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Notes on the Drupal Johannesburg 11 March meetup
For me, it was great to see everyone again, although I was disappointed that there weren't more than 3 new faces among the 15 or so that turned up. We do need to do something to attract more new members. I particularly enjoyed hearing about what new modules people have discovered, and enjoyed the less formal discussions afterwards. The discussion about the direction and future of the group was also very interesting and I think the issues spoken about need to be addressed, perhaps using drupal.co.za to better effect. On these lines, this post on tips and best practices for local Drupal groups is highly relevant. In particular, I think the group leadership needs to be shared between 3-4 people in order to grow and improve the group. For a more detailed summary see my Drupal Johannesburg 11 March meetup notes.
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Meeting Reports
I like this group because we have lots of group admins, and should be very cool to have their local meeting reports here, so we can keep track about what is going on and perhaps collaborate digitally.
Perú is a group in spanish but I promise to translate the reports to english and place them here also.
Blessings!
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Post of interest
I just posted a Wiki on the Seattle group about "Why we have events". This came from a discussion we had at our monthly meeting yesterday. It lists the different types of events we have held or think about holding, and what costs/benefits there are from each. Might be of interest...
http://groups.drupal.org/node/20361
Read moreMarketing
On this wiki, please post the methods of marketing (FREE & PAID) that you have used to promote your group. This way we can make sure we're reaching the largest base possible. I am confident of the fact that there are people using Drupal in my area who do not know there is a group that meets twice a month.
There are some good tips on marketing from the notes from the Local User Group BOF in Barcelona.
Free Marketing
Please provide URLs and a blurb of how you use it and how successful it has been for you.
dougvann:
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Hosting a Drupal Users' "Hack Night"
Hi All,
I'm a co-organizer for the Triangle, NC Drupal User's group, and we're looking to increase our number of meetings to 2x/month and have one of those meetings be a "hack night" or sorts, where members come in with their problems and find someone to help them find a solution.
I'm wondering if anyone has any experience hosting an event of this type, and if you have any advice, tips, warnings, etc. to provide to those of us looking to do this for the first time.
Thanks!
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Roll Call for Group Leaders
Name: Doug Vann
Group - Role: groups.drupal.org/indiana - Manager
Meeting Frequency: meets twice a month
Age of physical meetups: 15 Months
Twitter: twitter.com/dougvann
We get anywhere from 9 to 17 ppl at our meetings. Every few months or so we have a "Drupal HackFest" See my BlogPost http://dougvann.com/blogs/dougvann/09-01-31/drupal-hackfest-definition
We have a wide variety of people in our group, a module maintainer, themers, graphical designers, network engineers, PHP programmers, and people using only core + contrib modules to deliver very nice sites.
Welcome to UG organizers
The intention is for this to be a central location for user group organizers to coordinate, exchange ideas, etc. What things are people interested in seeing? Please let us know.
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Local group organizer best practices and improvements to groups.drupal.org meeting
Jacob Redding and Kieran Lal will discuss growth of local groups on http://groups.drupal.org, best practices for organizing your local group, and request feedback on some improvements to GDO which will help local organizers. We will be presenting statistics calculated from http://groups.drupal.org, what we've learned by talking to 8 local group organizers, and request feedback on some improvements to http://groups.drupal.org to help local group organizers.
Free Conference Play Back
Playback Number: (712) 432-1281
Access Code: 450345#
http://acquia.acrobat.com/localgroups/
Read moreDrupal Meetup Organizing Guide
Building on the work that Nedjo did for organizing a Design sprint (Thanks Nedjo!) I'll like to get some help with refining and creating a guide for managing and hosting a Drupal meetup. Eventually I'll like to create a book page on d.o with a meetup guide, camp guide and sprint guide.
Related groups: Local group organizers and Drupal Event Organization
What is it
Read moreNotes from DrupalCon BoF Event coordinator session
On Tuesday March 4th during the North American DrupalCon 2008 in Boston, Mass. a BoF session was held on event organization (meetups, camps, jams, etc.). The group included people from Berkeley California (USA), Los Angeles California (USA), Wisconsin (USA), Belgium, Hungary, and China (me ;) )
Read moreOutcome from DrupalCon Barcelona Session (Dis)Organizing a Drupal Local User Group
Last updated by Michael Hofmockel on Fri, 2012-04-13 16:49
Here are some notes from the (Dis)Organizing a Drupal Local User Group: lessons learned session in Barcelona with about 50 people.
These notes are created with help from Gregory Heller and Matthew Saunders.
For those who were unable to attend - please provide your own knowledge/experience on how to best run these meetings
Drupal User Groups: Lessons Learned from the last 2 years
Read moreWiki: Drupal User Group best practices
Last updated by blacklabel_tom on Mon, 2015-01-05 12:07
We're trying to compile a kind of master list of how one might organize a DUG, and we need your help. What works well for DUG meetings? Share your thoughts.
Survey of attendees
- Who are you?
- What is your involvement with Drupal?
- What do you have a question about?
- What tip or insight would you like to share?
- What level of experience would you say you have? (new, not quite intermediate, intermediate, not quite advanced, advanced)
- What Drupal role(s) best describe you? (site-builder, themer, module dev., core dev.)
Site presentations
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get copies of books to share
Our local Linux User Groups frequently get free copies of books to give out at meetings. I thought this would be great to do at the Denver/Boulder meetings, especially given the recent release of the Drupal Pro development series. After contacting a few people I found this page from APress:
http://apress.com/userGroups/index.html
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