Posted by karens on October 26, 2007 at 2:49pm
If anyone is interested or knows anyone who might be interested, I'm trying to get a downstate user group going. It's the Central Illinois User Group at http://groups.drupal.org/central-illinois-drupal-users.
I'm still interested supporting or working together on Chicago events, too, if something more than a one hour meeting is going on. It's a bit too much to drive 2-3 hours each way for a one hour meeting :)
Don't know how many, if any, Drupal users there are downstate, but we'll see what happens :)
Categories: Illinois
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Neato!
Spiffiness! Karen, if you need an extra lure to get people to come, I might be talked down for a weekend event. I may even be able to drag Jeff with me. :-)
That would be great! We have
That would be great!
We have lots of universities down here. I sent an email to the computer sciences department of several of them asking if they or their students might be interested, and noted that there is a big demand for Drupal developers. I figure if we don't already have Drupal users, maybe we can create some :)
Creating Drupal users
I'm trying to take the "create more users" approach in Wisconsin too.
We're going to have a one day DrupalCamp (1/19/2008 http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampWI) to try and form community. I'd like to imagine that between Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Central Illinois we could have a 150+ person DrupalCamp pretty easily.
Anyway, good luck Karen. If there is anything I can do to help out the (Meta) Midwest Drupal User Group (s) let me know.