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+title: Introducing a Drupal distribution for meetup websites
+excerpt: I'm starting development on a new Drupal distribution for building websites for meetup groups.
+tags:
+    - drupal
+    - drupal-9
+    - drupal-distribution
+    - drupal-meetup-distribution
+    - personal
+    - php
+    - php-south-wales
+date: 2021-10-07
+---
+
+I'm the current organiser of the [PHP South Wales user group](https://www.phpsouthwales.uk) and built the current website with Drupal 8, which I started in 2019.
+
+There are some basic pages, but also functionality to display upcoming and past events, show current sponsors, and to populate event data from Meetup.com - functionality that could needed by other meetup groups for their websites - such as other PHP and Drupal user groups that I've organised and attended.
+
+Inspired by other Drupal distributions like [LocalGov](https://www.drupal.org/project/localgov), I've decided to refactor the current site into a reusable distribution that other meetup groups can use. It's not intended to be a clone of Meetup.com, but to be used for a website for a single meetup group to show their events and showcase their own community.
+
+This also means that any new functionality can be added straight to the distribution and immediately available for everyone.
+
+I've created a [Drupal Meetup organisation on GitHub][github] which contains repositories for the distribution as well as a project template, and these repositories are pushed to [Packagist][packagist] to that they can be installed with Composer - e.g. `composer create-project --stability dev drupal-meetup/drupal-meetup-project my-new-meetup`.
+
+This seems like a good opportunity to do some more Drupal contribution and may benefit others too who want to build their own meetup group websites.
+
+[github]: https://github.com/drupal-meetup
+[packagist]: https://packagist.org/packages/opdavies/?query=drupal-meetup