Louisiana Drupal Users Group November Meetup Recap

We had the (we think) first-ever Baton Rouge meetup for the Louisiana Drupal Users Group on Thursday, November 4 at The Pastime in downtown Baton Rouge. bberlin, jeffdiecks and schmook attended.

We discussed growing the group the old fashioned way, by each attempting to bring a friend to a future meetup and beginning to create some consistency and momentum behind the group. We noted that New Orleans likely missed out on a very real opportunity to host DrupalCon 2012 due to the lack of a strong local Drupal community.

We plan to continue meetups on the first Thursday of each month, perhaps alternating between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. We'll plan to be in New Orleans for the December meetup (Eric: chime in if you have decided on a location).

We reviewed some recent work and Drupal tricks including:

-Node relationships module (blog post here http://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/improve-content-creation-and-ass... )
-Custom google map and pins
-Burns & Company real estate site
-Open Atrium with custom time tracking module
-Eric gave overviews of a few sites, including this one http://www.domenicapizzeria.com/ which uses Drupal and Ubercart for ordering upscale pizza online (delivering the orders to an iPad in the kitchen!)

For Brian: here are some links on how to contribute to Drupal/get involved
http://drupal.org/node/10259
http://drupal.org/node/281873
http://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupal-voices-102-susan-stewart-on-beco...

Eric and Brian: please add any comments, thoughts or links from the session you wanted to share.

See y'all on Dec. 2 in New Orleans!