Hi. I am a Drupal webmaster/project manager/user experience specialist, and am VERY interested in integrating Wave into my client projects right out of the gate. I am also waiting on sandbox access, so haven;t had a chance to play yet. I've expressed interest at the Wave module page in helping however I can - testing, UX review, documentation, whatever I can. I think one of the immediate decisions that needs to be clarified for people like me is: when is it appropriate to recommend that we implement a Wave server vs just using a third-party provider? Is it number of sites the client is managing? is it infrastructure-dependent? Is it branding considerations? I'm sure the answers are yes, yes and yes to some degree, but I think it will be instructive to begin work on some best-practice guidelines to help us Drupal folks know the landscape a little better. I am VERY excited about Wave, and can't wait until we have a module to begin messing with. FUN!!
Another thing - I've started a DrupalWave Twitter account for us to use. I know it's not convenient for long posts but maybe just some of the more announcement-type stuff and smaller issues could be addressed there. I expect that I'm hardly the best candidate for inside information and the latest scoops -- I just want to make sure that we have a voice out there in Twitterland and to contribute any way I can. Having issued that last caveat, if folks are okay with me doing it, and would be willing to communicate with me about any news or announcements they have, I would be honored to do the posting to Twitter. If I don't have your vote of confidence on this though, no problem at all - I can transfer the account to whomever the group designates, or even delete the account entirely - we can always just use hashtags instead of having a formal account. I'm open to anything the group wants to do. The absolute key thing here is that people are willing to participate and respond as a group. It's only as useful as we make it, just like the IRC.
Also, I'd love it if any of you who are into it could reply to this post with lists of people you think we should Follow.
I'm located in Manhattan and belong to the Wave Group there, so hopefully I will see some of you there at some point. I'm out of town until the 30th of July so will be attending meetings asap afterwards, and bringing information back and forth between the Wave group and the NYC Drupal group, hopefully with increasing cross-pollination between the two.
-- Kelly Bell --