Drupal Johannesburg Meetup: Getting serious!

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2009-06-10 19:00 - 21:30 Africa/Johannesburg

In order to grow this group and to make sure the events are beneficial to everyone, we need more involvement on a leadership/planning level. During this meetup we'd like to get some volunteers who'd be able to assist moving the group forward - growing the group, having more regular meetings, and getting good event content.

A tentative agenda is:

1) Doing a 10 min presentation on what other Drupal groups do and how they're organised.
2) Deciding what we'd like to achieve as a Drupal group/community
3) Deciding on a structure we're going to establish - what types of things are we planning, what would we like to achieve, how do we handle the different requirements: Beginner vs. Expert etc.

Should we have a committee? What portfolios? etc.

4) Get volunteers for the committee. Vote if there are too many.

5) If we have time, perhaps have one or two people do a quick site showcase.

All suggestion welcome.

Event will take place at the NEW Obsidian offices, so don't go to the old one!

Unit 5
RandRidge Office park
Ateljee Street
Randpark Ridge
http://www.obsidian.co.za/content/contact-us-0

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Gomez_in_the_South - Thu, 2009-05-28 09:13

I haven't attended any of the previous meetups so I won't make any suggestions (yet), but I'd like to come along, get to know some of the other Drupallers and contribute where I can.

Cheers,
George


You're most welcome

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foxtrotcharlie - Thu, 2009-05-28 09:50

and it would be good to meet you and anyone else who's never been.


Any showcase volunteers?

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foxtrotcharlie - Fri, 2009-06-05 10:04

I'm looking for 2 volunteers to each do a short site showcase for this event.

While the focus for this evening will be on leadership and planning, it would be nice to also have some more interesting drupal stuff. Post in the comments if you're keen.


I'd be happy to do an

Gomez_in_the_South - Sat, 2009-06-06 04:38

I'd be happy to do an overview of one of the Drupal sites I've developed. Is there a projector available at the venue?

Are there any other topics anyone else would like to see covered? Especially from the less technical people attending.


Awesome :-)

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foxtrotcharlie - Sun, 2009-06-07 05:59

Thanks for the offer George - we'd love to hear from you. I'm assuming we'll have a projector available, but I'll confirm this on Monday. Depending on how long the first part of the agenda goes, we may have to keep the 2 showcases kind of short, so maybe 10 minutes or so each, if that will be enough for you?


Showcases

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foxtrotcharlie - Mon, 2009-06-08 14:50

Thanks to our 2 showcase volunteers, George and Greg.

George will be taking us through a site he's currently working on. It's a mobile site that allows users to create their own lists of bookmarks and feeds.

The areas of the site that make it interesting in terms of development are:
- use of FeedAPI
- ApacheSolr for search
- Device detection which chooses a theme based on the device's display width

Greg will also be showcasing a site - although the details of this still need to be confirmed.