SoCal under attack

If you need to talk to everyone, you can post in multiple groups, though.

I forgot this group even existed (and I'm subscribed to it!).

I'm not sure I understand. Chris/Markus, are you guys are suggesting everyone should subscribe to this group in addition to the OTHER regional group they belong? to what end? this group hasn't had an original thought since march of '07. I'm not bagging. its just a fact. the only reason I belong to it (and probably the other 106 members) is so that we know whats happening in southern california. turns out a lot, but not in this group.

Also, Markus you just added a wonderful post about local events & groups. But you did it ONLY in this group. This really underscores my point about noise: if you're NOT subscribed to SoCal group, you simply didn't see this post.

Mike, lets take the Socal group over and rename it "Long Beach". I mean, lets face it, Long Beach is really the only place worth being in Southern California anyway right?

I think we should keep the Southern California group for all the same reasons mentioned above. It doesn't hurt to keep it, and if it's too noisy there is always the option to unsubscribe to the group.

As a few people have already mentioned, the post Markus created earlier today should be sticky, so people can easily find the other regional groups.

This would let users get a consolidated feed for the entire region, a la the Drupal.org feed aggregator

The only potential hiccup would be if we added another group, as (I think) there is a four group posting limit.

Mission Viejo calling here... Is this the party to whom I am speaking? :)

I didn't even know there was a difference between SoCal and LA groups. I registered and started a new blog at LaDrupal.org mid-last month. I didn't get any feedback, didn't expect much because that site hardly gets any activity. But I knew there was a meeting and some action over here. So point 1, even when someone finds a group we're not quite sure whether we've found "a" group or "the" group. Maybe someone should monitor groups for new registration and send out a welcoming committee - or at least a shout that newbs'll catch somewhere.

Point ii (aren't all numbers boring?) - now I'm finding there is that site, there's this LA Group and a SoCal group. News ta me. I was very confused about the relationships when I'd click the news block on the LADrupa.org site and it kept bringing me here. Then I figured out that this is groups.drupal.org where there are a ton of groups - but it really just made me wonder if LADrupal was deprecated/dead. So to sum this one up - as long as there is some debate as to "which one(s)" to keep, for now, how about ensuring that whichever one(s) someone may find, that there is some cohesion/collaboration to funnel people to wherever the action really is. From there people can branch out as possible. I'm going to adopt the solution just discussed here, which is to RSS any place I can find - it's not like anyone is going to get overwhelmed with postings.

Point C (I love when people do that) (uh.. 3, and don't worry, I can't count too high) If there is a question as to where people are, how bout setting up a Google map and letting people register themselves so that everyone can get a visual idea of where the activity is. Unless someone has a better idea, I can setup something here where people can have a few non-personal / non-invasive ways of providing their zip code so that we can plot dots. It's not a perfect mechanism but it might help with this problem of "we don't know where people are, so let's kill the SoCal group".

Ummm, 1, ii, C, oh yeah, point 100 - Another minor issue with understanding which group is which, and then associating with the right group, is that every site has a different login. I had no idea until now (lucky u) that groups.drupal.org had a different user database than drupal.org. Sure, I understand how it works but I was registered at Drupal.org, I then registered at LADrupal.org, then that kept bouncing me here where I wasn't logged in and couldn't post an inquiry. See the problem? For someone just getting started the fee for entry is a lot of keystrokes, and we're just not sure where we should be paying that fee, so personally for the last couple weeks I chose to ignore this group until I saw Mike's note. OK, call me slow.

Finally, V (when you thought it couldn't get worse) : nice to finally meet you peeps. Hope to see you at a meeting sometime soon. The real point I'd like to make is that the meetings are what are going to draw people out from under their rocks. The more activity people see in R.L. versus forums, the more I think they'll get hooked on the software and the community. When the meetings get boring and go south (like to TJ, although maybe that's not a bad idea either...) - then it's time to start wrapping up.

That's my five fingers' worth. I'll sit down now and y'all can go back to the shoot out. ;) Thanks 4 your time.