First... let me cry "Mea Maxima Culpa".. Between Thanksgiving holiday, family stuff, work, and other stuff, I totally dropped the ball on getting the December meeting in Durham scheduled. I apologize to all for not getting this together..
So, the next "in person" meeting of TriDUG will be in January (probably Durham). But rather than bag the meet up altogether, I thought we could do a "virtual" meetup, using some of the ideas suggested by Allen Freeman.
How will this work? Simple, just reply to this message, with your thoughts on the following topics below. Hopefully, we will have a bit of a TriDUG wide "ask around the room" discussion. Just think of Alan, or Jason, or me pointing to you... (Yes! you sitting there reading this)... in a normal TriDUG meetup and putting you on the spot to answer:
1) What Drupal related projects did you work on that stand out this year (The Good, The Bad, or the Ugly)?
2) What TriDUG related activities stands out for you this year? (The Good, The Bad, or the Ugly)?
3) What would you like to see TriDUG do in 2012? (General goals or specifics are OK)
Oh, forgot to say... it's not "required" to comment on all three... if you just want to respond to one or two, it's OK.
TIA
Greg
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Re: December Meeting - Virtual Style
The goods are standing out, the bad is sitting out and the ugly keeps creeping up and down the tarmac.
Here's wishing y'all a Happy Holiday and a thanks to Greg, Jason, and Allen for organizing.
TriDUG Projects/activities feedback
Drupal projects that went
Drupal projects that went live this year; http://www.cedarcreekgallery.com/, http://brhepa.com/ and the ugly is me trying to get through Pro Drupal Development (I have muddled through the first six chapters and working on seven)
I have never come away from a meetup disappointed. But often times I get overwhelmed with what all there is to learn. I remember these as where I need a lot more work; Adam Gregory (Tips & Tricks), Greg Monroe (WebFM, How Modules Work, Social Media), Matt Kennedy (Views), Andrea Ross (Themeing), Jason Hibbits (Distrib. Social Media), Allen Freeman (Backup / Porting / Sanitizing Utilities, Springboard)
I like the new energy of the new co-facilitators, (not that there was anything wrong with the old facilitator). How others handle various aspects of design and development and why.
I've only been able to make a
I've only been able to make a couple of meetings this year.
Good projects: AASHE 2011 conference site and redesigned site. A bunch of cool things at TopNotchThemes, where I started working a couple months ago.
Bad / ugly projects: I've helped a few people upgrade their Drupal sites and in the process spent a bit of time debugging performance problems without coming up with any great solutions.
TriDUG Activities: The meetings I went to were good. Thanks to Jason and Greg for keeping the group going! I know that it can be a thankless job. I'd like to propose a base theme comparison night in the new year where we talk about Omega, Fusion, Zen, etc. I'm also open to middle of the day meetings.
1) What Drupal related
1) What Drupal related projects did you work on that stand out this year (The Good, The Bad, or the Ugly)?
The Good:
Working on the Springboard installation profile and site upgrades for the ACLU.
The Bad:
During a momentary lapse of sanity I lost about 80 hours worth of code written towards a feature module that would integrate the USGS's realtime stream data with Fusion Charts to help whitewater paddling groups track which rivers are running, how many paddler days are logged on each within the group and individual paddler performance and progression.
The Ugly:
Anything involving me editing stylesheets. :/
2) What TriDUG related activities stands out for you this year? (The Good, The Bad, or the Ugly)?
The Good:
We had fantastic group turnout for both sessions of the Drupal for Communities series of presentations (thanks Alice and Jason for presenting), as well as good turnout for the first leg of the Drupal for Nonprofits series, despite NCTech4Good meeting the same night. I feel that structured, topical presentations like this better allow both group members and other Drupal users to gauge relevance and our attendance numbers seem to bear that out.
The Bad:
All three of the current group organizers have flaked at some point on keeping the group up to date on planned activities. I'm more guilty of this than anyone else and I'm very excited to see both Greg and Jason getting comfortable with their new roles within the group. As time goes on these little lapses have grown less frequent, which is an encouraging sign.
The Ugly:
Our apparently misguided attempt at doing a TriDUG mixer, where a total of three people showed up.
3) What would you like to see TriDUG do in 2012? (General goals or specifics are OK)
I would like to see group members more active in planning and activities.
I'd like to see the group experiment with a midday meetup series in Durham, since there has been quite a bit of demand for this sort of thing both from Duke faculty and from some of the freelancers in the area.
I'd like to see TriDUG more active and more visible in the community at large. This includes things like maintaining a presence and presenting at local uncons and Drupal Camps, outreach and exploring joint ventures with other communities where our interests overlap (NCTech4Good, Triangle Area FOSS Developers, etc).
I also want TriDUG t-shirts!