Drupal NYC Meetup - September 2nd

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Start: 
2015-09-02 18:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

NOTE: RSVPs have moved to Meetup.com, please go to http://meetu.ps/2LQfsf to RSVP and get the lastest information.

Note: Venue change, we are moving to 30 Rock, please take note and be sure to fill out the real name question when you RSVP so you can get a name tag/badge to get through security.

Welcome to Drupal NYC!

In honor of moving our meetup to 30 Rock our theme for this month will be 'Ignite Drupal'. We will be having a series of 5-10 minute lightning talks that are loosly based on the style of Ignite.

Agenda

• 6:00 - Doors open, socializing
• 6:30 - Announcements
• 6:45 - Introductions
• 7:00 - Lightning Talks!
• 8:20 - Closing Remarks
• 8:35 - Afterparty (nearby venue suggestions wanted, leave in comments please)

Speakers

Our Speakers! Keep checking this space as we finalize our speaker list!

Sam Richard (@Snugug)
Title: I Promise It's Safe Outside
Description: While the Drupal sandbox is big, I promise it's safe to go outside. Go build something outside of Drupal. Go build something outside of PHP. Back end dev? Go do some front end. Front end? Do some back. You'll be amazed what'll happen when Drupal stops being the center of your world.
Bio: Sam Richard is an UX Architect for IBM Watson. Sam is better known as Snugug throughout the Internet, is a developer with design tendencies and a love of building open source tools to help with both. He is the author of North, a chair of SassConf, and an accomplished bacon connoisseur.

Ben Melançon (@mlncn)
Title: The Future is Here. What's Drupal got to do with it?
Description: Despite all the awesomeness in Drupal now and coming in Drupal 8, Drupal remains in a 2001 world in some fundamental ways. Meanwhile, magic more and more comes not from a module, but from an outside service. If our work isn't providing the value, inevitably our work will not be valued. Indeed, the experiences people expect, right now, frequently rely on technology that spies on them and, presently, is provided by opaque, proprietary services. The challenge is to use the Drupal community—our own network effect, so to speak—to coordinate partnerships and projects which will produce value with tools that belong to us all, rather than locked-down services controlled by a few.
Bio: Benjamin Melançon is the lead author of The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 book. Ben is a co-founder of Agaric, a web development and strategy consultancy and
worker-owned cooperative which helps people create and use powerful Internet
technology. Ben lives and works to connect ideas, resources,
and people.

Jody Hamilton (@JodyHamilton)
Title: Lessons Learned in Jody's World: 10 Years in 10 Minutes
Description: I've been a Drupal developer for almost 10 years and a business owner for 8, leading my team through one hundred projects. Along the way I've learned many lessons and strengthened some core beliefs. I'll share some of my life's lessons about Drupal, process, people, software development, problem solving, and running a business.
Bio: Jody Hamilton is the CTO and co-founder of Zivtech, a Philadelphia-based open source consultancy. An expert Drupal generalist, she is passionate about empowering her team and ensuring top quality of everything they work on.

Jakub Suchy (@jakubsuchy)
Title: Drupal competition reality check
Description: A quick reality check about our real competition, what they do really well and how we compete against them. I won't mention Wordpress once!
Bio: Jakub Suchy is a Solutions Architecture manager for Acquia. Jakub joined Acquia from his own Drupal consultancy where he worked with clients
such as Brightcove Inc., the largest white-label Internet video hosting platform and Prima TV, the second largest commercial TV network in Czech Republic. Jakub has a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from Czech Technical University in Prague. He
is passionate about technology and Drupal, which he showed when he started the first Drupal Czech community and has continued to run it for past 5 years.

• Molly Byrnes (@mabfire)
Title: Drupal dark matter magic tips
Description: In between all the systems, websites, modules - there are certain other key factors like interpersonal communication that be seen as analogous to the astrophysical concept of dark matter. This talk will focus on some tips for navigating the parts of projects & working on the internet that involve solving different types of communication problems. Sometimes learning how to frame the situation at hand is a really effective step in figuring out how to create a solution.
Bio: Molly Byrnes has been working with Drupal & solving internet and people related problems for 8 years. She's been a content editor at a small non-profit, a global website platform manager for one of the earliest corporate drupal platform and a project manager for large drupal builds. Currently as an Account Director at Phase 2, she has the privilege to work with awesome clients & excellent teams to build awesome software & find creative solutions to common scenarios introduced by the whole digital transformation that has taken the world by storm these last few years.

• Frank Carey (@frankcarey)
Title: Automating your dev workflow with the new Devicini module.
Description: An introduction to the new devinci module, which makes your code context aware and uses automation to make your deployment process faster and easier. As your code moves from local, dev, stage, and production, you'll be able to easily configure what modules are enabled, and what settings should be set so you can develop and deploy with confidence.
Bio: Frank has worked professionally on drupal for almost 10 years. At companies from small dev shops, startups, and SONY Music, he's seen the the good, bad, and the ugly of the development process. He founded DEVINCI in 2015 to dramatically improve that process through tools and services.

Neil Drumm
Title: DrupalCI
Description:DrupalCI is a new continuous integration system for testing Drupal projects on Drupal.org and locally. It replaces QA.Drupal.org with more modern technology and much more flexibility. https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci
Bio:Neil Drumm is the Drupal.org Lead Architect at the Drupal Association, member of the Drupal security team, and was the maintainer of Drupal 5.

Michael Meyers (@MichaelEMeyers)
Title: Drupal 8 and the Benefits of Early Adoption
Description: Becoming an early adopter has some risks, but it also has huge benefits. In this talk, I cover the benefits for you and your organization, and also share with you my experience at Examiner.com where we launched the first Drupal 7 site, and the first top 100 website on Drupal six months before the official release of the D7 platform.
Bio: Michael E. Meyers is the VP of Developer Relations at Acquia where he works closely with open source communities, and the teams at Acquia's partners and clients working on the largest and most mission critical Drupal deployments; Prior to joining Acquia, Michael was the CTO of Examiner.com, a top 50 site, and the leading contributor to Drupal 7. Michael was the founder of NowPublic.com - the first venture-backed Drupal-based startup, that he grew from an idea to a top 500 website, pioneering the concepts of citizen journalism and crowd-sourcing. In addition to his work with the leading users of Drupal, Michael is an advisor to several early stage startups and nonprofits including the board of the Drupal Association.