After a short break, the Drupal User Group in Trivandrum got together to meet at Bhub (Mar Ivanios College Incubation Center) today(December 14th, 2019).
This was a very productive meeting with the following attendees who were long time users, promoters and professional developers of Drupal.
- Anto Jose - Drup1 Consulting
- Binny Thomas - Axelerant Technologies
- Krishna R.P. - Zyxware Technologies
- Nitheesh Chandrika - Origin Eight
- Kala J - Linuse
The meeting started at around 10 AM in the morning and closed at 12 PM. The main agenda of the meeting revolved around the following points.
- Restarting the Drupal Trivandrum user group meetings
- Present a case for the Drupal Trivandrum user group in the upcoming Drupal Global Contribution Day on December 21st, 2019
- Bring more people into the Trivandrum User group community
- Find and schedule a fixed date every month for the meetup
The following ideas were put forward by the users
- In the upcoming meetings of the community there needs to be presentations related to Drupal by some of the community members
- The community members need to act as support for anyone facing technical issues related to Drupal.
- Build a repository of Drupal related information
A few of the attendees who participated in Drupal Camp Chennai also provided their takeways from the camp. The case for having Acquia Certifications was also provided by some of members
Also it was decided that the 1st Saturday of each month will be used as the official day for the meeting henceforth
Based on the inputs provided by the attendees we were able to finalize the following immediate action items
- Get people to register to the Drupal TVM user group at the upcoming DGCD
- Create Whatsapp Group for the Drupal TVM members
- Setup a Drupal 8.8 instance for the official Drupal TVM community site
- Set an amount for monetary contributions
- Create content to post on Drupal groups regarding the event
- Create translations for Drupal to malayalama