Posted by dan.blah on September 17, 2008 at 3:11am
Start:
2008-09-24 18:00 - 20:00 US/Central Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Description:
This will be the first of what will hopefully be a regular monthly meeting. Being the first, we should spend some time talking about what we would generally like to see from them.
Location:
OJC Tech's Office @ 121 W. Goose Alley, Urbana, IL (Google Maps)
Google map showing our office and near by parking
Comments
Meet up notes...
It was a rocking good time with 13 attendees and a very diverse group from ninjas to beginners. There were people from the local universtiy, local media groups, independent hackers, and from local web desgin/development companies. Below are the various notes, links, and discussion items mentioned.
-=General Group Interests=-
Non Profit, Multimedia, Social Networking, General Drupal development, Getting started with Drupal
-=Primary topics=-
Where should we have these meetings (Central Illinois is a pretty large region)?
-Prime other locations would be Peoria or Bloomington
-Created a poll to see how many people would attend based on location
What should the meeting format/agenda be?
-It seemed people were generally cool with the idea of having a short presentation/program to start with.
--This is something that could be decided on within online discussions here and/or at the end of each meeting
-After the short presentation/program everyone is free to break out for more Birds of Feather (BoF)
-The meeting ends with everyone getting back together to highlight anything and plan the next meeting
-Created a wiki page to put together an agenda for presentations/programs and BoF topics
There was also mention of having a monthly Chambana lunch
-To make things simple, I would propose doing this the same day as the monthly evening meet up... what do you think?
-=Presentations=-
KarenS did great presentation on CCK and Views within a Drupal 6 site site.
-=50th Member Award=-
kionae (Nikki Blight) wins the 50th Member to join this group award, w00t!
-=Drupal Books Mentioned=-
Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6 - Less technical
Pro Drupal Development - More technical
Using Drupal - All around (not out till 12/08)
More @ http://drupal.org/books
-=Conferences mentioned=-
Do It With Drupal - http://www.doitwithdrupal.com/
Drupal Camp Chicago - http://drupalcampchicago.org/ and http://cdmug.org/node/198
-=Online Documentation for beginners=-
Getting Started - http://drupal.org/getting-started
Drupal Overview - http://drupal.org/getting-started/before/overview
Common Terminology - http://drupal.org/getting-started/before/terminology
All Offical Drupal Handbooks - http://drupal.org/handbooks
Drupal Demo Site - http://opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=132
-=Online community and news sites=-
Drupal managed external news feed - http://drupal.org/planet
Official Drupal Groups - http://groups.drupal.org
-=Other Good links=-
Drupal Case Studies - http://drupal.org/cases
Drupal Showcases (pick ones with lots of comments) - http://drupal.org/forum/25
What did I forget?
Thanks,
Dan Blah
Thanks,
Dan Blah