This is second London Drupal Coworking meetup for October. It follows ours well established and successful format for Drupal coworking, but with added value.
Not only do we have an exceptional new central London venue, but additionally we have an opportunity during the day to directly "give back" to the Drupal community ...
LDC#23+ is scheduled to coincide with the first week of this years Drupal Pre-apprenticeship training fortnight that is part of the Open Drupal Drupal Apprenticeship Scheme at Happy Ltd. During this coworking day, with fellow Drupal freelancers, Drupal professionals, and Drupal novices, you'll have the opportunity to mentor the pre-apprenticeship students. The pre-apprentices will be learning the basics and essentials of Drupal site building and theming using the Open Drupal training materials.
Open Drupal is the free and open source training materials for teaching and learning Drupal. These exceptional training materials have been developed by Hedley Smith (@hedley_smith) and Crispin Read (@crispin_read), and a vast team of Drupal volunteers, with the apprentices managed by Sheena Morris (@happyapprents - Apprenticeships and ITQ Manager at Happy).
Even if you've an urgent Drupal project that you must work on during the day, do join us - you'll be made most welcome. But, let's demonstrate to the pre-apprentices how supportive the Drupal community can be, and how Drupal freelancers, not the least, share with and learn from each other ...
As for previous meetups, we'll have a whole day free access to all the Drupalize.Me extensive range of Drupal training videos.
Do come and join us and make this an awe-inspiring Drupal Coworking day.
If you cannot join us on the 23rd but would still like to give your time as a mentor to the pre-apprentices during the two weeks beginning 20th October, then register your interest at http://apprenticeships.opendrupal.org/