Lafayette meetup?

Posted by Anonymous on February 4, 2009 at 1:17am

I know that there are several of us who live in Lafayette or West Lafayette and work with Drupal. Would any of you be interested in starting a Lafayette meetup? I think that we could probably meet at my church if we need a decent size room. Let me know what you think.

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How about in 2 or 3 weeks on the Purdue Campus?

Posted by dougvann on February 4, 2009 at 1:45am

I was up until 2am this morning yacking with McNeelyCorp [aka Elvis] about this very topic.
He has a professor who is wanting a local Drupal scene and Elvis is willing to do the heavy lifting. He's asked me to join him for the 1st few meetings.
I'll send you an email with more details.
I don't know if my co-worker Sean aka lominicar would want to hook up with that as well; he's in Lafayette, but not West.
We'll see what happens here!
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date or place?

Posted by mikegoodwin (not verified) on February 6, 2009 at 1:53am

Doug,

Are you planning on setting this up, or do you want me to help?

-Mike Goodwin
Red Leaf Media
http://www.redleafmedia.com

I'm in

Posted by joshmiller on February 5, 2009 at 2:07pm

Mike,

Hello! We tried to hook up before Christmas, but it never happened. I'd love to get a Lafayette group started...

~ Josh

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Guess what? I just changed my nick for the 3rd time! (I promise this is the last time...) Before my current name, I was known as "ecclesiastic" -- this didn't stick around because the wife couldn't bare to be married to someone who had picked such a geeky nick.

a rose by any other name

Posted by dougvann on February 5, 2009 at 9:32pm

Josh...
I'll give you some free unsolicited advise...
don't use "jawshoeuh"
I heard a podcast YEARS AGO that encouraged me to brand myself as a simple name that anyone could use to recognize me in any forum, chat, post, site, etc.

i see the phonetic trickery in that name, but not everyone will. If you have to explain your nick, its too hard. you want ppl to have easy access to you in any setting and that begins with a nick that is palatable to the ears AND brain :-)
just my thoughts.... take it or leave it

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Synaptic Blue Inc. [President]
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Thanks for the advice, Doug.

Posted by joshmiller on February 6, 2009 at 2:47pm

Thanks for the advice, Doug.

Hi Mike, The day is finally

Posted by elvis2 on February 6, 2009 at 4:04am

Hi All

The day is finally coming to where we have a Drupal group here. Here is what I know so far. A very good chance the group will meet on Thursdays at 4pm on campus. I am shooting for the first meetup to be on Feb. 26th. David Blakesley and his staff plan (whom use Drupal in the English Department) to attend. I have invited StormFront and the webmaster at the Tippecanoe Public Library as well. I plan to reach out to the Computer Science professors who are into OpenSource.

If you know some other companies / groups who might be interested please let me know. Since the English department is already using Drupal I think it might influence others around town to take a hard look at Drupal.

Any planning help / support (for food and drinks) would be appreciated. Do you know of any companies / departments who can lift a hand with a sponsorship? Even if small, it will help.

Regards

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time?

Posted by mikegoodwin (not verified) on February 6, 2009 at 11:36am

Elvis,

I may be the exception, but I will very rarely be able to make it to a meeting before 5:00pm on a weekday. If we want Drupal "professionals", then 4pm is probably an acceptable time. However, for people who do it in their spare time (as I do), this time will simply not work. Have you thought about having it later in the evening? I guess that different demographics would probably attend at different times.

-Mike Goodwin
Red Leaf Media
http://www.redleafmedia.com

+1 on 4pm being a VERY

Posted by joshmiller on February 6, 2009 at 2:49pm

+1 on 4pm being a VERY difficult time for even "Professional" drupalers... I'm a full time web developer and see the community aspect of Drupal as an "after hours" kind of time.

We're not all students around here in lafayette ;-)

other people?

Posted by mikegoodwin (not verified) on February 6, 2009 at 11:40am

I know a couple of people who may be interested in coming...You may contact Ric Brown, the owner of Local Mountain Coffee. He has discussed meeting up with me in the past about Drupal. Also, the people at Haan Marketing and Communications seem interested in Drupal as well.

-Mike Goodwin
Red Leaf Media
http://www.redleafmedia.com

Hey mike... I'm the Haan

Posted by joshmiller on February 6, 2009 at 2:48pm

Hey mike... I'm the Haan Marketing+Communications "people."

others

Posted by mikegoodwin (not verified) on February 8, 2009 at 7:50pm

Josh,

It seemed like Bob and Earl might be interested as well. I'm meeting them for lunch on Tuesday to talk about some Drupal stuff (at least that's what I think we're talking about).

-Mike Goodwin
Red Leaf Media
http://www.redleafmedia.com

Thanks for sharing the

Posted by elvis2 on July 14, 2012 at 9:10pm

Thanks for sharing the schedule concerns. I am waiting to hear back from David about this. What I would like to propose is a 4pm - 5pm power hour for the English department folks, where the group would really focus on them. ~~Then have the others meet at 5 or 5:30 to 7:30.~~ At 5-5:30 have food and talk / mingle (is that word still mean the same as 10 years ago :)). 6 - 7:30 get to the order of business.

What are your thoughts on that? Is ~~two~~ 1.5 hours enough time for the rest of us? Be frank / realistic DougVann, since you have done this a few times :)

Hey Josh and Josh, Will

Posted by elvis2 on February 12, 2009 at 12:19pm

Hey Josh and Josh,

Will 5:30pm work for you? It would be great to have you guys.

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Elvis McNeely
Blogging about Drupal and web development: http://www.elvisblogs.org/drupal

good with me

Posted by mikegoodwin (not verified) on February 12, 2009 at 1:20pm

5:30 would be good for me. What's the first date?

-Mike Goodwin
Red Leaf Media
http://www.redleafmedia.com

Feb. 28, the last Thursday

Posted by elvis2 on February 12, 2009 at 3:08pm

~~Feb. 28~~ Feb 26, the last Thursday of the month.

Location has not been made yet. TBA.

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Elvis McNeely
Blogging about Drupal and web development: http://www.elvisblogs.org/drupal

sounds great!

Posted by joshmiller on February 14, 2009 at 2:46am

sounds great!

Just letting everyone know

Posted by elvis2 on July 14, 2012 at 9:10pm

Just letting everyone know the official meetup event has been published:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/19209

Please use the sign up button to let us know how much pizza and drinks we need.

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How about in 2 or 3 weeks on the Purdue Campus?

date or place?

I'm in

a rose by any other name

Thanks for the advice, Doug.

Hi Mike, The day is finally

time?

+1 on 4pm being a VERY

other people?

Hey mike... I'm the Haan

others

Thanks for sharing the

Hey Josh and Josh, Will

good with me

Feb. 28, the last Thursday

sounds great!

Just letting everyone know

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