First 2007 Meetup + Drupal's 6th birthday Party + Drupal 5.0 Release Party

Posted by ericgundersen@d... on January 16, 2007 at 2:05pm

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2007-01-25 05:00 Etc/GMT-5

Happy New Year! And happy birthday Drupal, and congratulations to everyone that worked to make the 5.0 release of Drupal awesome! We're going to be celebrating all of these in our monthly Drupal meetup on Wednesday, January 24th, at the Science Club (1136 19th Street, NW). We'll be in the basement again and will be throw a heck of a party. We'll of course tie some presentations into the fun.

We'll start at 7 pm with $3 Yuenglings and shortly after get some presenations started. The schedule is open so you have something to present or want to nominate someone else, we're all ears. As of now, we're thinking there will be lots of talk about Drupal 5.0 and stories about how upgrades are going. Come to share and absorb.

See you there!

Comments

Strangers Welcome?

Posted by djtansey on January 17, 2007 at 10:01pm

I don't yet know if I'll be free that evening, but I'm an active drupal user in the D.C. metro area who would like to meet other drupal-ers. Are strangers welcome?

-David

Always! We are always

Posted by m3avrck on January 17, 2007 at 10:59pm

Always! We are always looking to meet new people who can bring new ideas and perspectives to the community. The more the merrier!

Partner at Detroit Venture Partners. Sold ParentsClick to A&E. Ex-Drupal dev. Cornell Engineering alum. Tech pioneer leading startup renaissance in Detroit.

Strangers are always

Posted by ericgundersen@d... on January 17, 2007 at 10:59pm

Strangers are always welcome! There is plenty of room.
eric

Under 21?

Posted by ron williams on January 18, 2007 at 3:48am

Is there any news regarding the status for attendance by individuals under 21.

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Ron Williams

Hey Ron, They are checking

Posted by ericgundersen@d... on January 18, 2007 at 1:10pm

Hey Ron,
They are checking in on this one. This is one of the reasons that we have the basement bar again cause it's private enterance was really great before. I don't know how that changes when it is this cold out. I am going to ping them again before the week is out and will get back to you ASAP. I hope we can meet next week!

I'm not sure what the law is

Posted by ron williams on January 18, 2007 at 2:40pm

I'm not sure what the law is in DC, however a close family friend runs a bar, and the law in Maryland is that a person can be in a bar if it serves non-alcoholic food, as long as they are not sitting at the bar or served alcohol.

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Ron Williams

I was under the impression

Posted by Will White on January 19, 2007 at 2:19pm

I was under the impression that it was entirely up to the bar owner. It's just that some owners don't want to deal with making sure under 21's don't get served. Restaurants, clubs, and music venues have bars, but under 21's are allowed in. Really not sure though :)

Eric: My e-mail replies are getting bounced. If you contact me with another address I can get back to you

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Will White

Ok - Rob and Will - great

Posted by ericgundersen@d... on January 23, 2007 at 1:31am

Ok - Rob and Will - great news. You two are more than welcome. I will introduce you two to Steve - the manager when you get to the door and it will be all taken care of if you stay away from the bar. They were supper cool :). I look forward to meeting the two of you!

The line up includes:

Posted by ericgundersen@d... on January 23, 2007 at 2:23am

The line up includes:
Earnest Berry from NOAA about MSSQL Drupal integration
Mike Haggerty from Trellon about 2nd life
Ted Serbinski from Lullabot will give a quick update about 5.0 and cool things being developed for 6.0 (about 5 min or less -- it'll be the Drupal community monthly update :).

How late?

Posted by ggrell on January 23, 2007 at 9:54pm

I'm interested but I'd be coming from Fair Lakes, VA and probably wouldn't make it by 7. How late is the group there usually?

I said it's tapering off

Posted by m3avrck on January 23, 2007 at 9:57pm

I said it's tapering off around 830, with everyone gone just about by 9.

Partner at Detroit Venture Partners. Sold ParentsClick to A&E. Ex-Drupal dev. Cornell Engineering alum. Tech pioneer leading startup renaissance in Detroit.

Another New Person

Posted by Seamus Leahy on January 24, 2007 at 2:33pm

Just wanted to drop a note saying that you will be having another new person (me) to the meeting. I am looking forward to the meeting.

Great! Again - all are

Posted by ericgundersen@d... on January 24, 2007 at 9:52pm

Great! Again - all are welcome. There will be folks ranging from newbies just hearing about Drupal and wanting to learn more to core coders tonight.

Knowledge Networks Presentation on Trellon.com

Posted by techsoldaten (not verified) on January 25, 2007 at 1:43pm

Mike from Trellon here. The presentation on knowledge networks is available for download on trellon.com, for anyone who is interested.

Found! Module to show online/IM status of site users

Posted by laken on January 25, 2007 at 4:39pm

At the DC meetup last night, during the knowledge network discussion, I mentioned a module that allows users to enter their Skype/AIM/jabber/MSN/Yahoo IM/etc handles in their user profiles, and which can then display whether a user is currently online with any of those services.

The module is called Onlinestatus Indicator and can be found here:

http://drupal.org/node/38690

No Drupal 5 branch yet, and I haven't explored to see if one is in the works, but the module looks like it is somewhat actively maintained - the last commit was 2 months ago.

I'd be interested to know if folks find some cool uses for this.

Last night

Posted by choicemedia on January 25, 2007 at 6:02pm

Good meeting some of you guys last night, it was my first meetup as Ive only been using Drupal for a couple weeks now. Thanks for the input and advice, looking forward to more meetups in the future

Andy Thompson

Monthly meetups?

Posted by jasonsafro on February 9, 2007 at 6:52pm

Thanks to everyone who puts the meetups together. They're always a good time and I learn something each time I go.

Meetups seem to be about once a month. The place doesnt seem to change but the day of the month does. Can we make the meetups a regular monthly event? Maybe make it on the first Tuesday or Wednesday of the month?

This is a really good point.

Posted by ericgundersen@d... on March 8, 2007 at 7:14pm

This is a really good point. We have talked about making the meet-ups more regular, like the third Wednesday of each month... The problem is really just getting a few of the regulars on the same page to make this work. Folks have been traveling so much that doing them on a regular schedule would result in not having a lot of folks there some times. That said what started as a small tech crew drinking beers has certainly expanded and the DC drupal community has legs of its own - so if there is someone that has the bandwith to manage these (it is really easy) and wants to make sure they happen on a regular biases say so and you can start doing the coordination. My take is the more regular the better regardless if some of the old timers that started doing these can't make it.

new to dc, but in a position to be helpful

Posted by discursives on March 8, 2007 at 11:56pm

Hi DC Drupalers,

I'd also like to see regular meetups 'cos i just adore talking code with my fellows.

I've also been speaking with a few people around the community to see about a DC code-a-thon, but bigger things like that will come out of our getting to know each other a bit better, i imagine.

all the same, we've done the meetups at a few different locations now, and a good location that balances location on the grid with size is really important. i like the feel of the science club, but i found the music to be too loud for me to hear last time, and honestly we were packed in pretty tight.

i know the group varies in size depending on season and date, but i think finding a consistent venue for a group of about 35 is a good goal to shoot for. we had at least that at the science club last time.

i went up to new york in may of last year for the drupal camp there...it was absolutely amazing to spend 2 days with almost 100 people of varying involvements with drupal. for an idea about what a code-a-thon, or even the future of dc meetups might look like, check out this great video by silona bonewald from the league of technical voters capturing her austin code-a-thon.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ccDORj0syyE
theres 3 parts, listed in the related links to the side.

this was my inspiration for coming down to sxsw where i am right now. she connected up with the arts, non-profit, and local business to bring them all together with the local open source community for this event.

I just put up a wiki page with some of my notes on planning such a thing for dc, check it out: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3093

if anyone knows of a space that even MIGHT sponsor us for our regular meetups, id be happy to chat them up. i spoke briefly with andy at buboys and poets and he is of a mind that our goals of open code and collaboration, especially when in league with local non-profits and the arts, of which he is a sponsor, that all that makes the decision to allow our use of the theatre in busboys available for a code-a- an easy choice. thats a lot of prerequisites, but its my inspiration for my perspiration.

dc rocks, and the meetups have really brought a lt of folks together. where can we meet regularly? ill schedule, ccordinate, post directions etc, but where will we be?

http://peerproducers.com - Peer Production Praxis

http://alexrollin.com