meetup New Orleans louisiana

During October's meetup we decided to plan the dates for Drupalcamp New Orleans for the next two years, in advance.

We selected to keep the camp during the Spring, in late March/early April. After researching for conflicts with St. Patrick's Day, Jazz Fest, Easter, Mardi Gras, French Quarter Festival and Drupalcon, here are the proposed dates for the camps:

Drupalcamp New Orleans 2015: Saturday, March 28, 2015
Drupalcamp New Orleans 2016: Saturday, April 2, 2016

For our May meetup we will meet next door to Launch Pad at Capdeville (520 Capdeville St. in New Orleans) -- Thursday May 1 at 7 pm CT.

We will recap Drupalcamp New Orleans and work on a schedule of presentation topics for the upcoming monthly meetups. We can also cover any Drupal questions you want to bring along.

RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/louisianadrupal/events/175476852/

Drupalcamp New Orleans Attendee Survey

Thanks to Eric for his recap of Drupalcon Portland including demos of Drupal 8, configuration management and SASS.

We held the meetup on Google Hangout and will plan to continue supporting folks who can't join in person with a Hangout available at future meetups.

We are planning to move our next scheduled meetup up from the first Thursday of the month for July (because it falls on the fourth) to either June 20 or 27th and will have a presentation on Drupal Features. Stay tuned for more info.

Thanks to Kevin Basarab and the attendees for helping March's meetup stretch from Jacksonville to Lafayette. We used Google Hangout and had Kevin present on Contributing to Drupal.

We're looking forward to using Google Hangout for future meetups to help out those who live too far from New Orleans to be able to make the drive.

Here are some links and resources mentioned during tonight's meetup:

Drupal Ladder: http://drupalladder.org/

Hello,

Tomorrow night kicks off a busy December for the Louisiana Drupal Users Group. We’ll have our monthly meetup in our new home at Loyola University. Please plan to join us and RSVP here http://www.meetup.com/louisianadrupal/events/39398482/

Next week is the Drupal on the Bayou conference at Harrahs in New Orleans. More info here http://www.meetup.com/louisianadrupal/events/41670382/ and at http://www.drupalonthebayou.com

We will be meeting tomorrow at Tracy's, Tracey's - 2604 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA. Come by and join us for some Drupal discussions and beer! If there is a topic you would like discussed, please let us know. I can give a overview of Drupal 7 and the Feeds module for importing nodes via an Excel Spreadsheet/CSV file. We will also be discussing the upcoming LSU non-profit site building event in July. Come out, we would love to see you!

April 7th at 7:00pm will be our next meetup in New Orleans at Tracy's on Magazine St. It's an informal meeting, we will be discussing DrupalCon Chicago and open discussions on Drupal 7, plus whatever Drupal questions you have. If there is a topic you would like, please let us know. Hope to see you there, good food, good people, Drupal and cold beer!

Reminder, our second meetup is coming up on Thursday, Dec. 2 - this month we'll be in New Orleans. RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/louisianadrupal/calendar/15462624/

Dec 2 Thu 7:00 PM

Location
Cooter Brown's Tavern

509 South Carrollton Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
(504) 866-9104 

I think it would be great if we could begin to create a Drupal presence in New Orleans. I know it would help me to meet other like minded people. Please let me and other members know if you're interested by commenting here. I'm tired of seeing all the other cities have all the fun and Louisiana becomes a digital backwater.

I think Loyala is a Drupal shop (judging from job posting last summer here). I emailed them and volunteered as intern there (need to improve my Drupal skills) and never even heard back.