user group

The Berkeley Drupal Users Group now has it's own g.d.o: http://groups.drupal.org/berkeley-users-group-bdug.
This group replaces the old BDUG site at http://drupal.citris-uc.org. Thanks to the sexy new og_panels features, I don't need to maintain a separate site just to support our user group. And now I can't just cross post to the Bay Area group with the click of a checkbox, rather than copy-and-pasting each month.

UPDATE: Now contains link to Matt's screencast.
[I'm posting this as a new topic, since the contents may be of interest for people who did not or could not make it.]

Thanks to the folks who showed up last Monday for the June SF Drupal User's Group meeting at PariSoMa. Twelve in all, dealing with the heat to attend ever-informative and entertaining Matt Cheney talk about Swish-E (link to screencast below) Some of the topics we covered:

Here's a screencast of Neil's presentation at last month's SFDUG (33 mins). I've posted it on a blip.tv channel, but I will link that with Archive.net so it gets posted there too for future use.

http://sfdrupalusersgroup.blip.tv

[Update: I fixed the ISL link...] Thanks to Jeff (and Omar, Bob and Amy) from ISL for hosting this last Monday's Drupal User's Group!

We had a great demo of Jeff (SprSquish)'s User Relationships module - in Drupal 6, even! (With requisite live demo code barf "Oops, gotta fix that"! :-) ).

Greetings CT Drupalers,

There doesn't seem to be a tremendous amount of activity within this group just yet. How successful have we been at getting a Drupal User Group started here in Connecticut? I am located in Middlebury and run my own web development business. I have been using Drupal for a little over a year now on various projects. I actually just got back from an exciting DrupalCon in Boston and am interested in helping build momentum for Drupal in Connecticut.

Please contact me if there is interest!

Regards,
Eric

I'm considering hosting the SF Drupal Users Group - I've got the prime space and enough knowledge to make me dangerous - and I want to find out what the interest is. The space is PariSoMa, on Howard at 10th.

I'm thinking of making it alternate with the Berkeley DUG, and given when I'm in the SF office, I'm thinking 2nd Monday of the month.

My personal preference is right after work - 5-7pm, mostly because it's a working space and we couldn't do a mid-day meeting right there (unlike East Bay). It also then allows a different set of people to participate.

CDMUG has multiple events planed up until August of 2008. Please see cdmug.org for additional event information and drupal.meetup.com/1 to RSVP.

CDMUG will continue hosting smaller events at onShore with an RSVP limit of 15. In addition to onShore, we have decided to host 2 larger events at locations to be announced. These larger events dubbed "CDMUG Venti" will aim to attract 30 members.

Not only was the Bay Area Drupal Camp a successful gathering and a lot of fun, but it turns out it was also a successful fund raiser for the Drupal Association. Thanks to our generous sponsors and t-shirt sales, we raised $950 more than we spent putting on the camp. That money is now a holiday gift to the Drupal Association from BADCamp and the Berkeley Drupal Users Group. We hope some of this money will go to help groups with less access to corporate sponsorship put on regional camps of their own.

Once again, special thanks to Dan, Chris, Pete and Jen for all their work making BADCamp happen, and to Sun and OpenCircle Tech for the great after-party. Let's do it again next year!

KarenS who just organized a Drupal User Group, in Central IL, gave a presentation to it's founding members explaining a much improved CCK for the D6 release. CDMUG took notes and posted them to share with the Drupal community - check out our milestone 100th node post. ;-)

Greetings Bay Area Druplers,

Our next meeting will be THURSDAY, October 25th, Noon-1:30 at 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley

Directions at: http://drupal.citris-uc.org/about/bdug