CADUG: General, October's Theme: Making Friends with Drupal

[Please note: this month we are moving this to the Fourth Thursday of October, since the 1st falls on a Thursday, and we don't want two CADUG events in one week.]

October General Chicago Area Drupal User Group meetup!

ALL ARE WELCOME

This month's theme: Making Friends with Drupal - How to make Drupal better for your content managers and editors.

Agenda

6:00 Straggler install demo - while we wait for stragglers to arrive, we'll show you how to get started with Drupal: download the latest Drupal and set up a local install quickly with PANTHEON (next month: Acquia's dev desktop)

6:10 Welcome, introductions and Chicago Drupal announcements (upcoming meetups, sprints, camps, and cons)

6:20 Drupal & Depression: Links to recent talks, resources, and communities for developers suffering from mental health issues (not necessarily Drupal-related!) from Manning Peterson, developer at weather.com.

6:30 Barcelona recap: Make Friends Sprinting! from Anna Kalata, Drupal developer and NEW cohost of DrupalEasy podcast

6:40 “10 Things I Hate About U(sers)" by Avi Schwab, University of Chicago.

6:50 "Firm Up Your Backend" presentation by Lauren Byrwa, Senior Front End Developer at http://palantir.net Learn about awesome modules to make Drupal friendlier for your content managers.

7:30 Q&A Have a question? Have an answer? This is a good time to share.

8:00 (or sooner) Meetup Adjourns.

All CADUG attendees agree to the CADUG Code of Conduct (https://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Advanced-Drupal-User-Group/pages/Code_of_Conduct/).

Please note: we do not yet have a Pizza and Drinks sponsor for this meetup. Feel free to bring in your own food and drink. Contact us if you want to sponsor.