Washington, DC Drupalers

Just a reminder that we will be having a CiviCRM Meetup this Wednesday at 6:30pm over at Stetson's on U St. We will do the usual show and tell, and also discuss a couple things:

1) Latest Drupal integration with Date and Calendar module in CiviCRM 2.2.3

2) Interest in a DC CiviCRM Dev Camp

3) CiviCRM Book Review

You can RSVP for the Meetup here: http://www.meetup.com/dc-civicrm-meetup/calendar/10246671/

Hi folks,

The first DC CiviCRM Meetup this past Wednesday had a great showing. We had over 25 people who came out to talk about the system, where it is going, and how various organizations are implementing the CRM.

We discussed the need for both training and networking sessions, and have decided to hold two Meetups each month. In two weeks, on May 6th at 6:30pm, we will hold an "Introduction to CiviCRM" session. We are still looking for a location to hold this session, so please send me any recommendations on conference rooms we can use that can seat about 30 people.

I'm heading over to Chicago at the end of the month to cover CMS Expo for TechRevu. There will be Wordies, Joomlans and Drupalites aplenty to see, I'm sure. Anyone else from DC going?

Ernest D. Lilley

Web Analyst / Technology Writer / Editor (e357.net)

What's the interest level in a Drupal security training session? I'm thinking of this as a practical session focused on building a secure Drupal site using selected modules and configurations. The format would probably be a day long training session, depending on the level of detail people want to get into. Most of the information we'd be teaching would be focused on real world security issues and how to solve or prevent them using existing tools of the trade.

In the months since we successfully pulled off the first Philly Area DrupalCamp (PADCamp) we have had some discussions (most recently at DrupalCon) about whether we should focus on throwing another PADCamp, or whether we should try to work with our neighbors to the North and South of Philly to create a Mid-Atlantic DrupalCamp (MADCamp). I don't have the specific numbers, but at the PADCamp there were tons of people from New York City, Washington DC, Harrisburg, and lots of places in between, so to some degree it was already a MADCamp. What I'd like to try to see for this Camp is a little more regional cooperation and outreach, so I'm curious to know whether anyone from the DC, Maryland, Central PA, NJ, or NYC groups would be interested in helping to make this a reality.

I am proposing that we have the first MADCamp in Philly, due to it's central location on the East Coast and the fact that the Philly group is trying to move the idea forward. However, I'm personally open to hearing ideas for hosting it in other cities, and one of the bigger goals I would have for the Camp is to get more regional cooperation and coordination amongst the groups. I attend NYC DrupalCamps and DC BarCamps (don't think there's been a DC DrupalCamp- has there?), and I've seen many of the same faces at many of these events.

So, if we're going to move forward with this idea, here are some things that need to be decided:

From my experience,there are a few major things lacking in Drupal. One of them that I have encountered a lot is the ability - or inability to manage files/documents effectively. I'd like to start laying the groundwork for a comprehensive file (or at least document) manager that allows some of the more popular feature requests e.g check in/check out, protected files & directories etc.