An awesome Drupal meetup of Kolkata

We had a awesome meetup at CCD Sector-V salt lake this evening. Eleven members of this group turned out and discussion was awesome. Takeaways from the meetup in brief are :

• Participants are of mixed kind professionals, Entrepreneur, Project Managers, Developers, Themers and newbies as well
• Talked about various ways to acquire more knowledge about drupal mainly targetted towards newbies, mentioned about drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, irc, stack-exchange, http://drupalcamp24x7.org/ video tutorials etc.
• Problems we shared are like, finding drupalers with proper knowledge, we all admits the shortage of drupal resources, even though big companies working on drupal unwilling to promote it
• Opportunities for drupal training are immense what we found and discussed
• Dave Chakrabarti, Mukesh Agarwal and Sumeet Pareek started talking about the possibilities for their mutual business engagement models which is good and encouraging for future members
• Everybody voted for monthly meetup
• We also agreed to take individual level initiatives to flourish our drupal community here at kolkata
• Set our future target to organize drupal camp

And to conclude we had a lot of fun around it and promised ourselves to meet again