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So the June Meetup is just around the corner. It will be held from 6 to 9pm at Mansueto,
7 World Trade Center / 250 Greenwich St., 29th Fl..

You must sign-up by 3pm June 24th to attend. Please click the sign-up button and make sure that you have your real name in your profile.

In honor of the recent conference call about improving the organization of local groups we should probably touch on the highlights of that.

Also, Joomla developer Anthony Ferrara has been talking with Oleg and offered to give a presentation about how Joomla works. While I'm a little concerned about the need to hire extra security to protect poor Anthony from the slings and arrows of Joomla haters, I do recognize that many people are interested in learning about the similarities and differences between Drupal and other content management systems. A poll has been posted here. Please vote.

Post comments on all other topics that you would like to present or discuss and we'll add them to the agenda.

I volunteer with the Taproot Foundation, which provides pro-bono project grants to nonprofits. Websites are one type of project, and there have been some nice Drupal sites created. (I am currently working on a Joomla site for a Taproot Advanced Website grant, and oh how I wish it was Drupal!)

Taproot is having a "TaprooTech Social" networking event Wednesday evening. You can forward this link to the evite:

Host: Taproot Foundation, East Coast

We'll be having the Meetup on Wednesday, May 21st from 6 to 9pm at Mansueto,
7 World Trade Center / 250 Greenwich St., 29th Fl..

-UPDATE- The following is the meetup agenda that emerged from your comments:
Determine a good time for a DrupalCamp this summer. Get volunteers.
Learn about NYU Project - Christopher Evjy
Learn how Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning is using Drupal - Schuyler D
CCK AnnotationField module - Schuyler D
Alternate Search Engines for Drupal - Michael Haggerty / Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
Go a little deeper into Views 2 - Rob Loach
Q: Experiences upgrading from Drupal 5 / Views to Drupal 6 / Views 2
Working with Panels 2 - Christopher Pelham & others
Q: How does the Context feature work in Panels 2? - WayGee Ho
Q: How do you tie two different views together (view of Artist and Albums) - WayGee Ho

Here is a video I posted a while ago on the subject. I plan on doing a few more, one about relationships for sure, and some other sweet things you can do with this module. Any requests?

http://sirkitree.net/panels2-context-screencast

I've taken advantage of the new Panels integration with Groups, http://groups.drupal.org/node/10445, to create what I hope will be a more useful site for the NYC Drupal community. The site now has the a welcome panel and a featured post in the top row. The next two rows list the latest Discussions, Polls, Events, and Wiki posts. Finally, the good old river of news lists all posts to the site in chronological order.

The long awaited video for the DruTube presentation by Arthur Foelsche at DrupalCamp has been posted.

http://www.24b6.net/?p=232