April Boise Drupal Users Group

Hi Nick,

If you guys would be willing to host this month, that would be fabulous! In terms of food, in the past there have been individual sponsors for pizza / soda. I'm not sure if anyone is planning on sponsoring this meeting. If not, we can take up a collection the the beginning of the meeting and place an order then.

To all,

Is anyone interested in starting this meeting with a presentation (or two) of some kind? If there's anything that people would like to either present about or learn more about, feel free to post some ideas here. Personally, I'm on a bit of a usability kick right now, so I'm learning more about interface design and usability testing, specifically the work the usability team has been doing with Drupal, and I'd be happy to present on any half-baked understanding I have in that area, given a few days to prepare.

I'd also be interested in hearing any presentation about any area of Drupal that folks have learned about recently. I find that enthusiasm follows finally grokking something, and enthusiasm is what makes presentations interesting.

Hi folks,

I'm seeking out a good Eagle location for the meeting, and have having issues. The Library will be a good solution in couple months when they aren't booked up, but we need something until then. In the past we've done informal meetups at Rembrandts, but if we do that the meeting will need to get bumped to Wednesday so that we don't conflict with their music night.

Here are the places I've called, if anyone has any other ideas, please let me know:

Library (booked)
Rembrandts ($50)
Casa Mexico (we're not quite big enough to grab the banquet room)
Liberty Grange (not open yet)
Eagle Hills Golf Course (we can do it if we have a dozen folks who all plan on eating dinner there).

If we do meet at Rembrandt's, I can bring a 19 inch LCD so we at least have a small presenting device.

Thoughts?

HI Antonio,

It looks like we have 6 attendees so far here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/17797/attendees, but there may be a few more who haven't signed up yet. The meeting would be from 6-8, with ideally a little wiggle room at the end for socializing.

I'll give the Seasons a call this morning.

Thanks!
Chris

I just talked to security and it would be ok to host a meeting here as long as I check everyone in and follow all the security procedures.
Just in case I have a reserved a room for 20 if needed. I think the ambiance at Seasons is better and it will not feel like we are back at work, but if needed we can meet at my work this time or in the future.

Thanks,

Antonio

We had a good meeting this eveing. A lot of new faces and some good discussion. Here's some highlights / information / thoughts:

• It was mentioned that our 'first thursday' slot conflicts with the Boise First Thursday. Would the second Thursday, or perhaps a Wednesday work for other folks?
• A couple other offers surfaced for additional meetings spaces, so we know have several options:
  • Seasons Bistro (I really liked the atmosphere here, what about the rest of you?)
  • Venga Works (Boise)
  • Antonio's (atGota) office (Boise)
  • Stacy's (shaven) addition (Eagle)?
  • Jeff s (bottar) office (Boise)?
• Next month Josh (jbrauer) will be presenting on using multi-site in Drupal. Feel free to post any questions before hand so he has some time to prepare for them.
• I forgot to ask what people might be interested in for future presentations. If you can think of something, post 1) Something you would like to presented, and 2) What you might be interested in presenting
• Stacy (shaven) is looking to hire a developer for dotcomsecrets.com
• For some information on Drupal usability, see the #drupal-usability IRC chat room and www.drupalusability.org (for results from most resent usability tests and associated issues). disambiguity.com also has some cool videos and ongoing coverage of usability changes in D7.
• See http://drupal.markboultondesign.com/ for the new drupal.org wireframes

For those interested, we have a local IRC room going at #boise-web-tech. It's a little quiet in there most of the time, but several of us are in there a lot of the time, so feel free to ping in sometime.

Antonio - I passed on your card to Rachel, the owner of the Bistro because she sounded impressed with www.frugalineagle.com.

I look forward to next month!

thanks for a great meeting tonight. my first experience in the group was a very good one and i'm excited to keep learning the ways of the drupal . . .

It was my first meet up and not my last. It was great to meet you all. That is the second best thing about Drupal; the people and the community support.
Regarding the meeting times, any Thursday works for me, Wed. are not good for me.

Thanks,

Antonio