Organizing The June Meetup

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Posted by mradcliffe on May 6, 2010 at 7:19pm

The June Meetup will be a panel-led discussion, "Effectively Communicate Web Site Goals" as discussed last night. The panel will consist of Drupal experts and "clients". Basically we want to talk about pitfalls in communication between developers, designers, PMs, clients, etc...

Here's what we have to do and who's in-charge of it:

  • Panel
    • Jim Taylor
    • Matt Radcliffe
    • Sharon Palmer
    • Non-drupal panelists
      • Shawn Palmer offered to bring in some of his clients or folk he knows
      • Jim also offered the same
      • Send an e-mail blast to techlife-drupal asking if anyone's interested in leading the panel on this side.
    • Panel Organizers Meetings
      • Shawn Palmer said he will confirm the location for the organizers' meetings for the panel on the following dates. These meetings will help us nail down the flow of the discussion.
      • May 13th 6pm-9pm
      • May 20th 6pm-9pm
  • Paul Fisher is in-charge of posting the post-meetup bar *before* the meetup.
  • We also want to do this same panel for Ohio Linuxfest. Discussion is on the meetup.com board.
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tonight 13th.

Posted by vwX on May 13, 2010 at 1:25pm
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I have had something come up and won't be able to make it.

5/13 Meeting Minutes relating to June Meetup

Posted by mradcliffe on May 16, 2010 at 5:30pm
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Ideas tossed around:

  • 10 minute panelist talk addressing question or issue related to topic. Some of these may overlap.
    • drupal roles: designer, developer, client, etc... Also this relates to "easy vs hard", "5% = 60% of budget",
    • cheap is not always good
    • containing project scope, feature creep
    • Why specing saves headaches?
    • terminology from a developer standpoint, bridging the communication gap, best practices to improve communication.
    • How do you find a good web site team or developer?

The panel moderator will be Jim Taylor. Panelists will include Jim's client with PM experience, Doug, developer Matt Radcliffe. After the meeting Jim contacted Zachary Ferres, a PM, who expressed interest in being a part of the panel as well.

We decided to move further discussion of this to a conference call. If anyone who wasn't at the meeting and wants to participate please reply to this post or send me a message with your best method of contact.

I forgot one important decision ;-)

Posted by mradcliffe on May 16, 2010 at 5:33pm
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Paul gave us a few choices for the bar.

We came to the consensus that Beck's Tavern would be a conveniently close and good atmosphere for the post-meetup social.