No official Beijing meetup this month(Sunday)

Hi Skyredwarng!

We learned some lessons from organizing and experiencing bilingual meetup and found some things to improve or change.

First of all, I feel there should be some communication happening on volunteering/suggesting/asking topics or questions...

And also mixing English and Chinese were not so satisfactory personally. I am sure some members who didn't understand English that well also felt similar way like me.

Most important part is what to share, teach, learn, exchange.
I ran out of my topic to offer right away as I am quite beginner level and hoped to see members coming up for topics or sharing tip ideas.

So I decided to focus on sharing my knowledge to novice or total beginner especially English speaking people.
So I am planning on that part.

Another thing is I started working on Beijing drupal meetup site to list organized way to encourage drupallers here or visiting Drupallers for occasional meetup and sharing. Not regularly(if we don't have topics or discussions)

Also I think more active communication is needed.
For example if I can share feeds module hands on training step by step guide for 20 min or so...but if no one shows interest or reply...how do I know if that's useful topic? So I am thinking to encourage members to express their interest and attending plan etc.

Anyway...there are more things to list and plan I feel. :) I will let you know when things are updated.
Also I hope anyone who likes to share something even if it's small module "how to guide" it will be useful(if users vote or show interest for example if 5 people shows interest and says they will come)...we can do any time when things happen organically.

For this month I will be busy and gone to Korea at the end of the month. And I will do Hello Drupal and Introducing different ways of making website and major CMS in Korea for expats...I will see how it goes and apply that in Beijing. :)

Thank you for your interest and support.
I encourage others to also initiate even if I am not in Beijing! :)

Thank you so much for thinking of us here and support!!!
I just opened www.beijingdrupalmeetup.com site now. It is not perfect yet(never) but at least I wrote down fast what I am thinking.
It needs more detailed, organized plans and suggestions later.

Since you mentioned we just need to set the date...I made the last Sunday of Feb as potential meetup day.
http://beijingdrupalmeetup.com/events/not-confirmed-meetup-feb-24th-2013

Of course it doesn't have to be that day depending on the guests(?) schedule. ;)
Thank you so much for everything!
I'm too tired to write more nicely..please understand me. :)

All the best to you and Happy New Year to you in Shanghai as well!

I understand totally what you are concerend.

But I experienced not so much active signups, engagement from members or reactions.

Although your concerns might be reasonable, to me it's better than going with current situation.

I am good at connecting people and communicating and promoting-I am actively doing this for Seoul Korea Drupal all the time and I cross market and brought some positive reactions and connections. :)

I know keeping group as main platform is important. So I always cross post everywhere even though it's alot of work and labor!

For the concern of domain being owned by person. I totally understand that as well too. But it is going very well in Korea...the domain is owned by person who has Drupal spirit. :))
If I leave Beijing and someone else can take over continuting sharing and spreading Drupal, I will be happy to give back to the person of course!

It will bring more positive things than negative so please be optimistic and continue support on helping growing Beijing Drupal community and meetups!

For better organization and reaching out to international audiences and potential Drupalists, I think it is good to have a seperate site. There are other groups and meetups use seperate sites and meetup.com account in the west as you might know.
Only thing is the spirit behind running the site. I will be balanced and neutral and think for the community. So don't worry too much.

I will ask D.A., other Drupal community members their opinions as well. If using the domain name could be conflict for common/public image then I will reconsider!!

I hope for the best and encourage more exisitng members and potential members to get to know Drupal and share and help each other.

Thank you for your kind concern and support!
I will always stay here too! haha~ Just most of time I don't know what's going on in Chinese...post...

Jiyoung :)

Yes, I heard that from Lugir and that is great thing! :)
We confirmed March meetup for 3rd of March and several drupalists from Shanghai confirmed to join us. :) Including Skyredwang.
I will update tomorrow(I created event but somehow it got all gone!)

Happy new year and see you in March!