Interest in a South Dakota Meetup

Mitchell is only a 1 hr drive (as opposed to 2 hrs for SF), but I'd be open to drive to SF if the timeframe is decent. I guess it depends on where everyone hails from. :)

Don't think I've ever driven to Mitchell.

If I could time it with a visit to my family (I'm originally from Brandon, SD), I'd be up for a meet-up in Sioux Falls.

So when are we thinking works good for everyone? Perhaps I'll throw out some dates and we can start voting.. :)

A few weekends that work with my schedule right now (either Saturday or Sunday works for me, but feel free to share input on preferred day):

January 3/4th, 2009
January 24/25th, 2009
January 31st/February 1st, 2009

Do any of these dates work good for others? I can start looking for a potential venue unless someone in SF wants to take that on (or if you know of a cool place to meetup please share). :)

Look forward to meeting you all,
-dellintosh

Also, want to mention about possible topics you'd like to discuss... nothing extravagant (probably less than a half hour each, unless discussions make it go longer). Please share some idea(s) you have on what you'd like to share with the rest of the group.

My Topic: (might change from now til then)
My experiences porting modules to 6.x.. (guess I'll have to keep it short since that can go long if I'm not careful... but I'll make sure to summarize...) :)

Dellintosh,

Sorry, that I didn't respond to your post and hopefully others may be able to join in on possible dates/location for a Sioux Falls get together. At this time, I could do the late January or early February dates. I may have to do some travel for work that may throw my commitments to those dates though (should learn later this week).

Bryan

Missing 2 dates already... shall we try again? :)

Hi Folks,
just found this place - groups I mean. I 'm pretty new to drupal, building a site now and really need some help with ubercart. I live in Rapid, and would love to meet with some folks and talk about all things drupal. I'm not a coder, but I have been building various sites for a long time.

Thanks,
Milt Lee
Rapid City, SD

milt at manykites (dot) org

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