February 4, 2010
Worldwide Drupal Happy Hour
Since April of last year, I've been organizing the Drupal NYC Happy Hour. The idea is very simple, and one that I admittedly got from the Twin Citites group. Get a bunch of drupalers together to have a few drinks, with no other agenda. This simple concept has proven to be wildly popular, and we regularly see crowds of around 50 drupalers.
Earlier today, in the #drupalnyc IRC room, kombucha suggested that having a regularly recurring date for our local Happy Hour may catch on in other groups. How cool would it be to have a Worldwide Drupal Happy Hour on the same day every month?
Does your local Drupal group host a similar event? If so, would you consider changing the date if we could agree on a standard date?
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This is by far one of the best ideas I have heard all day.
We do something similar in the Los Angeles group: we have a monthly coffee gathering. Just coffee & the Drupal chats start flying.
Hey, Here in London, England we've been running Drupal pub meets for the last 5 months or so. Same concept, no presentations, no format, just beer and talking Drupal. They've been a great success, we get 50 - 60 each time.
We're using Meetup.com to organise it which has been really handy. You can see our page here:
http://www.meetup.com/London-Drupal-Pub-Meet/.
Hope I can make it to NYC meetup at some point!
Neil
The group in Madison, Wisconsin has started doing Coffee and Code informal meetups like this once a month.
I'd, personally, be willing to change the date to coordinate with others...
It looks awesome to me, in Barcelona we have a monthly meeting too!
I don't know how we can match European and American meeting times btw!
Pedro, we're not looking to match up the meeting times, just the date. The main idea would be that anywhere in the world, on that day, you can find the local Drupal group and know that there will be a happy hour happening!
Drupal world domination, one happy hour at a time ;)
Say... I have proposed a Drupalcon Session in which I will talk about some of the ways people are coming together locally. If my session is selected, would anyone let me interview them about local meetups?
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/we-are-drupal-your-neighbor...
I live in Minneapolis and go to our local happy hours (initiated by zzolo, who abandoned us for geneva) and organize experimental drupal gatherings. We have also just started doing little coffee shop code sprints, which are fun and refreshing. I would like to learn more about the 'Coffee and Code'
(my website http://chachaville.com , there's a contact form there)
Chach, I would love to be involved with that session. I was also thinking about organizing a BOF for this exact thing.
Definitely.
Just posted this:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/51673
...for discussing this years Drupalcon Event Organizing BoF sessions...
See you there?
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