Taxonomy

One of Drupal's most powerful and versatile features is Taxonomy. This event will show you both the basics and more advanced uses of Taxonomy, and feature demostrations of modules that use taxonomy by developers that created them.

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 the Taxonomy and other related modules.

Presentations

Presentations will start at 6:30pm

Taxonomy Overview
A quick guide to the Taxonomy module, and when you would use it and when you would use alternatives.

Robert Castelo, Director, Code Positive

Using Taxonomy With Views & Active Tags Modules
How Taxonomy can add powerful filtering to Views, and a demo of Darren's Active Tags module.

Darren Mothersele, Freelance Drupal developer

Joining the Docs - Back to the Future with 'Taxonomy and the New Semantics'
Adding intelligent 'More like this...'  features and clustering content by meaning.

Russell Blakeborough, Director, Brighton Art

Taxonomy Everywhere
Demonstration of using Taxonomy with Feeds, Geo Taxonomy, and Taxonomy Manager modules, and how Taxonomy has changed in Drupal 7.

Vamory Traore, Technical Manager, The Web A-Team

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.

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.