By Robert Castelo on

Date: Friday 31st March 2006, 6:30 p.m. - late
Location: BTR (Be The Reds)
39 Whitfield Street, London
Near Goodge Street station
Telephone: 020 7209 0984
Google map

We've found a great location for London Drupal meet ups: Be The Reds is an internet cafe, so both desktop and wi-fi access is available. It's the site of the first Internet cafe in the world, Cyberia, which was sold to a Korean chain three years ago.

This is a drop in event, so no need to book or make any kind of reservation, just come in any time after 6:30 p.m., everyone's welcome. If this meet up goes well, Drupal Drop In - London will be repeated again on the last Friday of every month at the same location.

Thanks to the Korean connection it serves a wide range of South Korean and sushi dishes - which fits in with Drupal's philosophy of no forks! (sorry, couldn't resist that one). There's a bar in the basement, so if you want to wet your whistle with more than a frappuccino, head downstairs. There's also a few good pubs in the vicinity if you fancy a change of scene. A networked games room's upstairs, if you want to step out of the Drupal meeting for a quick frag.

Plus, it stays open till 2 a.m. on Friday nights - so you can discuss Forms API and CCK well into the small hours.

Comments

alexmc’s picture

alexmc commented

I will try to make it there!

gmak’s picture

gmak commented

As a newbie, I hope you'll all humour my simple questions...

pfaocle’s picture

pfaocle
Primary language English
commented

Ah - could be the first meet Leafish will be able to attend... its my birthday on the 1st April too. Who's going to buy me a pint? :)

---
paul byrne
paul.leafish.co.uk | www.leafish.co.uk

---
Paul Byrne
pfaocle.co.uk | CTI digital

ixis.dylan’s picture

ixis.dylan commented

I'll be there, and I'll thrash you all in the games room.

demolicious | leafish

Robert Castelo’s picture

Robert Castelo commented

Great, so we can toast leafish_paul at the bar with a round of drinks, and we can toast leafish_dylan in the games room with some BFGs ;-)

Cortext Communications
Drupal Themes & Modules

------------------------------------------
Drupal Specialists: Consulting, Development & Training

Robert Castelo, CTO
Code Positive
London, United Kingdom
----

dan_aka_jack’s picture

dan_aka_jack commented

I'll see you all there. Sounds good. Drupal, sushi and booze, what more could a geek wish for?

Jack Kelly
UKfilm.org - Advice, Discussion and News for the UK filmmaker

kuba.zygmunt’s picture

kuba.zygmunt commented

After few days I've noticed that this meeting will be (was ) 31st March 2005 :)

I didn't know that drupal fellows achieved technology thanks to it we could teleport to the past :) I wish was there ^^

Don't worry, even I have a problem with 2006.

- I wonder how am I perceived when passion enters me :-) -

Robert Castelo’s picture

Robert Castelo commented

Funny how long it took anyone to spot that typo!

Now updated.

Cortext Communications
Drupal Themes & Modules

------------------------------------------
Drupal Specialists: Consulting, Development & Training

Robert Castelo, CTO
Code Positive
London, United Kingdom
----

pfaocle’s picture

pfaocle
Primary language English
commented

Google map

---
paul byrne
paul.leafish.co.uk | www.leafish.co.uk

---
Paul Byrne
pfaocle.co.uk | CTI digital

Robert Castelo’s picture

Robert Castelo commented

thanks, I added it to the top post.

Cortext Communications
Drupal Themes & Modules

------------------------------------------
Drupal Specialists: Consulting, Development & Training

Robert Castelo, CTO
Code Positive
London, United Kingdom
----

jakeg’s picture

jakeg commented

I'll be there. Looking forward to meeting and drinking with you all.

Jake
Drupal web services, London

simon rawson’s picture

simon rawson commented

Jake, I'm sending you as my delegate... I'm away that weekend unfortunately and wont be in London on Friday night.

jakeg’s picture

jakeg commented

heh, okay.

Jake
Drupal web services, London

alechendry’s picture

alechendry commented

I'll try and make it down, currently playing around with Drupal - but may form part of a new / exisiting site, so very interested to hear from current users and developers (esp any freelancers!)

Alec. MTV UK www.mtv.co.uk

s.choi’s picture

s.choi commented

this would be exciting! i will try to make it! :-)

willwade’s picture

willwade commented

I shall try and make it - will be interesting to see some others

UPDATE: Damn - Im actually away in Wales. Nah Mind - till next time..

will

r0g’s picture

r0g commented

as ordinarily I'd be out on the Critical Mass on the last Friday of every month, but I guess I'll be joining you guys 2 talk geek stuff!

Jeff Veit’s picture

Jeff Veit commented

I'd like to be there, but I'm afraid that I can't make that date. Next time.

Robert Castelo’s picture

Robert Castelo commented

The venue has a very nice glass walled side room with four or five PCs. If anyone is interested in giving presentations or demos it should be possible to hire this out by the half hour.

This might be specially useful for any companies or organisations that want to take part.

If you're interested contact BTR directly and make a booking. (Telephone: 020 7209 0984)

No idea how much demand there is for this, but if the presentation room gets completely booked up, we'll award extra 'good community member' points to groups that share the facility.

Cortext Communications
Drupal Themes & Modules

------------------------------------------
Drupal Specialists: Consulting, Development & Training

Robert Castelo, CTO
Code Positive
London, United Kingdom
----

jaydunford’s picture

jaydunford commented

If I can escape from my final year degree work at Plymouth for a while I hope to be able to attend.

I'm relatively new to Drupal but have quickly taken a shine to it, I'm keen to expand my existing Drupal knowledge. So if I am able to make it next Friday - prepare to have your brains picked as well as pickled.

On the subject of alcohol, how much is the average pint of beer in London these days?

I may have to start putting some cash aside into a beer fund

Cheers
Jay

mikegb’s picture

mikegb commented

I'd love to come to the drop-in. It may be tricky as my wofe just had a baby and I'm reuired at home, however!

In any case I would be really interested in hearing from any London-based Drupalers who I could by a pint and chat to about the ins and outs of using Drupal as a CMS.

cheers
Mike

(see mbites.com and musicbites.com for contcat info)

Owen Barton’s picture

Owen Barton commented

...down from Coventry.

Looking forward to it!

Owen

Robert Castelo’s picture

Robert Castelo commented

I've been working on setting up a Drupal UK community website, it's not really ready for a full launch yet - a custom theme is still being worked on, and some features are in development stage, but it is up and running, and will be useful for the upcoming Drupal Drop In event.

Anyone comming to the Drupal Drop In London can now register at Drupal.org.uk, upload a mug shot to their account, and comment on the event's page - we'll then be able to recognise each other - and perhaps even remember names ;-)

Cortext Communications
Drupal Themes & Modules

------------------------------------------
Drupal Specialists: Consulting, Development & Training

Robert Castelo, CTO
Code Positive
London, United Kingdom
----

pfaocle’s picture

pfaocle
Primary language English
commented

I'm afraid Leafish won't be able to make it this time round mostly due to costly train tickets and family commitments/time restrictions on my birthday...

We will certainly try to arrange to get down to the next one, though: not having to rush back on the Friday night/early Saturday morning will certainly help, if not justify the cost of the trains by staying in our glorious capital for a few days longer!

Have a good one, all!

---
paul byrne
paul.leafish.co.uk | www.leafish.co.uk

---
Paul Byrne
pfaocle.co.uk | CTI digital

svetomir’s picture

svetomir commented

Let us now if it is happening next month.

Robert Castelo’s picture

Robert Castelo commented

Just added a photo of the venue to the event page.

http://www.drupal.org.uk/drupal/event/london/1

Cortext Communications
Drupal Themes & Modules

------------------------------------------
Drupal Specialists: Consulting, Development & Training

Robert Castelo, CTO
Code Positive
London, United Kingdom
----

Robert Castelo’s picture

Robert Castelo commented

Thanks to everyone who made it. Report and photos now available.

The next meeting will be on 28th April.

Cortext Communications
Drupal Themes & Modules

------------------------------------------
Drupal Specialists: Consulting, Development & Training

Robert Castelo, CTO
Code Positive
London, United Kingdom
----