The 3rd Indy Drupal HackFest - Saturday June 20th noon-4pm.
At the offices of www.ProBlogService.com in the MidWest Internet Building Map Here - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=5348+N+TACOMA+AVE,+INDIANAPOLIS,+IN+46220&...
Come when you can leave when you have to. This is an open house setting where we get together and help each other with whatever needs are presented. Bring your questions, troubles, etc and get help. Views, CCK, theming, Module development, Server admin, taxonomy, etc.. Some one there will have an answer for you OR can help you find the answer.
Basically, we just show up and break off into smaller groups and tackle whatever issues are brought up first. If we ALL want to do the same thing then we can just let someone have the floor for 15 or 20 minutes for a presentation, then go back to smaller groups.
It's REAL casual...
This is GREAT for N00BS who want to see what all the buzz around DRUPAL is all about! :-)
The location will either be broadripple [where the last 2 HackFests were] OR at out usual location NW Indy at Promethius Consulting where our regular Monday meetings are held.
Reply to this post with some topics you are able to share at the HackFest. I know that Aaron and I have recently found TWO totally different ways to make great image galleries with CCK+Views. We're both anxious to show that off.
Check back here for updates on conversations on what will be going on at the HackFest this time around.
Comments
Tentative
I'll have a 2/3 week old baby so I may use this as an escape :)
Neil Hastings
http://twitter.com/indytechcook
Car Pooling From Cincinnati
Would anybody be interested in car pooling from Cincinnati to Indy for this meeting?
I would like to go but don't want to drive the entire 3+ hours round trip.
Of course car pooling would reduce everyone's gas expense and is good for the environment!
If interested, please let me know.
Dave Connerth
dave@salesanswer.com.
Cinci in the house...
Phil [aka groundwind] is listed as attending. Last time he came with Chuck. Check those tow out and see if you can get in on it. We'd love to have you!
What do you hope to get out of the HackFest?
Taxonomy Menu
I moderate a module called Taxonomy Menu (http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu). Our good friend sdudenhofer has agreed to take it over as my new baby comes. I think it would be a huge help to him if we could hash out some of 146 open issues to make it more manageable. I've even be up for the idea of running this module as a group.
Neil Hastings
http://twitter.com/indytechcook
what do you want from YOUR hackfest?
Here's a big-ol-dump of ideas. Most of these I can speak about but some would be best done by others...
Beyond the obvious CCK and Views...
PLZ reply with any other ideas. These HackFests are turning into mini-DrupalCamps VERY quickly. Lets keep the caliber UP and increase the value of the gig. Attendees will want to come back and those who missed this one won't want to miss the next one!
- DV
Our creative colleagues
We ought to discuss ways of speaking to our creative colleagues about why Drupal is the tool their clients want and need. (I use Wordpress, why would I want Drupal???)
Services Module!
I've had the "pleasure" of debugging a bunch of the sub-services in the Services module recently for projects. If anybody is interested in the Services module (ie, how to connect Flash/Flex/etc to Drupal), I could give a walkthrough.
Free Books! Free Pizza!
FREE - Pizza! {thank you www.problogservice.com / Mike Seidle!}
Free - 2 copies of Pro Drupal Development http://www.amazon.com/Drupal-Development-Second-Beginning-Professional/d... {thank you Chuck Lima!}
and 2 copies of Cracking Drupal http://crackingdrupal.com/ {Thank you John Wiley & Sons, Inc}
PLZ bring a 2 liter of your FAV beverage. Ice and cups will be provided! [reply to post and mention how many 2liters (and what kind) you can bring] :-)
See you there!
Have we narrowed down the location?
I may have missed it but I'm not sure which venue to arrive at-
Promethius?
or
broadripple?
Also, this time we'll arrive on time.
Phil
Afterwards
Anyone up for catching a bite to eat and maybe a brew afterwards? Maybe its to early in the day...but I am pretty sure that it will be 5 o'clock somewhere.
Freelancer
Twitter sdudenhofer
seth@osjournal.net
I know that many of us CINDUG folks are in for an after hour.
Guess we'll be making sure that all those in the big red van are on that plan.
Phil
Broad Ripple Brew Pub
http://www.broadripplebrewpub.com/index.html
or any other suggestions are welcome!
Freelancer
Twitter sdudenhofer
seth@osjournal.net
oh yah! Broadripple!
5348 Tocoma Ave 46220 Mid West Internet office building home of www.problogservice.com
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=5348+N+TACOMA+AVE,+INDIANAPOLIS,+IN+46220&...
Options for getting there...
Off of Keystone ave [some of you may be taking I-70 WEST into INDY their is a Keystone ave Exit that allows you to take Keystone NORTH]
The MidWest building is behind the pawn shop ON YOUR RIGHT (Which is EAST) off of Keystone and Armour street. NO LIGHT At THAT INTERSECTION
if you turn right on to Armour inbetween the pawn shop and the Liquor store, then you're looking at the back of the building that we are in. There's a lonely back door on a cinderblock building. Either park in back or pull around front and see the Drupal banner.
If you're coming from the North and heading SOUTH then you will see 54th and Keystone which IS a traffic light. You can take a left (to go EAST) on 54th and TOCOMA is right there. TAKE A RIGHT onto Tacoma for 50 yards and see the MidWest building on the right and hopefully my DRUPAL banner will be in full effect!
Lots of names missing from the list?
HackFest Goers.... oh yah, plz bring a 2liter with you :-)
Please register as ATTENDING via the REGISTER button near the top of this post.
We need to know how much PIZZA to buy!
THNX.
If you're bringing friends who are not on this thread please either encourage them to join the group and register OR give me a shout out and let me know how many people are off the radar.
I pulled some strings
I may have told some of you how disappointed I was that I wasn't going to be able to make it... psych! I'm totally gonna be there. It'll be great to see the CINDUG friends again! It'll be good to see Brandonian again too, and for the record... +1 on the Services module walk-through!
Unfortunately, I won't be able to make an after party... I will be promptly hitting the road near closing time. So for those staying afterwards - tip one back for me! Looking forward to seeing everyone!
http://dudenhofer.com
http://twitter.com/dudenhofer
Bring your cameras!
It would be awesome to get some press out of this event!
Lets get as many digital stills as we can, and also grab some video here and there.
As we tweet, post to flickr, youtube, ustream, etc we can use the hashtag #indydrupalhackfest so that searching is easier.
It would be equally awesome if many of us would blog about this on our personal blogs. I believe that these HackFests are going to grow into something bigger; likely an Indy DrupalCamp maybe even next year!
See you there!