Austin Drupal Group November Meetup

Busy week, but will work to be there!

I plan on attending.

Any access requirements needed to get up to your office? Is there a clear entrance sign, e.g. "Optaros"? Do we park on the street and walk up to the, I presume, 2nd floor? In the case where access is needed, what's the best phone number in case folks arrive late and need to get in?

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Our office is located at the corner of 8th and Congress, on the second floor (right above the Chipotle franchise). There is a big Chipotle sign outside our office and a set of double doors on the northeast corner of the intersection. Jonathon or I will be at the doors to greet people, maybe we'll have a sign or a costume as well.

Map of Optaros Austin Office

I would encourage attendees to take a bicycle if possible, but if you are going to be driving there might be open (metered) parking spaces at that time of night. There are also several parking garages in the area; I'll ask Jonathon to post some more information on parking.

If you arrive late, you can call my mobile telephone at 2814673082 and I'll be down in a jiffy to let you in to the building.

This meetup should be great. I'm looking forward to meeting you all in person!

Sam

Parking downtown is sometimes a big challenge, however I think at that time of the night that there will be a good amount of open metered parking spaces. I think after 5:30 you don't have to feed the parking meter anymore. If you do have to park in a garage, I'd recommend St. Davids (on 8th). It's only a couple of blocks from the office (but I don't know what time they close the garage or if they do). If it were me, I'd find a metered spot on the street.

Thanks for sponsoring it. I posted it on the event calendar on http://door64.com so other local folks can find out about it too.

See you then!

Matt

I plan on attending, but I won't be able to make it until 7:15 or 7:30, so you can expect a call from me if I can't get in the building. My apologies. I can't get away any earlier. I'm really looking forward to it though.

Though my head is hangin' low. (Kidding, but I have been ill lately.)

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I plan to be there.

Selwyn

I just found out about this today. Short notice, but I intend to be there.
Aaron

Sorry for the late notice. I plan on making it.

Okay, I told you guys I'd do it...so here it is. http://www.dudertown.com/files/drupal012.mov

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Sorry I couldn't make it tonight. It was my night with the kids. It sounds like the meeting went well and that this was an awesome topic.

I love this compilation. Where were these 2 years ago? ;-)

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You guys rock!

It was good meeting everyone. A special thanks to Jonathon, Sam, and Optaros for hosting and presenting excellent and very helpful material!!! I was impressed...even if I didn't understand all the code. LOL.

Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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So, it was nice to meet you guys. I hope that this group continues to stay strong.
Casey let us know when you can get a DEV server up for the group!

-J

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You guys did a great job. I learned quite a bit. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Thanks to everybody that was able to make it out to the meetup on Wednesday. There was some really constructive discussion and it seemed like everybody got something useful out of the meetup. There were a bunch of good topics that were brought up, but we didn't have time to discuss them all. I hope some of those could be incorporated into a future event.

In case anyone is interested, the documentation for the simple module I wrote can be found at http://drupal.org/node/17914.

I'll be creating a new topic soon to discuss a possible January event.

Thanks again,
Sam