February Sprint/Event? (Code for America coming to Seattle)

Some more long-time members may chime in but, user-group meetings are usually on the third Thursday of the month. Same time and location as the previous few meetings... I like your idea for a sprint and I'd participate depending on the time and date.

I can think of one local non-profit that would be excited for a free Drupal site to organize their ~1200 weekly meetings and to allow user submitted/ edited events. For Drupal learning though, my plug would be Drush or writing tests. They sound like great ideas.

FuseIq is a local Drupal group that would like to support the community more. If we can host a meeting downtown let me know. The space holds about 12, wi-fi, projector, south foot of Queen Anne.

Hey there, I'd probably be up for attending a generic sprint and helping new contributors find things they can work on productively, in core Drupal coding and documentation. Your other sprint ideas sound fun too, but I'm not sure which ones I would actually attend.

I'm also not sure about scheduling. If you're planning a weekend event, you will probably get more attendance, but some of us (such as myself) prefer not to work on weekends (and Drupal counts as work for me). You could do a poll to figure out dates.

I'm not fond of the term "hacking" and prefer the term "coding". :) We also have "co-working" time before our monthly meetings, so that's a term that's in use here in Seattle.

Finding space for events is sometimes problematic. The best bet recently has been spaces like StartPad (shared office spaces) that people attending the sprint have connections to, or getting a company (like FuseIQ who volunteered above) to offer their conference room. For co-working, we go to a coffee shop near where we have our monthly meetings (those are in a space at Adobe that may be available after 5pm and I have no idea about weekends). There's a recent thread (within the last 3 months anyway I think) on the Seattle group about Dojo that has some meeting space ideas on it too, so you might look for that.

Hey zzolo -

Feb's going to be busy prepping for Drupalcon, but if it's on a weekend mid-monthish, I'd consider coming down for it (would depend partly on the topic matter of the sprint, and how busy work is too). I'll keep an eye on here to see how plans progress!

So, its hard to please everyone on this. Due to time constraints and DrupalCon, it seems like it would be difficult to pull together a real formal sprint.

My initial proposal is that we do a really informal meetup on a saturday that is kind of an all day, come as you go, code and share snacks event. I like the idea of having people over the CfA house and cook and code together, but not everyone may be comfortable with coming over to our house. Maybe we can do this somewhere else.

Personally, for me it would just be nice to meet everyone earlier in the month as well as get some collaboration going. Maybe this is better served as just a Drupal Happy Hour early into Feb. Any ideas on this? Some place that doesn't completely exclude non-drinkers.

Also, we will probably be having a bigger event at the end of the month to get lots of people form the civic and technology side together to hopefully spark some lasting communication. There are still lots of details to figure out on this, but we'll let you know as it comes together.