award.
Read moreGet off your Agile treadmill and build a community instead
Speakers Tim Gray and Bruce Darby from the University of Edinburgh will take a new look at continuous improvements and how you could be applying this to your community building as well as your products. So not just building services and functionality but organising events and engaging with the people that use your software and websites as well. When we implemented our new CMS using Drupal we could see the power of community development.
Read moreDrupal Drinks Edinburgh - New meetup.com group
A meetup.com group has been launched to organise future Drupal Drinks Edinburgh. The meetups will still be posted here but please sign-up on meetup.com.
Please join at https://www.meetup.com/Drupal-Drinks-Edinburgh/
Read moreDrupal Drinks Edinburgh: July. Topic: Accessibility
For the next meet-up, Mike Gifford, a Drupal 8 Core Accessibility Maintainer (https://www.drupal.org/user/27930), will be giving us a talk on Accessibility.
Venue is OX184 on Cowgate. There's a table booked in my name from 6pm.
Please be sure to sign up if you're coming along, so that I can make sure that we've enough space on the night!
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