Drupal meetup is a couple of weeks away, but let's start brainstorming.
One thing I've noticed is we are getting a lot of requests for freelance work, and I'm not sure that as both individuals and the GRupal community, we know how to respond. A good use of the next meet-up might be to put together a list of best practices, discuss realistic expectations that contractors and contractees should have. We can then organize all of these into some sort of online reference page.
We're a fledgling community in GR, and my two cents is this is worth putting all our brains together, especially since we have some members who have been doing this for their firms who could give us advice.
And of course, we'll have a recap of our presence at BarCamp and then off to Winchester for drinks and chatter.
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Interesting idea for a
Interesting idea for a meeting topic. Sounds good to me.
There should be some new people there who, if I haven't solved their problem by that time, will be looking for some troubleshooting.
Ross-Hunter.com
Yes, I like that idea as
Yes, I like that idea as well.
Meeting tomorrow! Are we agreed on the topic?
If we're going to have a freelance best practices brainstorm, I'd like there to be a bigger group so we can net a wider diversity of experiences. Instinctively, I think it would be useful for those who are looking for freelancers to attend as well so we can start talking about what can be expected from GRupalers, what is realistically achievable.
I think that might take more time to organize though, and we might be able to break it up into two parts. So our options for our focus tomorrow are:
a. Freelance best practices/reference
b. Freelance best practices/reference, inviting contractors
c. Another topic entirely
I think we'll probably be able to play it by ear, but besides Dan and Ross, I'd like to hear how other people feel about this topic.
Recap? Missed the meeting.
Hello All,
I'm really bummed I missed this meeting. My email notifications for this group weren't set up! :/ Anyhow, I'm wondering if anything came of the discussions of creating resources for freelancers.
Thanks!
Jonathan Pichot
Good news!
The good news is we decided to postpone our freelancer discussion, since we think it is a really good topic, and we would like to have it better planned out for next meeting. We would like to not only bring in local freelancer developers/designers, but also bring in local people and businesses who are looking for freelancers. We will have a great big ol' discussion about best practices regarding contract work and hopefully actually help connect businesses and local developers.
It would be nice if in the future our user group could be the go to place for people looking for Drupal development in West Michigan. I would like to try and do a pretty good push on this and try to get a big turnout.
Ross-Hunter.com