Utah

The OpenWest conference is coming up, May 7-9 in Orem, and the organizers are looking for sponsors. We had a great list of sponsors for our recent Camp, and so many companies looking to hire developers here in Utah. OpenWest may be another great opportunity to get your name out into the greater PHP community and snag a talented PHP developer who can be taught the "Drupal Way" and help grow our community.

If you're interested in sponsorship, please contact Steve Meyers at steve@stevemeyers.net.

I am working with a company who is considering opening an office in the Greater Salt Lake City Area.

The immediate need would be for back end drupal developers who could help support existing drupal websites, build custom modules, and launch mobile applications.

Does anyone have recommendations for developers or development firms in the area? They want to get a sense for the depth of the local talent pool. Type of work would require PHP system architecture and development experience and developing/designing open source applications (Drupal, WordPress, Elgg, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, etc.)

I lived in Salt Lake for many years, then moved to Anacortes, Washington (north of Seattle in the San Juan Islands) 6 years ago. My wife can't handle the grey, cold, wet winters so we are selling the house here and will be buying or building in Daybreak. I'll return to Anacortes in the summers.

I've been active in the Bellingham and Seattle DUGs and am looking forward to getting involved in the Utah DUG when I am in town.

I'd like to meet any of you who will be at the Portland DrupalCon, if you'll let me know your name(s).

Thanks.
Warren Keuffel

Coming up soon we have another DUG meeting. As usual, it's planned for the 2nd Thursday of the month. At Drupal Camp Utah I mentioned some things about changing it up: trying to include more people, finding a different location, etc... it always difficult to accommodate everyone, and we won't be able to make everyone happy... but, I feel like this will be a good compromise.

There is an open source conference coming up next month. I attended a few years ago and it was a lot of fun. Plus, it's a good place to stock up on free Linux stickers for the back of your laptop.

Check it out: http://conference.utos.org/

I want to gather some information from the group about the DUG meetings. My hope is to see where we can improve and/or change to increase participation at each meeting.

Currently, we have the meeting the second Thursday evening of every month. If we changed the day of the week or the week we have the meeting, would you be more likely to attend? What days of the week work better? Would a weekend be better?

I meant to bring the topic up at the meeting tonight.

It's time to start thinking about Drupal Camp Utah 2012. We need to get a date set and I wanted to get feed back from everyone to see your thoughts on having the event around the same time this year. Last year we had it the 3rd week of June. I'd also like to get the date of the event finalized in the next 2 weeks so we can start working on venues, sponsors, and guest speakers.

Yesterday Tyler was asking in IRC what we'd like to talk about this coming week. Since not everyone is on IRC I thought I'd bring it up here.

Is there something anyone wants to show off? Or anything anyone wants to learn about?

Last week at the meeting, I took a few minutes to discuss the Organizing Committee for Drupal Camp Utah 2012. Here's the gist of the discussion.

I've identified a few of the areas that we could use volunteers in the committee: