2nd Drupal Meet, Syracuse, NYCitizen Journalism Report will be hosting its 2nd Annual Drupal Meet on September 13th at Executive Education Programs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. The event will be broadcast live on DrupalTV, beginning at 5PM EST. Join us on IRC in irc.freenode.org/DrupalTV!

Unlike last year, the event is being held earlier this year to make it possible for more student to attend the program.

Everyone is welcome to attend the program. We will be talking about Drupal and how we used this CMS to create CJReport. We will talk briefly about theming and the modules that make a simple Drupal site appealing and advanced. The meeting like last year will be informal and casual. We want to meet people interested in Drupal and share their experiences.

The Event will start at 5:00 PM, we have the room for ourselves till late. We have talked with the parking office at SU, you should be fine, but if anything changes we will let you know.

Free Pizza and soda will be served.

Please RSVP to drupal AT cjreport DOT com so we can plan ahead. Depending on the number of participants, we will use the smaller conference room or the bigger Grad Bay.

CJReport is a citizen journalism website which is purely democratic. Everyone can create or even edit existing news stories; it is a collaborative effort and it's up to the users to decide what is news worthy enough to be featured on the frontpage; the site uses a voting system.

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Laurentvw’s picture

If I am correct, this is the first time ever a Drupal event is being broadcasted live?
Looks promising ;)

Robin Monks’s picture

Yup, that's right. We're all just buzzing with excitement :)

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jeefers’s picture

Excellent event. I loved watching it. Had some minor difficulties but nothing that didnt make it worth while. It could use a screencast of the demonstrators computer next time.

I give it a 4.5 stars.

prameya’s picture

I would like to thank my partner Laurent Van Winckel, he's the best. You kick ass Laurent, I respect you!

I would also like to thank Robin Monks. Your help and cooperation was amazing. Thank you so much for helping with the live feed and answering those questions.

And thanks to everyone else for participating.

I will work even harder next year, and hopefully we wont have any technical glitches.

Oh... and thanks to Rasmi and Manaslu for work with the camera.

brenda003’s picture

I caught a few minutes of it, very awesome. I hope others will follow suit and give us more live DrupalTV.

MacRonin’s picture

Will there be an archive for those of us who couldn't make the live event?

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Laurentvw’s picture

I'm glad to hear that some people liked it! It was a great experience for us all, we've learned a lot and we'll probably be better prepared the next time we organize an event :) The IRC chat was fun, too bad the presenter (prameya) wasn't on the chat itself, but that's something we'll keep in mind for the next time.
I don't think we have an archive (prameya, do you?), my hard drive was almost full so I decided not to record it.
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prameya’s picture

I had the video record set on, and then tried to stream it on drupaltv, and we could see nothing but grey.

What happened was, we had originally setup to use the smaller conference room, and we got last minute RSVPs, not enough room, so I had to move to the bigger grad bay.

I was still preparing things inside, luckily Eddy, the ICT guy, had setup the projector, I setup the video, by then everyone had arrived and were having pizza. I tried a few things, but everyone started looking around, which is when I gave up recording and streamed it... the computer would keep "not responding" when I tried to record it. So... yea I apologize for nothing having an archive, I never got to see me :(

I have some pictures, I will add them at CJReport, I don't think I can add it here.

It was a fun experience I think, some people could not follow anything I said, so I had keep saying, email me if you have any problem, others got bored with the basics and left, so I had to keep going back and forth...

Some of the participants were PhD candidates on computer science, others were webmasters, chief scientists and... some free pizza loaders... I always love them, I do that too :)

Laurentvw’s picture

Cool, glad to hear how the event went from your perspective.

So... yea I apologize for not having an archive, I never got to see me :(

I have recorded about 1 minute of the event, it shows you talking, and some of the people in the room. (I've told the reason why I stopped recording above)
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stevryn’s picture

Geeeeez, I am 40 minutes from there would have liked to attend! Do you anticipate more events for this area?