Manchester Meetup: Thursday, Nov 10th

For those who got the Free Acquia free cloud coupon and the OReilly Ebook have you had a chance to sign up? I tried the free cloud but got an error with the coupon code being either wrong or expired. For OReilly once you sign up I could not find anyplace that gave you the free ebook. Just wondering what others may have run into when signing up.

Not yet. Lost power and internet that very night. Will report back when I get access back to do so. Right now jumping wifi to wifi and only time to get critical stuff done.

Mary... I got confirmation of the error on the coupons from Acquia... they should work now with the same code you tried..

One thing I learned at the camp was that your d.o dashboard has a link to Novice Issues. I've tried to do it but immediately get lost. A short walk through of the Novice issue queue would be helpful.

Also, I know they need help with the documentation. I've read through gobs of pages on how to contribute to the documentation, but still don't really know where to start. Knowing the difference between the "handbook" and the rest of the documentation would be good too.

Hi everyone - it was really great to meet you all at Drupal Camp NH (great job, it was really impressive) - I'm looking forward to collaborating with you all. I was wondering, was there any more thought put into adding a virtual component to our meetups? I have an Adobe Connect Seminar Room license that can be used during this time, as well as a webcam/table top tripod to display live video. I know we had mentioned the wireless connections being weak; was there any more discussion about attempting to improve this?

If none of that works, I would like to propose either a) we stagger the nights we meet (we decide as a group the best night to meet on a monthly basis); b) change the regular night we meet; or c) hold a completely virtual meetup on another night - everyone just joins from their home/work.

I actually like the virtual solution, because ACP is persistent software - every time you go back to the meeting space, it remains intact - so you can have a running tally of notes, polls, etc. You can also record everything, so people can view after the fact.

• Pat ("the Adobe Connect guy")

Note that video stream is extremely bandwidth intensive. Does anyone have an account/server that supports it? (And it would be nice to record too).

BTW: Most of the proprietary video "chat" doesn't support Linux, which I use almost to the exclusion of all else. So I would encourage using something that allows Linux.

Also, if no one comes to the meeting, and only uses the video channel - do we really need a traditional "meetup"/physical location? We could perhaps modify the SignUp form to include if people will be attending via video or physically.

I am a native son of ye old Granite State but have been living in Washington DC and more recently San Francisco over the course of the last 10 years. I didn't really participate too much in the DC drupal community but have been collaborating with members of the Bay Area community for the past 6 months or so.

I'll be staying with THE FAMILY for the next month or so and i am glad to see NH has a an active group i can participate in!

Looking forward to meeting you guys!

Hey Everyone,

I'm very new to the group here, new to Drupal too, but I happen to know a lot about the topics being discussed here. I will be at the meetup tomorrow so I can chat about this in person to. What got me here is I am moving a very larger site off of another platform onto Drupal. Just happens that the site I am moving is a video instructional website.

I broadcast video around the world both on-demand and streaming of live shows that we do almost once a month. So I'm pretty versed in video broadcasting over the internet, it's stupid easy which is cool.

As to bandwidth, it doesn't require a lot but just requires what you do have available is steady. We broadcast in HD with just 1mbps up. I have broadcast (testing) live from Panera Bread OVER a vpn back to my house! So that gives you some idea of how little BW you need to broadcast - it only has to be steady and not fluctuate.

On the camera side, it's easy to do. Any DV or web cam can be used and Adobe Media Encoder Live is free to use to compress and upload the video to the receiving RTMP server.

As to the server to broadcast with, that's made super easy with Amazon AWS and WOWZA licensing. $5 a month for the WOWZA server license and you pay for what you use in bandwidth. I used this when we got started doing live broadcasts. I now use a full up worldwide CDN (Edgecast) that websites like Yahoo and Tumblr use. Then just use freebie JWPlayer to broadcast it over a website. Just need a telecon line for people to dial into which we could get from http://www.freeconferencecall.com/ or some of the other free services out there - they just don't provide you with a toll free number which usually isn't too much of an issue in this day and age.

And there is yet another resouces. https://join.me/ <-- this works on Linux I think, it's just flash.

Also, on the networking side. I can help there too. I'm about to have a spare 1U machine laying around that I have used to build custom Linux firewalls to be managed with FWBuilder. Lot more reliable and solid that your store bought small firewalls out of the box. Or we could even take what they have and fix it up (if it's a broadcom based firewall then we could load Tomato or DD-WRT onto it). Plus I have two Cisco PIX 501's I could donate if none of the above works out (the custom linux box is honestly more reliable).

I'm willing to help either way. Does not take long to do any of it, you will be amazed how simple it is!

Let's try it. And see what happens. Don't forget we need to set up a virtual meeting at 6:00 and a second virtual meeting for beers at 9:00. Does everyone have a nearby bar with wifi?

BozHogan, #include beer.h is what you looking for. ;)

FYI, I will do my best to attend virtually tonight but I have class this evening so it will be sans video and in stealth mode so my teacher doesn't get offended. Hopefully, CDIABU hasn't blocked G+.
-Barb

We are going for the simplest option tonight - a G+ hangout!

Find it on my profile (Michelle Lauer) https://plus.google.com/u/0/116936199053321784399/posts

Running late for meetup... Was on my way but want to confirm that we are still on? Are we going all virtual?

@ppatterson-edc
I would love to attend we had started using Google hangouts with some success in CT and I started a remote group to see if others were interested in trying this out with other local meetups. http://groups.drupal.org/remote-meetups
Didn't get very far as you can see :(

Thanks for testing out Google+ for tonight's meeting. I think overall it worked really well.

Was last night's meeting recorded by any chance?