Saturday, June 21, 2008

UK Umbraco meet up

In a previous post about CodeGarden 08, I asked people to get in touch if they'd be interested in a UK Umbraco meet up. I've had a fair few people get in touch so I think it's something worthwhile pursuing further. The nest stage from my POV is working out the location and potential content of the meet so I thought I'd open it up to the floor.

With the forthcoming DDD7, I thought it might be a ready-built platform that we could use but I agree with Phil that DDD7 may not be a suitable platform for a multitude of reasons.

As I've had people from the South West and Scotland voice an interest, I don't think it'll suit the majority of people to have it based in London so suggest it is based in the Midlands -probably Birmingham as it's easy to get to (M6 from the North, M4 from London, M5 from the South -or train!) and there are plenty of places to have the meet.

In regards the format/content of the meet, does anyone have any suggestions? We could follow Niels' and Per's open format or we can have a more structured theme? I've not had too much of a think as to subject matter but some I have come up with so far:

• An introduction to Umbraco and what it is (many of the people I've spoken to have only just started using Umbraco)
• Examples of Umbraco how Umbraco can be used
• More advanced Umbraco functionality (membership etc)
• Getting to grips with XSLT
• How to sell Umbraco to your clients

So that's where I've got to so far, does anyone have anything to add?

BTW the logo is just a working logo atm, need to have Niels approve it ;)

Update: I have posted a post on the Umbraco forums about a UK Umbraco meet here

UK Umbraco meet up

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Sunday, June 22, 2008 9:48:13 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

Hi Tim,

Can you repost this as a topic in the Umbraco forum, so we can all discuss?

Darren Ferguson

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:16:17 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

I'd certainly be interested in a UK meet up so please do keep us all posted!

Adam Perry

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:31:26 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

have done Darren, not sure why but it doesn't seem to have appeared in (my) list of recent topics so incase anyone else is interested I've updated the post.

HTH

Tim

Tim

Monday, October 13, 2008 9:43:22 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

Have just started using Umbraco and found the forum discussion regarding meeting up in the UK with other Umbraco users. Has there already been a meeting? If so, when is the next meet, if not, is there a meeting planned, and where?

Kevin

Kevin Farrow