September Drupal DUG / JAM @ Advantage Labs, Flock

I think it's great to keep the ball moving on the previous camp's followup and look ahead towards future camp planning.

I have some concerns about continuing to plan and discuss camp-related stuff during after-hours events. Even if these discussion and activities are informal, people who cannot consistently participate in evening events are excluded from weighing in, and don't get the same information that everyone else "just knows".
This results in different 'classes' of participants, disproportionately affecting women and families.The community would benefit from hearing from a broader range of voices than just the people who can consistently attend the jams and happy hours.

When we have done informal surveys about planning meetings, participating organizers have favored daytime meetings and discussions. When we discussed this at the organizing session at the camp, there was also consensus. My understanding is that this was also discussed at the camp follow-up meeting, but that meeting occurred in the evening, and I wasn't present.

It seems silly to declare what can/can't happen at a jam, but if we want to handle camp planning in a way that is more inclusive and transparent, perhaps now is a good time to start doing that.

Our main topic for the DUG will be a preview of Joe Shindelar's community keynote for DrupalCon Vienna "Everyone Has Something to Share." Joe has asked if we'd be willing to provide him with feedback as he prepares for his DrupalCon presentation.

We also have a couple of lightning talks lined up (and are looking for 1-2 more):

Tim Erickson - Participating in Local Hack-A-Thons
David Radcliffe - Purging User Data from your Local Dev Environment

If you have ideas for future topics or would like to sign-up to give a presentation at a future user group meeting, check out our google doc = https://docs.google.com/document/d/19fb8lyssjkqQlqE23nYr6cN9O_d-qFmX2MCX...

We're trying to incorporate more short lightning talks into our meetups, combined with regular presentations. These are a great opportunity to try your hand at user group speaking with minimal prep and low pressure. It's also an opportunity to touch on more topics during each user group meeting.

Lightning talks might use slides, a quick demo, or just be you giving a short extemporaneous talk.

1) Have you found a new module recently that is very helpful? Give us a quick 5 minute demo/overview.
2) Grappling with an interesting problem? Share your problem, your working solution, and ask for feedback or ideas?
3) Find a really useful development tool that you would like to tell folks about? Give us a quick preview.
4) Gain interesting insights at another user group meeting or tech event and want to share?

We could use at least 1 more "lightning" talk for next week. What do you want to share with the group?

If you have learned anything cool in the last few weeks that you would like to share, please bring it along to share.

We have space for at least one more lightning talk if anyone wants the floor for 5-10 minutes to share something cool. Lightning talks do not need lots of prep.

FYI - I'm co-working with a friend at Dunn Bros (2544 Nicollet Ave S) a block away from Flock this afternoon. Feel free to drop in and hang out with us until the doors open at Flock. Especially, if you have any experience on D6-D7 migrations (I have questions).

Also, feel free to bring your own questions!