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I'm getting that "re-design itch" at the moment! I suppose it comes around from time to time when you're between projects and find you have a few spare days at hand. Of course, there are plenty of other things I should be doing, my accounts for one!

Hurrah! The Drupal Association has announced that the next Drupalcon will be held in Szeged in Hungary on August 27-30, 2008!

Follow the announcements at http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/ and there's also a feed at http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/blog/feed

Four days and counting, Barcamp Manchester UK is almost upon us, time to write talks, prepare slides, shuffle contact cards and take a shave!

As a Barcamp virgin, I don't know quite what to expect other than what I've read on the Barcamp Manchester Wiki
"You turn up with a talk, you fight for a place on the board, and then you get on with it."
Really? People fight to stand up in front of other people and speak out loud? Scary stuff!

And with a loud trumpet blast, Drupal 6.0 is released - http://drupal.org

Good news! menusandblocks.co.uk (aka James Panton and Chris Maiden) are running a Drupal workshop at Manchester Digital Development Agency on Wednesday 9th April 2008.

Who's it for? Anyone interested in getting the most out of Drupal! It will be suitable for site administrators, designers and also developers who need to learn the Drupal way.

There's a shiny new release of Drupal 6 just around the corner (RC3, the final release candidate came out earlier this week), complete with a new installer making what was simple process in 5, an even simpler process in 6. Other new key features include:

• Support for OpenID.
• A re-written menu system that boasts increased performance alongside other speed enhancements in the core code.
• Improvements to theming, it's now even easier to make Drupal look how you want it to.
• Multi-lingual support out of the box.

The DUKNWUG meets on Wednesday 20th February 2008, 7.00pm at MDDA Manchester for another gripping instalment of Drupal stuff!

Here's the upcoming link, see you there...

MySQL are running a free webinar on Thursday January 31st 2008 at 4pm GMT - for more details and to sign up go to http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/display-94.html

I'm very excited to be going to my very first Barcamp, James and I will (hopefully) be doing a talk on Drupal 6 which will be a great intro for anyone wanting to find out more about Drupal.

Barcamp is happening at The MEN Media Headquarters on Deansgate Manchester on March 1st 2008, it's free to attend but you must register and tickets are going fast!

We had another great evening on Wednesday at North West Drupal User group with some new faces appearing from as far away as Leeds. Steve very graciously offered to do his presentation another time as it seemed more appropriate to break into small groups and do some hands on Drupal Q&A

So all in all the group is going from strength to strength! Thanks to Steve who wrote some kind words about his first visit and to everyone who came along.