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There is a Drupal Meet-up at the new CivicSpace Labs offices in San Francisco this Thursday. The meeting is being convened to support communication amongst developers and the small businesses being built on the Drupal platform. We are open to your ideas about what to cover. Please contribute thoughts to the agenda.

Convener

Kaliya Hamlin, Integrative Activism

Agenda

1. Opening: Introductions

  • Who you are, what you do
  • What you use Drupal for
  • What you would like to get out of the meeting

2. Challenges

  • What are technical challenges you are facing with Drupal code
  • What are challenges you are facing in your business development
  • What challenges are faced in community collaboration
    • Rapid development of core compared to stability needs of businesses and communities
    • Unclear proccess for getting code back into core
  • What challenegs could be addressed by commmunity conversations today

3. Breakout around common issues folks are facing

Location

The new offices are right on the San Francisco Bay in Mission Bay. There is a plenty of street parking.

Comments

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rbrooks00 commented

I'll try to make it to that, anyone know what the cross streets are for the closest 15 stop?

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mfb
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Mariposa street light rail stop isn't open yet.. ;)

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UncleD commented

but Alaska just seems too far off :) Maybe next time the meeting can be here here in Alaska :}

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marknewlyn commented

Hi

I was thinking of coming along as a new developer. I am in the process of building a site for this project: http://www.fhsst.org

Is it open to everyone?

Mark

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Amazon commented

Yes, anyone interested in Drupal can attend. Just be sure to sign up on the wiki. We are running out of chairs.

Kieran Lal

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travischristopher commented

Ugh, just my luck, I can't make it before 5:00 or 5:30. Would it be possible in the future to hold these things after hours?

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NaSPA1 commented

Didnt discover this until just now, so I wont be able to make this one. But would appreciate an email letting me know of the next one (if there is one)... just too short of notice to make it up to SF from San Jose...

Radi Shourbaji
http://www.naspa.com (soon to be Drupal based!)

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reikiman commented

I woulda attended if I'd have known.

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dries commented

How was the meeting? Anyone to report back?

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flavor commented

As a person who has been using/working with drupal for 3 years now it was great to finally meet some other people in the area.

I think there were about 35+ people at the meeting.

It was a great meeting and is now scheduled for once a month, which will be great.

Looking forward to next months meeting.

Thanks a lot to the folks at civicspacelabs for hosting the event!!!

John
www.ridgeworksinc.com - www.westcoastbikers.com

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sepeck commented

If it was after 5 then I could schedule making it, but if it's during business hours, it's more difficult.

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theoa commented

There were a lot of good things about the meeting. Kaliya Hamlin was both the covenor and facilitator - she did a superb job. I particularly enjoyed talking to Kieran Lal and Neil Drumm and everybody at goodstorm.com.

A number of drupal issues were raised - many dealing with module and theme development. The primary message out of the meeting: drupal needs your help - and any help is welcomed...

Theo Armour

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mfb
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Thanks Kaliya. and thanks everyone for making the trek out to mission bay. it is great to be building a local drupal community.

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Adrian Freed commented

I created this summary of a small group-within-the-group meeting we had on media issues in drupal:

http://drupal.org/node/43595

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aventurer commented

I'd love to attend one... are there more scheduled?

Thanks...

-Dave

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rbrooks00 commented

Check out groups.drupal.org, there is a Bay Area group there that'll have that kind of information.

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