Posted by fending on September 8, 2011 at 3:20am
Start:
2011-09-19 19:00 - 20:30 America/New_York Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Summer happened! And it's meetin' time again! We should talk about DrupalCamp WNY ~ man, is this going to be a busy month ahead!!!!!
Location
Main-Washington Exchange Coworking
523 Main Street / 500 Washington
Meeting is on Second Floor on the Main St side... (look for the signs!)
Buffalo, NY 14203
Facebook Page with Map...
Online
http://fendinggroup.webex.com
password: drupalpeople
Presentations
Who's got something to say? Volunteer!
Sign up!
Oh yeah -- and don't forget to sign up to attend the event so we can determine if we need to move the date. Comments are good, too. We looooooooves the comments.
Comments
Provided I don't defect. . . .
I'd be glad to recap the to-be-freshly-concluded Montréal D-camp.
ATTN: any or all of our able Niagara region gang, you're welcome to be our guests in Buffalo this month.
Attending
I will attend via webex.
Attending
I will attend via Webex.
Renee Davias, Web Architect
370 Woodcliff Dr., Suite 200, Fairport, NY 14450
w: 585 385 6810 x3423 | m: 585 354 5693 | f: 585 264 3279
rdavias@coopervision.com
Welcome! . . .
To Darla and Renee, it will be great to have you aboard at the meeting . . . via WebEx or otherwise.
With the first ever DrupalCamp WNY slated for Oct. 14 & 15, we're inviting everyone to contribute ideas for the sessions, requests for guest speakers, etc. Note that we will have updates on the volunteer openings as well.
Also, Renee, thanks for reminding us that CooperVision is Drupal. Anchored at the USA site, at least :-)
Thanks and have a nice weekend.
Thanks
Thanks John. I look forward to participating in the WNY Drupal Group. I am new to Drupal but hope to be able to contribute to the group ASAP.
Renee
Renee Davias, Web Architect
370 Woodcliff Dr., Suite 200, Fairport, NY 14450
w: 585 385 6810 x3423 | m: 585 354 5693 | f: 585 264 3279
rdavias@coopervision.com
WebEx participant in Syracuse
Looking forward to this; my first WNY Drupal meeting... ~6 hour round trip for 1.5 hour meeting is a bit far, so I'll have to be virtual this time.
Best regards,
Jon Peck
Owner, FluxSauce
http://fluxsauce.com
http://linkedin.com/in/jonpeck
Salt City representin'. . . .
Jon, you're welcome to attend virtually. It's great to see new DA members and feel free to offer ideas for presenting.
For future reference, we have had Syracuse visitors/presenters, something to keep in mind for DrupalCampWNY in five weeks.
-John
p.s.: You've got a cool site--updated to a secure version, no less.
Thanks for the welcome
Thanks John, both for the welcome and the kind words on my site.
Presenters, you say? That's something I'm interested in... I submitted a session for Denver 2012 called Optimize Site Deployments with Drush, is that something that I should submit here as well?
You're welcome. . . .
Sure, we always need Drush folks to share their experience.
I guess the question is, how would you like to give the Denver talk in person at the WNY D-camp?
Either way there's room for a meetup-length version of it when you attend virtually. Usually we shoot for under twenty minutes, which seems to leave a nice balance between presentation and Q&A.
Don't forget, on 9/19 we will be talking up D-camp WNY slated for Oct. 14 & 15. It should be fun.
Thanks!
Sure, thank you for the invitation
I can give the presentation in-person at the D-Camp, no problem. I'll follow-up directly.
One Preso Topic
In addition to an update on DrupalCamp WNY 2011, I can give this presentation:
Using the Conference Organizing Distribution
There are some key benefits of using the Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) for paid/ticketed events. Some sites even use it for year-round operations, and it presents some really fast time to market for features common to such sites.
GIT
Brian,
Thanks for arranging the meeting last night. It was v.informative. Pls send me the GIT info for downloading the COD distribution so that I can modify the theme.
Mahesh
Drupal PM/Themer
njmahesh@ecmcircle.com
all set!
I got Mahesh hooked up with Git access last night. Woohoo!!!
Meeting notes
I talked a fair bit about:
- the general effort of building a site as bootstrapped by a distro instead of from scratch
- using the COD (conference organizing distribution) by review our basic implementation at http://drupalcampwny.org
- Contexts and the quirkiness of weighting blocks that appear from different contexts
- Using panels and context together to build pages
- a bit more on panels itself (in Q&A)
Then we talked about DCamp in particular, calling for volunteers and registrations.
John Weiksnar talked about DCamp Montreal, some things like learned about DrupalCamps by attending, and the general awesomeness of being around that many Drupallers.
I think that was it? Thanks all for attending, and SEE YOU AT DRUPALCAMP!!!
How about 1 day Camp?
My Suggestion: Why don't we make this event as 1 day camp instead of 2 days since we are doing this for the fist time, also we can focus more and make it successful. I have been to NYC, Connecticut and Boston DrupalCamp and most of them are running a day camp only.
Following events are upcoming 1 day camp
http://drupalcampnh.org/
http://drupalcampnyc.org/
Mahesh
Drupal PM/Themer
njmahesh@ecmcircle.com
Only if there aren't enough sessions
If there aren't enough sessions to support filling two days, we should totally consider reducing scope to one. (In fact, that should be the trigger to do so.) This is a good suggestion. We'll know that by the end of the week. Also, there are not as many rooms (one or two, with some small breakout spaces) at this camp's venue, so we want to make it so as many people can contribute as possible. Again, if we don't have enough people to present / fill days, or if registration is below, say, 75 -- reduce reduce reduce!!! I agree.
Vis a vis the East Coast. . . .
Would you agree that since the WNY region is not as saturated with Drupal awareness and developers, that part of our strategy is to appeal to newbies?
That means checkerboarding the prepared lectures with more chances to have hands-on, "This is Drupal in action" learning with open participation (if room is needed, spillover to the hotel lobby or cafe across the street is eminently possible). Add that to the BoF discussions, food breaks, and the 9-to-5 day whittles down pretty fast.
I know this depends on the total number of sessions/signups. Let's definitely focus on that for now and see. Then, you're right, reduce if need be.
Which day would you ax?
We need the proposals first
Cart, meet horse. Get the session proposals first. If there's a total dearth of Beginner stuff, you don't have a Day One as described. This isn't being put on by Lullabot, rather this user group -- old members and new -- who are looking to do three things:
There are going to be a ton of employers and large-ish shops that hire out project work at this event. If that's not enough incentive for any local drupaller/drupalista to add multiple presentations on Beginner-Intermediate-Advanced topics, then I don't know what to do except trim the DCamp like Mohesh suggested.
We only have what we've got! (?) ;)
More sessions, please!!!!!