Posted by jredding on April 27, 2007 at 8:50pm
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2007-01-22 19:00 - 21:00 US/Eastern It looks like the group is picking up steam. We have 143 subscribers and had a big turnout in April.
Lets setup the next meeting for the 22nd. This gives us about 4 weeks to figure out what to talk about.
Start your commenting engines!! (seriously comment on what you want to talk about otherwise I'm going to talk about my pets all night).
When: Tuesday, May 22nd 7pm
Where: MNN 537 west 59th st.
Where in NY terms: 59th btwn: 10th and 11th
How to get here:
Subway: A, B, C, D or 1 trains to Columbus Circle (59th) then 2 block west towards the Hudson.
Bike: West-side Greenway to 59th st (next to the sanitation plant) then Right 1 1/2 blocks. Nice easy ride
Car: Leave car at home.. See Bike or Subway
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yess!!
AHA! my first meetup in new york and with drupal community in general and i am very excited.
I am by no means a speaker (yet) so for now i will only provide ideas for some one else to discuss.
One possible topic of discussion could be: Other avenues for drupal.
From my limited experience with drupal community i've noticed that most Drupal users see drupal only as MCS, only to serve pages.
However we know that drupal is much more than just that. I have taken my personal experience with drupal in direction of game development. so that is aditional use for drupal, a frame work upon which games are developed.
This ofcourse heavily linked into performance and scalability, and i would love to hear some one with experience on performance tuning.
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GMap Module
I'd be interested in talking about the GMap module - how to add multiple tabs to the popup, theming the popup window, working with the clusterer script, etc.
Looking forward to another great Meetup,
Thomas
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Good Topic
-Jacob Redding
-Jacob Redding
New Location?
I'm glad this group seems to really be picking up. I've been once and would like to go more, but have a hard time getting from work so far to the west side. MNN has been a great and gracious host, but how do others feel about looking at finding a new spot that might be more central. My guess is that most people are coming from various parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn so somewhere around Union Square or in God-foresaken Midtown might make sense.
What do others think?
New Location
I'm down with it. I think the keys here is consistency of the venue and easy access by public transportation. MNN is fairly easy to get to but the walk over from Columbus Circle, especially in the Winter, can be brutal
I'd suggest the following criteria for a place
1) WiFi its a must
2) Ability to present.. projector, screen or big a$# monitor
3) public transportation... the more trains the better.
Although I live in Manhattan I think I'm one of the few and the rare so I'm up for heading to Brooklyn if others are.
-Jacob Redding
-Jacob Redding
We could probably meet at
We could probably meet at the Pando offices in SoHo, though I'm not sure how big the group could get. Our conference room is SRO when we have all-company meetings of ~ 20 people. I think we can seat 15, max. What was the April turnout like?
April turnout was good!
The MNN conference table was packed for the first half of the meetup. A bit more structure would keep more people around the entire time but if May is like April we'll pack the conference tight.
Is Pando's conference room a similar size? bigger?
Either way from my quick glance at it (Pando's conference room), it could work.
What do people think about the location?
-Jacob Redding
-Jacob Redding
Either place is fine... but-
I could do either space, but one really nice thing that's really nice about MNN (and the timing) is that parking spaces all over that area become legal just at 7pm, so it's easy to park.
I realize I'm in the minority here however, regarding car concerns
Eric
woah...
a driver...
Wow you coming from jersey? ;)
-Jacob Redding
-Jacob Redding
definitely not, CT :P
definitely not, CT :P
wow..
That's still a drive. Well lets see where people would like it.. Maybe there is a 3rd or 4th possibility out there.
-Jacob Redding
-Jacob Redding
I'll go wherever...
Yeah, don't mind me, I'll go wherever it is. It's only about 35 minutes from Stamford to MNN... or does that prove how scary my driving is? :)
Also, since I figure any southern CT Drupalers are probably registered here instead of (or in addition to) the CT group, I suppose if you need a ride from say Fairfield or south, I'd be happy to provide car pool opportunities. I don't expect huge demand, but the offer stands
Eric
MNN's fine with me
MNN's fine with me, though I work in the East Village and live in Williamsburg, so Union Square/SoHo would be more convenient.
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I will be coming from
I will be coming from brookly so high subway availability is one of the more important things for me.
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Meetup Location
MNN was great and the parking superb.
I'll be driving in from Westchester and if geojaz wants to carpool he can meet me at the TZ Bridge.
Can we discuss roles and OGs?
TIA
ny php meeting conflict
Hi guys, this group looks great and I can't wait to attend one of the meetings. Unfortunately, your May meeting conflicts with the NYPHP user group meeting. Perhaps, in the future, we could schedule meetings around other major groups?
Good point
Ya. it would be good to do so.
How many other people is this inconveniencing?
What other meetup groups are on Tuesday nights?
-Jacob Redding
-Jacob Redding
Mostly a designer
But I work with Drupal a lot and would love to be exposed to what's going on in Drupal NY.
I'll be there.
First one for me
I am looking forward to it. We just launched the site for our newspaper on Drupal and I love it. Please check out the site http://www.observer.com and my job posting http://groups.drupal.org/node/3900
Great Work
Brian: I think you did a very nice job. your site looks great.
I'll be there!
I'll be there!
Matt
Facebook | www.mattwkelly.com
Tonight Meeting
Are we confirm the meeting and location for tonight's meeting yet?
tonight's? i thought the
tonight's? i thought the meeting is on 22nd.. today is 15th
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I will be there
I will be in the meeting
Another topic?
If anyone knows about using symlinks I'd be really interested in learning about setting them up. It seems so simple, but I can't manage to set one up that I want. I've just posted a help request on the main Drupal forum - http://drupal.org/node/145730 - so perhaps my question will be answered there. Otherwise if someone can help me tomorrow night I'll get them a beer or two afterwards!
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What's w/ these falling on
What's w/ these falling on Jewish holidays (I think last one did too)?
Tomorrow night begins Shavuot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot
Hope to make it to a future one. It's been awhile.
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I'm hoping to actually
I'm hoping to actually attend this one. I haven't seen an official topic yet so I'll throw in my 2 cents. I'd seen requests back in April for OG & GMap, I'd been interested also. and a lower priority option would be creating profiles.
BTW suggestion for event title. Instaed of just May meetup make it NYC May Meetup. I saw the entry on the g.d.o events list but had no idea that it was for NYC.
I'll be in town!
Hey cool. What timing! I'm coming down to the city for some meetings tomorrow.
I think I'll stick around and meet some NYC Drupalers!
-Jeff Robbins
Lullabot | www.lullabot.com
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Can't Make it
Unfortunately, I have a final cut pro video editing class tomorrow night at the same time. So I will be unable to make it.
would this meeting help me? what do you suggest?
I don't know anything about drupal or anything about programming for that matter, but the small company i work for hired a programmer for our e-commerce site (who is using drupal) and he hasn't been proactive or responsive about educating us in regards to the possibilities and limitations of drupal. we ask questions and they don't get answered or he says something is possible, but it ends up not being possible and vice versa, so he have no idea if he is thoroughly informed or not. Would it be beneficial for me to come to this meeting? Could someone who would classify themselves as a drupal know-it-all be willing to communicate and correspond with me about specific issues and options?- may lead to contractual work. any advice would be greatly appreciated.
It might....
The meetup are generally for those people that are actively using Drupal and want to talk about particular subjects. However we often field questions from newbies and almost everyone whom attends learn something even if it is a tiny morsel.
In short, attending can't hurt.
In the future it would be a good idea to post a topic of what you'd like to learn about. Stating something like "I know nothing about this but I'd like to, could someone present on it?" helps.
-Jacob Redding
-Jacob Redding
I am very exciting to meet NYC drupalers
I am looking forward to meet everyone tonight.
One outline: Drupal VS Joomla, what is possible outcome of two big CMS, how can we take advantages on both CMS for different purpose.??
Current launch Joomla site for CFDA: http://www.cfda.com
please feel free to comment it. or visit my shop: http://www.scilliant.com
Thanks
I'll try to stop and grab
I'll try to stop and grab some snacks. Any requests? Nothing heavy, please. :)
Looking forward to my first forray on to the greenway bike path. Should be a pleasant ride uptown.
openflows will buy some food
we'll cover a couple pizzas and maybe some beer (depending on how many folks show up)
Fantastic!
That's great! One request if we are getting food - could some of it be vegetarian please? (milk, eggs, cheese OK with me, but no fish or meat)
See you later,
Thomas
http://www.thomasturnbull.com
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don't worry
no meat, no problem.
nothing that had eyes.
Sweet! Dinner!
Sweet! Dinner!
Food
sweet I love food. I'll go pick some up too.
-Jacob Redding
-Jacob Redding
That was fun
Thanks Jacob for providing the facilities and the majority of the content for tonight's meetup. I am glad to finally make it to a Drupal NYC meetup, and be able to meet some folks from the area. It was nice to meet jjeff and the rest of the Lullabot crew. Please feel free to drop me a line wherever you see a robbiethegeek it is me.
Robbie(theGeek)
http://www.robbiethegeek.com/ - my blog
http://www.heartyhandshake.com/ - my web dev/Drupal work.
Twas terrific, including the
Twas terrific, including the "invasion of the Lullabots" :)
Welcome to NYC!!!
no worries
Not a problem. I'll setup the next one in the next few days and post it up. Post what you want to talk about so that we have a topic or maybe this time we'll find some presenters!
-Jacob Redding
-Jacob Redding
May meetup & next?
Hello everyone,
This was my first meeting and I found it quite interesting and informative. At least I was glad I could follow most of the discussion! I am not in any way a programmer, and I'm interested in working with more tech-y people - I'm good at the content side. I would like to see more of a networking session to the meeting, which I suspect may have happened after I left. How late do the meetings typically run? Will there be a June meeting?
I also would be interested in the skill share idea that was discussed in another thread. I'm really excited about Drupal and want to learn as much as I can. I would be happy to trade writing, editing, proofing, research, testing (I have Firefox, Safari, Netscape & IE on both Mac & Windows), marketing and general scutwork skills for more advanced Drupal skills.
Jean Gazis
Jean Gazis
www.jeangazis.com
www.webhostny.com
Hello from new comer
Hello all,
I am in NJ and want to learn more about Drupal. Can I join the crowd?
Please let me know. I love sites those are created by Drupal and want to explore more.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Dhaval