Join us on Saturday, August 21, 2010 from 1-4PM for a 3-hour meetup at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs.
I would like to suggest that we focus on Drupal 7 as the topic - not just a walk-through, but also some patch reviews and documentation contributions. This would be a great opportunity for all of us to get a bit more familiar with Drupal 7 as well as the path review process and reviewing how easy it is to contribute documentation.
Also - it is that time of year again where we need to start talking about next year's Florida DrupalCamp (central Florida edition). We've had some movement over the summer on a potential new location as well as an opportunity to work with the Drupal Association in the organizing of the camp. If you are unable to make it to this meetup and want to help in the planning of our DrupalCamp, please leave a comment below. We'll probably decide on a date/time for our first conference call at the meetup, so feel free to offer any suggestions.
-mike
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Count me in
I'll be glad to help with DrupalCamp in any capacity and likely will be at the August meeting. Dedicating some time to how we can contribute to D7 is also a great idea.
Don VanDemark
Agile Process Manager, Blue Shield of California
Options
After reading this post: http://acquia.com/drupal-7-get-real-get-dirty-get-it-done, I'm thinking that tackling a Drupal 7 issue might be something that we won't be able to make too much headway with in an afternoon.
Ryan and I were talking this morning and we came up with a couple of options. First, we can test the upgrade path from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. The second option is that we can choose one aspect of Drupal 7 (or a module) and create and contribute a bunch of documentation.
We also need to discuss Coding for a Cause. We need to do the right thing and finish up the two sites we started back in February - I'm going to propose that our September meetup be dedicated to this task.
-mike (I'm using Ryan's computer at the moment which is why I mistakenly posted from his account - since I can't delete this post and repost under my own account, we'll have to live with it)
Ryan Price
DrupalEasy Podcast
Brevard?
Is anyone else from Brevard planning on driving over to the Orlando meetup? I'm looking for a ride home...
-mike
Sorry buddy. I'll be going
Sorry buddy. I'll be going but the wife and I are making a whole day of it.
Gil Creque
Are non-programers welcome?
We run a business and are evaluating prospects of moving from our commercial CMS to an open-source CMS.
We've experienced initial success with Joomla!/Virtuemart (presently working with sample products on our development site). Now we're in the process of doing the same with Drupal/Ubercart. Our hope is to make a final decision quickly. Since I like preliminary results with the D/U combo moreso than with the J/V combo, it's led me to poke around and learn more, which is how I stumbled on this group.
Let me be clear, we're end users. Our skill set includes a fair bit of HTML, a little PHP, and we're more than decent with Photoshop. However, in general, we're not programmers . . . would we be welcome?
John Beech - GM (and janitor)
http://www.genesishobby.com
407-302-3361
You would absolutely be
You would absolutely be welcome John. For me the best part about Drupal is the community. I hope to see you there.
Gil Creque
Absolutely!
As one of the founding members, the only thing I new about Drupal back when we started, was how to pronounce and spell it :-). I am now doing Drupal full time and the big difference is this group and the Drupal Community at large. We welcome all and our past Drupal Camps have had many non-programmers and end-users alike. We know full well that smarter end-users make us developers' jobs so much easier!
So hope to meet you tomorrow and join us "under the tent".
JCL
My vote is Drupal 7 upgrade
My vote is Drupal 7 upgrade party. I'm curious to see how far things have come in the last few months.
Ryan Price
DrupalEasy Podcast
Ughh.....
Guys, what am I doing to keep missing these events? Am I not on the right mailing list? Is there a mailing list (other than this digested list)? Is the digest mode the problem?
I am just now seeing notification that the group met yesterday.
Any advice?
Dan
Dan Dease
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The meetings are normally
The meetings are normally held on the 3rd Saturday of the month (next month it is the 2nd Saturday). On the right hand side of the group page you should see a Group Notifications block that allows you to adjust your notification settings. I believe the link to your notifications would be http://groups.drupal.org/user/15402/notifications. My send interval is set to immediately. You may want to check what your interval is set to.
Gil Creque
thanks
Thanks, Gil.
Dan Dease
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