Group Announcement to the WA State CIO's List

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Posted by James Gutholm on March 2, 2015 at 11:12pm

Following up on the group meeting, I posted the following to the Wa State CIO's list.

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The Olympia area Drupal Users Group is trying to build a critical mass to sustain regular meetings in the Olympia area. For those not familiar with Drupal, “Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization.” Drupal is seeing rapid growth in the government sector including use here in Washington State.

This group is oriented toward the full range of possibilities with Drupal, from use as an off-the-shelf CMS to developing custom backend applications driven by the Drupal framework. We need your help in building an active community. Please consider joining the group at https://groups.drupal.org/olympia-wa and posting what you might be interested in learning about or sharing with the group.

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Awesome!

Posted by Chris McGrath on March 2, 2015 at 11:30pm
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It was very nice to meet you at the meet James. Thanks for following up and making this post!

Thank you James

Posted by jenmontgomery7 on March 2, 2015 at 11:49pm
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Thank you! I tried extending my sitter but she had other commitments - sorry to have missed meeting everyone!

Thank you James

Posted by jenmontgomery7 on March 2, 2015 at 11:49pm
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Thank you! I tried extending my sitter but she had other commitments - sorry to have missed meeting everyone!

Thanks James

Posted by billaking on March 3, 2015 at 9:12pm
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It was great meeting everyone at the meeting on Thursday. I look forward to more dialog in the future.

As a professional novice - Here are the things I'd like to see.
Topic: Getting started with Drupal
a. Installation [recommended OS]
b. Demonstrate Nodes, Blocks and other important Drupal stuff that makes it work.
c. Creating, editing and customizing themes
d. Extending Drupal via modules
e. Communities and recommended sites for learning
f. Tools, IDE's and workflow
g. Managing Users
h. Changing the sites interface
i. Administering
j. Developing on Drupal

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Bill King
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Hey Bill

Posted by Chris McGrath on March 4, 2015 at 4:14am
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It was great to meet you!

If we can get enough folks interested in the Site Building Administration points you listed I would be happy to lead a walk through any time if there was interest in getting together say more than at the monthly.

Another great resource in the meantime that we mentioned at the meet is www.buildamodule.com which again offers us the chance to use the content for a period of time we establish with the owner Free when used as Mentored Training. So lets use it! Also you can check out www.drupalize.me

I hope to have some time to put toward getting the word out as well so we can grow the group and have our reviews benefit as many as possible. Thanks for outlining this also!