Posted by theamoeba on May 6, 2010 at 11:33am
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2010-05-26 19:00 Africa/Johannesburg Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
If you are a Drupal developer in Cape Town, come and have a chat with us.
The venue this month is the Mugg & Bean at the V&A (Shop 612A).
- Date: Wednesday 26 May, 2010
- Time: 19:00 - 21:00
- Venue: Mugg & Bean V&A Waterfront (Shop 612A) - http://www.themugg.com
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Date update
Wednesday 26 May, 2010
bleg :P
bleg :P
Roger that!
See you there...
Hooray - a change of venue! I
Hooray - a change of venue! I can't say that Mugg n Bean is much quieter than Sinns, though - I expect it to be louder. This means that, once again, presenting anything which adds value to Drupal users is not going to be possible. Although I enjoy the conversations at the meetups, I don't come primarily to socialise - I want to learn cool things about drupal. If I can contribute, I'm happy doing that. Unfortunately, the current way the meetups are happening does not facilitate this, and is why the group has not grown. Until we move to a venue which has a projector and the ability to present something without having to keep our voices down to not disturb the tables nearby, this group will not grow above 10 people.
A few of us were at NetProphet last week - over 800 people, all playing in the online space. One of the speakers (Adii) told us how he built WooThemes for wordpress. If people are interested in drupal, they've GOT to be interested in drupal too! If we ran these meetups better, I estimate we'd get between 50 and 100 people there each time. The Joburg group is growing like crazy - they are doing something right.
Each time I've gone to a Jozi meetup, someone has presented something useful. There has been a room available with a projector, and time for questions afterwards. Someone always brings beer, and much socialising and fun is had by all. If they can do it, we can do it!
Check out http://drupal.org/node/247952 - Organizing meetups - and http://acquia.com/drupal-event-organizer-kit
All we need is to find some place with a room and a projector. The Bandwidth Barn in town hosts meetups like ours - for free. Jonathan, as organiser of the meetups, are you able to get in contact with them, or shall I?
I also suggest we add our group to http://drupal.meetup.com/
roger, yes i have looked at
roger, yes i have looked at the bandwidth barn quite seriously before and they may be able to help us. though i have been looking around for venues since the end part of last year. we also might be able to use a board room at IS as well, but i am still exploring that avenue.
if you could get me some information about the BWB i would be very gratefull, the main things that worry me are food/drinks, cost of venue and safe parking. (i do not want people to have a Willem experience where there car is broken into because they park in the street).
cool, i will add out meetup to that website, i also get the dates on the http://20fourlabs.com website calendar, we have gotten a couple of new people from that.
the meetings are stagnating a little and they need to get a little bit of life. presentations etc will bring more people. let me do some research and i will let you know my thoughts.
BWB
hey Roger
The BWB is a great option for a venue.
I used to have an office of my own there, so know the crowd well.
I think unless one of us in the group are tenants there, we will have to pay to make use of their events room, and then work around their schedules. But in the interest of growing an IT element in Cape Town, they would be open to helping us out somehow.
You can contact the head honcho there: Chris Vermeulen chris@bwb.org.za
Inky
A free venue
Hi all
I was looking for Drupal developers and stumbled across this - I sit at the Open Innovation Studio, 27 Buitenkant Street, (more info here: http://www.bym.co.za/projects/open-innovation-studio/) and, assuming there are going to be less than 30 people, you can easily host the meeting in the studio. The owners are happy to host the meeting, provide a project some teas and coffees and it is quiet enough for lots of discussion.
If you want some snacks then catering can be arranged very easily.
We really want to increase awareness about the OIS so please take this offer seriously.
Contact me at mark [AT] markhorner [DOT] net or Neels van der Westhuizen at neels [AT] rossum [DOT] co [DOT] za to take up the offer.
Cheers
Mark
Available
Forgot to add that it is available for your current timeslot and there is plenty of parking outside Charly's Bakery round the corner.
hi mark, thanks for you
hi mark, thanks for you offer. i will discuss it with the group and let you know.
Ooh, close to Charly's Bakery
Ooh, close to Charly's Bakery - whohoo! Thanks Mark, sounds awesome :)
Sorry I can't make the meetup tonight - it's been one of those insane months. Am still at work - about to duplicate the live codebase of www.bicycling.co.za to a staging site so that we can get a dev > staging > live workflow going. Then, home to study for a Xhosa class tomorrow - exam in one week. Whohoo! Hope the meetup goes well :)
Jonathan, any news on
Jonathan, any news on feedback for a venue? Are you going to decide on one or shall we vote? I'd like to suggest that we have a main presentation topic for the next meetup, and a few short presentations (like, 5 mins). That will shape the interest, so people know what we'll be talking about.
Wherever we end up meeting, it'll need to have a projector at the least, and preferably internet, but I guess that's not essential.
www.bicycling.co.za is live, finally, so if there's not a soccer game on during the next meetup date, I'll be there, and happy to present on anything useful :)
We should probably make sure
We should probably make sure the next date doesn't fall on a "game day". Personally I dont really care but I assume many people are going to get-into-it, so we wouldnt want the meetup-to have 3 people and be a waste of time.
Regarding presentations I think its best to decide on a few things and just present them, rather than having people vote on what they want to see. This way a few people take responsibility for doing a presentation - and it happens, as opposed to waiting for a collaborative process to decide for us. In the end we can have people saying "more on this topic by that person please", but in the beginning we might just have to jump in with a few options.
Im happy to do a brief presentation on what Ive figured out about using jQuery and Drupal to build rich UIs.
Richard, do you have any ideas on something tangible to present?
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