This being the season of giving and receiving the Drupal Drop In for December will focus on how your Drupal site can exchange information and services with other sites.

The London Drupal Community, in association with The Guardian Open Platform and generous sponsorship from Microsoft, invites you to an evening of presentations and discussion exploring the use of third party web services for Drupal sites.

Presentations

Presentations will start at 6:30pm.

SSO To Go
A ramble along the pathways of Single Sign On modules, how they can increase security and simplify user sign-up

Marcus Deglos

Feeding Drupal in Real-Time
Using the Feeds module to integrate with Flickr, Foursquare, and Pubsubhubbub.

John Griffin

Drupal Services

Providing data from Drupal to other sites using the Services, Views, Views Datasource, and Views Atom modules.

Darren Mothersele

Food, Drink, and Books

Microsoft are generously sponsoring pizza and beer, and Packt Publishing have kindly donated Drupal books to be won by a few lucky attendees. There may also be mulled wine and mince pies.

Pub After Event

We will move to the Lincon Lounge pub after the last presentation at 9 p.m. (52 York Way, N1 9AB)

Online

The tag for this event is #drupal_ldn, all presentations will be available after the event, and we may be providing live streaming.

What Is Drupal?

Out of the box Drupal provides a rich toolset for quickly setting up and maintaining a website, including content management and advanced community building features.

Drupal is also framework for rapid development, so new features such as eCommerce can be quickly added by installing a plug in from a library of existing modules, over 6,000 currently available - or you can develop your own modules and plug them in.

Who's Using Drupal?

The White House, New York Observer, MTV UK, The Economist....and many more. You've probably been to a Drupal site without realising it!

Organisors and Sponsors

This event is organised by Mark Baker, Code Positive, and The Guardian Open Platform.

Mark Baker is European Channel Development Director at Brightcove, and an Open Source sales and marketing expert.

Code Positive are Drupal London consultants with a long history of involvement in the Drupal community.

Microsoft is generously sponsoring pizza and drinks.

The Guardian Open Platform is a suite of services that enables partners to build applications with the Guardian. The first two products released as part of the platform were the Content API and the Data Store. The Guardian have since added the World Government Data Store, the Politics API and now the MicroApp framework.