twin cities

So it's like this --

Drupal is turning 10 this year! Drupal 7, a major new version, was released last week! Drupalcon Chicago is two months away! If ever there were a right time to find out more about Drupal, now would be that time. Conveniently, we are offering our free Introduction to Drupal workshop this Friday from 1-3PM. This workshop will provide you all the context you need to get the most out of all of the other free Drupal community events happening here locally in prep for Drupalcon Chicago and beyond. Check out http://www.advantagelabs.com/introduction-drupal-experience for all the details and to sign up.

As some of you may know, some Twin Cities Drupal People had talked at a Happy Hour about Drupalcamps and the Twin Cities. We all agreed that creating a Drupal presence at Minnebar would be our most ideal next step.

MinneBar officially has a date:
"Mark your calendars! MinneBar 2010 will be on Saturday, May 22nd." - http://twitter.com/minnebar

At the New Year's Test Sprint, theunraveller and I were talking about having another sprint - this time just for Drupal 7 stuff. (We were both agreeing that we like sprints because, as I see it, you learn so much more about programming by working with others on solving problems.)

This should happen in a month or so (early February) in order to be able to contribute to Drupal 7 before it's finished.

Ideas

The regular monthly TC Users Group Meeting for November was moved to the third Wednesday, November 18 to take into account the regular date's proximity to the Thanksgiving holiday. There will be no meeting this Wednesday evening. Look for the upcoming announcement of the December meeting which, like November's, will move to the third Wednesday, December 16, instead of the regular fourth Wednesday date.

Hey Twin Cities,

After talking with a few of you at last meeting (thanks again Dave!), I realized there are probably quite a few of us that will be heading off to Drupalcon DC in March.

Hi Twin Cities! I’m a new face in the local Drupal community, having just joined Gorton Studios as their new Project Manager. Gorton Studios is currently working on a bunch of interesting projects and it just so happens that these projects are landing at the same time. So, we are currently looking for both freelance Drupal Programmers and Designers, as well as folks that we can outright refer work to. We are looking for people that are experienced in their field, are great communicators, are flexible, have integrity, and of course a sense of humor.

It looks like the folks over at the Minnesota Historical Society are looking at Drupal - they've posted a 'Senior Web Developer' job at http://www.mnhs.org/about/jobs/731.html that includes "Experience with open source applications such as Linux, Apache, Drupal, Lucene, Nutch or Solr." amongst it's must-have qualifications.

Is there a meeting scheduled for November?

This month's presentation will be a large presentation broken down into smaller sessions. We will have Show-and-Tell sessions highlighting REAL sites we have developed with Drupal.

Please prepare one case study to share with the group. We will post these case-studies, so the first people to commit get the pick of the litter! Add your session as a comment. Remember, many hands make light work!