Central Connecticut Drupal Meetup - Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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2011-07-19 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
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User group meeting

The Central Connecticut Drupal Meetup Group will be holding its next educational and interactive, face-to-face meeting on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm at the University of Connecticut School of Law, Knight Hall, Room 215, 35 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT 06105, as it continues to build and strengthen the community of Drupal developers, designers, administrators, content creators and other stakeholders in Connecticut. Come meet fellow Drupalists. Come learn what Drupal can do for you and the best practices to apply when using Drupal. Come help steer our group to become an invaluable source of information and networking opportunities. We are a passionate and fun group, enthusiastic to grow and help all those interested in Drupal - beginners, journeymen and experts - by sharing our collective knowledge, expertise, experiences and ideas.

Logistics

When: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Where: University of Connecticut School of Law, Knight Hall, Room 215, 35 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT 06105

Here is a google map centered on the University of Connecticut School of Law and a campus map showing the locations of the building in which we will be meeting. Parking is available in the lower lot behind Knight Hall.

Please use the sign up button on this page so that we have a rough idea of how many people will be attending.

Thanks go to Bob Mariotti and the University of Connecticut School of Law for arranging our meeting space.

Agenda

  • Introductions
    • Who are you? What brings you to this Drupal Meetup? What do you do? How do you use Drupal? What are your websites? For what companies do you work?
  • Welcome to Drupal Newcomers
    • A Quick Introduction to Drupal (when those new to Drupal are present)
  • Group Business
    • Selection of Presentations and Activities for Future Meetups
  • Informal Group Discussion
    • What have you been doing with Drupal? What help do you need with Drupal? What assistance or resources can you provide with Drupal to other Meetup attendees?

Additional Information

Please visit the wiki page entitled Central Connecticut Drupal Meetup Group for additional information about our Meetup Group.

Comments

I unfortunately can't make it

tommyent's picture

I unfortunately can't make it tonight due to lack of transportation but was wondering if it makes sense to publish meet ups to a site like meetup.com to reach others who may not know about Drupal?

Sorry tomorrow night. :P

tommyent's picture

Sorry tomorrow night. :P

Thanks for the

drmarkafriedman's picture

Thanks for the suggestion.

I've been periodically doing so at http://www.meetup.com/ct-web-innovators/ and at http://www.meetup.com/nohowebdev/.

I've announced DrupalCampCT there already.

Dr. Mark A. Friedman, President
The Richard Roman Institute
email: webmail@drmarkafriedman.com
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I apologize for the late

drmarkafriedman's picture

I apologize for the late notice and lack of published agenda. At our last meeting, David Schonfeld presented the WWUH website at http://www.wwuh.org/, which is a mixture of Drupal and home-grown PHP code, and which he inherited with no knowledge of Drupal. The group discussed the idea of exploring how we could help contribute to their website either through some suggests, focusing requirements, creating a development and design plan, or through implementation of new features. We agreed to give some attention to the WWUH website during each of our upcoming meetups as a way of focusing our discussion and moving the meetup forward.

Drupal includes a set of modules for creating a website for a radio station (http://drupal.org/project/station). This project might provide a useful discussion during the meetup.

John Ramsey from WWUH will join us at the meetup to discuss his ideas, wishes and needs to move the WWUH website forward.

David Schonfeld will be late arriving to the meetup. He put together his list of thoughts:

The WWUH website should ideally:

  1. Allow for easy maintenance not requiring a highly trained IT
    specialist.
  2. Include a development platform.
  3. Integrate the Playlist database and Playlist entry form.
  4. Rationalize and simplify the Menu system.
  5. Allow for listener feedback.
  6. Allow genre representatives to easily customize their pages.
  7. Provide an easily updated Photo Gallery.
  8. Archive shows for on-demand listening.
  9. Link to other Hartford-area non-profits.
    1. Link to University of Hartford departments and student organizations.
    2. Gather statistics on site-visitor activity.
    3. Encourage online donation.
    4. Gather e-mail addresses for special-announcement mailings.
    5. Integrate the program guide into the main site.
    6. Provide a vehicle for staff communication.
    7. Integrate with the WWUH Facebook page.
    8. Link to other New England community radio stations.
    9. Make content management simple enough that staff members will not need a lot of training and will not be afraid to put up their own content.

Dr. Mark A. Friedman, President
The Richard Roman Institute
email: webmail@drmarkafriedman.com
web: www.drmarkafriedman.com or www.richardroman.com
im & online: drmarkafriedman (major services & sites), 216365864 (icq)

Wireless access available TONIGHT!

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Finally, we will have wireless access tonight. Please ask for your guest ID and password when you arrive at the meeting.

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