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This is continuous draft. Add any and all topics you would like to see us cover in a meeting, and we will review the list at each meeting to pick a topic for the following month.

Setup & Config & Maintenance

Shared hosting issues and workarounds (htaccess, PHP-CGI, SMTP setup)
Security issues, updates, permissions and paths on server (files directory in webroot?)
Multisites: File Structure, the "sites" directory, and Table-sharing
Discuss Acquia's Distribution of Drupal (including the new theme with it)
Drupal-Friendly Hosting: (Scott: slicehost.com for VPS hosting, pair.com for dedicated hosting)
Admin automation & Updates (drush, v7)
Performance Tuning (php.ini, Drupal, MySQL (or not))
Security
Backup and Migrate module
Import & Export of data (ex, importing data from legacy sites)

Development (in general)

WAMP/MAMP/XAMP - $57 for MAMP Pro - makes doing multiple sites easy
Firebug & other CSS Editors
IDEs for Win/Mac/Linux (Eclipse, CODA, Zend)
SQL Clients (Navicat.com)
Devel module
SVN/CVS usage
Schema module

Common Modules (you almost always use)

CCK
Views (Filtering down a list (exposed views))
Panels (deprecated?)
Admin Menu
Admin Role
Pathauto & Token
ImageField & ImageCache
FileField, Date
Mollom
Joins and Node References (howto)
Ubercart (vs. eCommerce)

Multimedia Modules

Fun with ImageCache (compositing images w/ alpha channel, etc...)
Photo Galleries (Menalto Gallery2 vs Roll your own w/ Imagefield & Lightbox, etc.)
Video or Flash modules? (CDN2 and FlowPlayer? I have no idea.)
CDN Discussion
MP3 and Audio Handling modules

Theme Development

Different themes for sections of a site
Eyecandy with jQuery
Overriding Templates
Contemplate Module
Devel Module
Zen
Starting from scratch (PSD to Drupal)
Sweatshops? Any luck?

Module Development

Development Workflow
Developing that first module
API usage in relation to module development (Drupal API's as well as external, i.e. Facebook)

Support & Learning

IRC
Issue Queues
Podcasts, Learning Sites, Video Sites
Book Reviews

Topics for NON-DEVELOPERS

Drupal for Graphic Designers: (or, How to keep a GD from building an impossible layout)

What to look for in a developer/designer for your new Drupal site

Selling Drupal (and FOSS) to your PHB

How to hire a Drupal site administrator or maintainer (Or, teaching Drupal to your current maintainer)

Misc Topics

Problem Solving - what are some of the common issues people run into, and how to tackle them.
"How Would You Do It?": given a specific set of requirements, what modules would you use to build the site?

Web Services

Workflows and Actions

Handling Spam (Mollom)

OpenID

Wiki in Drupal

Searching my site (modules or options available)

Google Analytics

Weird-assed obfuscated use of modules (flag, token, taxonomy) (could be a contest for most original use?)

Cincinnati / Dayton / SW Ohio - CINDUG

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