Meeting Minutes for Broward Drupal Meetup held on Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, November 10th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Participants:

Remote (from furthest to closest) via Skype and Team Viewer:
Seattle - Chris Parsons
Coral Springs - Jason Graham

In Person (Fort Lauderdale, Broward County - half way between Miami and Boca Raton):
Phil Smith
Jay Epstein
Carlos Kosloff
Me

This is our first meetup where recorded the audio and we had remote users participating at the same time. Our remote users used Skype for voice, and teamviewer for sharing our desktops.

We did not waste anytime in using our virtual meetup capabilities: Chris took control of the desktop from Seattle, which was already being displayed locally on the plasma in the conference room, and he clicked through his slides and gave us a presentation on Install Profiles.

We then took local control of the desktop, and Jay gave us a demo of his new musician's site for Colleen Lloy http://colleenlloy.com/. Phil went on to give us a demo of Storm, a Drupal project management system. Jason wrapped up the demos by talking about the gmap module that he uses for a non-profit site: http://sharethestokefoundation.com

We kept the meetup to two hours and we recorded the audio that you can find below. We also have the slides from Chris' presentation.

At the end of the meetup, we talked about our format going forward. Phil suggested a portion of the meetup should be dedicated to talking about modules we are using and really like. The format of our meetups is still evolving, but the key goal of the group is to help all members improve their Drupal skills, all the way from beginners to experts.

We plan on keeping to record our meetups. One note about these month's recordings is that the audio from our remote users is not as good as our local users, but we plan on improving our recording capabilities so that all users sound good on the recordings.

http://browarddrupal.org/PastMeetings/november-2010
mp3:
broward-drupal-nov-10-2010-installprofile.mp3
broward-drupal-nov-10-2010-colleenlloy.com_.mp3
broward-drupal-nov-10-2010-storm.mp3
broward-drupal-nov-10-2010-sharethestokefoundation.com_.mp3
slidedeck:
install_profiles.pdf
install_profiles.ppt

We are continuing to keep our meetup open to remote users. To participate, please sign up for the meetup on GDO and send me a skype message stating that you want to join the meeting before the meetup begins (we have remote users join the Skype session between 6:50pm and 7:00pm). My id is hectoriribarne. We share our desktop via Team Viewer (http://www.teamviewer.com) , since Skype can only share a desktop between two users at this time. If you want to see the shared desktop, in addition to the audio over Skype, please install the free version of team viewer before the meetup and we will send out the Team Viewer conference number and password over Skype chat once we have all the remote users on the Skype conference call.

Talk to you at the next meetup,
-Hector