DrupaMentor II - recap
Just a couple of us met at the last DrupalMentor event (http://groups.drupal.org/node/1698)- and again, Courtney from FloatLeft made herself available by Skype; and again, we hammered the airport wireless at one stage, and then got it reset; and again, the PCs had more problems getting onto the Wifi than the Macs....
I was helping one person with very basic Intro to Drupal concepts, including how to create menus, and where content can end up (promoted to front page in a river of news style, or elsewhere). Ron needed help getting two video thumbnails per node - we tried to use CCK and views, but there was no video content type for CCK yet, so we were stymied there. At least I was able to help him install TinyMCE (the best of class WYSYWG editor for Drupal).
We'll be hosting another one in December, primarily to provide a follow-up for the people who come out of the Drupal Extreme Makeover (http://groups.drupal.org/node/1871).
Citizen journalism project
I got a note from David Geilhufe, suggesting that we look at CivicSpace as an alternative for the magazine that we're developing, which is wiki-based. On his suggestion, I created a site on CivicSpace, but don't see how I can turn it into a mag. Would this make a good project for DrupalMentor? All I've done so far is to post a copy of the project description there.
I'm still open to hosting a San Jose event; just need to know what sites/files we'll need, so I can confirm that we can access/run them in our training rooms.