Posted by dgorton on March 1, 2014 at 8:43pm
At today's Twin Cities Drupal Open House there were a few requests for a list of Twin Cities Drupal consultants. There have also been discussions about having a TCDrupal.org site with more information and functionality. That site could easily have a directory - which would work much better than, say, making a list in a post here on g.d.o. which soon rolls off the group homepage and therefore becomes unfindable, un-updated and therefore, essentially useless.
Barry, Peter and I chatted briefly about this and decided to post that idea here for public comment. Are you interested in such a list? Would you want to be on one? What's the best place/format for such a thing?
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I'm very excited to keep
I'm very excited to keep talking about this.
Today we had a session to talk about Drupal freelancers in the Twin Cities and how we can share resources and work together as a larger body on projects that may be too cumbersome for individuals.
For more infromation, check out my other post: https://groups.drupal.org/node/411348.
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David Needham
Team Lead of Training at Datadog
I'm interested
I'd like to see this happen and would be happy to help figure out the best way to make it happen.
The biggest problem is keeping such a list up-to-date. On online directory that requires those listed to post updates to stay current, might be useful.
I think a new TC Drupal website might host such a list - or there might be any existing website/service that offers this possibility if we simply promote it locally.
Tim Erickson
Triplo
I'm in
Count me in for hosting the web site unless someone else is stepping up to the plate -- I've done these sorts of directories before. Also - note that we DO have some control over the groups web pages (well, Barry and I do anyway) and Barry has recently put iN an event listing block on the page, so events really ARE available as a side block. I'm at the moment mulling over some more changes to the GDO pages that might be more effective - it's all panels based and it's not too painful to for example create more pages as well as change the home page. I'm open to suggestions.
Steve Hanson
Cruiskeen Consulting LLC - http://www.cruiskeenconsulting.com
We've talked a few times
We've talked a few times about working on the root www.tcdrupal.org site to provide such a listing. I had a conversation with David about that yesterday and mentioned it in a community session as well. If anyone wants to work on this let me know.
We'd talked before about trying to schedule some sprints to build it out. Now that we have some more consistent branding for the group, some of that might be easier.
We've been hosting the tcdrupal.org domain for some time, and the camp websites as well. We're happy to continue doing so and I can see about helping out with a site build too or participating in sprints as long as there is interest and motivation in the community. That portal could also be a good central place for handling any governance discussions coming from Tim's exploration of nonprofit status or setting up an organizing/governance structure.
Right now I just have tcdrupal.org redirecting to the current camp website. I can update the provisioned site there to be a current D7 instance if we really want to get this going.
Jeremiah Davis
Advantage Labs, Inc.
count me in
I am interested in such a list and am willing to help in the build, etc.
maryann king
http://www.emkayandco.com
Quick notes: I'd be willing
Quick notes:
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David Needham
Team Lead of Training at Datadog
Since there is already a de
Since there is already a de facto list in the user registrations that are formed as part of the TC Drupal Camp, and since we really want everyone to be able to modify their profiles... would it make sense to use that as a starting point, and perhaps have that turn into the directory? I feel like this might be an option?