Hello All
Still in hangover of Drupal India Camp which took place on Sat (31st Jan 09) in Pune!
It was wonderful to see such an eager & enthusiastic crowd (over 300) gathering & discussing Drupal for the whole day. Good sessions & great interactions with everyone!
Hearty thanks to all the organizers for their efforts & zeal to make the camp successful!
I wish to take our discussion from the last session online on the India Group on groups.drupal.org/india (i.e. here!)
The discussion in our last session was - How to build a strong Drupal community in India? This gave rise to several related discussions
- How to connect with all the Drupal developers in India
- How to build strong bond within the community
- How should we use a combination of online & offline platforms & forums to achieve this
- What should be the components & activities of these forums
- .... and many more...
I strongly feel that we should hold this discussion at an online place (preferably this group)... conclude the discussion positively in a defined timeframe(!) and should end up with a concrete, achievable task list....
What do you all say?
Prasad
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Let's do it!
Greetings Prasad and everyone!
Drupal Camp in Pune was an awesome event and I arrived back home in Mysore last night quite content and excited about our blossoming Drupal community in India and its future.
Several of us carried on the discussion about how and where to keep connected in between the camps, building bonds, sharing news etc. as you mentioned and we came to the same conclusion — right here on http://groups.drupal.org/india is the best place to get ball rolling.
Among other ideas I think a nice point to start is to try and get all the Indian Drupal Developers, or aspiring developers, we know (or know of) to strongly consider subscribing to this group and putting a few minutes into their profile page. A profile picture and a little bit of info goes a long way in helping everyone remember faces and who's who. I'd love to know everyone by name and be more acquainted the next time we all meet up.
Another component / activity of this group I think would be great is the sharing of work/project related stuff. It would be really cool to be able to see what others' are working on or have done, and share the same myself.
Thanks!
Absolutely
Lets try to make this group more usable by laying out content semantically (read, filter out jobs from list and put them in a different block). A long list with so many job posting kinda puts me off.
Dipen Chaudhary
http://dipenchaudhary.com
http://playdrupal.com
Dipen Chaudhary
Founder, QED42 http://www.qed42.com Drupal development
Enjoyed a lot
Drupal Camp India Pune 09 was an excellent experience for me as i am very new to drupal got a change to present a talk i.e a beginner for beginners good crowd hey i need a solution for my ldap problem from someone here and try to contribute to the Localization Project @ http://l10n.kashipur.in
Regards
Abhishek Nagar
http://abhisheknagar.com
http://kashipur.in
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Abhishek Nagar
http://nagar.me
http://kashipur.in
Hey Lets Start wid bringing all @ group
Hello.... i request the developer of http://punedrupalcamp09.drupalindia.in/ site to send a email to all registered users of the Pune drupal camp , with the link of our India group to join.... so this wil be the first step to atleast bring out the campers on group.. many might have not registered yet. those who have registered wil ignore the mail... what say.... wil do na??? Actully i was unable to get th email ids of all campers,otherwise i would have done it......
Thanks
RAhul!!!
Tracking Drupalers in India
Hi,
How about tracking all the Drupalers on a Map. Say initially the place they come from. There'll be a Google Map with Users plotted as icons on the Map. Click on the Icon and a Popup shows up showing some basic information about the User and a link to his complete profile.
The GMap Module helps do this.
http://drupal.org/project/gmap
I guess the Google Visualization API is too good for data visualizations.
http://drupal.org/node/299142
http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/index.html
me like that :D Dipen
me like that :D
Dipen Chaudhary
http://dipenchaudhary.com
http://playdrupal.com
Dipen Chaudhary
Founder, QED42 http://www.qed42.com Drupal development
came back from bed!!
I think its an excellent idea, map UI has some use after all.
Dipen Chaudhary
http://dipenchaudhary.com
http://playdrupal.com
Dipen Chaudhary
Founder, QED42 http://www.qed42.com Drupal development
going to bed..
Yes, the Map UI is very useful, and is powerful with the right kind of Applications. For example: Sumit was talking about an Election Website to publish information about the General Elections. Here we can use a Map to show the Constituencies; Candidates are applying from. We can show an Intensity Map of the number of votes received by a Party across the country. Any analysis that needs Geographic Extents to be considered!
Can we install the GMap module for our Group?
I like the idea, but...
are you talking about implementing this on another drupal india type of site? I am assuming that level of customization is impossible on Drupal Groups, therefor I ask.
Can't we manage the modules?
Are there any restrictions to installing new modules in our group?
We can't install new modules
We can't install new modules here so the only option for using maps would be to implement it on a separate web site.
I like the idea and I think we should still consider it, but would suggest to first come up with a list of features that we can't have here and we consider indispensable for our community. That will give us a clearer idea in which way to procede.
Learned a lot from the Camp
Really nice to interact with all experienced Drupaliers.
Just Hello
I thought i will just say an hello to everyone..
and Prasad we have to decide on meet up place for drupalers in pune.
Do Something.Prioritize and focus.
Our own PHP Community http://phpcamp.net
Do Something.Prioritize and focus.
Our own PHP Community http://phpcamp.net
Where are rest all guys.......................
Hi friends, myself RAHUL here.... nice to see the thread, but where are the rest all guys.....
well to start on my behaif i m thinking of writhing firstly this comment through which i want to thank all the presenters. For their wonderful presentations. Vaish, jonathan, Dipen, ..... Sumeet Pareek..,Mukesh Agarwal...Gaurav Kumar........ This one is for you...
Hello.......To All
Hello every body.....myself sachin durge....nice to see all of you!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello...
hello to all the drupallers
from a new bee