Pune Drupal Group Meetup

Points discussed

• Should we restart the events the way they were pre-pandemic or try something new
• Should the events be fully in-person or hybrid? What would most people prefer?
• What do people want out of meetups?
  • Learn about what's new happening in drupal via sessions (lightning talks)
  • BoFs - discussion on specific topic
  • Code sprints/contribution sprints:
    Sprints should be focused more one discussing what others have tried and getting ideas, instead of actually sitting down and working on issues.
• Drupal Camp Pune'23
  • Should we keep drupal camp as paid or free?
    • We do not have experience organizing a paid event and more efforts will be required to organize a high quality event.
    • It will be difficult for students to attend a paid event
    • Free event will be fully dependent on sponsors to bear all the costs involved
  • What should be the dates for DCP
  • Should we collaborate with other communities, so the sessions are more diverse? For eg. Decoupled Drupal sessions with React community
• How do we engage the community in a sustainable way?
• Meetups and sprints create a momentum at early stage but it eventually cools down and after a point they just stop happening.
  • Don't keep the same format for every meetup, one could be BoF the next could be code sprint
  • The same people should not be responsible for organizing every meetup, different people should come up to volunteer for different meetups.
  • We can prepare a template/playbook for hosting events so anyone can just refer to that for organizing the meetup
  • How do we engage the professionals?
  • How do we engage the students?
    • Restart initiatives like Drupal Campus Ambassador Programme
    • Giving sessions in college events

Decisions made

• Meetups will happen once every two months, on 2nd or 3rd Friday around 5-7PM
• We plan to start the events in hybrid mode.
• Next meetup:
  • Will be on 14th April' 23 at QED42's office
  • Format will be a lighting talk followed by BoFs
• Drupal Camp
  • Will be held in August'23 (tentatively on 12th -13th August)
  • Will discuss the teams and responsibilities in next meetup

Getting involved

• Join the #pune-drupal channel on DIA's slack