The drupal philadelphia area meeting for April fell a part like an ikea made armoire being moved from one room to the next.... i now have experience in both:)
Thank you to fstpierre. The Science Leadership Center on 22nd & north broad is a great resource to have if needed for something in the future.
The meeting consisted of just me an fstpierre speaking about some of our personal uses, skills that we developed, and things that we potentially would like to get done... Specifically one question that seemed to develop ... is it better to learn to access drupal /adminster changes from the command line or (terminal) vs a texteditor....
I walked away from this meeting with one major question on drupal meetups....
1-are they worthwhile, being that a lot of the info, support and group involvement can be done online with drupal.org and groups like Drupal Dojo?
I believe they could be...it seems to me they would be a great filtering tool of all of the information that can be absorbed in the community....also for me i genuinely like to meet up face to face every once in a while - it facilitates problem solving and it is always good to network...may be we could take a more relaxed format, like beers or coffee
My last thought is that we can can take an approach to use the philly area groups site to be an added support to ourselves..for instance we could set as a goal to maintain a higher degree of importance to participate in postings in drupal philly area- than the main drupal.org postings (not meant to diminish participating in drupal as a whole)