Posted by erutan on February 22, 2013 at 12:31am
perhaps a little late, but the techraising meetup tonight should be pretty relevant for front endish folks.
http://www.meetup.com/Santa-Cruz-TechRaising/events/95667242/
perhaps a little late, but the techraising meetup tonight should be pretty relevant for front endish folks.
http://www.meetup.com/Santa-Cruz-TechRaising/events/95667242/
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So? How was it? (I spent
So? How was it?
(I spent some time watching the Design Styleguides presentation from Drupalcon Sydney.)
--Darryl Richman
http://darryl.crafty-fox.com
Very good. The beginning was
Very good. The beginning was a little too much "this is why it's important" for my tastes, but it was interesting seeing what direction Zurb is going with their framework and I definitely picked up some useful bits of information. Q&A was a lot of fun - Chris is a good guy.
I wonder if there'd be enough interest to get a "front end" meetup group? We have a few groups that kind of touch on it, but it'd be nice to just have a dedicated round table of design / css / js / sass people.
I am definitely not a
I am definitely not a front-end type person, although I am perfectly happy to hack away at HTML/CSS/JS. I would rather see FE stuff talked about at the Drupal meetings we have. I would even support dedicating some of the meetings to FE talk. How will I know what is new and important for websites I create if it's sequestered off in a special interest group?
--Darryl Richman
http://darryl.crafty-fox.com
I would be interested in a
I would be interested in a dedicated front-end group to discuss more advanced topics. In my mind this would not supplant drupal group in general. It might even give us more front-end topics to bring back to drupal group.
-- Julia v.
http://www.pfvdw.com
I can see the benefits of a
I can see the benefits of a Frontend Engineer meetup, with so many that dabble specifically in HTML/CSS/JS, but I can also see there being a large number of targeted questions like "How can I make this work in {$cms}?" It might provide for a bit more cross pollination across platforms.
In many ways, the Web Developers group tries to take this in hand.
2 cents on "front end" Darren's remarks..
I haven't been coming to Drupal group for a while because I'm using Wordpress. ( BTW: I still think the Drupal group is the most fun). I noticed Darren's last email, and just wanted to say that I'd be keen on participating in any new front-end groups, or drupal group sessions focused on it. I believe there is ongoing interest.
Under consideration
I have a meetup group I am considering restructuring a bit so it can be a bit more inclusive to Web Application Development technologies including topics like PHP, FrontEnd, NodeJS, etc. Right now it is a single PHP Users Group meeting which occurs once a month. I think by being more inclusive, we can nurture more of a cross culture and make it easier to pick and choose. I would include the Drupal meeting on First Tuesdays as well.
Each meeting will need their own leader as I am not able to lead/host all of these meetings myself, but I am happy to sponsor the meetup the account and the regular group meetings I am in charge of.
Some thinking needs to be fleshed out a bit more, but I want to throw this out there as a thought.
group names
WADs and Frengineers.
current thoughts
@Darryl - this wouldn't mean we'd never talk about front end stuff @ Drupal, but there is more going on than just drupal themes and it'd be fun to geek out on a regular basis. As Julia said we'll discover cool stuff to bring back as well.
@Darren - it seems to me like there should be a PHP/Node/Python etc group and a HTML/SASS/JS/UX group. Whether that means merging PHP with existing Web Developers and creating Front End or whatever I'm not entirely clear about. If there are no large presentations we could setup a barcamp method where people talk about something new/cool for 5/10 minutes. In many ways these groups are more about facilitating cooperation afterwards than just what is presented on at that time (watch a screencast). People can go to both (you would), but I think keeping it in a vague logic vs structure/presentation helps keep an audience somewhat aligned.
It seems like there is definitely some interest - and we can get more judging by the turnout last night.