Posted by jhibbets on August 23, 2011 at 2:16pm
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2011-08-29 15:00 - 16:00 America/New_York Event type:
User group meeting
How to find us: irc.freenode.net/6667 on #drupal-nc
The organizers are inviting all TriDUG members to join the #drupal-nc IRC channel to help us set the agenda for the September meetup (date TBD). We will start at 3pm and post the IRC log to the TriDUG mailing list after we have finished.
Please come with your ideas.
See this event on Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/triDUG/events/30559321/
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IRC chat log from August 29th planning meeting
Here is our log from today's IRC meeting.
Jason
<indigital> Hi, sorry, first time in an IRC chat<tlattimore> indigital: Wow. Chose drupal-nc as first irc chat. I'm honored.
<CGMonroe> Better than a full blown IRC channel with 5-10 conversations mixed up...lol
<timswezy> My first use of IRC was also for a TriDUG planning meeting on drupal-nc many weeks ago now
<tlattimore> CGMonroe: Yeah. I'm pretty sure my first irc chat was #drupal or #drupal-support. Not the best intro probably.
<indigital> Yeah,I'm new to Drupal and since I've been merely reading books and tinkering around I haven't run into an issue that needed immediate assistance to warrant an emergency IRC sign-in I guess, but I just joined TriDug maybe 2 weeks ago now
<CGMonroe> Support via IRC can be good... but IMHO it's not great because there is no permanent trail
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<CGMonroe> E.g. Problem gets solved for individual... but unlike groups.d.o postings... there is no record
<shibby> hi
<Druplicon> what's up
<shibby> sorry I'm late
<CGMonroe> 'lo
<shibby> my last meeting ran over
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<indigital> Well, as an aspiring designer I am really interested in theming (from scratch) and I found the book, "The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7" to be really good
<shibby> CGMonroe: is allen around?
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<CGMonroe> Haven't seen him
<indigital> Though as I explained in my Amazon review My only issue with the books theming chapters is that it doesn't have a dedicated section that concludes its fantastic coverage of the individual theming techniques by providing an all-inclusive comparative analysis or custom site build demonstration that reveals the logic of using one theming technique over another in different areas of the site build process.
<CGMonroe> but only here for the last 10-15 min myself
<shibby> i was hoping he would be here to confirm if he could do the september preso on social media
<indigital> I've been having a conversation with myself at the books website forum
<shibby> CGMonroe: how was the last meeting?
<CGMonroe> Went pretty well..
<CGMonroe> Few glazed eyes during my presentation... but nobody fell asleep...lol
<shibby> that's great!
<SteveCory> I thought it was great
<CGMonroe> JKM also showed up which was nice
<shibby> So I think I'm eying September 14th for the next meetup
<SteveCory> He actually got into some details that were helpful
<SteveCory> RedHat is moving!!!
* CGMonroe Note to self remember to pay SC's fee
<CGMonroe> RH moving?
<CGMonroe> Re: 14th... works for me
<shibby> I've already reserved the meeting hall here at the Red Hat Centennial Campus location
<shibby> if you guys want to do it here again???
<SteveCory> Greg's presentation is loctaed at http://www.slideshare.net/cgmonroe/intro-to-drupal-module-internals
<CGMonroe> Works for me... nice venue, easy to find, gets people from State and RH there.
<shibby> Also, for everyone on the channel, we've somewhat officially begun our planning meeting :)
<shibby> CGMonroe: great
<shibby> now onto great things, like topics...what do we want to talk about?
<shibby> Originally, afreeman, who is not present, were thinking about doing a social media presentation with Drupal
<shibby> two parts
<shibby> Allen would cover the tech, which modules, etc
<shibby> and I would cover the, "now it's time to do it" part
<CGMonroe> Sounds good
<shibby> Show I'm confirming with him if he still wants to or can do that
<shibby> any ideas of back-ups....or can anyone else cover social media modules / best practices on the tech side?
<CGMonroe> If he can't I probably could fill in... we do a lot of that stuff here.
<shibby> that would work
<shibby> are you sure you want to do two meetups in a row CGMonroe ??
<CGMonroe> but normal meeting rules = he who is not here gets assigned the tasks...lol
<shibby> I'm happy to apply that!
<CGMonroe> Prefer not to... but am ok as backup
<shibby> $social-media-preso = allen;
<CGMonroe> Pretty sure if alan said he could... he will
<shibby> I will confirm with him, then let you know
<CGMonroe> k
<shibby> it's quiet here today :)
<shibby> I should have sent out a reminder
<CGMonroe> We need to figure out a good way to get folks to volunteer for presentations.
<CGMonroe> Maybe get SC to do a distro's thing...hint hint
<SteveCory> Beer?
* Druplicon drinks! and drinks more!
<CGMonroe> Hmm... free drinks afterwards for presenters... that might work
<SteveCory> I need to discuss the distro thing off-line with as many others as possible
<CGMonroe> K... no problem.. just an off the cuff thought
<shibby> we do beer afterwords,
<CGMonroe> Anyone know someone who'd do a theming related thing? Maybe a dive into theming via CSS?
<shibby> and we have no budget :)
<timswezy> give me a bit more experience w/Drupal & I'll gladly do a Drupal design/ux presentation
<CGMonroe> Kewl
<CGMonroe> BTW - Did the GREAT final version of the logo get posted somewhere?.. just curious
<shibby> CGMonroe: i think maybe we do a call for topics?
<shibby> perhaps about a week before the IRC meeting?
<shibby> use the list...say we are looking for x,y,z, can anyone present?
<CGMonroe> That sound good.
<CGMonroe> We talked about some "intro" type presentations... any ideas on these?
<timswezy> CGMonroe: haven't posted it yet, it's been crunch time here at Four Clouds, I should be able to get to it this week
<CGMonroe> No problem... just didn't want your work to get lost!
<shibby> CGMonroe: i think we wanted to do that in the fall...which is fast approaching...to try and get some of the new school kids
<shibby> maybe a good topic for October?
<timswezy> I'm interested in making sites from scratch w/o a base theme, but that could get complicated.
<CGMonroe> Yeah... but it would be nice to balance this with something deeper.
<shibby> I've always wanted to take an existing site (HTML/PHP) and move it to Drupal
<shibby> maybe a workshop idea?
<indigital> Building a site from scratch would be right up my alley as well
<timswezy> shibby: that could be cool
<CGMonroe> Hmm.. maybe do it in D7 too?
<timswezy> yes
<shibby> so maybe for the next little bit....
<shibby> October - intro to drupal
<shibby> November - convert your site
* SteveCory nods on Building in D7
<shibby> alright, we've got the next 3 meetings planned ;)
<CGMonroe> Great... only thought is to keep our "expert" members interested..
<CGMonroe> The workshop stuff might be nice because they can help...
<shibby> of course..., for november, I would hope the expert folks would actually help the newbies
<SteveCory> Is there a D7 expert in triDUG?
<shibby> and the intro...we could break-up and maybe have a dual presentations or the issues forum
<shibby> intro = october intro to drupal preso
<SteveCory> Like a mini-camp?
<CGMonroe> We did something like that when we had an OG presentation a while back.
<CGMonroe> I would assume that the Nov workshop might be a bit like a mini-camp
<shibby> CGMonroe: yes, that's what I'm thinking
<CGMonroe> kewl
<CGMonroe> Re: Oct - I'll see if I can define the intro topic down a bit
<shibby> ok, we can do that during the next IRC meeting
<CGMonroe> there are a lot of podcast, etc on this.. so we may not want to start from ground zero but give folks some "pre-reading".
<SteveCory> I'm curious if that would be from a "system specialist" or a "web developer" point of view?
<shibby> CGMonroe: agreed
<CGMonroe> Not sure.. may ask what folks are interested in
<SteveCory> (e.g. installing and setting up config files OR installing modules and updating . . . drush)
<CGMonroe> but I think web dev in this sense would be "web designer" or "sys admin"
<SteveCory> sits corrected :)
<CGMonroe> Hmm... yeah intro to Drupal System Admin vs Intro to Drupal Site Creation
<shibby> wow, great stuff today...I'll wrap up the formal IRC meeting and next meeting follow-ups. Anything else for our meeting?
<CGMonroe> K
<SteveCory> The budget?
<CGMonroe> $)
<CGMonroe> $0
<shibby> SteveCory: that's easy $0
<SteveCory> Who supplied the $ for pizza last time Jason?
<shibby> I'll get some pizza though :)
<shibby> Red Hat pays for that
<SteveCory> That's not fair :/
<SteveCory> Oh okay
<shibby> just a little way to say thx
<SteveCory> Well . . . they have $
<CGMonroe> Sigh, Duke CE's still being tight because of recession... but getting better.
<shibby> CGMonroe: you should try to get mellow mushroom to send some pizza down...we go there afterwards anyway
<SteveCory> Gad Zooks, That's a Bull City idea!
<CGMonroe> lol... but we're the people who make them stay after closing...
<CGMonroe> But can't hurt to ask
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* SteveCory nudges KyleSk
* CGMonroe Things maybe it is time to create a fiscal entity to get donations
<SteveCory> Hey Kyle, do You want to present on DRUSH for one of these meet ups?
<shibby> 6:30pm Meet & greet + pizza (Bring your own drinks or something to share)
<shibby> 7:00pm Announcements, job postings, need a job, general TriDUG business
<shibby> 7:15pm Deploying Social Media on your Drupal Site - Allen Freeman (tentative)
<shibby> 8:00pm Distributing Your Drupal Content with Social Media - Jason Hibbets
<shibby> 8:45pm Wrap-up, Get help with your Drupal issues
<shibby> 9:00pm Beer
<CGMonroe> +1
<SteveCory> +1
<shibby> thx, I'll update this stuff and cy'all later
<shibby> gotta get ready for a 4pm
<CGMonroe> l8r
<timswezy> cool, bye
<SteveCory> Thanks Greg