drupalib A place for library drupallers to hang out

I'm pleased to announce a Chicagoland Drupal4Lib BoF on Friday, 3/20 (1:30p-4p) at DePaul's Loop Campus, 1 E. Jackson (10th fl., Rm# 10028), Chicago.

GOALS OF THE CHICAGOLAND DRUPAL4LIB BoF

The Chicagoland Drupal4Lib BoF will be an opportunity for librarians to get together and discuss how they use (or would like to use) Drupal in a library context. We'll ask people to present projects they're working on and we'll field questions on problems and approaches to implementing Drupal. All levels of knowledge from expert to n00b are welcome.

Also, since we're the 'host' city for the ALA Convention in Chicago in July, we'll have an opportunity to think about what we might want to do for that.

This Chicagoland Drupal4Lib BoF is a follow-up to our successful get-togethers last year at the Metropolitan Librarian System and at the wildly sold-out Chicago Drupal BarCamp in October.

CHICAGOLAND DRUPAL4LIB BoF - QUARTERLY BASIS

We'll be doing one of these on a quarterly basis -- or at least that's the intention. The people at DePaul have kindly made their location available for March; We'll be meeting at McCormick Place as part of ALA in July; After that we'll be meeting at the downtown offices of the Metropolitan Library System (MLS).

PARTICIPATION AND SUGGESTIONS

It goes without saying that your participation and suggestions are welcome. The format is free and open enough to accommodate a ton of different ideas and needs.

You can sign up here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/18820

Feel free to leave a comment here, there or email me directly -- and everyone start planning for an informative and rewarding event -- on 3/20!

This is still a while off but I thought I'd put out an initial request before the holidays officially begin. It's a request for ideas and suggestions for the meeting of the LITA Drupal4Lib Interest Group at the 2009 ALA Conference in Chicago.

Feel free to leave comments either here or on the LITA Blog at: http://tinyurl.com/Drupal4LibALAchicago

more after the jump...

Just a preliminary head's up that we'll be having a Library Drupal BoF as part of the Chicago Drupal Camp taking place at UIC on Friday & Saturday, Oct. 24 & 25.

They're still working on the program, but the Library BoF will be on Friday (10/24) in the early afternoon (probably starting at 2pm or 3pm). Location: SSB Building (Harrison & Racine) in Chicago.

The goals (besides getting together) are:

• Showcase library-related Drupal projects in the Chicagoland area.
• Talk about future plans and aspirations, field questions and compare experiences.

So whether you've done a project or would like to do a project, this event is for you. We had a great time doing this in Anaheim for ALA and it's good to organize something similar for the home team.

The website isn't up yet but it'll be at: http://drupalcampchicago.org/

They're still taking suggestions for programs at:
http://drupalcampchicago.org/speaker-submission

Mark you calendars today!

Okay, we'll be meeting for our Drupal4lib BoF on Sun. (6/29, 3:30p-5:00p) -- in the LITA Bloggers Room (till they chase us out).

This will be an informal get-together of people to talk about how they've implemented Drupal or how they'd like to implement Drupal. Whether you're a newbie or pro is fine. Everyone is welcome. I'll see if I can dig up a projector so people can do brief presentations of their projects.

Please leave comments and suggestions.

For our Drupal4lib BoF, it looks like Sunday 6/29, sometime in the afternoon is the most popular time. Aaron's schedule of "Afternoon with LITA" was pretty helpful: Top Tech Trends (1:30-3:00), LITA Awards (3:00-4:00), and LITA President's program (4:00-5:30).

[Personally, I'm most interested in the Top Tech Trends, so -- again personally -- I'd be okay with anything after around 3pm. ]

As a way to nail down the time, I set up a Doodle poll so that people can specify their preference(s):

http://www.doodle.ch/85b5bs3gcyvnppcb

Location tentatively is in the LITA's Blogger Room. We could go out for dinner afterwards...

In any case, if you've got any comments, feel free to reply to me or leave them here.