11 people showed up and at least 11 issues were worked on. This event is easily repeatable. All you have to do is:
- Be in a major city. Know the local developers or get it posted on the front page of Drupal.org.
- Say you will be somewhere for a few hours and tell people to drop in whenever they can.
- Bonus step: figure out some way to pay for coffee. It isn't too expensive.
This gets people out of their office and in a space where they can concentrate on working on issues and get help from others.
We used a local coffee shop so the space didn't cost anything. If you set up one of these events do make sure the owners are okay with it and make sure your group is buying enough things and not simply leaching off the free power and wireless. This will help make you welcome to return.
Things started off a bit bumpy since the wireless was down when I arrived. Luckily it was up by the time the second person arrived. A wiki page was used to keep track of what happened. I'm guessing there are more issues we worked on which did not get recoded. My attitude towards the wiki was that it should be a place for listing what gets done and should not be a part of the actual working process since editing the wiki is another step which gets in the way of productivity.
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terrific
Drumm,
that's great! thanks for the writeup and for organizing. hopefully, others will emulate. --ae
again!
I'd hoped to make it to this one but wasn't able to. I'd really like to attend the next one if I can.
So... when are you doing this again in SF?
I don't have anything
I don't have anything planned yet. I'll give a week notice for anything I organize. Anyone want to set up a Drupal site for Bay Area-specific things?
Kieran would like to do some moving modules to 4.7 with this sort of meetup.
Talking about this at OSCMS
Remember, Moshe was going to talk about usergroups.drupal.org in Vancouver.
I think a centralized meetup site would be great, making it easy for people anywhere to easily organize.
Organic Groups?
Is it worth considering setting up and running Organic Groups at Drupal.org for this? If we did that people could create and join as many localities as they wanted to.
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Yes
Only, likely not at drupal.org, but usergroups.drupal.org (or meetups.drupal.org etc.) -- that is what Moshe wants to discuss doing, likely with shared users with the main Drupal.org.
I like
I like communities.drupal.org. It fits Drupal more than user groups, which make me think of a bunch of guys talking about a programming language or operating system.
+1 for communities
It seems to allow for more diversity
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the meetup was super-helpful
the meetup was super-helpful for me in getting a chance to dig in to some core modules while in a room full of drupal devs, also its great to see what folks are working on w/ drupal (getting sneak peeks at sites-in-progress).
It would be almost too easy I think to set up a bay-area drupal site; much more efficient and helpful i think to have a worldwide usergroup or meetup site. Just need the site hosted. With i18n we could even make it a multilingual site (granted we might want to get the site going in english first ;)
Thanks Drumm!
Thanks for taking a lead in organizing a bugfix party. Much appreciated.
How can a non-developer replicate this in Austin, Texas, U.S.?
Hi everyone,
I am not a developer and really don't know anything about coding. However, I would like to contribute to the Drupal community and would like to set up a bugfixing party in Austin, Texas. The way I can help is by doing the logistics such as keeping track of attendees, finding an appropriate venue based on the identified needs, trying to find a sponsor, etc. Basically, just trying to put the event together at a local establishment for Drupal developers that would be attending. I sit on the board of directors of the Texas Exes Austin Chapter, the alumni association of The University of Texas at Austin, so I know a few people in the local community that could possibly help. Sidenote - I'm proud of our football team that won the 2006 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California and are the 2005-2006 football season college National Champions! Go Longhorns!!! :)
A few questions.
(1) How do I go about figuring out, on drupal.org, which Drupal developers and Drupal users are located in or near Austin? I'd like to see which developers and users live in or near Austin (nearby cities such as Round Rock, San Marcos, Georgetown and other major cities such as San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, etc.). However, under the profiles at drupal.org, all I see for geographical location is the actual country one lives in.
(2) Based on the above, is there a way to suggest that "City" be added under one's "Personal Information" on drupal.org? I think it would be helpful.
(3) Is there a template or list of things needed for someone setting up a bugfixing party? For example, I saw wireless capability mentioned as a need for the San Francisco bugfixing party...oh, and of course, coffee! ;) A detailed checklist would be very helpful so that all needs are covered. :)
(4) Does anyone have a particular format that they think is particularly helpful? I've seen the following:
http://drupal.org/node/41320
http://webchick.net/bugfixwiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://dev.bryght.com/t/wiki/SanFranciscoBugfixNotes
and other examples at
http://drupal.org/search/node/bug+fixing+party
Finally, if you do live in the Central Texas area (Austin, San Antonio, etc.), please go ahead and post a note here if you are interested in being part of a bugfixing party in Austin. If you live nearby, I do hope you're interested and look forward to meeting you.
Thank you,
Walt
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DrupalDevs Frappr Map...
Inspired by this event and this post, and by the fact that I am on the other side of the country, and by the fact that there is no real way to easily find local users on this site, I decided to create a Frappr group so we can find other Drupal-savvy developers in our own areas.
http://www.frappr.com/drupaldevs
For those of you who haven't heard of frappr.com it's a neato google maps meets myspace kinda deal. You can mark your location and leave comments about your location or other locations you can mark.
Check it out, it could end up being very useful if a lot of people post. Not to mention it would be interesting to see how far across the planet drupal developers actually are.
Thanks,
gundalo
http://www.frappr.com/drupaldevs
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Other options on Frappr?
Hi Gundalo,
Thank you for the great idea to use Frappr!!! I had never heard of Frappr until now. I take it there aren't any Drupal modules already created that provide this functionality?
I see you have provided two options on Frappr - male or female. If your intent is to include both developers AND users on the same map AND to also include their gender, is there a way to provide four options on the same map, that is, male developer, female developer, male user, and female user? I consider myself a Drupal user since I don't know how to code and am, therefore, not a developer.
I only ask this because it would be helpful for me in the case of setting up a bug fixing party where I would like to know how many developers vs. users are in my local Austin, Texas area. Does that make sense? I would want there to be a minimum number of developers in the Austin and Central Texas area before I proceed (to make sure it's worth my time in setting up) and I would help by doing the logistics of setting up the code fixing party (location, etc.). If other people like me who don't code are interested in setting things up, I think a developers vs. users (on the same Frappr map) would be very useful.
If four options as above is not possible, can you easily create another Frappr map that would strictly list Drupal users? That way, we would have two maps - one for Drupal male developers/female developers and a second map for Drupal male users/female users.
Again, great idea on using Frappr!
Thank you,
Walt
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thanks for the feedback!
thanks for the feedback!
I'd respond here, but instead a made a forum topic so we can talk about it independently of this post.
check out http://drupal.org/node/46557
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