Event

We have many things to discuss. I thought it time to have a Social to celebrate a really great year! I have really enjoyed everyone's participation.

As my mentor once said, always know (have) your agenda! Well now its your turn. Bring your agenda to our next meeting and you might get your issues addressed.
Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Here's a (big) hint at my agenda: http://drupalcorn.org

Hello Michael,

John VanDyk, well known author of "Drupal Professional Development" and international speaker will be at "Des Moines Web Geeks" on Monday, Sept 21st, speaking about server side performance. There will be something for all skill levels so if you'd like to learn how to make your web apps run faster this is an excellent time to check out the group.

We'll also be celebrating our one year anniversary as a group and I have some gifts to give away! Apress gave me a few books to hand out at the meeting.

I have used View Bulk Operations regularly. You can make a very powerful dashboard with out too much effort. I usually use it with Workflow, Triggers, Actions, Rules, ..... So this discussion will quickly bleed into all realms of workflows and state machines.

http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations

Please do bring your own agenda, questions, answers and friends.

Please update the Proposed Meeting Topics with your suggestions.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/25926

Don't forget to sign-up!

One of my sites recently got audited by a third party for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Most things I already new but there were a few interesting surprises. I thought sharing what I learned would be a great launching point for our meeting.

Please do bring your own agenda, questions, answers and friends.

iMed sponsored Drupal Camp Colorado 27-28 June 2009 - http://drupalcampcolorado.org/sponsors

I attended both days of the conference and learned quite a bit that I would like to share - http://drupalcampcolorado.org/users/michael-hofmockel
I will cover the talks that I attended - http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rQgZRPPBpHuhuTHB4a36Frw&chrome=fa...

Dan laid the ground work. Now it's time to theme your site like a Drupal Pirate! Captain Rox (Dusty) will show us how to swab the deck of all unwanted CSS putting you in full control of your ship.

He has been the leader in building iMed's Vanilla theme and companion module (soon to be released). It's not for the faint of heart, as your first load of the site looks much like it would with a text only browser. Just a tall column of text. But the result is FULL control. Development tools have been built-in to give you module specific CSS overrides and a specialized debugging tool. I'm sure there is more but I'm not the Captain.

• If you missed Dan's presentation check this out - http://drupaldojo.com/lesson/new-stuff-in-drupal-6-theming

• Sorry I'm going to miss this one but I'll be sure to bring back everything I can from DrupalCamp Colorado.

I know it's at the same time as the drupal meeting. It would normally be a tough choice for me to decide which I would go to but since I'm an organizer of the dsmwebgeeks meeting I should probably show up. :-) We'll be covering web design as our topic so if you're not going to be in Ames on Monday night consider checking out http://dsmwebgeeks.com instead.

Bring your issues and we'll squash em! The harder the better.
In the past, we have used our collective powers to help the community. Now it's time to help ourselves. Let's leverage the collective Drupal knowledge we have and help the most important relevant people, ourselves.

Bring your issues, your laptop and your thinking caps. We'll work as a team and drag ourselves up the Drupal learning curve. Don't worry about how simple or difficult your issues (Drupal issues only please) are, just bring them.

As a warm up, post your Drupal questions. And we'll get in the problem squashing mood.
That means YOU! ... just to name names: Dan, John, Travis, Austin, Dusty, Matt, Chris, Mark, Andy, Jeff, Paul, Isaiah, Bryan, Peter, Jane, Jon, Jason, Liz, Erica, Abbey, Your Name, ......

Where?
2604 Northridge Parkway
Ames, IA 50010
Park in the back and enter through the back door (knock if it is locked).

Hey, another DSM Web Geeks meeting will convene down town on Monday. The topics will be "social networking" and "build an iPhone application."

Check out http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2563272/?ps=5 for event details and location.