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1) Boise Code Camp was a great opportunity to show what Drupal is along with how it can be used including installing, essential modules, i18, etc., and I think we were highly succesful in doing so as we gained at least one new member at our April meeting. As one of the planners and as the principal point person for getting presentations posted on the Boise Code Camp website, we only have 4 of the presenter's session materials posted at this point (or a link to), 5 of the "session materials" are missing in action!

Boise Codecamp is just over a week away and I need to let the Boise Codecamp planning committee know our preferences for the Drupal Track on Saturday and Sunday.

Chris has chosen these 3 sessions to lead off the Drupal Track Saturday morning:

Session One - 10 Reasons Why Drupal (might) Kick Your CMS's A**

Chris Shattuck

In order to use the banquet room at the Eagle Fuddrucker's, we will need to change our days since another group booked it up for the rest of the year :-(. So, please select the days that you would be able to come from 6-8pm. NOTE: This is not just for next month, for for the next several months. So, see this as "The first Monday of the month" or "The second Thursday of the month". We'll close out the poll on Sunday, so please vote before then:

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Other meetup times we don't want to conflict with:

Packt Publishing is now sponsoring BDUG by supplying us with a number of books for raffle at our monthly meetups. For the next couple of months, we will be receiving the following:

Drupal 6 Content Administration, and
Drupal 6 Performance tips

We've had some great presentations the last few months including Batch API, Open Atrium & Aegir, and Internationalization/Localization. It's been great to have these awesome presentations. Now we need to decide what presentations we'd like for March and beyond.

A few topics have been suggested in the past and may be worth revisiting:

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Hi Folks! This last month I proposed that we add a segment to our meeting called 'The month in 5', where someone in the group preps a quick summary of the last month in the Drupal world (quick, like 5 minutes or less) so we can all at least rely on not missing the big Drupal news. It took me about a half hour to prep the overview for this last month, and was actually pretty cool because I got to get a feel for what was going on myself.

Hi folks,

I'm starting this as an ongoing thread where people can post if 1) They have some bandwidth open up and they're looking for new projects, or 2) They need to pass a project on to someone else.

Right now, I have a lead that I'm looking to pass on. It will be a full redux of a current site, the client is already aware of Drupal and is excited to use it in their project. I'd love to take the project on, but I have too many commitments atm. Let me know if you're interested.

Thanks!
Chris

This was an interesting article about Drupal, but I am still not sure if it was Pro or Against Drupal, of course the article was written by someone from a Drupal shop.

http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/zack_rosen/what_drupal_isnt

Here's the official Idaho Drupal Event (IDE?) wiki page: http://groups.drupal.org/node/24977

After our August BDUG meeting I'm even more excited about doing some kind of Idaho-based Drupal event. We did some minor brainstorming and some potential local resources were identified. Let me list out what we talked about, and add some ideas to the mix:

Here's a list of topics that have been brought up in previous BDUG meetings. If you'd like to present or add topics, just add some comments below:

• PHPTemplate / Theming tips (how to find variables when you need them)
• Integrating Flash and Drupal
• jQuery / Javascript the Drupal way
• CSS and IE tips (round-table discussion about tips and tricks and in general how not to kill yourself catering to the devil)

We have a small business (3 person) that develops software for a niche market, mostly R&D type stuff for military simulation and GIS. When we setup the company I hacked a simple website together because for the most part we were working with people who already knew us and the website wasn't a high priority.

Hi folks, here's a couple pics from the last meetup. Jbrauer (Josh Brauer) is about to do a presentation on multi-site. I'm behind the camera, holding the youngest, fussiest attendee.

http://skitch.com/stompeers/b18a7/img-1163.jpg-457-documents
http://skitch.com/stompeers/b1828/img-1162.jpg-457-documents

See you next week!
Chris Shattuck
http://chrisshattuck.com

Are there any Boise "beer geeks" that are also Drupal "guru's"? By beer geek, I mean someone passionate about craft/artisan beer.

Hello new Boise Drupal User Group members! Feel free to introduce yourself, we want to hear about how you found us and what kind of awesome things you're doing (or want to do) with Drupal.

So, we have had a few struggles getting meetings organized. I think we have had two problems.

1. No consistent location.
2. No one really taking charge.

I'd like to remedy both of those by providing a consistent location and volunteering to organize the events.

I am moving into a new office at VengaWorks in Meridian... a fabulous tech building with great meeting areas. I propose that we get our Drupal meetings back on track by meeting every First Thursday of the month since the Web Tech meetup is on the second Tuesday and we don't want to conflict.