welcome

Hi all!

Welcome to the new group for Drupal in Brighton & South East UK!

This group has been moved from its' previous location on Google Groups:

http://groups.google.com/group/drupal-brighton (now closed, posting switched off).

I realise this is a very different environment for the group but believe there are many benefits for being on the main groups.drupal site so hope you will all move over and I also give a warm welcome to any new users.

Go ahead, post away!

Thanks

Steve

Sup everyone. I’m really excited to help xamount start this group up. Just got back from DrupalCon DC and met up with 2 Caribbean Drupal developers there. I learned a lot and would definitely like to see more Caribbean developers/themers at the CONs. I hope that we could organize some DrupalCamps and maybe even a DrupalCon someday (but I’ll try not to get ahead of myself).

I also wanted to congratulate xamount for making the Drupal home page a couple of weeks back with the Trinidad Guardian, that was some good stuff.

Hey everyone!

( and thanks to SimonP for starting this group, and a huge growl to killes who didn't like my posting to the administration newsletter about all this... )

OK, so, we have a lot of volunteers to work on the newsletter, now we just need to sort out who is going to write what and by when. I'm proposing an article submission deadline for June of May 26th, and for July of June 23rd. With the release of the June issue on June 1st.

Also, on the table as a proposal, the following sketch of a newsletter:

- User Space
  - Drupal Events
  - Tips & Tricks
  - Articles
- Interview
- Developer Zone (if you can think of something better, please do!)
  - Development Drops
  - Articles

Final thing we need to work out, is a schedule for editors to know who is going to edit what month, the goal here being so no one person has to bear the full burden of getting a newsletter "setup", and so if someone "retires" someone else can quickly set in to take their place without loosing a year :-P

Let's begin!
Robin

Now that the group is out of moderation I feel comfortable announcing this group. Drupal is not and does not provide a document management system (DMS). However, by creatively assembling a few modules it is possible to provide a limited amount of functionality. I've created this group to discuss strategies for managing documents in Drupal.

As it says in the group description:

As of December 2006, there are 1500 active issues in core and almost 10000 total active issues, giving the false impression that Drupal is buggy, unreliable and unresponsive. Join the ITWG to help counteract this!

... "ITWG" being the Issue Triage Working Group (copying the IETF is lame? yes). This is not a group for the developers who squash bugs; this is a group for the obsessive-compulsive types who don't want to contribute patches, but would like to help manage the issue queue. No one seems to be doing this at the moment, but it's a job that needs doing.

Welcome to the Drupal user group for Spokane, WA. I'm really not sure how many others are out there in Spokane that are using drupal but I figured we could start by creating a group here! Maybe we can get together from time to time and talk Drupal!

Anyway, welcome, please sign up for this group!

welcome

...whatever this group ends up being. This is a group to talk about -- well, the description above tells it all.

So why not kick of things here by sharing your thoughts? What should we talk about? What makes for a good online community?

Possible starter: The Netsquared conference has been abuzz on community building. Did anyone attend? What was your take?