Using the Chronicle Herald building for next meet-up?

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jhurst's picture

hi all,

had to register a new username (old one was pescobar) to finally login here after the SSO merge

was wondering what the group thought of hosting the next meet-up at the Chronicle Herald in one of the conference rooms?

i started working at the Herald last sept. as a drupal dev and they've really bought into the platform

there is at least one other group member also employed here (username deepr) and he and i started talking about the possibility of hosting meet-ups here in a conference room

i then approached my boss about it and she thought it was a great idea

so here is what the Herald could provide as a venue:

  • conference room with wifi access
  • laptop hookup to a large presentation screen
  • refreshments/snacks (pizza/chips/soft drinks...)

the Herald building is located at:

http://maps.google.ca/maps/place?cid=2613275682069355072&q=chronicle%2Bh...

am thinking that maybe jan 25th or jan 27th starting at 7ish might be a good time for the next meeting?

what do you guys/gals think?

jason

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That is awesome! Great to

rockitdev's picture

That is awesome! Great to hear that the Chronicle Herald is embracing Drupal. I'm still going through hurdles trying to get my enterprise to buy in, but starting to see the finish line.

I'm liking the 27th, Monday night is difficult sometimes.

Great to hear about the

flashon's picture

Great to hear about the pizza...I mean a meeting spot...I may be out of town but if not, Jan 27th would work best for me.

27th sounds good ...

Bernardine's picture

for piz ... meeting. (I assume we mean 7 PM not AM). Looking forward to meeting some other Drupal devs.

ah, yup, good catch... 7ish

jhurst's picture

ah, yup, good catch... 7ish is 7PM ;)

count me in

jdexter's picture

Salutations:

Coolness - see you there.

J

25 years no more than 20 feet from a wall jack ...

Awsome!

deepr's picture

Wednesday 27th works for me - as does pizza!

@FakeDSearancke

I should be able to make the

trevor_morse's picture

I should be able to make the 27th as well!

Count me in

campbg's picture

Jan 27th is good for me. Planning to be there.
Barry

A little late chiming in. I

nimzie's picture

A little late chiming in. I think that's a great idea. jhurst, I'm still in the same location as before: virtually next door to you. We ought to grab lunch some time!

I'll keep tabs on if this is confirmed or not.

cheers!
adam

confirmed

jhurst's picture

hey folks,

sounds like the 27th works for everyone who's responded so far, so the 27th it is!

let's try and meet in the lobby at the main entrance to the building off of joe howe drive at 7pm

then one of us (me/jdexter/deepr) will take the main group upstairs to the conf room and one of us will stay in the lobby waiting on stragglers till 7:10ish

if anyone will be later than 7:10ish, you can message me at jhurst@herald.ca and i'll come down to get you

see you all on the 27th!

nimzie, good idea, wasn't sure you were still there... will drop you a note sometime this week

jason

agenda

jhurst's picture

hey folks,

had a good q asking whether to bring laptops or not

yes, bring a laptop if you like

as for an agenda... was thinking that i'd spend maybe 15 mins talking about what the herald is currently doing with drupal and what is has planned for the near future

and then it'll be open for whatever discussion/topics people have an interest in

we could also have a show/tell highlighting cool local-built drupal sites

my focus areas right now are:

  • migrating content between drupal sites
  • location-aware functionality (mapping/proximity/etc)
  • mobile site development
  • programmatic import of CCK nodes

jason

Trying to attend

bvienneau's picture

I am going to try to attend this meeting as well. I am not doing drupal at the moment but i still love it.

still on for tonight

jhurst's picture

hey all,

just a reminder that we're meeting tonight at the herald building:

http://maps.google.ca/maps/place?cid=2613275682069355072&q=chronicle%2Bh...

the 7th floor is card-secured so email me at jhurst@herald.ca if you're running late

if you need my cell #, email me today and i'll reply with it

hope to see you this eve

jason

see you at 7pm!

nimzie's picture

see you at 7pm!

see you all tonight. if

rockitdev's picture

see you all tonight. if there's time, I've got one of the early beta invites for Drupal gardens so may be something to look at.

Thanks

trevor_morse's picture

Great meeting last night! Big thanks to the Chronicle Herald guys for setting it up and hosting! It was nice to put some faces to names and learn what everyone was doing with Drupal.

As we sort of discussed last night I would be up for monthly informal meetings(I think everyone agreed beer is a requirement) and possibly quarterly meetings with a bit more of a schedule. What does everyone think?

Also as I mentioned last night I am trying to get a general PHP users group off the ground, which their will definitely be some overlap. If you would like to sign up there, here's the url - http://groups.google.com/group/halifax-ns-php-developers-group

Nova Scotia

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