Perth March Meetup

Posted by alexkb on March 10, 2010 at 1:20pm

Start:

2010-03-24 17:30 - 19:00 Australia/Perth

Organizers:

alexkb

samhassell

Event type:

User group meeting

Hi again everyone,

The next Perth Drupal meetup is scheduled for 5:30 pm, Wednesday 24th March, 2010 at the Itomic Office in West Perth.

This will be our forth Drupal meetup in Perth, but the first that will follow some structure and won't be located at the (noisy) pub!

Below is the structure we are going to try to follow:

Introductions: everyone (or perhaps just the regulars?) to introduce themselves and their backgrounds in general.
Drupal South Wellington Debriefing by Thomas (thsutton).
Show & Tell: have those who wish to, talk about a Drupal project they are currently working on and/or recently completed where they've learnt something new and interesting.
Drupal Q&A HowTo: ask a question about any topic relating to drupal including but not limited to theming, informational architecture, module development, best practice modules, etc.
Discuss which topics should be focused on for the next meetup.

The Itomic Perth Office is located at Suite 34, City West Centre, corner Plaistowe Mews & Sutherland St, West Perth (google map link). You can either catch the train and walk 100 metres from the City West Train station (Fremantle line), or park in the City West section (where Scitech/Harvey Norman's is, which is free for the first 2 hours).

Itomic will be kindly supplying the meetup with beer, but if someone else could please bring some nibblies (chips, or something) that would be great.

As always, if you're interested in anything Drupal, please come along - all types are welcome: techies, project manager's, hobbyists, students, designers, anyone!

Please email either Sam or myself (alex.bergin@gmail.com) if you'd like a mobile contact number to help with finding the place.

Cheers and look forward to seeing you at the meetup!

Comments

Nibbles are on Itomic too

Posted by itomic on March 11, 2010 at 8:25am

Hi,

Ross here, MD of Itomic. Just to confirm: we (Itomic) are happy to supply drinks and nibbles. Enjoy!

(Alex - don't let me forget!).

Cheers,

Ross.

Just a reminder that the meetup is 5:30PM tonight!

Posted by alexkb on March 24, 2010 at 5:41am

Hey people,

Just a reminder that the meetup is 5:30PM tonight! And a couple of things:

There's two entrances to itomic, both have bells on the front, so just ring either of them, and I'll let you in.
We'll have wireless access for anyone wanting free access for a laptop/smart phone.
Beers and snacks provided. Help yourself instant coffee/tea/water too.

There's about 6 people signed up including myself, plus another itomic person might be coming too.

See you's then.

I may be a few minutes late,

Posted by thsutton on March 24, 2010 at 6:08am

I may be a few minutes late, but I'll definitely be there!

Sincere aploogies

Posted by gmalcolm on March 24, 2010 at 8:11am

My apologies to alexkb and generous hosts at iTomic. Still coping with severe storm damage here at UWA and I will have to be a last minute withdrawal.

:-(

However, I do look forward very much to getting along in future and could offer venue/hosting in Nedlands from late April if this would be of any assistance.

meetup summary

Posted by alexkb on March 24, 2010 at 2:04pm

What a great meet up this month!

Thomas did a fantastic job going over just about all the sessions from the Drupal South Conference from last January. All the info for the conference slides that Thomas referenced are over on the drupalsouth website (note there is two pages there). This took up most of the time (we ended up finishing at 7:45PM!), but we then also had some discussions about drupal 7, and a few 3rd party modules: admin_menu, panels, ctools, views, and some theming stuff.

If I've missed any links of things we discussed (I think most should be on that drupal south programme page), please post them here for everyone.

Thank you to all those who attended, it was a great turn out: Meg (from the DCA), Chris & Els (from multimediamakers), Andrew & Morgan (from Museum of WA), Thomas (from Bouncing Orange), and Guy and myself (from itomic).

Thank you especially to itomic web designs for providing beer, snacks, and the venue!

For the next meetup, to share hosting around, Morgan suggested the DCA as having a good conference room that should fit more people as well as being available after office hours? We could aim for either 21st or 28th April (Wednesday). Please either post back here or start a new thread. If I don't hear anything within 2 weeks, I'll send a few emails around, and we could possibly fall back to using itomic again if needed. Hopefully, our previous attendees will come to the next one too, including Hub and Sam!

Thanks again for all who attended and see you at the next meetup!

No worries gmalcolm. I think

Posted by alexkb on March 24, 2010 at 2:06pm

No worries gmalcolm. I think you know Meg? We'll stay in touch for the next meetup and see you then. Cheers.

Good to meet you all

Posted by megt on March 25, 2010 at 12:37am

Terrific to meet you all last night :-)

For the next meeting, could we go for 21st April as I'll be unavailable on the 28th.

I can work with Morgan on booking a room in the Museum or State Library if that helps.

April Meeting

Posted by parkview on April 6, 2010 at 1:47pm

Hi,

I vote for the 21st of April as well. I just happen to be downtown Perth for a course that week, so I would love to attend and meet up with you all.

Cheers,

PaulH
Busselton

april meetup

Posted by alexkb on April 12, 2010 at 11:58am

Hey chaps, any news on the next meetup?

Paul, I think we've had emails before, would be great to meet you.

Cheers.

April meet

Posted by thezeski (not verified) on April 15, 2010 at 12:55pm

Hey guys,

Any news on the next meet?

Cheers,
Paul Brzeski

Hi all, Just getting my act

Posted by megt on April 16, 2010 at 2:31am

Hi all,

Just getting my act together about this - I should be able to get a room on the 21st April - hope that night suits everyone?

It will be at the State Records Office which is in the Alexander Library building in the cultural centre in Perth. Public transport is good and there is parking underneath the building.

I'll post again here once it's confirmed, but if you can pencil in the date that would be grand :-)

Cheers,
Meg

Sounds great Meg! Looking

Posted by alexkb on April 16, 2010 at 2:37am

Sounds great Meg! Looking forward to it.

April meeting - confirmed

Posted by megt on April 16, 2010 at 4:03am

Hi all,

Confirming that the April meeting will be on the 21st April at 5:30pm at the State Records Office of WA in a meeting room on the ground floor.

If you enter through the State Library reception, head towards the western wall (printing/change machine) of the public computer terminal area. There will be a door with a sign saying "WA Drupal User Group" - come on in :-)

Any problems and the people on the reception desk should be able to assist you to locate us.

Please let me know if you can make it so that catering doesn't fall apart - we'll provide beer, soft drinks and some nibbles :-)

Looking forward to seeing you all!

Cheers
Meg

Meg, that sounds truly

Posted by alexkb on April 16, 2010 at 4:08am

Meg, that sounds truly awesome! This is gonna rock.

But, can I suggest creating a separate event for this - then the users can signup to the event and you'll know exactly who is planning to attend.

Thanks.

Alex

Ben and I from Spoon will be

Posted by ac on April 16, 2010 at 4:13am

Ben and I from Spoon will be there this time.

Excellent point - thanks Alex

Posted by megt on April 16, 2010 at 4:14am

Excellent point - thanks Alex :-)

It's located here
http://groups.drupal.org/node/62333