My self introduction and offerings/wants details

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I've been thinking about how to organize/connect/network with other travelling drupalists and also for myself.

I would imagine individuals introduction along with interests and what they want and what they can offer in terms of traveling, networking, hosting etc.
Here is my description and I feel we could make a website to organize information better to easily search and find each other and self match making. :)

Jiyoung

I am from Korea but living in Beijing now and organize Beijing Drupal Meetup occasionaly. I love sharing info and making websites to share the info. So learning drupal has been challenge and also fun. My stay in Beijing will be till June 2014.
I'm also actively involved in Seoul Korea drupal meetup.
I also travel quite often for holidays.

What I can offer as a host in general:

hosting/promoting/connecting meetups in Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai(thru other drupalists in Shnaghai) -Korea, China

What I can offer as a traveler:

  1. Introducing drupal to people who never heard of drupal or interested in having a website
    -introducing diffrent ways of making/building websites with major CMS not only drupal but also wordpress, joomla, Korean cms, other popular new CMS on the market->this is for inviting people who don't know drupal, interested in having a website(they might have heard of wordpress and feel more familiar with the topic and will attend and learn about drupal as I was one of those case)
  2. Not so advanced level(expert) durpal knowledge sharing
  3. Hello drupal

-I travel to Phuket, Boracay often-if country/regional community is promoting and announcing and gathering newbies or beginners or people who never heard of drupal...etc..then I can do intoroductary talk to spread out drupal(the topic can be general not only drupal)
-I know/heard there is wordpress meetup going on in Phuket for expat community. This type of people will also know/learn about drupal from general introductary talk for example.

What I can offer personally in Beijing:

This has to be more personal level and mutually there should be comfortable feeling to commit pesonal hosting at home.
I would feel comfortable to host svenryen at my home for example as we've been communicating a lot on drupal group and I have a trust and respect. :)
-I have extra guestroom with double bed. I would host couple nights comfortably.
-I could let my home for fellow trust drupalist like svenryen to come and stay when I and my husband leave the country for holidays. This should be agreed with my husband and it would help to build trust and interaction.
For my house area, facilities, check www.enjoybeijinglife.com
-I have a driver so if it's a mutual interest, I could go to meetups/sightseeing togeter easily.

What I can offer personally for Seoul:

I have community venues that drupalists can come and work or hang out when it's not used exclusively by other group.
Free wi-fi, desk and chairs, projector, DVD player etc
www.mindbodyseoul.kr

What I want personally:

I would love to learn more drupal. Escpeially I use IIS windows server and it's a little challenging to find someone with this knowledge with drupal. My husband's company is paying for spouse career development in Korea, China and Germany(our home countries and current resident country)
I am willing to pay private lesson.
Also if there is nice drupalists who like to show around etc...I would love to go there as next holiday destination. Try somewhere differet and new.
I have one dog and would like to learn dog training if someone with drupal interest happen to know and teach me some tricks. ;)
Also I started horse riding so any drupalist who love horse riding and would like to go horse riding with me, that will be fun.

My Upcoming Travel Plans and Updates

Feb 9th-16th Phuket Thailand
March 19th-27th(not confirmed yet) Seoul, Korea
March 23-25th HongKong
April 27th -May 11th Stuttgart, Munich, Berlin, Germany

Those dates, I could go for meetup, could take personal trainig or private lesson, could do some talk etc.

This can be very personal...and feels a little too much.
But I think it's very important to be very clear and spesific on what we can ofer and want, boundries etc.
Also we can put some setting option.
For example, I would like to see other drupalist travelers request and if I feel like, I would contact the person with my offerings. Not people requesting personally. I registered as couch surfing member but haven't tried out for myself yet...
But I feel I would feel more comfortable hosting fellow drupalists who I've been communicating often and have a trust.

Also with couch surfing, we should have the review or testimonial feature.