OG for Interactive Church Ministries Brainstorm Meetup

This is the official first step to a future get together where we'll discuss how to more effectively use Organic Groups for interactive ministry groups on a church website.

I want to lead an in-person group in Detroit and pair it with an online live video/chat where we'll all talk (probably for a few hours) about how to better use OG on church websites. Organic Groups is a great starting point for allowing ministries to gather online, but it's not ideal, is harder to use ,and has some problems. Please note that this will not be an OG training! We will not talk about how to use OG, theme it, etc...we'll simply talk about what it does and how to improve it.

Here's a "off the top of my head" agenda:

• Talk about the concept of online ministry outside of the Drupal context. Talk about, in a perfect world, ministries would do online, how it would function, what would be helpful or not, etc. Basically, we pain the 'perfect picture' of online ministry groups.
• Define the current state of OG. How it's currently working, what it can do, etc. The purpose is to clear up or enlighten any dark corners where OG may be doing things that not everyone knows about. It is this part that will help define the problem/limitations of OG for ministries
• Talk about OG add-on modules. What's out there that people have used. What works well and what doesn't. How does it advance some of the main problems we want to solve? Between this and the previous step we should have a fairly full scope of the state of OG for churches
• Create a general checklist of what exists in OG to solve these problems (in the first step) and what does not. We should be able to define what parts of OG are missing, need to be altered, or need to be developed.
• Finally, we'll look at individual components of OG...the stock menus, Views integration, and more to see where we could expand OG without doing custom development.
• In the end, hopefully we'll have a clearer state of OG and have some solid ideas on how to improve it or configure it to work well with ministries.

I'm open to anyone who may want to host this event. I'm trying to get a venue in the metro detroit area, but if you have one that has stable internet for the video broadcast, please speak up. I'll post this as an event once we get day/time confirmed.