Posted by jhodgdon on December 4, 2008 at 3:10pm
Start:
2008-12-18 18:00 - 20:00 US/Pacific Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
UPDATE: THIS MEETING IS CANCELED due to the weather (see comments below). See you in January!
At the last DUG meeting, we decided to hold our December meeting on Thursday, December 18, 6-8PM. I thought we should get an event started -- can someone promote it to "sticky"?
This month, we will meet at Methodologie, 720 Third Avenue, Suite 800 (3rd & Columbia)
Agenda items:
- Planning for the Seattle Drupal Camp in February
- Recap of the Barnraising Completion (http://groups.drupal.org/node/17018, December 7)
- Please reply to this message if you have more agenda items
Comments
Book Arts hand off
At our Bookarts sprint last week we almost finished the site- it is time to pass to them for content/QA. I could do a little wrap up of the project and Dan said he might swing by so we could do a little hand off...
Bryan Z- any chance you could bring footage from our initial sprint, I am thinking about a little barnraising case study...
-jared
-jared
Book Arts hand off
I could bring the tapes the tapes (3 simultaneous cameras for 6-8hrs each) but am not sure how useful it would be -- could FFwd through to the 30 second summaries we did every hour -- if folks were interested -- all hail the timer ;) -- http://flathatter.com/timer/
Lemme know if you think this would be valuable and I'll bring in the camera and footage.
sure
are they miniDV? If it is easy to bring them along I would like to look through them. I might just end up cutting the summaries out...
thanks
-jared
Footage FAIL
Jared --
In the scramble out the door this AM, I FAILed to grab the footage. Happy to connect you up with it soon if you have a chance to drop by downtown.
-- bz
Co-working?
Is there co-working before Thursday's meeting, and if so, where?
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Co-Working
Yes! We've got our big meeting room booked from 3-6 for SeaDUG co-working, so please come on by.
-- bz
Cowork event signup - Thur Dec 18 CANCELLED
CANCELLED
Cowork event signup
Thur Dec 18 (3-6pm):
http://groups.drupal.org/node/17615
Same location as monthly meeting:
Methodologie
Pacific Building
720 Third Avenue, Suite 800 (Between Cherry and Columbia)
Seattle, WA 98104-1870
206-623-1044 main
Host Contact: Bryan Zug
http://www.methodologie.com/
Neighborhood resources:
http://www.lostinseattle.com/LIS/building/map_pacificbldg.html
* Coffee & Wifi 7am-5pm: Cherry Street Coffee, 103 Cherry Street
* Pegasus Coffee Bar (closing time?) - 711 3rd Ave
Alas I'll be missing SEADUG this months...
but not the cold. 80 degrees in Honolulu today.
Snow
Please ping in if you are still coming to the meeting. I'd like to get an idea of whether people are still up for it given the Snowpocalypse.
I made it in so we are still on if people are up for it.
-- bz
I can come
I normally travel to downtown by bus, and the buses are running (though a bit slow, on snow routes, and VERY crowded), so I can make it. But if we don't have a quorum, I'll probably just stay at home. We could have a big IRC chat instead, and/or a free conference call... I'm thinking if we are going to have a Drupal Camp in February, we'd better discuss it?
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I can come too
I was hoping to do a little coworking beforehand.
I agree that if we want to have DrupalCamp this winter we should start talking soon.
Bryan, you should make the call since it is your place.
-Jared
-jared
Calling it at 11:28 AM --
These two jack-knifed buses are just outside our building right now on 3rd & Columbia -- And several co-workers from outlying areas can't get into or out of downtown Seattle this AM.
Unless there's an objection from anyone, I think I'm gonna call it and say let's meet here next month and cancel today's meeting and co-working -- if someone wants to setup an IRC or Skype call, I'll try and join in (if I'm near a connection).
Everyone cool with that?
great picture
sounds good.
-jared
Thanks Bryan. I think that
Thanks Bryan. I think that it is a safe bet to cancel. I'll let Jennifer know, so she can update the event to make it official.
How does January 15th look like for you for the next DUG?
Robin
Robin
Just confirmed -- We are a
Just confirmed -- We are a go for hosting the 1/15/2009 meeting here at Methodologie -- Be safe and happy holidays -- Cheers all! -- bz
IRC then?
Do we want to have an IRC chat today to discuss the Camp? It seems like a Jan 15 meeting won't leave us much time if the camp is in February, but maybe we can pull it off... ?
I'm available for IRC or a conf call (if someone has phones that can do conferencing) today. I'm checking email and this forum regularly, but not at my desk generally today, so a bit of lead time would be good, but any time is fine with me.
Thoughts?
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maybe a new post?
I like the idea of getting this discussion going. Maybe it might be helpful to make a new post to the group about the camp and get some info before we go ahead. We could get a little planning group set up and that might make planning a bit more effective/efficient. I am down for whatever- I think a winter camp is the way to go.
-jared
-jared
There is a wiki
There's already a Wiki page on the Drupal Camp Seattle group, marked private, where lots of notes have been made about locations, dates, etc. I'm not sure what other input we need from the group at large.
I guess I was hoping/thinking that at today's meeting we would nail down things like dates, location, and a general outline of how we want the camp to go. I don't think we can do that as a group without a meeting, and the proposed dates are around Feb 20. To my mind, this makes a Jan 15 meeting pretty late to be still deciding on things like that. The other possibility is that someone or a couple of people can take charge of it all, make the decisions, solicit input where necessary, and get the rest of us organized in making the camp occur. Maybe that is already happening at Civic Actions?
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Drupal Camp Seattle Feb 2009 (wiki page)
Drupal Camp Seattle Feb 2009 (wiki page)
http://groups.drupal.org/node/16280
Anyone who joins the group, Drupal Camp Seattle, has access to the wiki page.
http://groups.drupal.org/drupalcamp-seattle
This was done to cut down clutter exposed to the public.
jw