Any Interest in a Boston Area Drupal Jam Session?
Great discussions yesterday at the Meetup and dinner afterwards. I talked with a few people about the idea of holding a Drupal Jam Session every so often, like once or twice a month. The idea would be to host a "working meeting", where people come expecting to work on their own projects, but also have time for "lightening talks" where they share any particular challenges they are facing and seek input on how to tackle them.
The goal of these Jam Sessions is two-fold:
1. Get out and socialize with fellow Drupalers, thereby reinforcing the local Drupal community
2. Get work done and especially get help breaking through particular challenges (e.g., selecting modules, developing custom module, theming a site, performance tuning)
If you are interested in participating in future Drupal Jam Sessions, please comment here with your input on objectives, format, frequency/dates, location, etc.
Thanks,
Erik
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Definitely Interested
I think this is a great idea. I was thinking as I left last night that I wish it was something I could do much more frequently. The other thought I had is that it would be really helpful to me if we did some smaller case studies, something like the Form API question or Menu comments that came up last night and people could do write ups on how they solved or would solve the problem. I think it would help many of us learn more about Drupal and its vast feature list, but could also aid in the development of new features.
Case Studies
Your case studies idea sounds like it might also be appropriate for Drupal Dojo.
Awesome idea
Point number two is my favorite. I could trade looks over people's shoulders now and then. Count me in.
Count me in as well
I'd definitely be interested. I'd like to see how other Drupalers do things, theming AND module-dev-wise. I work out of Billerica but live in Somerville, so I do things in the suburbs or in metro.
ETA: schedule-wise, I generally can't make anything on Tuesdays.
I'm interested too. My
I'm interested too. My schedule is usually flexible except when it is not. I live in Arlington but can get to anything within 495.
I am interested as well.
I am interested as well. Count me in.
Im trying to figure out the best process of transferring a couple sites to a new server and possibly Drupal 6.
+1
in addition, some sort of log/blog might be helpful, with attendees posting challenges encountered, overcome and collaborated on. it'd be nice to have an ongoing dialog about real world development uses and challenges.
Lets just use this group for
Lets just use this group for such a log. We can free tag our posts with 'tips' or somesuch. Then we can eventually create a block on the homepage for these posts.
That would be Awesome
In particular, I would love to see someone post the Forms theming question asked at the meetup, perhaps with a few more details about the problem. When I got home from the meeting, I tried to see if I could figure out what to do, for instance, would setting the #theme attribute work. But I realized I didn't know enough about what exactly they were trying to do or what they had tried in the past to know. And it seemed like there was a fair amount of buzz around the different menu displays presented at the meeting and would love to hear more about how they attacked the problem of menus.
Boston OG Free tags?
At the moment we cannot use free tags in the Boston OG vocabulary. They are locked down as being only geographic-specific. Can we change this, or should we just use site-wide tags?
Seems to me that site-wide
Seems to me that site-wide tags are fine for this. Our block would filter on a particular sitewide tag like howto and our group.
I'm very interested in this as well.
Hey Guys,
Just joined Groups because of the Drupal jam session idea. Would be great to all work together and see if we can help each other out. I'm a bit of a Drupal newbie, but it's starting to click pretty well now. Only major problem? I'm on 6.x and there aren't so many useful modules. I'm looking at developing my own due to the shortage.
So what's the latest on this? I'd say twice a month would be fantastic! I'd be there.
hey, me too!
good lord, didn't even know this group existed for all of these years that i've been registered at drupal.org ...duh
moshe just turned me on to it and so i've joined and would certainly love to get involved in a local drupal jam of some kind...