Utah

Time again for our monthly meetup. It will be held on the 11th floor of the Walker Center (Walker Center, 200 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, UT). Signs will be placed to direct you on how to get up to the conference room we will be in. You can park in the Walker Center parking garage (it will cost about 4ドル) or at the Carl's Jr. (if you purchase something). If you ride TRAX you can get off at the Gallivan Center station (the Walker Center is about a block north of that station). Both the Sandy (blue) and West Valley (greeen) lines go to this station.

Last week at the meeting, I took a few minutes to discuss the Organizing Committee for Drupal Camp Utah 2012. Here's the gist of the discussion.

I've identified a few of the areas that we could use volunteers in the committee:

Time for our August DUG Meetup. This will be the Salt Lake group but everyone is welcome to come.

It will be held on the 11th floor of the Walker center in the conference room. I'm told that you can enter from the retail space. We can also gather at an entrance and have someone there to let us in. I'm working with j_ten_man on the details for that. We will have food available but a decision on what has not yet been made.

We had a great first DrupalCamp Utah this last weekend. We were small in number but had a great opportunity to share what we've done and what we've learned. I wanted to once again thank WebWise and Western Governors University as our Gold sponsors and those who traveled from SanDiego, Las Vegas and Colorado to support our own here in Utah.

At the end of camp we had a discussion about what we could do to make camp better in the future. Two suggestions came out of that conversation that I wanted to emphasize.

I would like to be added as a group Organizer. I apparently need to visit the group page more often because the post about turnout was the first I read about the Utah Drupal Camp.

Last year I made two Out of state trips to California for BADCamp and SANDCamp which I helped facilitate Drupal in a Day training along with Jen Lampton and ChapterThree. I feel a training like this would have been well received.

Also events such as annual camps should be planned with well more than 1 months notice so major companies and other sponsors have an opportunity to both support and attend.

I have been trying to get things organized but church has made things a little difficult. I have been asked to work with the youth in our ward which has taken a busy schedule and made it crazy. In the last week I have had all of 3 evenings of free time and tomorrow I'm taking them camping in Zion for the week.

Anyone who is willing or able I would appreciate your help. Things that need doing:

July 8th/9th is rapidly approaching and we still only have four proposed sessions for Drupal Camp Utah. If you added to the planning page, please log in and propose a session so we can vote (if necessary) and finalize the sessions.

The last day to add your session(s) is June 11th.

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DrupalCampUtah is being held at Western Governors University's central office in Salt Lake City at 4001 S 700 E. Additional details are available on the DrupalCampUtah site. Registration is available on the site.

The base of the site is configured. I will be adding more information as it becomes available but I wanted to invite the local community to register and share any problems, concerns, or suggestions before I spread the word with Colorado, Las Vegas, and San Diego. Are tehre any other communities that we should specifically notify. Colorado and San Diego have asked to be notified and it seems silly to notify San Diego without also notifying Las Vegas.

I know we got such a great raise of hands fighting to build the site. To avoid anyone having it forced upon then, I am will to build it. I do feel I should clarify a few things and offer three opportunities to help without having to build the site. Opportunity 1) I am not a designer, if any one would be willing to mock up the site I will put it together.

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It's pretty much just the basics that I need, but specifics can be available if needed.

Time: 7:00 PM

Agenda

• Introductions
• Lessons learned from surviving high traffic campaigns (Chuck Phillips)
• DrupalCamp Utah discussion
• Search API and SOLR (backwardgraphics)

Location

Conference room on 7th floor
Walker Center
175 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Pizza and soda will be served.

Would you like to attend? Let us know here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/139099
What time works best for you? http://groups.drupal.org/node/142259

Location: Western Governors University (Millcreek in SLCo: http://goo.gl/maps/EBS1)
Dates: July 8th - 9th (Fri-Sat)

Discussion topics:
- Intro To Drupal 7 - Whats new in Drupal 7 what's changed from 6, and how you can get a basic site using Drupal 7 in a matter of a Day.

Digitaria would be happy to host a Drupal meetup in April. Our offices are in downtown SLC at the Walker Center (175 South Main Street). We'd like to propose Tuesday, April 12th as the date. Digitaria's Director of Technology, Chuck Phillips, will be in town and is looking forward to getting in touch with the local Drupal community. Chuck is also willing to give a presentation on some of the things we do with Drupal and Amazon Web Services (see Amazon's case study: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/digitaria/).

Hey folks,

I've been chatting with Jason Hill a bit about this and he encouraged me to post here. I'd like to encourage the Utah group to have a Drupalcamp this summer.

If you don't already know, the goal of Drupalcamps is twofold: first it provides a learning opportunity for people new to Drupal and second it provides a place where experienced Drupallers can meet in person to share ideas.

Agenda:
Introductions
Xdebug and Webgrind (dharmatech)
Ubercart (webnewcastle)
Architecture/Code Sprint - A roundtable discussion where we will talk about challenges with Drupal. Along the lines of: "I would like to build Flickr in Drupal, what's the best way to tackle it?" Rather than just throw out, "Oh, that's easy, views and taxonomy," we actually build a proof of concept. Bring your toolbox and thinking cap.

Location:
175 W 200 S, #3002
Salt Lake City, UT