Seattle DUG July Meeting

Posted by robeano on July 6, 2009 at 9:09pm

Start:

2009-07-16 18:00 - 20:00 America/Vancouver

Organizers:

robeano

GregoryHeller

Event type:

User group meeting

Learn about Drupal and your local Drupal enthusiasts. We're going to have a slightly different format this month. We want to have our usual meeting from 6 pm until 7:30 pm, then reserve the last half-hour for proper socializing, snacking, and further discussion at the Owl N' Thistle around the corner from StartPad.

Date and Time: July 16, 6 - 8 pm PST

Location:

StartPad (6 pm - 7:30 pm)
811 First Avenue, Suite 480
Seattle, WA 98104

Owl N' Thistle (7:30 - 8 pm)
808 Post Ave

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Coworking from 3 - 6 pm will be at the same location as the meeting.

Agenda

Speed Introductions
Drupal Documentation Update
Organizing a Drupal Event? (any updates Jared?)
AHAH?
Lightning Talks
You get 5 minutes and 20 slides or less to show the group anything Drupal related. Could be a project you just finished, or a new module you love, or a new module you hate. Sign up by leaving a comment. Lightning talks can be as short and easy as "I found this really cool module..." or "Let me tell you why I hate this module...".

If you want to add items to the agenda, please leave a comment.

Comments

Doc IA interviews

Posted by jhodgdon on July 7, 2009 at 4:47pm

There is a major effort underway to improve the documentation of Drupal: http://drupal.org/node/488070

One component of the project is information architecture (i.e. getting the documentation organized so we can find information). To figure this out, our information architect (Becca) is asking for "stakeholders" (anyone who uses or maintains documentation) to do doc IA interviews. I haven't seen the interview script yet, but the interviews will supposedly take about an hour, and I think the script will be ready by the 16th. So if anyone is interested in doing an interview or being interviewed about how they use Drupal documentation, or how they'd like to, may I suggest that you come to co-working time at least an hour before the meeting? I should have interview scripts and instructions. Hopefully!

Becca has also indicated that she plans to have some "quick sketching activities" she'd like help with. So if those activities are ready in time for the meeting, and we have time at the meeting, I'd be interested in us spending 10-15 minutes during our meeting on this activity.

This is a great chance for people to give back to the community in a meaningful way, without necessarily being an expert in Drupal, programming, design, etc.

Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon

I have added an agenda item

Posted by robeano on July 7, 2009 at 5:58pm

I have added an agenda item so we can review what happened during coworking. Let's see if people want to break out and keep going during/after the meeting too.

Robin