Re-start bay area user group?

Yes it will be great if you can arrange for space. We should also get a rough poll of preferred time from people who might want to attend. Evenings starting around 5 should be good OR we can shoot for Saturday around 10 am.
Is there any time restrictions on the place you have?

This is a cross post from another thread. I accidently responded to the wrong group.

I am hoping whoever was an organizer for the south bay emails me. But I am thinking its a dead group. Good idea, good group of people, hard to get together or maybe with the way companies and jobs apear and dissapear one of the organizers wound up unable to continue.

I checked with the powers that be and I have a space to use with some restrictions. I work for a school district and I can book a classroom on certain evenings, rooms have sound and projector, however we have to follow california state law / ed code which means no beer. I am going to go look at the south bay group and the drupal groups and come up with a plan. I will report back here then maybe as a group we can restart the Bay Area Drupal group as the Silicon Valley Drupal User Group. (Bay Area and Berkeley seems to be really close)

OK my mind is all over the place this morning, to much caffeine and to little sleep from BADCamp.
Lets try to merge the Bay Area group and the South Bay Group, and create the Silicon Valley Group which is a better description. When You say Bay Area most people default to SF (As someone who works in Sunnyvale and lives in Dublin its annoying) Between the two groups I think we can get a good core and get the group started.

I am also offering space hoping that if we meet regularly and grow the group we can get offers of space from other places or companies.

yeah, when i first moved back here a year ago, i was surprised that there was no 'silicon valley' DUG. shocking, no?

i think the best bet may be to have a sort of BoF session on it and start organizing it.

first thing on the agenda would have to be to define the region because i think that's a large part of the reason south bay doesn't have a DUG. 'bay area' really isn't a useful definition for a DUG region; it's just too big :) personally, i'd like to see either a silicon valley DUG or even a San Jose DUG.

from my experience starting the san diego DUG, i think the only way to get a DUG up and running is to get one or more people and just start scheduling regular meetings at a good location. same day/time/location every month. it was many months before we had a regular group at the san diego DUG, but it eventually caught on.

the toughest part is finding a really good location.

Glad you are getting this restarted. Not sure I'll be able to make them but just an FYI that you are all also welcome to come down to the Santa Cruz DUG that meets the first Tuesday of every month from 7pm to 8:30pm(ish) in downtown Santa Cruz (normally at Nextspace). We had some changes in times/days over the first few months but have settled on this new schedule which works for most people.

Based on the SC DUG, I agree that a 7pm(ish) weekday start time would probably work for most people. Perhaps having it the 2nd (or 3rd or 4th) xxxday of the month might be good in case some people did want to come down to the SC one. You could also check to see when the Berkeley and SF ones are and similarly try to schedule so they aren't in the same week if that could work out.

Good luck!
Kristen

OK I am going to go out and set an initial date, time and location
I am looking at the calendar. How about first thursday night of the month (I can only get thursday evening space regularly)
Perhaps 6:30? I know 7 is popular but a good meeting winds up going really late and there is a 9:00 end point for all campus use.

Location would be Cupertino Sunnyvale Adult and Community Education. If I am a member of the group and ACE uses drupal then there is no fee for the space. When we overgrow the space we will have to find another.
591 West Fremont Ave
Sunnyvale CA, 94087

Hi Mike, Before setting anything up, we should make sure we are not overlapping days with other groups in the area (Santa Cruz, SF and Berkeley).

Kristen already confirmed they meet First Tuesday of the week.
I propose we should shoot for 2nd Thursday at 6:30 @ ACE. This would put the first meeting on 12th November.

Thanks Mike for the place again. We will keep adjusting as we go along.

best
M

Hi,

The Meetups at South Bay DRUPAL Group have been fairly active and very well attended.
As of now, there are 250 members in the group.

http://www.meetup.com/DrupalGroup

Merging of the groups is not a bad idea given the fact that both are in South Bay.

Nevertheless, the next meetup was being planned for sometime mid November and it will will not be overlapping with the first Thursday of the month Meeting proposed by Mike.
Look forward to meeting everyone in person.

Best
Avi

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