NH Drupal Meetup/Event planning

Sorry for the delay, but between DrupalCon, the 'nerd ick' cold/flu that's been passing around the office, and of course the snow (it's falling again right now), things have been a mite hectic.

We need to pick a date/location for a first NH meetup... suggestions welcomed.

Ben has kindly offered the conference room at Commonplaces, which will hold about 15-20 people, and has a projector. It's in Hampstead, conveniently located 15 minutes off I93 exit 3. Other offers will be considered, either for a first meeting, or future meetings, so speak up!

Date/Time:

To be determined. Late April is my preference right now, on a weekday night, say 7:00/30pm to 9pm What's your preferences? Day of Week?

Topics:

1) Lightning talks are good for getting everyone involved... pick anything and talk for 5 minutes on it.
Interesting module you use, book you read, code you wrote, design you made, etc...

Pro: lots of people involvement - fresh idea sharing
Con: Shy people, Different levels of skills/interest, size of group (too big or too small)

2) Speaker/Presentation - devote a half hour/45 minutes to a speaker/presentation on a topic of general interest.

3) A meld of the two, allowing folks to lightning speak for 5 minutes, after having a presentation first.

I'll vote for #3 first, and then we can see what participants find most useful.

I've got an idea for the first presentation, which I've bounced off a few people and everyone so far liked:

I call it: "Web 2.0, Code 0" or How to Build a Web 2.0 site in Drupal without ever touching PHP at all

I have to work on this (it's only an cool idea so far, not a fleshed out presentation yet), but I think it's good because it spans the range of users out there: newbies, designers without coding skills, and Drupal professionals.

It'll focus on how to combine existing modules (some old, some new), not requiring php knowledge, and ending up with a site that endusers will clearly label as "Web 2.0" ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g )
See http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Web_2.0_Map.svg
for a great map of what Web 2.0 is about...