Being the season of giving and receiving the Drupal Drop In for December focused on how Drupal sites can exchange information and services with other sites.

Thanks to the 100+ people who came, The Guardian for hosting us, and Microsoft for sponsoring the pizza, drinks, and mince pies. We had a great time, as you can see from the photos.

Drupal Drop In is a regular free monthly event that has been running in London since 2005.

Presentations

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

Feeding Drupal in Real-Time - John Griffin

Using the Feeds module to integrate with Flickr, Foursquare, and Pubsubhubbub.

Drupal Services - Darren Mothersele

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

Online

The tag for this event is #drupal_ldn.

Food, Drink, and Books

Microsoft generously sponsoring pizza and beer. Thank you also to Acquia for various prizes, and Packt Publishing for kindly donating Drupal books that were won by a few lucky attendees.

Organisors and Sponsors

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

Mark Baker is an Open Source sales and marketing expert.

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

Microsoft provides software and services which integrate with Drupal.

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.