Come contribute! The 4th Monday (change this month due to Drupalcon to) 4th Wednesday in Long Beach we're holding meetups to coincide with core office hours.
Join us in Long Beach or meet us online in our google+ hangout. The first few meetups have been fantastic! During each we either contributed patches or helped somehow in the process. As a result we've already helped get code committed to Drupal core! Want to help? Can't code? no problem. There truly is something for everyone to do. We'll help teach you.
The agenda is simple. Show up, bring a smile, and be prepared to work. Optionally, post link(s) to issues youd like to work on in the comments below. Otherwise, we'll get started on novice issues together.
Don't be intimidated we walk-through the process of reviewing and submitting patches together. If you have never done this before, then this a great place to learn.
If you would like to see a list of issues that we have worked on in last few meetups. Checkout our LA Drupal Issues Wiki Page. Here we list what we have worked on and what the status is of issues that still need some love.
We'll try to breakoout into groups. Typically 2-5 people per group working on a single issue. We have three rooms and 1-2 projectors for groups to share. We also use google+ hangouts if you'd prefer to joinn us virtually. We share the hangout room video & audio on even another big-screen display -- and we have at least one high definition camera on the room. If you have a Mac with an Apple proprietary video connector, please bring a dongle so you can share video on a projector.
| MEETUP | INFORMATION |
| Monthly muse: | Easy peasy things that help. |
| When: | 4th Wednesday (March 28th, 2012) :: 7:00pm - 10:00pm Doors open early (by 6p) and often close late (10p+). Come early to help setup & chat. RSVP below by clicking sign-up . Pre-Meetup study group (5PM). |
| Where: | LA NET 4182 N. Viking Way, Suite 214 Long Beach, CA 90808 |
| Online: | Unlimited:  IRC channel: #drupal-laUp to 10 people:  google+ Hangout |
| Agenda: | Find or bring an issue. Preferably before the meetup. Post issue suggestions in comments below. Or look here: http://drupal.org/project/issues/search?text=&projects=Drupal+core&assigned=&submitted=&participant=&status[]=Open&issue_tags_op=or&issue_tags=Novice |
| __Free Food & Drink:__ | Thanks to our sponsor and local Drupal shop: media done right |
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ack! I'll still be out of
ack! I'll still be out of town (on a plane) due to Drupalcon travel... can we postpone/choose another day/time? Maybe 28 or 29? (I really need to look at a calendar)
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mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }
I vote the 28th. Check your
I vote the 28th. Check your calendar and make sure your free.
The 28th, Wednesday, I can
The 28th, Wednesday, I can make, and have tentatively booked it, pending hearing that the venue is available that night.
Peter
LA's Open Source User Group Advocate - Volunteer at DrupalCamp LA and SCALE
I'll confirm by midday
I'll confirm by midday tomorrow -- please check back on this post ... but I'm fairly certain its available. (and also fairly certain next month they'll be in new offices -- closer to my house)
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mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }
Burbank Meetup is tonight as well - oops
Just noting we should be more careful when moving from our regular time slot to check our sister meetups. I did want to go to Burbank for their topic tonight. We will get it right next time.
Peter
LA's Open Source User Group Advocate - Volunteer at DrupalCamp LA and SCALE
Just got word that the venue
Just got word that the venue is available tonight.
I'll be attending via the
I'll be attending via the Google Hangout. Looking forward to it!
Samesies
Samesies
+1
I'll be able to join in as well. This should be fun!
Curses, Long Beach is a wee
Curses, Long Beach is a wee far for me. We need to set up a Santa Monica contrib meet up sometime soon
Join via google hangout
That's what I'm doing (or it would be an almost 2hr drive for me).
do the google hangout
Do the Google hangout with Me, Pam, and Ashok.
mbrandon, please note there
mbrandon, please note there are two ways to join us online. (see agenda details above). Typically this meetup is coordinated to occur at the same time as core office hours. so IRC is the best for chatting. but we also do screen sharing using google+
its worked quite well
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mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }
See you tonight
I'll be there in LB.
John Romine
Meeting Minutes
This meeting resulted in 3 issues being reviewed by the community. There were 5 people at the meeting, including two first timers, Kiet and Steven, who had technical chomps to jump right in. In Google Hangout we had another 3 or 4.
It was a night full of technical difficulties. Bound to happen once. I'm surprised now at how easy the previous meetings went.
We had technical difficulties with bandwidth, loosing the connection several times, delaying the start of contributing for those at the novice level. That has not happened before. For those attending remotely who hung in there, it was a success. Those who left early, please come again, not letting the technical difficulty give too bad a first impression.
I had laptop woes half the meeting, trying Google Hangout for the first time on Ubuntu 11.04, along with displaying my monitor on the big screen in the room. I had to power down 3 times to unfreeze my laptop, and then handed off the VGA to Frank, whose laptop external video worked fine.
One laptop running the Acquia Stack had difficulty with Drupal inside a folder and connecting to mysql daemon. If I recall right, mysql error codes of 2006 (?) with subcode of 10061. We manually tested all 4 possible issues, and found nothing wrong. Windows Acquia based Drupal, which I have not done before. Anyone having clues on this problem, please post.
A night of technical difficulties. Like the LA weather the last 6 weeks. Alternating rain and sunshine, every two days. Like the last 5-8 years.
I did get my review in on one issue, giving confirmation to Frank's post, and adding Ashok's nod to the patch. I did not track the other two issues that others worked on. I would like to see posting minutes on those.
I'm now finding "contributing" to be more routine, easier, and I understand many in's and out's. I will be "comfortable" picking issues in the future for the night. And even working on them on my own. I'm happy with this degree of success. I will say it came from hard work the last five months during the meeting, with little extra curricular reading.
I note the extra curricular reading now available on the Issue "Novice" level is abundant. I feel it's still inadequate, where my Wiki post points out the needed last info to fill the hole. The steps a novice should do, that work for over 50-75% of all issues.
Our wiki will get some more enhancement later this week from me. And I will propose a page to be put onto D.O. from those enhancements.
Next month, the meeting will be in different location, that will be announced, as it's unknown at this time.
Peter
LA's Open Source User Group Advocate - Volunteer at DrupalCamp LA and SCALE