[consulting] [MINUTES] Drupal Consulting Call 28 March 2006

[Roland Tanglao]

- Consulting Call March 28, 2006
- RAW NOTES
- Apologies in advance for errors or omissions, email roland AT
   bryght.com with corrections, i guess i'll post this on
   groups.drupal.org in the appropriate place when ready
- Attendees
     - Phillip Smith - Toronto
     - Harry Slaughter  - San Diego
     - Gregory Heller - Bay Area
     - Roland Tanglao - Vancouver
     - Boris Mann - Vancouver (11 minutes or so late :) !)
     - Rich Oris - Albany New York
- What's going on
     - Toronto DrupalCamp Friday 12th May 2006
     - Bryght ASP
     - CivicSpace ASP
     - adding groups.drupal.org
     - og to forum, list, civicCRM - robust groups
     - events planned with post to CraigsList, CivicSpace, Drupal.org,
       not meetup, use upcoming
- Vancouver DUG 1st meeting  Report - Boris
     - work on something together
     - i.e. something documentation and screencasts
- Boris working on Moshe on groups.drupal.org
     - ship it :-) was the universal response!
     - New York, Seattle and Toronto willing to kick the tires and help
       iron out the kinks!
     - need maintenance group aka "site moms" to work on
       groups.drupal.org
     - use OG group on groups.drupal.org to make bootstrap by eating
       dogfood
- Philip Smith
     - lots of newcomers
     - want to work on language issues i.e. folllow Boris's model of
       taking on interesting to DUG project
- Seattle
     - Seattle DrupalCamp in June maybe?
     - identify non Drupalers as participants
     - i.e. doing PHP presentation to Seattle PHP users groups
- Greg
     - San Francisco Drupal Camp #1
         - fully booked, on track for this Saturday and Sunday
         - why is it paid event?
             - compensate instructor coming from MA
             - raise money to do post production on curriculum
         - pre-reading
         - Greg
             - curriculum is about turning XHMTL into Drupal theme, take
               good design turn into good theme
             - how to do stuff with themeable functions
             - overview on APIs
             - not about
                 - module development
                 - finding right module mix
- toronto
     - 1 day
     - 2 tracks, developer
     - lightweight
     - short, fast, fun
     - evangelize a bit and do one later
- two Drupal Camp models: 1. short, open, cheap, not as indepth, 2nd
   more expensive like San Francisco
     - capturing video, audio and screenshots
     - instructor Jeff Robbins (with Chris Messina and Zack, documented
       by CompuMentor)
     - get materials
     - so can learn for Toronto and New York camps
     - will probably add second SF camp at end of May beg of June with
       CivicCRM tentatively June 1-2, 2006
     - Boris what is focus, Interaction Design or themes? or?
     - training, lectures, hands on
     - develop modular curriculum
- What Bryght has found
     - want to consider how to IA a site including the appropriate
       modules and theming, IA drives theming and module selection in an
       iterative process
- New York Camp tracks
     - how to use Drupal
     - theme development
     - developer introduction
     - Pricing for New York Camp
         - pricing will be less
         - limited size for developer tracks
         - $25 per day for other tracks
         - cooking show: developers doing screencasts for recipe of site
           like Zack's magic groups
- Yearly Coast in Las Vegas
- Seattle Drupal Camp
     - Seattle Drupal Camp
         - end of June
         - right before Gnomedex which starts July 28?
         - Kris will be lead on Bryght's participant
- Discussion about OSCON in Portland end of July
     - Should have Drupal Booth minimum
     - need somebody to step up on somebody to drive the booth - move
       discussion to conference list, Nate Angell or others from PSU or
       Portland or OSU perhaps?
- Professional.drupal.org, directory.drupal.org?
     - Dries shouldn't be fixing site bugs
     - need volunteers to site mom other x.drupal.org sites certainly
       NOT dries
     - maybe use groups.drupal.org for directory and professional
     - don't launch drupal*.org, might conflict with trademark stuff
       that Dries is looking into
     - make Camps events on groups.drupal.org
     - split off organicall/what makes sense
     - each event is a group
- Action Items
     - Boris to send out email to get people who want to help on
       groups.drupal.org
- Harry Slaughter
     - how do I get around feeling of  being "lost"
         - Boris' solution
             -  attend real world events
             - ask for help on consulting email list
     - Harry did Drupal work for performancing.com
     - built date sliders, charting for performancing
         - Bryght wants to do a similar thing:  dashboard for somebody
           who has lots of sites
         - Bryght wants to build this into Drupal
     - Harry to set up San Diego group
         - use groups.drupal.org
         - put it on consulting list
         - put it on upcoming
- Next call  - not scheduled
     -  debrief San Francisco DrupalCamp as separate call

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