drupal-uk
The largest Drupal, beer and chat event in London was a tremendous success. We had around 130 people turn up including Dries, the founder of the Drupal project. Dries did a 45 minute Q&A session, talking on a wide range of issues from the imminent release of Drupal 7 to how the future of Drupal could be affected by the uncertain future of MySQL.
I have always considered the UK to be something of a leader when it comes to online technologies and web. Sure, we are not in the same league as the US, but we can hold our own internationally with sites and innovations like lastminute.com, Wolfram Alpha and BBC iPlayer. So I was interested to see how the UK compares to it's European brothers and sisters for Drupal.
2010 is set to be a very exciting year for all those involved in Drupal. For Ben and I, this is of particular interest as we are launching a Drupal development company in the hope (well, conviction) that demand for Drupal services will only increase.
The second Drupal meet up went swimmingly and there was a good turn out of around 40 people over the course of the night. Again, we had a good mix of Drupal developers, people with personal projects and the Drupal curious. The next meetup is scheduled for end of November.
The first London Drupal meetup of 2010 was a great success. We had around 60 people come down to the Square Pig and spent a good few hours talking shop. There was the usual mix of Drupal old hands, agency folk, developers and business/tech people.
The next event will be February 22nd, to find out more information, visit our meetup page.
The last Drupal meet up for 2009 was a great success. We had around 50 people come along over the course of the evening. As usual we had a great mix of people attending, freelancers, agency owners, business people and even a couple of artists.
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to give a presentation at event Drupal for Marketing organised by the chaps at Code Positive.
