REMINDER: This Wednesday's User Group Meeting (Mailchimp Module + Communicating with Your Users)

Hey everyone,

Just a friendly reminder that this WEDNESDAY (June 9) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.

The theme for the June meeting will be "Communicating with Your Users" and the main presentation will feature Lev Tsypin, a Portland developer who maintains the popular Mailchimp module (http://drupal.org/project/mailchimp). The module allows you to send bulk-emails to your users by integrating with the excellent third-party Mailchimp service (http://www.mailchimp.com).

Lev's presentation will be useful not only to those interested in using the Mailchimp service, but also to developers who need to write modules that interact with third-party APIs.

Some of the topics Lev will be covering include:

• Benefits/challenges of developing a "wrapper" module that interacts with Mailchimp's own API
• Benefits/challenges of upgrading the module to Drupal 7
• One-way vs. Two-way integration: Pushing data to Mailchimp and/or pulling data from Mailchimp

We're also looking for some shorter "lightning talk" style presentations on other modules or approaches that you've used to communicate with your users. This could be technical information or code, or a broader discussion of best practices you've discovered for sending e-mail, text messages, or the like.

If you're interested in delivering a lightning talk, please post a comment below so that I can plan out available time. I'll likely be delivering one myself on either the Private Message module (http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg) or the IM module (http://drupal.org/project/im).

And of course, here are the meeting details:

Date: Wednesday, June 9
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks!)
Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)

See you there,
Ben