DC Drupal Meetup: Monday, November 16

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bonniebogle's picture
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2009-11-16 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
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User group meeting

Only local images are allowed.The next DC Drupal meetup will be on Monday, November 16, at 7:00 pm at Stetson's Bar and Grill. We're breaking slightly from our standard format and instead will have two three 10 minute presentations:

  • Dave Cole and Macon Phillips from the White House New Media Team will discuss the new WhiteHouse.gov platform, which was recently rolled out on Drupal.

  • Alex Barth will demo the new Managing News, a fully open source news and data aggregator built on Drupal, and talk about some ways it's being used.

  • Jeff Walpole of Phase2 Technology will discuss OpenPublish and how this distribution is being used by publishers to launch high traffic websites

Also, we have a FREE ticket to raffle off to next month's Do It With Drupal conference - a three day, multi-level Drupal training event put on by Lullabot, who are great Drupal trainers. To enter the raffle, RSVP with "diwd" in the comments on this thread and come to the meetup. We'll print out the names of everyone who leaves a comment, put them all in a hat, and pull a winner at the meetup.

Hope to see you there!

Meetup Details
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Stetson's Bar and Restaurant
1610 U Street, NW
Map
Metros: Short walk from U Street metro on the green line and Dupont on the red line
Bus: Right off of the S1, S2, and S4 routes that run up 16th Street, plus the 90 buses that run up U street

Comments

Sounds Like a Great Meetup

tglynn's picture

The presentations and raffle sound wonderful.

diwd

Sounds like a great time for my first meetup!

stevenc's picture

I've just recently become active in the Drupal community and was looking forward to my first local meetup. It sounds like I have good timing! =)

Can't wait to meet you all,
- Steve

diwd

Sounds like fun.

aellison's picture

These presentations sound awesome! Well worth the drive to DC.

diwd

Good stuff

choster's picture

Stetson's Famous Bar & Restaurant, though. :-)

diwd

See you Monday

mlangfeld's picture

Hi Bonnie,

Sounds like a great evening. See everyone there!

diwd

Best, Marilyn

Best, Marilyn

See you there!

jesss's picture

diwd

Sounds great

naiuto's picture

I'm looking forward to my first meeting with this group.

diwd

Looking forward to the WhiteHouse.gov presentation

jwarner's picture

diwd

Should be fantastic (as usual)

kierduros's picture

And, yeah: diwd

Count me in!

wingman09's picture

I'm very interested in both presentations.

diwd

Great lineup

jcamfield's picture

I hope to make it (again? two in a row? CRAZINESS)

diwd of course (I still want to see a "There's a Drupal for that" advert)

Sounds great

Jeanne's picture

Great talks!

diwd

$100 Gift Card

RockCreek's picture

Rock Creek is there, and also throws in a $100 gift card for a secondary raffle.

diwd

See you there

todddevice's picture

diwd

<strike>I'm in.</strike>

joshualieb's picture

diwd

Well, dang. I'm out. Clients and their meetings. What can you do?

I'll be there

sarahjean's picture

Looking forward to it!

diwd

Sweet

evillemez's picture

Really looking forward to these presentations... see you all soon!

diwd

ernlilley's picture

If I'm not up at Web 2.0 in NYC on the 16th, I'll definitely be there. Really looking forward to the WhiteHouse.gov presentation and the Managing News one.

Btw - I did some interviews at the Adaptive Path UX Intensive workshop you can find on TechRevu (http://www.techrevu.com/index.php?Topic=web).

Also, I just got clear of a gig with a shop working with a proprietary CMS, I'm looking for a development shop that works with Drupal (and maybe Joomla) to do Strategy/IA/UX with.

Ernest

did I mention: diwd?

and here I thought...

Alex UA's picture

diwd was some sort of spambot.

Anyway, I'll be making the trek down for this. Looking forward to it!

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

diwd

Alex UA's picture

That diwd, the diwd in the title of this post, and any future diwd I might post are not meant as an entry into the raffle. I'm thinking I already sufficiently do it, almost solely with drupal, and despite my love for Nawleans, I'd hate to take a ticket from someone who needs to up their quotient of doing it (preferably with Drupal).

;-)

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

Not gonna make it

Alex UA's picture

Sorry to miss it!

On another note: did anyone else notice that the DC group grew to "666" members on the very day that the Obama Administration presented to the community? Coincidence? I think not.

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

Looking forward to catch up

alex_b's picture

Looking forward to catch up with everybody.

Sounds kinda cool diwd

bcruik's picture

Sounds kinda cool diwd

looks like a packed house!!

drupaldrupaldrupal's picture

I think this is a great lineup, diwdn't even need to be a raffle and I would be there.

--Bryan Colligan

Sounds great!

krysgeek's picture

I am really going to try to there!

diwd

on my calendar

hbecker's picture

I'll try to come to the meet-up

and

diwd

Awesome presentations!

ahoymehearties's picture

I was hoping to present something, but maybe next month!

diwd

in...

rickbielke's picture

diwd

Can't wait

David Vespoli's picture

diwd

First timer

davidjmurray's picture

I have only recently ventured into the drupal arena; coming from a background in legacy databases.

So, this will be my first time at a drupal meetup and I am looking forward to it.

What is the cross-pollination between the DC and Northern VA groups (I am actually in VA)?

Cheers,

PS.

diwd

great response...

jbyron's picture

i'll be there +1

diwd

the place is going to be packed!

idcm's picture

diwd

see you there
c

Looking forward to this

DarrellDuane's picture

See you there!

diwd

looking forward to meeting everyone

davidmeeks's picture

great to meet everyone

diwd

Drupal meetup

mugarurac's picture

might be there

no diwd 4 me

Going make it!

rovo's picture

diwd

yayy for meetups!

mtaqi's picture

diwd

see you there

emackn's picture

Coming for some aegir answers.

and diwd

http://www.twitter.com/ericmckenna

root/.workspace/.garbage.

Sounds like a great event!

davmorr's picture

diwd

how is everyone going to fit in stetsons upstairs?

t3kn0ph34r's picture

it feels crowded when 10 people show up..

diwd - the new captcha phrase.

Not sure you're thinking of

bonniebogle's picture

Not sure you're thinking of the right room at Stetsons? The upstairs bar where we'll be is nice and big : ) Just head right up the stairs when you come in the door.

Would love to follow by Ustream or have the slides

JBI's picture

The three subject are great.
I would love to see them as it happen or catch up by Ustream & slides.

Jean-Baptiste from Paris, France

Would love to follow by Ustream or have the slides

JBI's picture

The three subjects are great.
I would love to see them as it happen or catch up by Ustream & slides.

Jean-Baptiste from Paris, France

Would love to follow by Ustream or have the slides

JBI's picture

The three subjects are great.
I would love to see them as it happen or catch up by Ustream & slides.

Jean-Baptiste from Paris, France

looking forward to this,

schnippy's picture

looking forward to this, thanks for organizing such an exciting event. it also got picked up by techpresident.org, they'll probably have a writeup tomorrow:

http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/white-house-drupal-world

diwd!

Ernest / TechRevu Photos Online

ernlilley's picture

I've got my shots of the meeting at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/techrevu/sets/72157622696437845/

I'll be putting a podcast of the White House.gov presentation up next week when I get back from Web 2.0

Great meeting. Thanks to Bonnie for organizing.

Ernest

Great pictures

rovo's picture

Thanks for putting up the great pictures. Looks like it was a really good turnout, wish I could have made it!

Videos/photos from last night

bonniebogle's picture

Video of Dave, Macon, and Nick's talk about WhiteHouse.gov is up here: http://vimeo.com/7669508. Videos of the other two presentations will be ready tomorrow, and I'll post those here too when they are.

More photos of the meetup are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/developmentseed/sets/72157622699195963/, taken by AJ Ashton.

And congrats again to Todd, winner of a Do It With Drupal tix at last night's raffle!

Thanks everyone for coming out last night!

Bonnie

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