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

[Laura Scott]

Thanks for posting the notes. It's enough to make me truly wish I had  
been able to make it today. Grrr!

I'm eager to hear more about the Bryght and CivicSpace ASP offerings.  
Those will be very exciting developments for an entire class of  
Drupal users.

Laura

On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Roland Tanglao wrote:

>
> - 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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