Albany Region Drupal Meetup?

I'm definitely interested. I don't really have a place to offer for meeting, nor have I been to any meetups before, but I'm very interested in attending and helping out with getting a bigger Drupal community in Capital Region.

Do you guys have an old place and time that would work for a new generation of Drupalers that want to socialize? If it worked before, I'm sure it will work again. I'm not in a rush to go to a meetup, but I think we should try to harness any type of momentum there is. There are three people in this thread that are interested, I know of two more who would most likely come, and I'm sure if I advertise it a little bit we could get more. It would be good to share how everyone approaches their drupal projects. The drupal ecosystem is very large with a lot of different modules, base themes, and distributions, and is used for all types of purposes. I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

A saturday, preferably day time or morning, would be best for me. Hopefully we can organize something.

Thanks,
Patrick

We could meet at Union College in Schenectady. I can book a room equipped with a projector, wifi, etc. I will need to know how many people to expect in order to arrange for a room that will fit everyone comfortably.

Thanks!
- Mina

That would work for me. I'm located near there anyway so double plus points :) It sounds like we might be able to pull in 5 to 10 people.

I think we need to wait for njmahesh though? Does anyone else here want to chime in on availability? Saturdays at like 2pm seem like a reasonable time to me, but everyone's schedules are so different. If union college falls through I can host it at the mehigan bellone office in the stockade, or we can ask one of the student groups at UAlbany to receive us.

I'd be ok traveling to Schenectady but can't do any Saturdays in Feb. due to a class I'm taking at NYU. I'll catch up with you all when I'm done with it.

Feb 17th sounds good to me.

Weekends won't work for me. Friday 2/17 seems like an option. I am away at a conference until Thursday. If we have a date by than I can make arrangements for a room when I return.

Patrick, we never had a formal agenda in the past but the Hudson Valley group seems to use them and they are thriving. Since our group hasn't met in a while and it sounds like it will be a lot of new people, I'd suggest devoting a few minutes to introductions and then maybe a show and tell of sites people are working on. Having someone volunteer in advance of the meeting to teach the group about a module or development solution they've mastered would be a nice touch. I'd try to keep the meetings to around 2-2.5 hours in total.

Unfortunately, I will not be able to make it on the 17th because I'll be traveling to NYC for my class but I look forward to joining you all for future meetings.

Here is typical agenda followed by NYC and other meet-up's. We can follow the same or can customize according to our crowd interest. Last one I showed the demo of the site I build and other guy talked about node.js. I guess you can opt for 20 Min Talk on geofield & geocoder and I can do something similar. Let me create the event for Feb 17th at 7PM.

Agenda

1. LIGHTNING ROUNDS
   New feature. Have a topic you can present in 5 minutes (with 5 more minutes for questions)? The basic idea is there are patterns for developing sites the "drupal" way ("what would drupal do? etc."). Tell us a quick 5 minute recipe for how to put the Drupal "bricks" together. Theming techniques or other things may also be appropriate. Propose it below. Make sure you mention it is for the "lightning round" otherwise it might get confused with a longer presentation.

2. 20 Min Talks
   Have a topic that needs more then 5 minutes, we have slots of 20 minute talks. The basic idea is there are broader subjects or more detailed discussions this is the type of talk you would want to signup for, please mention 20 min talk when posting your talk description and the audience you expect to speak to.

3. We will also have the New 2 Drupal BoF(birds of a feather). If you are new to Drupal and the talks don't apply to you some of us will take a group and talk with you about your issues.

I've been meaning to get involved with one of these for the past several months, but the stars just haven't aligned. Now that my schedule is finally starting to clear a (tiny) bit, I'm tentative for the 24th, but would love to get in on this!

Pls let me know who can attend Drupal Meetup on Feb 24th between 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM. You can vote on this comment for the head count.

Following People said 'Yes' for Feb 24th:
1.njmahesh
2.juliejohnson26
3.Patrick Avella

The 24th beween 6:30pm - 9:00pm works pefectly fine for me.

Thanks.

Location:

We have 3 choice:

1. Delaware Branch Library - by Juliejohnson26
2. Union College - by topazzz
3. Guilderland Library - by njmahesh, I already checked the availability, they said yes for 24th.

Pls let me know which one to go for this meeting?

The Delaware branch meeting room is only available until 5:30 on Friday the 24th but it's the closest one for me so that's my preference. Guilderland Library would be my second choice, again, just for convenience of location.

Do we have an approximate count of how many are planning on attending? I want to make sure I reserve a room that will work.

Thanks!

I am offering up my location here at the NY Senate Tech Services offices... I haven't been following the group as much lately, but I thought I could at least offer our spot if not now, in the future.

We seat up to like, 35-40 and have a ton of outlets, wifi & a projector and are located at Empire State Plaza.