Berkeley Drupal Group - June 20th Meeting

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starbow - Fri, 2007-06-08 21:44
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2007-01-20 12:00 America/Los_Angeles

Greeting East Bay Drupalers,

Last month we went with an extended Q&A period since there were so many brand new folk. I would love to have a bit more presentation time this month, so let me know if you have a great idea for a presentation.

Food - Dan can't make it this month, but if someone volunteers to bring pizza & drinks, Civic Actions will reimbursement them.

Directions to 290 Hearst Mining at http://drupal.citris-uc.org/about/bdug

Follow up:

We had another great meeting. About 20 folk showed up. Only about a quarter UCB folk which was quite a change from last month. Conversation ranged from "How does Drupal stack up to other CMS's", to tradeoffs of Image Cache vs Image module, to a Wysiwig slap-down, to debate over drupal.org hosting adds, and lots of stops along the way.

We had a couple great suggestion for the future, including having a presentation of "how I created this website", and collecting questions ahead of time on a wiki page here in the Bay Area group. Also, there is strong interest in a regular SF Drupal group, if anyone on the west side of the bay wants to organize it.

Here are links to somethings that were mentioned in the meeting:
* Lullabot's Site - Good source for Drupal articles and podcasts. Especially Top 40 Drupal Modules
* Drupal Module Metics Proposal
* Notable sites using Drupal
* Official Drupal list of core contracting houses
* The Drupal Association
* Resource page for this group - this page is just getting started. Feel free to send me more resources to put here, or we could think about turning this into a wiki page on this group.

Thanks again for everyone who came, and especially to Jen for totting the pizzas up the hill, and Mark for bringing drinks.


Cheeseboard Pizza?

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jenlampton - Wed, 2007-06-13 01:33

The Berkeley cheeseboard is between my office and the meeting, I can stop by and pick up a couple. I'll be a first-time BDG attendee, about how many people will be wanting pizza?
-Jen

Jennifer Lea Lampton
Sr. Web Production Specialist
PagePoint Web Solutions


Great!

starbow's picture
starbow - Mon, 2007-06-18 22:37

Cool. Is there someone else who can bring drinks?


Hi, I can bring something to

mfb's picture
mfb - Tue, 2007-06-19 03:55

Hi, I can bring something to drink.. let me know if anyone has a request.


mmm... pizzza

scoobeee - Fri, 2007-06-15 02:13

Mark me down as 1 attendee who will be wanting pizza. Be careful of that cheeseboard line though. Wouldn't want ya to miss the get together.
Thanks!

pizza...

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fusion94 - Sat, 2007-06-16 04:17

I'm looking forward to attending if my schedule allows for it.

Tony Guntharp
Co-Founder SourceForge.net
fusion94@damagestudios.net


looks like i can attend, again

dww - Mon, 2007-06-18 21:41

happy to report i should be able to make it again, this month.

any thoughts on topics for the agenda?

Yay!

starbow's picture
starbow - Mon, 2007-06-18 22:46

The agenda is still up for grabs. I think the new-to-drupal folk are getting a lot out of the Q&A, but I don't think it should dominate quite as much as it did last meeting.

Any good ideas?


Agenda suggestion

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Seth Schneider - Tue, 2007-06-19 18:10

I'll be there tomorrow in case anyone is tracking RSVPs.

If no one has any exciting agenda ideas, then I have a real basic suggestion: how about a walk-through of someone's website on the front and back ends. This would show which modules are being used, how things work, etc. It would present opportunities for Q & A and would certainly be useful for newbies like myself; not sure how useful it would be for the more advanced folks, though.


Format

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kentbye - Wed, 2007-06-20 01:41

I agree that the group time was valuable, and should be a block of time.
Maybe have someone use the Projector to walk through a site w/ questions as suggested above.
Then maybe break into small groups with people that have specific issues or problems can figure out together.
Each person is probably trying to scratch a specific itch, and there should be a way to magically match up questions with answers.


ugh, home sick

dww - Wed, 2007-06-20 17:51

came down with a nasty cold yesterday, and it's worse today. :( i think it's in everyone's interests if i keep my germs and myself away from your nice meeting this time. ;) enjoy, and good luck!

-derek