Northern NJ Drupal Group Topics

At our initial NJIT meeting (we've met previous in Mahwah and East Rutherford) we compiled a list of topics we would like to discuss at the Northern NJ Drupal Group. This list was first posted by EMDash.

There is no specific order to this list. We should consider prioritizing however.

Topics to consider for the Northern New Jersey Drupal Group

1. How to find/hire a good Drupal developer/themer/admin/etc
2. Problem of the week
3. New modules that you like/found
4. Current issues
5. Best practices
6. Show/tell
7. Newbie crash course
8. Drupal aspect of the month - cck, views, etc
9. Advanced techniques
10. Performance issues, memcache, caching, etc
11. Uber-advanced and uber-beginner stuff
12. Split rooms - beginner and advanced?
13. Workflow
14. Concept to protoype to final project
15. Features (modules)
16. How to evaluate a module
17. Implementing a drupal site
18. GIT
19. Drupal distros
20. Code walk through
21. Prototyping
22. Mobile development
23. jQuery and drupal
24. Drupal as a business tool
25. drupal 7
26. Comparison to other CMS- Joomla, wordpress
27. Site management
28. Community managment
29. Module review
30. Taxonomy
31. Drush and aegir
32. Multi-sites - how/why
33. Contributing - patches, documentation
34. How to apply patches
35. Volunteer and Pro Bono Projects: Benefits and Pitfalls

Suggestions for addressing the above topics

• We should consider prioritizing the above issues.
• We should each pick three topics; this help us to quickly filter and reorder the list by priority.
• We should address two topics at every meeting: (2)Problem of the week and (25)Drupal 7.
• We should each take ownership of a topic to address and present, regardless of our level of expertise.