Meetups
Hey Folks,
Thought I would get the ball rolling on local New Orleans meetups - So...
I figure to be @:
8210 Oak Street - Zotz Coffee Shop
From:
6pm to 8pm on June 27th
I very selfishly thought I would start with this location because it is next to my work, and the time 'cause I figured people would have time to get there from whereever. I live in the Irish Channel neighborhood near Magazine and would be pretty good with anything in that area, or even the quarter... Greta, Met, etc would be hard for me since I don't keep a car these days, but if the mighty hoards of Drupal programmers in the swamps speak up, then so be it. (Bonus points for spots along the street car)
If anyone wants to request an alternate location for the next one, please comment away, or PM or ... show up Friday
I think the Ideal would be to have weekly super casual meetups (maybe Wednesdays?), then a once a month actual Meeting. The reason for the weekly meetings would just be to have a place to bounce problems and solutions off other Drupal folk once a week while the problems are still fresh. Then the monthly to have a better chance to draw people in.
Anyway, shall see what happens
Map link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&f=d&daddr=8210+Oak+St+New+Orle...
What came of it
We had three people show up for the first meeting!
Nature of the group:
Decision was made to have it be a mixed topics group focused on general web developer issues from managing projects to software standards. We are taking a stab at trying to have topics for each meeting.
Makeup of the group at first meeting:
100% people working in web development, 33% working in drupal (out of 3 people)
Schedule:
Meetings are weekly Thursday 6pm @ 8210 Oak Street - Zotz Coffee Shop
Topic for the meeting on July 10th: Podcasts
Baton Rouge / LSU
Hey. it would be nice to meet other Drupal users in Baton Rouge, especially if you're a student at LSU.
I'm rarely in New Orleans but if I get the chance i'll show up to that one.