New Drupal PGH Meetup Organizers, Process

As we all know, Mark has been doing the administration and organization of our meetup single-handedly for quite a while now. Last meeting we discussed a new admin/organizational structure that will distribute the workload, add some freshness and diversity to point of view and venue, and hopefully invigorate our community and expand our user base. These changes go alongside our initiative to define and standardize Drupal PGH admin workflow, eventually pulling these activities off of scrap paper, conversations, and private email, and onto the new local user groups distro. This standardization is especially important to lower the barrier to members becoming organizers, ensuring the continued existence and success of the meetup no matter the future situation of our current fearless leader(s) -- a very open source, Drupal way of doing things.

The main change for now:

Three Organizers a Year

No more relying on one person to organize a year's worth of awesome meetups! Starting in March, we'll be splitting the year's meetups into three month blocks, each organized by a volunteer member. I'll be organizing March through May, and Nitrosx a.k.a. Max will be our organizer for the next three meetups after that. You may notice that three organizers with three meetups each leaves three months free -- these will be filled by either social meetups or events (like that camp we've been talking about). So the pattern goes something like

More to come

There are other changes in the works, mostly centering around standardization and recording our presentations. The meetup format itself won't be changing -- it's the same Drupal PGH you know and love, just more smooth, organized, and profesh.

I'll be posting more here as progress continues. Thanks, and let us know what you think.