CODUG Meetup Ideas and Discussion

Okay, so for the past several meetings we've hashed out ideas back and forth, but we haven't really acted or followed up on them. I took down some more notes after the SAD Meetup today. Let's hammer down what we want and make a wiki page out of Ideas, People who want to give spiels, and the rough schedule and structure of meetups.

Here's my notes and a start to organizing it all.

General Meetups

• Goal: Getting more people to join us in Drupal community as developers
• Goal: Connecting doers together to help on projects whether commercially or not

Structure Ideas

• More Meet & Greet + Food before the meeting
• 15-20min "cool" idea/site/module/theme presentation
• 20-40min mini-talks about the same topics every month? Easier to make a 20min talk then a 1.5 hour presentation. Should we make them all related per meeting, separate into "tracks", etc...
• Workshop-like meeting?
• go to bar

Potential Topics

• Security + Best Practices (striked because it's no longer potential, but scheduled)
• Cool stuff we discovered at DrupalCon
• round table, workshop with a server with a VPS for everyone
• Theme development - from PSD to sub-theme or from HTML to sub-theme
• Module development - another primer on module development in 20-40min bits every meeting
• Import users/wordpress to Drupal

Current Schedule

• April: Security + meet&greet + cool site?
• May: Drupalcon wrapup/discussion + meet&greet + cool site?
• June: Workshop

SAD Meetups

• Clintonville Panera seems to be well-liked with the table in the center

Meetup ideas

• Everyone makes _________ site from RFP or idea
• Codug.com design & structure competition
• Same old meet&greet + help each other out