Merging Rochester, NY into Western New York on g.d.o

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fending's picture

Andy (dccircuit) and I had an email exchange last week talking about merging Rochester, NY into the Western New York group at g.d.o. Here's an excerpt from our email exchange dated 11 May 2010:

Let's wait for this first meeting. Ask the people who attend (if you
have a chance) if they are in favor of the merging, and if it sounds
like they are let them know that the above plan is what we'll try --
(first trying to "merge" the two, and if not, asking everyone to join
the other and shutting down the specifically Rochester one).

That was brought up last night at the WNY Drupal User Group meeting in Buffalo (where several Rochester folks showed up + dialed in), and there was general consensus to move forward with the idea. The thought being that if we can improve dial-in support and hold the WNYDUG meetings throughout the region, it would be generally good for Drupal and its local adoption.

Following the documented procedure for deleting or merging groups, I'm posting it here for discussion for a period of time. Rules are rules. ;)

( @dccircuit: If you could also weigh in this publicly before the required 2-week window is up, that might speed things along! )

Comments

Thanks, Brian!

dccircuit's picture

Yes... Here I am! Thank you for bringing this to the WNY Drupal User Group! I am fully in support of merging these groups. The Rochester, NY group was always intended to serve Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse areas, but since the preference is to not have city-specific groups and instead favor regional groups, it makes sense to call the g.d.o group "Western New York". Not only that to have someone such as yourself behind it who has been able to move the WNY Drupal group forward. Thank you for getting the meeting together and handling dial-in support as well.

I'm In Favor of Merging

mgastin's picture

It makes sense to me, also. As I said in the meeting, if the group gets too big we can always hive off a Fingerlakes group and a Central NY group.

Mike Gastin
Bob Wright Creative
mike@bobwrightcreative.com

Sounds like a good idea

darlai's picture

The makes perfect sense. I am hoping to join you at your next meeting in person rather than remotely. Did anyone take any minutes or record the topics of the last meeting? I would be interested in a copy of these due to my remotely connection audio not being the best.

Darla Indralingam

notes

fending's picture

Yes! Your comments in the gotomeeting chat inspired this node: http://groups.drupal.org/node/69818

Thanks for being there and look forward to you Being There!

Wu-Tang!

fending's picture

The merge is complete. After putting on my to-do list for a few months (and following on from the open call at WNYDUG meetings for nybody else interested in taking on the task), I finally got around to addressing the organic groups patch review required to get this going... to discover that a related patch had already taken care of it! Huzzah!

Thanks to all for your patience -- you should get an email with this link, but just in case you didn't you can be sure to subscribe to the WNY group at http://groups.drupal.org/og/subscribe/24917