Posted by mark matuschka on February 7, 2007 at 1:14am
Would be nice to get interested Drupalers together in Brisbane to assess the state of the state.
Can I please have an indication of who on the list is Brisbane-based or Queensland-based?
Would you be interested in getting together?
Can't let the Melbournians have all the fun.
Comments
Great idea
A meetup of Brisbane/Qld Drupal interested people would be great. As you may know ourbrisbane.com has a big Drupal project on right now and we would be happy to host a such an event.
Great offer
Superb. Assuming there is further interest from others, how about a morning some time in the next couple of weeks? But I'll come anytime, day or night, given a bit of notice.
For those interested, please reply with your date & time preferences.
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Mark Matuschka
Glo Digital
Very interested
Looking at introducing Drupal into a small consulting engineering firm. I'm familiar with using it in another organisation and have talked it up to the techies in the new place.
Do you see scope for Drupal newbies at this session? I can supply a couple of keen ones!
Preference is Brisbane, daytime (perhaps mid-afternoon start) during the week. But can cut the calendar to suit.
All welcome
I think we need to have everyone with an interest in Drupal attending.
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Mark Matuschka
Glo Digital
Yep, all welcome...
We only started very recently to play with Drupal at ourbrisbane.com, so there's a bunch of newbies right here. The people here will use it from all different angles (user, admin, production, marketing, coding etc.), but for everyone it's a new thing...
I can see lots of opportunities to discuss non-techie stuff...
Count me in....
Most times are fine. If day time, city location would be preferred. Otherwise happy to travel.
I live on the north side - McDowall.
Cheers
James.
Tentative date - 1st of March
Hi all,
I propose that we all meet the afternoon of the 1st of March at 2pm? Depending on how many people are coming we can use one of the meeting rooms at ourbrisbane.com (George St) or if there is lots of interest I will organise a larger venue somewhere in the city.
Matthew
I'm keen!
Count me in for the 1st March, as long as that is ok for everyone else?
Cheers,
Kathie
Sounds good
I'll be there. Thanks for venue Matthew.
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Mark Matuschka
Glo Digital
Time/location fine with me
cheers
James
Count me in - 1st of March
Count me in - 1st of March sounds good
Im a newb though.
Only found out about drupal about 1 week ago, but loving everything I am uncovering with it at the moment.
3 Brisbane based
Myself and two others would be keen. We are based at Kelvin Grove. We would prefer a time outside 9-5 weekdays but would try and attend no matter what the time.
Confirmed date and location
Hi all,
Confirming: Date 1st of March, Time 2pm, Location ourbrisbane.com Level 5, 171 George St Brisbane.
I look foward to seeing you all there.
Matthew
Late reminder
Just a late reminder to interested Brisbane Drupalers about the get together this afternoon at 2pm. Details in Matt's recent post. See you there!
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Mark Matuschka
Glo Digital
Anyone take minutes?
Hi,
Sorry couldn't make the get together. I'd appreciate it if someone could post a report on the turnout.
Regards,
Craig
Report
Sorry, no minutes, but you missed a valuable event. Good turnout from ourbrisbane.com, not too many others. Regardless, we shared experiences, compared Drupal to other CMS's, discussed various modules, performance issues and strategies, search issues with CCK & generally, multiple websites, architecture issues, core team, etc. etc. In short, really valuable. Great to get perspective of others personally.
We discussed having future get togethers after hours. Sounds like this would suit you better, Craig. How about others? Experts and newbies alike are welcome. There was a lot of interest in building up local expertise and a general feeling that the Drupal wave hasn't yet hit Australia (or Brisbane at least) but when it does it will be big.
Thanks again to Matthew & ourbrisbane.com for providing the venue, food and refreshments. Highly enjoyable & worthwhile.
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Mark Matuschka
Glo Digital
Just a quick note to say
Just a quick note to say that after hours would be great, and apologies for not being able to make it due to being overseas.
Looking forward to attending the next get together though..
Thanks,
Cameron
Sydney Drupaler's?
Hi there,
Just wondering if there are any Drupal Developers in Sydney? Seems that Drupal people are everywhere but??
:)
Michelle
FNQ Drupal League?
I'm up in Cairns, anyone out my way?
I'm in Mackay.
I know there's a few in Townsville too.
Chris Herberte
Any Plans for a Brisbane Drupalers 2008 Meet up
Hi there. Are there any plans for meet ups during 2008 for Drupalers in Brisbane?
Hopefully Drupal member numbers are increasing and it would be good to build on the community relationships at a local level. I currently have 4x Drupal e-commerce websites under development with more to follow and would like to connect up with other Drupal web designers. Perhaps others would like to do likewise.
What is the feedback for this from Brisbane members?
I would be interested in any meetups in Brisbane
I've been getting heavily into drupal in the last 6 months and would be keen to meetup with any brisbane "drupalers" as well.
I would support a meetup
Quite a while since the last meetup in Bris. Would be good to have one & gauge interest for doing something regularly. Where are you located? I'm on the south-west side but I suppose something central would be best. Last meetup was at Irish Murphys, cnr George & Elizabeth, but all options are open.
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Mark
Caign Webs
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Mark Matuschka
Glo Digital
I'm at Toowong so anything
I'm at Toowong so anything central is easy enough for me.
There are meetups that occur at Toowong library for PHP and MySQL user groups(e.g. http://php.meetup.com/46/), the meeting rooms have audio/visual equipment like overhead projector etc... should they be required and as far as I can tell its free for non-profit groups to hire these facilities.
Maybe we could meetup at a PHP event? If there is enough interest is something drupal specific decide from there...
Sounds good although I'll be
Sounds good although I'll be in Sydney at CeBIT on May 20th. The Drupal conference was to have been immediately prior to this but unfortunately it's been cancelled.
Go ahead and I'll join you the month after. Perhaps you can let the group know how it went.
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Mark
Caign Webs
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Mark Matuschka
Glo Digital
Toowong sounds fine.
I'm from the southern suburbs but Toowong makes good sense as a central location for everyone across Brisbane.
The PHP meetup may be possible and would give us some ideas for structuring our own regular Drupal meet ups.
Maybe some suggestions on identifying other Drupalers on the night so we can mix and mingle a bit at the PHP meetup to get to know one another. Any suggestions?
Brisbane PHP May Meetup in Toowong
I've signed up to the Brisbane PHP Users Group and intend on coming along to their May meetup. I don't know how exactly we're going to identify ourselves as being part of the Drupal crowd, but I'll keep an eye and ear out for Drupal discussion.
Hope to see some of you there.
Take a look at the newest Drupal site in Brisbane - ourbrisbane.com
http://www.ourbrisbane.com/
Madness takes its toll.
Please have exact change.
Sorry I wont be at this
Sorry I wont be at this meetup, I'm going down to Sydney for the informal drupalapc this sunday and cebit next week. Next month maybe, unless someone wants to organise a meetup before then.
Also, yes I had noticed the new ourbrisbane.com site - definitely well done to everyone involved in that one.