May Meeting

Posted by kathc on April 26, 2010 at 12:25am

Start:

2010-05-10 17:30 - 19:30 America/Montreal

Organizers:

kathc

Event type:

User group meeting

I haven't heard from anyone about an alternate meeting place, so I'm putting this event in the calendar (and booking the usual room at National Union, 15 Auriga Drive).

A few members of our group attended DrupalCon in San Francisco, and offered to talk about what they learned.

Comments

Followup from SF

Posted by mgifford on April 26, 2010 at 1:17pm

There were a few of us in SF. Steve & I were there from OpenConcept. I met @kasiawaka for the first time there in a BoF (and we do need to meet again). Peter L & Colan were there too.

Not sure who else was there from Ottawa. With 3000 people there it was often hard to find folks. I know there were a few folks I didn't see, even if I was trying to meet up with them and using twitter, SMS & email to try to coordinate.

I spent most of my time in BoF sessions, and know I still need to watch more of the sessions here -> http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22DrupalCon%202010%22

I think I was the only one from Ottawa at Saturday's core developer summit, but I am hoping that others were there for the unconference on Sunday & dev sprint on Thursday.

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New agenda item for Monday: government and Drupal

Posted by leehunter on May 7, 2010 at 6:05pm

I'd like to add another discussion item to the agenda.

I'm getting the sense that there's recently been a lot more momentum for the use of Drupal in the federal government. In some cases, because they've heard of Drupal by name - through Gartner or from the media re whitehouse.gov - and in other cases because senior management have caught the social networking bug and organizations are now experimenting with a number of different tools. They might not have come across Drupal yet but they'll probably get there eventually.

I have some ideas about moving this forward but I really need to bounce them off other people. It would be especially nice if other GoC people can come to this meeting and we could spend a few minutes on this subject.

that sounds like an

Posted by kathc on May 7, 2010 at 6:42pm

that sounds like an interesting discussion.

I just checked the signups, and we only have four people signed up for the meeting. If others are planning on coming, please do sign up.

government and Drupal

Posted by rjerome on May 10, 2010 at 1:40pm

Hey Lee,

I'm not going to be able to make it out tonight, but given that I work for the GoC, I am interested in your ideas. Feel free to contact be off line via my contact page (or look me up in the Government Electronic Directory Services). Alternatively I would likely be able to make it out to the next meet up.

Ron.

Looks like there will be 9 folks there & rideshare question

Posted by mgifford on May 10, 2010 at 2:04pm

I do wonder if ride sharing would help to get folks out. I like being able to use NUPGE's facility, but it's not very central.

Public transit out that way isn't easy, but looks like the weather might be good for a bike ride. If there are folks driving out would be good to see if we can't coordinate transportation.

Looking forward to it.

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