Video is a great way to communicate with your audience, and Drupal has some excellent features for adding and managing video on a site.

Whether you are evaluating Drupal or running in production, this is a great opportunity to learn more about video handling, put your questions to the experts, and connect with the London Drupal community.

If you cannot attend this event but are interested in future Drupal events, please subscribe to the London Drupal community group to be notified of upcoming events.

What is Drupal?

Out of the box Drupal provides a rich toolset to manage the content and behaviour of your website, including content management and advanced community building features.

Drupal is also framework for rapid development, so new features can be quickly added by installing a plug in from a library of existing modules, over 2,000 are currently available, or you can develop your own modules and plug them in.

Presentations

Presentations will start at 6:30 p.m.

Case Studies

Embedding Third Party Public Video (YouTube, Vimeo, Blip,..)

Online video in 2010 - Observations from an Online Video Platform Vendor

BrightCove

Creating A D.I.Y. Private Video Network

The Future Of Drupal Video

Food, Drink, and Books

Packt Publishing have kindly donated Drupal books to be won by a few lucky attendees, and Sun Microsystems will provide food and drink as part of their hospitality.

Note

There is a pub below the venue, where the meeting will likely move afterwards.

The tag for this event is #drupalvideo, slides of all presentations will be available after the event.

Organisers

Drupal for Marketing is organised by Code Positive, and Sun Microsystems.

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

Sun Microsystems is an active Drupal user, long term Drupal contributor, and as part of their Startup Essentials programme has very kindly provided us with an excellent venue for this event. Drupal uses Sun's MySQL as a backend database for data storage.