Posted by joshcfischer on February 16, 2012 at 9:55pm
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2012-03-07 18:00 - 19:30 America/New_York Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Mark your calendar! We are planning a Drupal Meet Up in the Hampton Roads area for Wednesday, March 7th from 6-7:30pm. Meeting will be held on the campus of Christopher Newport University in Newport News. Room location is still TBD, but will be posted here soon.
We plan to incorporate some introductions, conversations amongst folks, as well as a presentation or two. If you have a presentation idea, throw it our way...we have a few ideas too!
Moving forward, our thought is to host these meetings every month on the 1st Wednesday of the month.
Stay tuned for more details, but we wanted to give you guys a heads up to get it on your calendars.
Looking forward to it!!
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Room on CNU Campus
We can have our meeting at CNU campus for sure.
My wife is still getting the ROOM Assignment, but CNU campus will work. It may take a few days to know EXACTLY where on campus.
Tidewater Drupal Meetup - Meetup.com
For those of you that use Meetup.com, Danita has created an account for this Tidewater Drupal Meetup Group.
http://www.meetup.com/Hampton-Roads-Drupal-Users/
Josh Fischer
www.artsmithmedia.com
The exact room is still TBD.
Gotta love Bureaucracy! Still waiting on room number assignment!
Room
CNU Campus
Ratcliffe 200 is the room.
March 7th - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Campus Map: http://www.cnu.edu/about/cmap/index.asp
Plans for Wednesday's Meetup
Hi folks,
For the Wednesday meeting we are planning for some networking and introductions, then a presentation (outlined below). If anyone else has a presentation they would like to give or perhaps a topic they'd like to discuss with the group feel free to throw it out there.
Looking forward to it.
Drupal in a Team Environment: Designing, developing and deploying large projects with a team
One difficulty of Drupal is that it is not inherently configured to be used and worked on by a team of developers. When working alone isn't a problem, but when you start to add more team members there are hurdles you have to cross. This session will be a 30,000 foot overview of solutions and approaches to the problem. We’ll touch on version control, project management tools, collaboration tools, server set up, and how to get a project done and still want to be friends.
Josh Fischer
www.artsmithmedia.com
It's fine to eat in the room.
It's fine to eat in the room. We'll hopefully be able to get on the guest wireless. My wife should be on hand at the beginning of the meeting to get us hooked up. We'll see how it goes with the technology this first time. There are some (10?) PCs in the room but it would not hurt to bring laptops.
Meetup on Wednesday
Great, I'll bring some pizza's and some soda's.
Lookin forward to it!
Josh Fischer
www.artsmithmedia.com
I'll try to bring some $$ to
I'll try to bring some $$ to offset your costs.
Arg(0)!Unfortunately, I have
Arg(0)!
Unfortunately, I have to back out for tonight, last minute. A surprise birthday party for a friend has sprung up. I hope the meetup is a success and that we have another one soon after, I really would like to be in touch with you 757 Drupalfolk and help keep the local scene going.
Jack Haas
Themer
Portsmouth, VA
http://www.johnhaas.com
Sorry you will have to miss
Sorry you will have to miss the meetup tonight. We are planning to have meetups on the first Wednesday of every month, so hopefully you can catch us next month. We really want to increase Drupal community activity and awareness in the Hampton Roads/Tidewater area.
DSquaredB
Danita Bowman
Room
Room is on Second floor of Ratcliffe Hall. There is some construction on the building, They have some green fabric cover up somewhat obscuring the Ratcliffe Hall sign. Parking should not be a problem. Its after hours AND spring break. I'm in the room killing time now. :)
Gonna see if we can put the
Gonna see if we can put the Druplicon on a Bat-Sign on a big swiveling light for next time. :)'
Resources from presentation
Here are some resources that refer back to much of what I talked about last night:
Great description of a successful git environment - http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
Asana.com - the awesome task management software I mentioned (several times)
Agile Manifesto - http://agilemanifesto.org/
Enjoy! - Josh
Josh Fischer
www.artsmithmedia.com
Thanks, Josh. Great
Thanks, Josh. Great presentation last night. Good tips on working in a team environment, but also good information for people working alone.
DSquaredB
Danita Bowman