Northern NJ meetup - 14 July 2010 7:00PM - NJIT

Posted by tomsherlock on July 1, 2010 at 9:17pm

Start:

2010-07-14 07:00 - 09:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

tomsherlock

kaw3939

Event type:

User group meeting

Based on this discussion: Northern NJ Drupal Meetup Location?, and kaw3939's gracious invitation, the next Northern NJ Drupal meetup will be held at NJIT(map). The exact room of the meeting and the location for parking will be provided by kaw3939.

If you intend to participate in this meeting please sign-up and ensure that your real name has been entered in your profile. The head count and real names are necessary to reserve the correct number of parking spots.

Food and drink is not be permitted in the meeting room.

We need to establish an agenda for our meeting at NJIT. To add your agenda item either:

comment on this post, or
include your item on the wiki page set up by robbiethegeek .

Parking Information

Campus Map and Room

Comments

I will need parking on this

Posted by hamonwry on July 1, 2010 at 9:30pm

I will need parking on this date. Looking forward to seeing the new space!

Agenda Item 0

Posted by tomsherlock on July 1, 2010 at 9:44pm

Welcome and Introduction by the director of distance learning and kaw3939

Agenda Item 1

Posted by tomsherlock on July 1, 2010 at 9:45pm

The logistics of meeting at NJIT:

Identify individuals with authority to host meeting
using the computer lab or a near-by conference room on a regular basis
parking
near-by restaurants/diner/deli
etc.

Full Real Name Please

Posted by tomsherlock on July 2, 2010 at 3:05am

Please remember to update your profile with your full real name, if you are going to use NJIT parking facilities. Single names are not sufficient.

Thanks.

parking!

Posted by smita_drupal on July 27, 2010 at 6:20pm

I will need parking too...

-Smita

9 Signed-up

Posted by tomsherlock on July 6, 2010 at 2:33pm

kaw3939, so far we have 9 people signed up not including yourself.
Is there a limit to the number of people the reserved room can accommodate?

No limit

Posted by kaw3939 on July 6, 2010 at 2:51pm

The room can handle at least 20

Parking Information

Posted by kaw3939 on July 6, 2010 at 3:04pm

Hello,

Next week I am going to request the parking spaces, since I do not know how many people will need them. You will be parking in either lot #7 or the parking deck located on Martin Luther King BLVD.

http://www.njit.edu/parking/parking-map.php

Here are google Directions to lot 7:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Central+Aven...

Here are directions to the parking deck also known as the student mall:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Student+Mall,+Newark,...

Parking Information

Posted by tomsherlock on July 6, 2010 at 9:19pm

EMdash,jzacsh, jpowell,NinaNic, et al., the number of parking spots will be determined by those who sign and have the real name field populated.

Parking

Posted by peebeedee on August 9, 2010 at 1:23am

Completely new. Can't quite figure out how to sign up with full name. I will need parking.

Paul Domingue

The Room Location

Posted by kaw3939 on July 6, 2010 at 3:12pm

The room is located in Fenster Hall room #160 and If you want my phone number you can contact me, but I don't want to post it online.

Parking plans?

Posted by hamonwry on July 14, 2010 at 5:01pm

Do we need to do anything tonight when we get to the parking lot? Are there designated spaces? Security guard?

thanks.

parking needed

Posted by jzacsh on July 6, 2010 at 5:04pm

I'll also need parking. Look forward to this meet up :)

parking needed too

Posted by jpowell on July 6, 2010 at 6:25pm

I too will need parking - thanks.

parking

Posted by NinaNic on July 6, 2010 at 8:28pm

I will also need parking.

Nina Nicholson
Director of Communications & Technology
The Episcopal Diocese of Newark
nnicholson@dioceseofnewark.org
http://dioceseofnewark.org

Parking

Posted by jhendricks on July 8, 2010 at 8:29pm

I need parking also. Thanks

parking

Posted by jwilde on July 10, 2010 at 2:37pm

me too. Thanks, jim

Parking

Posted by phunster on July 11, 2010 at 2:12am

Hi Tom,

My real name has been and was on the master site when I registered for this event, however I just looked and it wasn't listed on the groups site, I've added it just now. So am I ok regarding parking? Been looking forward to this meetup where besides the usual great stuff, I think I owe kaw3939 and in person apology.

Lanny

Parking

Posted by tomsherlock on July 12, 2010 at 2:42am

Looking good, Mr. Trager ;)

As a reminder to everyone else, if you want a parking space you need to sign up and have your full real name showing on the sign-up list.
So far only cocogodiva and jhendricks don't meet these requirements. Please also remember that these requirements are established by NJIT.

What can I say... I am a

Posted by cocogodiva on July 12, 2010 at 3:01am

What can I say... I am a non-conformist.

Praying to the Drupal Gods!

15 Spots

Posted by kaw3939 on July 12, 2010 at 8:06pm

15 spots in Lot 7 at NJIT are reserved.

Grab a lift home

Posted by robbiethegeek on July 13, 2010 at 5:02pm

Anyone that can drop me in Glen Rock after the meetup? Wife is in a show and I am coming from work so would make my life easier :)

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I gotcha

Posted by hamonwry on July 13, 2010 at 5:14pm

Working from home tomorrow, so I'll have my car tomorrow night.

Ed's got your back Robbie.

Posted by tomsherlock on July 14, 2010 at 4:09am

Ed's got your back Robbie. But if things don't work out for some reason, i'd be happy to oblige.

If For any reason Ed or Tom can't do it

Posted by phunster on July 14, 2010 at 4:30am

I'll be glad to drive you.

Can I still sign up for this meeting tonight?

Posted by allaneldridge1967 on July 14, 2010 at 3:51pm

I would love to attend and I would also appreciate a parking spot, if possible.

Thanks, Allan Eldridge

Allan and Ken, sign-up if you

Posted by tomsherlock on July 14, 2010 at 5:08pm

Allan and Ken,
sign-up if you want to attend.

kaw3939 said that he has reserved 15 parking spots. You'll have to talk with him to get another parking spot available.

Ken, you'll have to do the same.

FYI - Sign up is closed for this event

Posted by allaneldridge1967 on July 14, 2010 at 6:25pm

Thanks for your help, Tom. I'll reach out to kaw3939 about a parking spot.

Sign-up only

Posted by tomsherlock on July 14, 2010 at 8:03pm

Since kaw3939 indicated that there was enough room for 20 participants I have signed up allaneldridge1967, kendeg and Kami-kaze. Consider sign-up now closed as I won't be online between now and the meeting.

You will all have to contact kaw3939 regarding a parking spot.

I am bummed but something

Posted by jpowell on July 14, 2010 at 9:53pm

I am bummed but something came up last minute and I will have to miss tonight's meeting. I can free up one parking spot if that helps.

Campus Map and Room

Posted by kaw3939 on July 14, 2010 at 7:05pm

Hi,

The room is Fenster Hall 160 and you can just walk in to the building, the room is on the first floor about 1/2 way down the hall.

Here is a list of campus maps and parking maps:
http://www.njit.edu/about/visit/njit-maps.php

If you park in lot 7, Fenster hall is the one that has the sky bridge connecting two buildings together. Fenster hall is the one on the left. Essentially you walk out of lot 7 and away from the street. The building you see in front of you is the campus center and you need to go around it on the left hand side. Then Fenster hall is the 2nd building on your left with the skyway bridge that connects it to the campus center.

Parking

Posted by kaw3939 on July 14, 2010 at 8:27pm

any extra people...

Basically the lot is first come first serve. You need to just park in lot 7 or find street parking that is on the other side of the curb of lot 7. THere are guards everywhere and it is fairly safe around the area.

Bailing Last Minute

Posted by mdorman on July 14, 2010 at 10:01pm

I was really hoping to attend this month, but I'm still stuck at work on my last day before vacation and it doesn't look like I'm leaving any time soon. Looking forward to next month.

Sr. Vice President | NorthPoint Digital | northpointdigital.com| 212-819-1700

Thanks for attending!

Posted by tomsherlock on July 15, 2010 at 2:16am

Thank you everyone for attending and for offering input on what you would like to hear/see and on what you would like present.
Thanks Keith (kaw3939) for hosting. In addition to the facilities, you clearly have a lot to offer the group in terms of ideas, meeting format, etc.

This was a very productive meeting: we now have the outline of an agenda for a few months. Once Ed (EMdash) transcribes his notes, individuals will be able to take ownership of the topics.

While it would be great to keep the group at this number (@20), if even half of you show up for the next meeting it will be successful.

We have a few strong voices in the group so we won't be short of presentations. Of course we should encourage everyone to present as we will all benefit.

Let's continue the discussion of meeting format and order of topics on IRC at #Drupal-NJ. I may be there tonight. But will definitely be there tomorrow.

A great start/Meeting notes

Posted by hamonwry on July 15, 2010 at 2:47pm

I'm excited about the new space, and the enthusiasm for this first meetup. I hope we continue to grow as a group.

Here's the list I compiled for suggested topics. I have listed the stuff we added to the board, as well as other thoughts taken from the conversation. Please let me know if you have any questions.

How to find/hire a good Drupal developer/themer/admin/etc
Problem of the week
New modules that you like/found
Current issues
Best practices
Show/tell
Newbie crash course
Drupal aspect of the month - cck, views, etc
Advanced techniques
Performance issues, memcache, caching, etc
Uber-advanced and uber-beginner stuff
Split rooms - beginner and advanced?
Workflow
Concept to protoype to final project
Features (modules)
How to evaluate a module
Implementing a drupal site
GIT
Drupal distros
Code walk through
Prototyping
Mobile development
jQuery and drupal
Drupal as a business tool
drupal 7
Comparison to other CMS- Joomla, wordpress
Site management
Community managment
Module review
Taxonomy
Drush and aegir
Multi-sites - how/why
Contributing - patches, documentation
How to apply patches

As IRC isn't directly related to my job, i don't know how much i will be able to contribute there. I'll try to log in when i can to discuss these and other issues.

Amazing turnout and meetup

Posted by robbiethegeek on July 15, 2010 at 7:35pm

Thanks to Keith (for offering and hosting) and Tom (coordinating and leading the charge). I have taken the steps to make #drupal-nj an official Drupal IRC channel, if you want to Drupal chat with your community come by #drupal-nj on irc.freenode.net

Robbie

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This is Great Ed. Thanks.

Posted by tomsherlock on July 16, 2010 at 12:56am

This is Great Ed.

Thanks.

Hiring a Drupal site developer

Posted by phunster on July 16, 2010 at 2:17am

Just came across this http://drupal.org/node/51169 covers the topic pretty well

Next Meetup

Posted by kaw3939 on July 19, 2010 at 6:12pm

Hi,

I just wanted to let you know that I can do the next meetup on Aug 11; however, I would prefer the meetup to be Aug 12 (Thursday). I need to do some family things out of town and will be traveling till aug 10, so I would like a day to recover from a very long drive and a day back to work.

Thursdays better for me

Posted by NinaNic on July 19, 2010 at 6:24pm

I can do Aug. 12. Actually, Thursdays are better for me in general -- starting in October I'm going to have a conflict on 2nd Wednesdays. I'd love to be able to come as much as possible since I can tell this group is going to be very helpful for me, but as a newbie I'll defer to the group on scheduling.

Nina

Nina Nicholson
Director of Communications & Technology
The Episcopal Diocese of Newark
nnicholson@dioceseofnewark.org
http://dioceseofnewark.org

Next Meetup

Posted by tomsherlock on July 26, 2010 at 3:31pm

Hi, Keith.

Glad you can make for Aug 11 (second Wednesday of August).
I ran into richbaldwin, EMdash, jzacsh, Bok Choy, jwilde, alexwilde, phunster this past weekend at DrupalCampNYC.
They all agreed it was best to keep the same schedule (second Wednesday of the month).

You might consider having one of your colleagues substitute for you that day.

I'll put out an official notice later this week.

definitely should take a few minutes to discuss

Posted by jzacsh on July 26, 2010 at 5:31pm

I definitely think we should all have a discussion at the next meetup and solidify what's a good schedule/plan for all of us. I'd say I'm fairly flexible, so long as we don't have to go to Panera :P

Meeting Format

Posted by kaw3939 on July 19, 2010 at 6:16pm

Hi I think we should organize meetings like this:

7:30 - 8:00 - General Business and Setup
8:00 - 8:45 or 9:00 - 1-2 presentations on one of the topics we discussed.
9:00 - 9:30 we should socialize or have a question and answer period for people with problems.

I think a number of people come here, especially students from my class, that will benefit from a little networking / socializing section of the meeting. We could also have the socialization happen at 9:30, but I need to close up and everyone needs to be out by 10:15 or 10:30 when the lot closes.