Chennai Drupal Meet III

Thanks SundaraRajan and Team for organizing the Chennai Drupal meet III. Great office!It was great meeting everyone, some new and some of us old. It nice to have the Chennai Drupal community grow.

Like always lets try to summarize each of our contributions at the meet here.
Checkout My first Drupal site –Tips for Non-programmers and 10 Tips for a Drupal Programmer, I have tried to summarize my part there.

Please fill in the details of Dim-Dim, FMs,...

I got IRC working!! checkout http://groups.drupal.org/node/2326, the instructions there are great!

To begin using IRC, you should first download an IRC client. See this list of IRC clients for various platforms and this Comparison of IRC clients, both of which are very helpful. For simplicity, I chose Miranda IM, and there are several External Links that will take you directly to Miranda's web site.

After you've downloaded and installed Miranda, on a Windows machine you should see the Miranda logo (a man in a green outfit) in your system tray (bottom right, next to the clock). To get set up on IRC, right-click on the Miranda logo, go to "Main Menu", and then click "Options". In the left-most column, click on Network and then on IRC so that the "Account" tab (among a few other tabs) shows up on the right side. Next, select "FreeNode Random Server" from the "Server name" drop-down menu under the "Account" tab and Miranda should automatically select "irc.freenode.net" for you and insert it into the "Internet address" box for you. Next, type in a name you'd like to use into the "Nick" box (this is the name people will see you as) as well as your name in the "Full name (e-mail)" box (I used my nick for both). For "User ID (Ident)", I used "Miranda". I left "Alternative nick" blank. Go ahead and click "Apply" and then "OK" to close the "Options" dialog box.

Drupal uses the FreeNode IRC network, irc.freenode.net, as follows:
- #drupal-dojo for the Drupal Dojo group (this is the one you'll need initially)
- #drupal-support for support
- #drupal-themes for theme development
- for other Drupal IRC channels, you can search IRC by entering "drupal" in the search box; you'll be provided various names of channels having something to do with Drupal and you'll then simply pick the one you want to join.

To actually join a chat, right-click on the Miranda logo in your system tray and then click "Hide/Show". The Miranda app should pop up on your screen. Click on the logo (to the left of "Status"), go down to IRC, and click on "Join a channel". Underneath where it says "Join channel", type in #drupal-dojo or #drupal-support or whichever channel it is you're trying to join and then click "OK". This should immediately take you into the chat room and indicate to you the nicknames of users in the chat room via a column on the right hand side.

The channels are a great way for you to learn and, likewise, to give back to the community by allowing you to help answer other folks' questions once you're familiar enough with Drupal to do so. Enjoy and have fun!

Jo, Shan and Team, Vijay we missed you!

Some plans for the next meet:
1. Organise a training session on Drupal theming
2. Video record meet