Wiki: Drupal User Group best practices

We're trying to compile a kind of master list of how one might organize a DUG, and we need your help. What works well for DUG meetings? Share your thoughts.

Survey of attendees

• Who are you?
• What is your involvement with Drupal?
• What do you have a question about?
• What tip or insight would you like to share?
• What level of experience would you say you have? (new, not quite intermediate, intermediate, not quite advanced, advanced)
• What Drupal role(s) best describe you? (site-builder, themer, module dev., core dev.)

Site presentations
People presenting sites they worked on, how they went about it

Drupal lessons

• Introduction to the theming layer
• Introduction to hooks and how you can use them

Favorite modules

• Show off your favorite modules you use (not necessarily what you developed :)
• Show specifically how they are implemented into a sample work

General Organizational best practices

• Seek out and identify those with connections to higher education / university settings (reason why)
  • Often times they have access to building / meeting room space
  • In the event of a barcamp / drupalcamp they can potentially host / provide funding for the event
  • Open source (and Drupal) are taking off in the education sector across the board and are in need of user groups / resources for learning purposes
• A local pub is a great venue if you aren't doing talks
• Come up with a consistent time and place and agenda for meet-ups to try and form a routine

[other ideas?]