About a dozen Drupal developers met at Orlando Public Library yesterday to discuss Drupalcon Boston and future meetups in Orlando.
I gave a presentation about Drupalcon Boston covering Dries' keynote, the future of Drupal, and a quick summary of some of the sessions I attended. The rest of the time was spent with discussion introducing ourselves to each other and planning for future meetings and what we need to do to for the Florida group to gain some momentum.
We decided that from here on out, we were going to have monthly meetups at 1PM on the 3rd Saturday of every month at MindComet in Altamonte Springs. We'll alternate between 1 and 2 main topics per meeting (2 and 4 hour meetings). In addition to the main topic, each meeting will be open for 5-10 minute BarCamp-style show-and-tells for anyone that wants to present what they're working on or anything they find interesting.
Here's the schedule for the next few meetings:
Saturday, May 17
Getting started with Drupal - installation and setup - Joe Moraca
Saturday, June 21
CCK - Ryan Price
Views - Mike Anello
Saturday, July 19
Themeing - taking an HTML/CSS theme and Drupalizing with Zen as the base theme - Ryan Price
Saturday, August 16
Panels - Mike Anello
Taxonomy/Pathauto - Andrew Riley
Saturday, September 20
SEO - Jose Rey
Saturday, October 18
Module Development - Mike Anello
Organic Groups - Ryan Price
Future Meeting topics
Image Handling and Galleries (imagecache/thickbox/imagefield)
Coder module
Drupal performance
Mapping/GIS
Issue Queue/Creating/Applying Patches
Module Development focused on FormAPIs
Adobe Flex
User-friendly admin (Workspace module, RootCandy theme, etc...)
Have an idea for an additional topic? Let us know by adding a comment below.
We also talked about have a full-day mini-Drupalcon with a couple of classrooms so that we can offer a bunch of topics in a single day.
Here's a partial list of everyone that attended along with their Drupal.org username:
Joe Moraca (joemoraca) - http://www.moraca.org/
Michael Anello (ultimike) - http://www.anelloconsulting.com
Ryan Price (liberatr) - http://ryanpricemedia.com
Ivan Latorre (netboss) - ex-Joomla guy, interested in Drupal with Flex
Darren McDaniel - http://petentials.com/
Steve Lecarpentier (jackezel) - http://veteran.com
Eric - design/graphic development
John Learned - http://petentials.com
Andrew Riley (Andrew M Riley) - http://mindcomet.com
Jose Rey (faunapolis) - http://www.faunapolis.org
Let's see if we can double our numbers at meetup next month - we decided to start with a "getting started" topic in hopes of bringing in some new Drupal users.
We want web designers !!!!
Comments
Sorry I missed it
Mike, sorry I missed this one. I'll try to make future ones. There's a whole bunch of topics I could talk about. Coder, Search, Panels/Views/CCK/Nodequeue, Issue queues, writing custom modules, patches, etc...
Doug Green
www.douggreenconsulting.com
www.dougjgreen.com
no problem
Doug,
No problem - if you look at the "future topics", Coder module is down there, I was hoping you'd want to cover that one.
If you'd like to do the "views" one in June, I'd gladly step aside. Just let me know.
It was a really good meeting - lots of motivated people. Should be fun going forward.
-mike
new user
"we decided to start with a "getting started" topic in hopes of bringing in some new Drupal users."
It worked - I want to attend. I am intrigued with using Drupal for a project I am working on but the process of installing it, finding a reliable host, etc. seems kinda intimidating to me. I have publishing and graphic design experience but no real web design experience.
(Maybe dumb) question: is there a way to be reminded about this meeting a few days before it happens with a time/location/etc.?
Zach
easy
Zach,
Glad to hear that you'll be attending.
If you go to the "My membership" link in the "Florida" block in the right-hand sidebar, you can turn on email notification. Then you'll get notified of any posts to this group.
-mike
Zach,I use hostmonster.com
Zach,
I use hostmonster.com for my Drupal hosting. They cost about $60 a year, and give you $50 each in Yahoo and Google search advertising. They specifically target Drupal and Joomla users and are very compatible with PHP/MySQL driven programs. I don't have any relationship with the company. :)
You can find a great tutorial on installing 6.0 at http://drupal.org/videocasts/installing-6
I recommend you play around with it before the meeting and then when you come to the meeting, you'll have lots of questions.
-Steve
Hosting
Jack,
I've been looking for a new host too and just looked up hostmonster.com Looks good but there's no reference to Drupal, just Mambo and Joomla. Did you just install Drupal yourself? I'm currently with 1and1 and tried to install but have some issue with PHP on their servers. Apparently there's a workaround, but rather not have to worry about a time when there isn't.
Anyone have experience with http://www.siteground.com/drupal-hosting.htm? They are calling themselves the No.1 Drupal host.
JCL
JCL
Drupal Hosting
I have installed Drupal 5 and 6 on hostmonster.com myself and never had a problem. I also run Drupal on Site5.com, but have had several problems there. Hostmonster runs a newer version of PHP and MySQL than Site5.com the last time I checked.
I don't know anything about siteground.com, but I have heard nothing but terrible things about Drupal on godaddy.com servers.
I originally heard about hostmonster.com on the Drupal.org website, tried it out, and liked it. Plus, if you count the $50 each for Yahoo and Google search advertising, it better than free - you actually make $40.
Here is the link that convinced me to go with hostmonster.com: http://drupal.org/node/110531
Good luck,
Steve
Drupal Hosting? If someone
Drupal Hosting?
If someone wants to buy a domain name and point it at our IP address, we can work something out. Works well with Drupal 5 at least.
Ryan Price
Florida Creatives
Ryan Price
DrupalEasy Podcast
Flyer for May 17th Meetup / Beginner's Class
Flyer for May 17th Meetup / Beginner's Class
Hi, I am thinking on making a simple flyer (just powerpoint and printed in color) to put at the University of South Florida engineering school bulletin boards. Can somebody either e-mail me or post the address for the meetup. If done correctly we might be able to get some future enthusiasts for drupal.
Joe, do you have a tentative description/sequence-of-events/specifics for the beginner's class so that I can put into the flyer?
Thanks guys.
Florida Drupal Group, We meet Every 3rd Saturday in Orlando
Florida Drupal Group, We meet Every 3rd Saturday in Orlando
http://groups.drupal.org/florida
Added to my TODO list
Great Idea!
I will come up with an agenda this weekend -- and will post it here also
any requests are welcome.
I will discuss local / remote development but not sure I want to "install the full L/M/W - AMP (apachefriends for me) stack as part of the demo. Maybe point to installs
I will do a drupal / module / theme install
Joe Moraca
http://www.webdevgeeks.com
Joe Moraca
WebDevGeeks.com