Mumbai Drupal Users Group: A Drupal Meet

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Posted by pavithra.raman on February 7, 2011 at 1:19pm
Start: 
2011-02-20 16:00 - 19:00 Asia/Kolkata
Organizers: 
pavithra.raman
sunitgala
Event type: 
User group meeting

Hi All,

After the successful Drupal 7 Realease Party, a lot us of discussed the possibility of having monthly Drupal Meets here in Mumbai.

So as a step forward, Blisstering Solutions is organizing a Drupal Meet this weekend and I would like to invite all Drupalers here in and around Mumbai for this event.

The event details are as follows

Venue: Blisstering Solutions, Unit 12/2 3rd floor, Chandrodya CHS, Diagonally opp. Swastik Chambers, Chembur, Mumbai - 400071
Phone: 022-42888400
Date: 20-Feb-2011, Sunday.
Time: 4pm - 7pm

Agenda:

  1. Plan for a Mumbai Drupal User's Group. Define purpose and goals of the group.
  2. Monthly meetups plan ( We could have something like every 2nd / 4th saturday of each month. )
  3. Organizing code-sprints/bounties.
  4. Office bearers/core group.
  5. Agenda for future meetups / Agenda for next meetup.
  6. A presentation / showcase: Some of the topics under consideration:
  7. What does Drupal 7 offer / Introduction to Drupal 7 ( features/themes/improvements)
  8. How to migrate from D6 to D7
  9. Architecture / API changes in D7
  10. Drupal 7 theming
  11. Security in Drupal / Security in Drupal 7
  12. Summary, announce next meet.

You can register yourself on this link and also forward this link to anyone who is interested in this meetup and wants to join in.
http://www.meetup.com/Mumbai-Drupalers/events/16472811/

Looking forward to meeting everyone.

Comments

technical presentations ...

Posted by Sree on February 9, 2011 at 6:05am
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Hi,

Would it consist any technical sessions / discussions?
Also would it be drupal 7 centric or .... ?

Are you all planning to come up with some discussions related to enterprise level drupal project management - CI processes, automated tests, code reviews etc?

Thanks,
Sree

Sree

Damn!!

Posted by dipen chaudhary on February 9, 2011 at 10:34am
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I will be in mumbai but the timings are odd :( I would have preferred sunday as I am working on saturday and even though I will be free by 6 I live another part of town. Hope you guys have fun!!

@Sree CI with drupal is a beast but worth the effort, before going CI route I am sure there are many things you can do to improve your development workflow which we recently got done with and now enjoy a fun dev workflow.

Cheers

Dipen Chaudhary
Founder, QED42 http://www.qed42.com Drupal development

dev workflow ....

Posted by Sree on February 9, 2011 at 4:33pm
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Hey Dipen,

Can you please share the strategy / approach that you are using with us ? would like to explore the different ways that different teams are using for a painless dev ....

Sree

Depends

Posted by dipen chaudhary on February 9, 2011 at 4:45pm
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Hi Sree,

It depends a lot on the size of team, structure of team when advising a development workflow as implementing a dev workflow is more of a people problem rather than a technical problem. It obviously is easier for small teams to adapt to changing landscape of drupal development but I think its worth the time for large teams to rethink their dev workflow. As for us, we use features to keep configuration in code, use drush make and install profiles to save bootstrap and deployment time. Drush make can also provide for safety net against core/contrib hacked situations which is very much required for large teams. CI makes sense when you have bunch of test suites (unit, performance) that needs to be run as code keeps coming in, we have not fully integrated CI but have done trials with hudson and drupal.

Cheers

Dipen Chaudhary
Founder, QED42 http://www.qed42.com Drupal development

agree ...

Posted by Sree on February 10, 2011 at 4:31am
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Hi Dipen,

Yes, I agree that it depends on lot many factors ranging from team size to structure etc.

But, its worth discussing with different parties where in we can chip in different ideas from different teams.At the EOD there would be some decent approach getting shaped with combined scenarios useful for a wider range of teams.

Sree

Thanks for the response

Posted by pavithra.raman on February 10, 2011 at 4:58am
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Hi Sree, Dipen,

@Sree: We are trying to bring together people to discuss and work together on various aspects of Drupal. This could be project planning, information architecture, development, testing, installation profiles, team strategies, code reviews & standards, etc.

@Dipen: Got your message about the schedule. We are looking into will post an update soon.

@All: The topics for presentation are just an open list. Anyone is welcome to put in a presentation ( 30 mins would be good.) Lets us build a strong and vibrant community here in Mumbai for everyone associated in some way or the other with Drupal.

~Pavithra Raman

Please help in spreading the information of the meet

Posted by pavithra.raman on February 10, 2011 at 4:59am
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Hi All,
All those who are active on this group and have signed up, a request to kindly spread the message about the event to your colleagues and friends. Looking forward to an eager participation from everyone.

~Pavithra Raman

no of people that can be accomodated?

Posted by Sree on February 10, 2011 at 5:42am
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Hi Pavithra,

Thanks for your reply.

Can you pls pour us some information about how many people are you targeting at?

We might be a big group joining the discussion.

Thanks,
Sree

Sree

Event Rescheduled.

Posted by pavithra.raman on February 10, 2011 at 5:57am
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Hi All,

Thanks for the feedback.
We are planning on rescheduling the event for next Sunday 4pm. That would be 20-Feb-2011.

@Sree: We can accommodate close to 40-50 people. And more the merrier. In future if we want to have bigger meets or organize a large scale event, we can pool in resources and book a venue.

~Pavithra Raman

Incorrect date

Posted by sandykadam on February 10, 2011 at 7:09am
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@Pavithra - Can you please update the Event Date (Year) as it is showing Date: 20-Feb-2010, Saturday.

Regards,
Sandeep Kadam
http://www.sandykadam.com

Thanks & Regards,
Sandeep Kadam
http://www.sandykadam.com

Corrected

Posted by pavithra.raman on February 10, 2011 at 8:25am
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Hi Sandeep,
Thanks for catching that one. Even the day of the week was incorrect.
Hope to see you there.

~Pavithra

DrupalCon South Asia

Posted by pavithra.raman on February 19, 2011 at 1:30am
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Hi All,
ANother topic up for discussion would be the DrupalCon South Asia.

~Pavithra.

Directions on Google Maps

Posted by pavithra.raman on February 19, 2011 at 2:04am
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Hi

You can use this link on google maps for directions

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hl=en&vps=1&jsv=315d&cid=93743584306...

Will not be able to join the

Posted by viral007in on February 19, 2011 at 5:20am
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Will not be able to join the meet. As I am traveling. Will join in second meet-up

Good meetup with Drupal Mumbai community

Posted by yasheshb on February 21, 2011 at 5:01am
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Hello.

Thanks Blisstering Soln's for an interesting meetup yesterday. Am looking forward to working with the drupal
mumbai community on providing contributions back to the drupal.

These contributions would be in the form of issue/bug fixes. adding features to existing modules and maybe porting contrib theme/module
to D7.

Thanks.

Yash

Mumbai

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