North West UK

If you're new to Drupal, new to web development, or just want something different to do on a Monday night, come along to the Tech Nomads meetup in Liverpool for Site Building with Drupal Core!

During this free workshop we'll be building a website from start to finish with only Drupal core. No coding required! All you need is a laptop to participate, you don't need a local development environment or any special tools, an online Drupal installation for you to use will be provided.

Registration information and more details are available at:

This month we have Lightning Talks!

Anyone can talk this month, on any topic they choose! Lightning Talks are short 5-10 minute talks and are perfect for trialling a new talk, a whole new topic, or for trying public speaking for the first time.

Topics we've had a previous lightning talk nights range from Web Components, Experiences of a Drupal Apprentice, SOLID Principles, to Living in a Van and how it applies to dev!

This is the easiest way to get yourself an awesome NWDUG pin badge, and a great time to trial an idea for our Unconference in October.

Where is the unconference?

The unconference will be held at Federation House in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.

Federation House Manchester M4 4BF

When is the unconference?

Saturday 12th October 2019, 9am - 5pm

The unconference doesn’t end there! Once the scheduled proceedings are wrapped up, we will decamp to a local venue to eat, drink and be merry; some of the most important discussions take place during this part of the day.

What Is An Unconference?

This month we have our own Eli re-presenting Gábor Hojtsy's State of Drupal 9 talk from Drupal Dev Days:

Drupal 9 is planned to be released June 3, 2020, in a little less than a year! Also, Drupal 8 and Drupal 7 both go unsupported by November 2021. This session covers the timeline getting there as well as where are we and what kind of changes can you expect. It will be most valuable for developers but businesses can also get a summary on status details and tools to help with the transition.

Plus all the usual Drupal news and events round-up!

This month we have the awesome Phil Wolstenholme talking about "Rebuilding a UK university website with Pattern Lab, Vue.js, Tailwind CSS, and a new Drupal 8 base theme to tie it all together"

Plus all the usual Drupal news and events round-up!

Please register for this event in advance - we need to supply an attendee list beforehand for the venue.

This month we have a brand new version of Drupal, 8.7.0 and Eli is going to take us through all the new awesomesauciness.

Plus all the usual Drupal news and events round-up!

Please register for this event in advance through the meetup link - we need to supply an attendee list beforehand for the venue.

This month we have Michael Trestianu talking about Decoupled Drupal and Gatsby.

Plus all the usual Drupal news and events round-up!

Please register for this event in advance via our meetup link - we need to supply an attendee list beforehand for the venue.

Join us for the first Distributed Drupal Sprint in UK. This is a Drupal All-day Sprint where communities from UK contribute as one. NWDUG are meeting at CTI in Manchester, whilst sprints are also being held in London and Bristol.

By joining us you will have the opportunity to gain knowledge from your peers, whilst sharing your own knowledge, allowing everyone to help the thousands of people who will benefit from your contribution.

This November we are holding the third annual incarnation of our unconference.

See https://uncon.nwdrupal.org.uk/ for full details.

This month we're particularly excited to have not one but two amazing core contributors visiting Manchester to talk to us!

Sally Young, Drupal's Core JavaScript Maintainer & Modernisation Initiative Lead (Slytherin) is coming to talk all things on the JS Initiative.

Also, the real Daniel Wehner (Ravenclaw), the most prolific contributor to Drupal 8 according to http://drupalcores.com, is going to preview his Dev Days talk "Data Visualisation - there's more behind your data" as well!

Plus all our usual Drupal news round up.

This month we have Irina Macovei taking us through the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Plus the usual Drupal news round up!

This month we have John Cook, maintainter of the core Batch API, talking about the core Batch API.

Plus the usual Drupal news round up!

This month is our annual AGM. Come along and let us know your ideas for what you want to do in the coming year, what you liked this year and what you think we can do better!

After the runaway success of last year's event, we're going again! Watch this space for more details.

At MadLab, 36-40 Edge St, Manchester M4 1HN
https://goo.gl/maps/36UCZykwUUp

This month we have Gem Hill (https://twitter.com/gem_hill) talking to us about Testing and Mental Health.

Plus all the usual Drupal news.

At MadLab in Manchester's Northern Quarter

https://goo.gl/maps/36UCZykwUUp

Hey Drupalistas!
We are just a few blinks away from the DrupalCamp Munich 2016 (31.11.-02.12.2016 CodeSprints @ Burda Media // 03.12.-04.12.2016 DrupalCamp @LMU Munich). As you know, this is our 2nd Camp after the great (and 1st) DrupalDevDays in 2010, and we think we will be great hosts again.

So, it's your part to submit your session prosposals until 14th of november and to be part of the special spirit of a camp with friends, Drupal, PHP, Symfony, beer, a lot of socializing, food, another beer, coffee, code sprints, very special welcome-bags, ...
We are thankful of our sponsors so we have a special prizing for students and WWCode. Please contact us for further information.
We look forward to seeing you at DrupalCamp Munich 2016 and to drinking a mug or two of "Gluhwein" or bavarian beer together.

Greetings from our Team

An unconference is the opposite of a conference. Where a conference has a schedule of talks planned in advance, an unconference starts with no agenda until the attendees, not the organisers, determine one.
Everyone is encouraged to bring a talk to the event, with the day having a 30 minute cadence including time for questions, and time for people to change rooms ready for the next talk to begin. Our venue is a flexible working space, allowing us to open many tracks simultaneously as required, and facilitate as many talks as possible.

Elliot Ward - Migrate in Drupal 8.1.x

Migration has changed from 8.0.x, so in this talk we'll look at how to use Migrate and supporting modules to migrate data from external sources in to Drupal. On the way we'll look at and demystify some new Drupal 8 features like Event Subscribers and Service Injection that will help us along the way!

Plus all the usual Drupal news, event round-up, and networking.

To be held at http://madlab.org/ in Central Manchester