Central Connecticut Drupal Meetup Group

Mission

The Central Connecticut Drupal Meetup Group serves to build and strengthen the community of Drupal developers, designers, administrators, content creators and other stakeholders in Connecticut through organizing educational and interactive, monthly, face-to-face meetings. Come meet fellow Drupalists. Come learn what Drupal can do for you and the best practices to apply when using Drupal. Come help steer our group to become an invaluable source of information and networking opportunities. We are a passionate and fun group, enthusiastic to grow and help all those interested in Drupal - beginners, journeymen and experts - by sharing our collective knowledge, expertise, experiences and ideas.

Meetup Schedule and Agenda

We meet regularly on the third Tuesday of each month from 7pm to 9pm in Greater Hartford, CT with an agenda that includes:

• Introductions (5 minutes)
  • Who are you? What brings you to this Drupal Meetup? What do you do? How do you use Drupal? What are your websites? For what companies do you work?
• Welcome to Drupal Newcomers (5 minutes)
  • A Quick Introduction to Drupal (when those new to Drupal are present)
• Group Business (5 minutes)
  • Selection of Presentations and Activities for Future Meetups
• Presentations, Discussions, Hands-On Exercises and other Activities (60 to 90 minutes)
  • A Drupal Experience Presentation: Here is what I have been doing with Drupal
  • A Drupal How-To Presentation: Here is how to accomplish some task with Drupal
• Informal Group Discussion (15 to 45 minutes)
  • What have you been doing with Drupal? What help do you need with Drupal? What assistance or resources can you provide with Drupal to other Meetup attendees?
• Social Gathering (occasionally)

Upcoming Scheduled Meetups

Our upcoming Meetups are scheduled as follows:

Location and Directions

Thanks to Bob Mariotti and the University of Connecticut School of Law we have a regular meeting place for the next several months in Hartford, CT. Here is a google map centered on the University of Connecticut School of Law and a campus map showing the locations of the buildings in which we will be meeting. Parking is available in the lower lot behind Knight Hall.

For presenters, here is some technology and room layout information on Knight Hall, Room 215.

Organization of the Meetups

Much of the business in organizing our Meetups is conducted online within the Connecticut Group on groups.drupal.org through postings of discussions, events and wiki pages. You may wish to subscribe to notifications for the group to be kept informed of Meetup information as well as other Drupal happenings across Connecticut. The wiki page entitled Central Connecticut Drupal Meetup Group, which you are now reading, serves as a primary online organizational resource for our Meetups. The wiki page entitled Suggested Activities for the Central Connecticut Drupal Meetup Group serves to collect suggestions from Meetup Group members for presentations and activities to be held at future Meetups, and serves to allow Meetup Group members to express their interest in giving some presentation or leading some activity.

• Should you have a suggestion for a presentation or activity for a future Meetup, please add your suggestion or expand upon an existing suggestion on the wiki page for Suggested Activities.
• Should you wish to give a presentation or lead some activity at a future Meetup, please add your name as an available presenter or activity leader on the wiki page for Suggested Activities.
• Listed further down this page are the presentations and activities we have held at previous Meetups. You may suggest that we revisit a past topic or activity, again, by adding your suggestion on the wiki page for Suggested Activities.
• At each monthly Meetup, we will review suggested presentations and activities, select presentations and activities for future Meetups, and assign interested presenters and activity leaders to those presentations and activities.

Should you have a more general suggestion or question regarding our Meetup Group, please post that suggestion or question as a New Discussion within the Connecticut Group, or contact Dr. Mark A. Friedman who currently serves as the organizer for the Central Connecticut Drupal Meetup Group.

Meetup Attendee List

The wiki page entitled Attendees of the Central Connecticut Drupal Meetups serves as a list of people (and contact information) who have attended previous Meetups. If you have attended one of our Meetups, please add your name and a link to your groups.drupal.org profile page to the list on the Attendees page. Feel free to return to the Attendees page and add to the list of dates of Meetups you have attended as you continue to attend our meetings to make it easier for other attendees to contact you in the future.

List of Past Meetups

Past Meetups have included the following presentations and activities:

Other Regional Meetup Groups

Here are some other nearby Drupal Meetups you may be interested in attending:

• There is a Drupal Meetup Group in Lower Fairfield County. Contact winston for additional information.
• There is a Drupal Meetup Group in Western Massachusetts. Contact Rick Hood for additional information.
• There is a Drupal Meetup Group in Boston. Contact moshe weitzman for additional information.
• A Drupal Meetup Group may be forming in Providence. Contact jpamental for additional information.
• There is a Drupal Meetup Group in Albany. Contact juliejohnson26 for additional information.
• A Drupal Meetup Group may be forming in the Hudson Valley. Contact realguess for additional information.
• There is a Drupal Meetup Group in New York City. Contact skyredwang for additional information.
• There is a Drupal Meetup Group in Northern, New Jersey. Contact robbiethegeek for additional information.