Rhode Island may be a tiny state, but Drupal's making a pretty big splash here. We've been having regular meetups for the past year in Providence via DrupalPVD.org with new faces every month. Our focus is equal parts designer, developer and site owner; our goal is to help everyone learn, grow and share their experience working with and on the Drupal platform.
Our other source of Drupal company is the Boston group which caters to all of Massachusetts and occasionally has meetings close to Rhode Island.
Is there life in a Providence meet up?
I drove to my first non-lullabot/non-drupalcon meetup in Boston last week. It was great to see all the good work people have been doing with Drupal. However, I'd like to cut my commute down from Boston to Providence. I'm located in Fall River and would even be interested in starting a South Coast chapter if no one is interested in the Providence area.
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Lightning talks with Lullabot!
Lullabot Workshops are returning to Providence, RI for a week of workshops. As has become our tradition, we'd love to host a meetup for local Drupal users in the Providence/ Boston area. We will be doing lightning talks, so bring your latest cool hack, project, tip or favorite new module! We'll have a cash bar and complimentary snacks.
Come on out, have a drink and meet Lullabots Jeff Robbins, James Walker, Angie "webchick" Byron, Addi Berry, Jeff Eaton and Nate Haug as well as the local Drupal users.
When
Tuesday, July 8th: 7pm - 10pm
Where
The Providence Biltmore [map]
Providence PHP Meetup
Since we haven't scared up enough interest for a Drupal only event yet, lets latch on to the already successful PHP Meetup that has been happening in Providence over the last few years.
You can register and RSVP at http://php.meetup.com/338/
There are already a few Drupal people in this group so there should be plenty of opportunities to talk Drupal.
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Lets get this Rhode Island Meetup started!
We should meet up. Drupalcon2008 just finished, we should at the very least debrief!
Where could we meet? My company has tentatively offered their office space. It needs to be cleared by the higher ups first, though. There is also AS220, which a lot of other meetups use.
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Boston Meetup Nov 6 - Lightning Talks - Providence Biltmore Hotel
As announced, we are doing another meetup on Nov 6 at 6:30pm.
We've been invited by Team Lullabot to hold our meetup in downtown Providence at the famous Biltmore hotel. Their whole team is in town giving workshops. Are folks interested in changing things up and doing the meeting there? I recognize that it is quite far for many people. Please post a comment here if you can go to Providence, and if not, would you go to Harvard Berkman Center as usual.
I will announce the final location of the meetup by Sunday night.
The next meeting will be December 11 @ 6:30 pm at Havard Berkman Center in Cambridge
Read morejQuery Camp 2007
Coming up in October there is an event in Boston that may interest Ocean State Drupalers.
Now that jQuery is an integral part of Drupal, it is in every Drupal user's best interest to keep up to date with jQuery's development. Luckily for those of us in New England there is jQuery Camp. October 27, 2007 many of jQuery's main developers, along with many core Drupal contributers will be holding a mini-conference in Boston (location to be determined).
More information can be found out by visiting the events information page.
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Welcome to the Rhode Island Drupal users group.
I founded this group in the hope that there are more Drupalers in the Ocean State that are dying to get together and discuss exciting things like the form API and the PHP template engine.
If you are out there, introduce yourself in the comments and let me know what direction you would like to see the Rhode Island group heading.
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