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Boston Meetup at Berkman Center in Cambridge on Oct 9 @ 6:30pm
The Boston users group is meeting for the nth time. Here is our topic:
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 5 minutes on a topic of their choosing. You may show off your Drupal site, ask some questions of the audience, give a module demonstration, share some marketing ideas for Drupal, and so on. Just keep it brief. No expertise required - just do it.
We will be hosted by the Berkman Center at Harvard University. Follow that link for directions. We are meeting upstairs in the Berkman Conference Room
After the meetup, some of us will likely continue the conversation over dinner at a local restaurant.
In an unprecented fit of productivity, I've booked the same conference room for our November and December meetings. Save these dates:
- november 6th @ 6:30 pm
- december 11 @ 6:30 pm
hello friends
Hello Boston Drupalleers. I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is George, and I've been playing and working with Drupal for about a year now, and living centering my life around Boston for around 8. I'm overhauling several sites and apps at work into Drupal (four so far, including the upcoming relaunch of our organizational website), and it is creating quite a stir.
The only personal site I've done is http://rollinitiative.com, which I invite you to join if you enjoy gaming and/or arguing. I grant the current design is somewhat uninspired, but it was a conversion of a 4-year-old phpBB site and I couldn't rock the users' boats too strongly. Sometime I'd like to make it to one of these meetups that happen in the area if possible. I will be at the boot camp in Cambridge in a few weeks, so maybe I will see some of you there.
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Boston meetup
As one of the admins of Newspapers on Drupal -- and one of the early adopters of Drupal in the newspaper industry -- I'll be in Boston on September 28 & 29 to speak to the New York Press Association. (Moshe is speaking as well.)
If anyone is interested in getting together for drinks, dinner, or general Drupal chat (I just came back from DrupalCON Barcelona), just post a comment or contact me.
I'm free Friday and Saturday night, and Sunday for breakfast.
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jQueryCamp '07 (Boston)
We're going to be having the first all-day jQuery mini-conference October 27th, here in Boston, MA. Already, a large portion of the jQuery team will be attending and giving talks - so if you're interested in meeting some of the people who've helped to make jQuery possible and chatting with fellow developers, then this is a fantastic place to do it! (Note: jQuery is the JavaScript library that's used to power Drupal.)
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Software Freedom Day
On the afternoon of September 15, 2007, the Free Software Foundation and BinaryFreedom are hosting a Software Freedom Day event in downtown Boston (Chinatown).
There will be Drupal representation in the form of a presentation by Agaric Design Collective and/or any other Drupal folk who show up.
http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Boston_Software_Freedom_Day
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Drupal Hosting
I am starting to do research on finding a hosting site for Drupal.
My starting research has led me to a service called "siteground" that is supposedly #1 for Drupal hosting.
I have also looked at the Drupal main page for hosting sites and they list a few, but not SiteGround.
I could host a Drupal site at my home ... but I then have to modify Postfix on my Linux box to send out email via another SMTP Server.
Thanks!
Tom
Drupal Admin Bootcamp: Cambridge, MA
The good folks over at Cambridge Community Television in Cambridge, MA, will offer their now-famous Drupal Admin Bootcamp training again on October 14, 2007, 9AM to 6PM. This is a training for new Drupal users and admins, and experienced Drupal hacks, to get formal exposure and training in the installation, configuration, core and contributed functions, themes and a whole lot of technique - all in a single marathon day of training.
http://www.cctvcambridge.org/bootcamp
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Ad Hoc Meetup Friday, July 27th - Bertucci's at Alewife station
I realize you had your last meet up just a few weeks ago, but I happen to be in town (well, Norwood, anyway) on some Drupal related business, and was wondering if folks were interested in getting together for a few drinks / dinner / chat this Friday evening?
Suggestions on location (a casual pub that isn't too loud and can fit a variable number of people) and how to get there from Norwood are appreciated.
Update: Bertucci's at Alewife station in Cambridge sounds like a good spot, as Barry suggests. Let's lock on that. 7:30pm OK with folks?
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Drual Newbie
Yep, I am a Drupal newbie. I am using Drupal for an organization I am now the secretary of. The old site was you're standard HTML site with standard HTML ... and we really need something more now, and I think Drupal is the best way to get that site up and running.
I'm not a newbie programmer. I've programmed in a number of languages over the years, and I am now a Senior Software Engineer with Java/J2EE technologies.
My Drupal install is having some issues. I am using:
resin 3.1.1 Community Edition
MySQL 5.x Community Edition
Drupal 5.1
All on OpenSuse 10.2 Linux.
BarCampManchester: July 28th - ABI, Manchester, NH
Saturday, July 28th
10 AM to 5 PM
ABI (map)
33 South Commercial St.
Manchester, NH 03101
Knowing that there are a lot of BarCamping Drupallers, I figured I'd point out BarCampManchester up here in Manchester, NH. Manchester's only an hour north of Boston, so it might be a great day trip for some of you.
Read moreDrupal Meetup: July 11, Central Square, Cambridge
You are invited to an ice cream social in Central Square, Cambridge, at Toscanini's Ice Cream on July 11, starting at 7PM. We'll try to get seats at the legendary Big Table for us open source people, the owner recommended we eat open face sandwiches to suit the theme. There is free wifi, Red Line subway access, tasty ice cream, coffee, and a great crowd. There is no agenda, no program, just a chance to socialize and network with other Drupal users in the area.
RFP: Seeking developer for photo site
I've been working with a local project management group to place them with a qualified Drupal developer for a neat photo sharing website project. They have developed a good plan and have now publised their RFP for anyone who wants to make a bid. They are looking for a Boston area person(s) but will take proposals from anywhere. Looks like it would be a fun project, see attached, deadline for proposals is in about a week.
Read moreDrupal Drop-In with Neil Drumm @ MIT Stata Center.
When
June 8, 2007. 11am
MIT Stata Center (Campus Map)
1st Floor
Another informal gathering of developers, administrators and anyone else with a Drupal project that needs some work. No topics, speakers or agendas, just you, your laptop and the comforting company of other Drupal users diligently working, socializing and having their questions answered.
Neil Drumm, maintainer of DUPAL-5 branch, will be visiting us.
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Hi,
I am new to Drupal but I am jumping in with both feet. Right now I am setting up 3 Drupal sites for
my department at Boston University.
I like Drupal's clean adminstration interface but I am having some trouble getting
the hang of adding images in content. This is what the users of this site will want to do.
Create pages or stories, and be able to include pictures with thier text.
I was having problems with absolute/non-absolute URL's but I got this fixed. I can now
upload an image or attachment and have it appear with a non-broken link.
Drupal Drop-In #2 @ Other Side Cafe (Newbury St.)
Tagline: Beer, tea, cake, Drupal
Monday, May 7
600pm - 900pm
The Other Side Cafe (Map)
407 Newbury St
Boston, MA 02115
Bring your laptop, Drupal project, and appetite (or thirst) to our second Drupal Drop-in. Last time we had a good turnout, answered some questions, checked out what other people were up to, and even got a little work done.
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Monday, April 23
600pm - 900pm
MIT Stata Center (Campus Map)
1st Floor
An informal gathering of developers, administrators and anyone else with a Drupal project that needs some work. No topics, speakers or agendas, just you, your laptop and the comforting company of other Drupal users diligently working, socializing and having their questions answered.
Read moreStarting a weekly Drupal Drop-in?
I wanted to test the waters for starting a weekly Drupal Drop-in somewhere in the Boston/Cambridge area. Not as structured as our semi-monthly meetings, but just a static day (say Mondays, or even Sunday afternoons or something) where people could meet in a Wi-Fi'ed location (maybe a coffeeshop) and do their own Drupal needs in the helpful presence of others. No speakers or topics.
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Hey folks -- time for another meetup?
I notice that it's been a number of months since the last one.
Meetup in late April? Early May, maybe? Spring is springing and is it time for local Drupalers to come out of the ground?
Is there a process how these get organized? (E.g. who picks a place, picks a date, etc.?)
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Boston BarCamp2 "unconference" at MIT
You all might be interested in the Boston BarCamp2 "unconference" happening this weekend at the MIT Stata center:
http://barcamp.org/BarCampBoston2
BarCamp is the more inclusive answer to O'Reilly's Foo Camp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp).
Registration is free.
Don't be put off by the emptiness of the schedule page. The schedule is be set by the participants on Saturday morning. You too can host a session and talk/teach something.
Enjoy!
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