Edinburgh

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.