Question to group

I have had a couple people request book recommendations for Drupal recently. This is for Drupal 6, but do you have any you prefer? I was surprised how many now exist.

The last one I purchased was early 2008, the Pro Drupal Development for 5.x from John K. VanDyk. That is the only one I've purchased, so I don't have anything to compare to, but I found it to be helpful. I don't have a lot of time to keep up with my drupal dev skills, so I get rusty and it serves as a more of a reference book for me than anything.

Our February meetup is rapidly approaching, and I'm looking for topics or presenters. Does anyone have a cool thing they have been working on that they would like to demo? If not, do you have any topics that you would really like covered? Feel free to update this wiki page (http://groups.drupal.org/node/19315) with any topics you would love to see someone go over!

I am just about to quote $1000 for a local Home Owners' Assn website using Drupal.
$50 / hr x 20 hours. I have been poking around Drupal for couple of weeks. I come from Oracle / Linux / ASP background.

Typical content: Member directory, Calendar of events, Board, News Letters ...

What do you think ? too high, too low ? this is my first freelance job. thanks.

Hey All....
Will there be a user group meeting on December 29? (wondering because of the holidays). I ask because (if there's nothing else planned) I'd like to do a shortened trial run of the theming seminar I'm scheduled to do in New York in January.

I'd like to give a 'quick' version to test out my approach and see what people might be looking for. Let me know if this is possible and/or if you're interested.

Thanks guys!

Hi everyone... I got a request to post this information from a new user whose having a problem actually joining the site (we'll straighten that out at the next meeting). I'm posting this for Ken Wachsberger. All questions should go to Ken at Ken.Wachsberger at cengage.com.

Last meeting there was some discussion about various topics that could be discussed at our next get-together on the 28th of July. I'd like to bring that discussion up again here. What do people want to hear about? Where is the interest? Throw out the ideas, advanced or simple. We want them all!

Hello A2Drupal!
I currently help the UM student chapter of Habitat for Humanity by providing support for their website (http://umhabitat.org). I set up a drupal cms for the group, and the site functions well for their purposes. Unfortunately, I have very little artistic ability, and even less graphic design sense. Therefore, the site uses the standard Drupal theme. Would anyone in this group know a design firm (or individual) who may be willing to donate their time to develop a theme for the site? Please feel free to email me at eric.roeder@gmail.com. Thanks for your help!

Hello all!

I came to the March meeting for the first time knowing I was going to be playing with Drupal in more depth, but didn't realize that less than a week later I'd be starting a new website, http://www.driveslowly.org .

In announcing it to my network, someone I trust with significant hosting experience sent me the following note:

First time poster also, so hopefully I've done this correctly :) I was at the last AA Drupal meeting, and had asked for input on designing a Drupal site for a customer. I am still having some challenges getting into the "Drupal state", and thus would greatly appreciate some hand holding while I am still learning the basics. I am relatively new to web development, although I have been a desktop developer for over a decade.