meeting

Op de DrupalCon in Brussel heb ik gesproken met veel Nederlandse / Nederlandstalige Drupal ontwikkelaars en gebruikers. En waar de vorige DrupalCon nog een zeer beperkt aantal consultants telde die full time hun geld (proberen te) verdienen, waren in Brussel meer dan een dozijn pro's aanwezig. En allen vonden het een goed idee om samen te komen in Nederland om te praten over mogelijkheden, uitdagingen "and everything Drupal"

We kunnen het doen in Amsterdam of bijvoorbeeld Den Haag, in een kroeg of in een bedrijfsruimte. Mocht je een voorkeur hebben voor een datum (een weekend eind oktober?) of een voorzet willen doen voor een (onofficiele) agenda, plaats dan een comment in deze thread!

This group's been around for a while now, and we have 15 members.

I think it's time we try to get together to have a Twin Cities Drupal Meeting.

Since I'm probably as far out of town as anyone on the list, I'm open to suggestions for a meeting place and time. Actually, I'm BEGGING for suggestions for a meeting place and time.

And - anyone want to suggest a topic? David Geilhufe has suggested the possibility that I give a presentation of how CivicSpace on Demand works. So I'll throw that out as a possibility.

Blake from DANEnet, Patricia and Sheldon from Center for Media and Democracy and myself (from Midwest Social Forum) met for about 2 hours at Michelangelo's. We spent much of the time introducing ourselves and our various projects, and got into some details about various modules and implementations we're dealing with. Apparently we're all fans of the mapping modules....

We actually spent most of the time talking about the Midwest Social Forum (new Drupal site that went live yesterday!). Initially, i brought up the idea of working with other folks to put together a workshop on social software, which would present Drupal along with some other tools out there that community orgs and social movements can make use of. The current proposal for that is located here: http://www.mwsocialforum.org/node/511.

So, theoretically, something like tomorrow (Thursday, May 25th), would be the next meeting. That's probably a little short notice, so let's do next week -- June 1st. How does that work for folks? I'll enter this as an event for now, and we can shift as needed -- please signup if you are going to attend.

I'd also like to have someone step up and help me organize. I travel a fair bit, and would like to have at least one or two other folks to help do things like make sure the next meeting is organized :P

Also, a DrupalCamp is being planned for Seattle at the end of June -- about 4 weeks away.

Here is the agenda for the weekly courseware IRC meeting.

1) Review the unit 1 outline from last week's meeting.
2) Disccus the overall scope of the course. Do we include module development? if so, to what extent? etc. etc.
3) Where/ When does install take place and what platforms are supported. (put up for vote)
4) Break up tasks for unit 1 (at least) granularly enough to be able to assign them to individuals.
5) Spec out next unit.

Any other thoughts?

Let's get together. This is a new group, and we don't know who we are, so let's get together and talk about Drupal. I suggest we hold our first meeting in Victoria, since that provides the best opportunity for the fewest people to travel to the meeting. I hope future meetings can be held in other strategic and beautiful locations on Vancouver Island, with an annual meeting at Tofino.

The purpose of the meeting will be to meet and greet, network, learn, share ideas and approaches, etc.

Special guest(s) to be announced.

So let's get together on June 8th at 7:00pm in Victoria at a location TBD.