Posted by Justin Freeman on February 17, 2012 at 4:36am
Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
The first DrupalACT meetup will be held on the 6th of March. Come along to meet other Drupal people, share your skills and experience, and maybe learn something new.
When: 6pm, Tuesday March 6th 2012
Where: Australian Medical Association (AMA), 42 Macquarie St Barton, http://g.co/maps/x25fu
Agenda
- User group welcome
- Requests for presentations / sessions
- Drupal 8 Preview by Chris Skene
- Multi-lingual website: A case study of translating Drupal into different languages by Adam Malone
Entry to the building is restricted after hours, so please arrive on time to ensure attendance. Or call 0402027764 for entry if you are late!
See you then!
Comments
parking
Not being a local, what are my best options for parking around there?
By 6pm, when most of the
By 6pm, when most of the public servants have gone home, you should have no trouble finding a park, if not outside, then nearby. There's quite a large carpark almost next door, if I recall correctly.
congratulations
on a successful inaugural meeting! Good turnout, great presentations, big thank you to those who put in the time and effort to organise it.
Some feedback from me:
- probably could go a bit longer, the Sydney user group meetings tend to run up to 2 hours
- it would be good to go around the table at the start and let everyone briefly introduce themselves and what they're currently working on (although you probably all know each other), it tends to be a good icebreaker
- it might be worthwhile to have a general discussion as the last agenda item, where everyone can just throw in any topic they want to chat about or discuss, an opportunity to socialise with the other attendees
Looking forward to the next one.
Meeting wrap-up
Meeting notes for those not able to attend the meeting and other interested peeps :)
The first DrupalACT meeting was held on 6th of March at AMA House in Barton. We started at about 6pm.
The next DrupalACT meeting will be held at 6pm, 3rd of April 2012 at Australian Medical Association (AMA), 42 Macquarie St Barton, http://g.co/maps/x25fu
Attendance was about 12 to 16 people, with Anton Baggerman coming all the way from Bundanoon (which was quite a surprise to me). There was good general representation from the Canberra Drupal community, which was great!
Chris Skene kicked off the evening, welcomed everyone, provided an overview of the DrupalACT user group and issued a call for presentations / proposals for future meetings.
So if you would like to present or listen to a specific topic at a upcoming DrupalACT meeting, then please post a comment here or contact Chris Skene (xtfer) or Justin Freeman directly.
Two presentations were delivered:
- Multi-lingual website: A case study of translating Drupal into different languages by Adam Malone
- Drupal 8 Preview by Chris Skene
After the presentations, Chris announced the new DrupalACT logo developed by zhangtaihao. Great job on the new logo!
There was general chit-chat after the presentations and as Anton suggested we will set aside more time for this at future meetings.
Here a few photos from the presentation on DrupalACT GooglePlus.
I would like to thank Australian Medical Association (AMA) and specifically Michael Manning and Josh for making the conference facilities available to the group.
If you would like to follow DrupalACT and come along to future meetings then I recommend you:
- Keep an eye out for DrupalACT posts on groups.drupal.org
- Circle the DrupalACT user on GooglePlus
- Or join the DrupalACT user group on Facebook
Look forward to seeing you at the next DrupalACT meeting!
Agileware, Australian Drupal Developers
http://agileware.com.au