September's Denver Drupal meetup was packed, not only with attendees, but also with information as all of the night's presentations were "lightning talks" - 5 minute presentations followed by a maximum of 2 questions. We started the night with the usual round of introductions along with the (mildly horrifying) question of, "What would you use, if you couldn't use Drupal?" The answers covered a broad range of existing open source CMS products, but my favorite response was from Jordan, who said, "I'd stop building sites and go teach hang gliding.... [pause]...

Even with a number of Denver Drupal community members abroad at Drupalcon London, the August Denver Drupal meetup had a packed studio. After a round of introductions and sharing what we like about London and the UK (everything ranging from history, art and architecture to beer, second wave ska and pop culture), we launched into a presentation on Context and Panels.

In case you haven't heard, Node.js is the hottest new technology that is revolutionizing the web. Some of you don't seem convinced. After all, Ruby on Rails failed to achieve global domination, so why should server-side JavaScript be any different? The biggest distinction is that Node.js is not a server-side language; it is the server. Secondly, it's an incredibly fast and efficient server that scales well.

The Denver Drupal meetup continues to grow, and despite bringing in extra chairs, every seat in the room was taken at the April meetup. But don't let that deter you from coming to future meetups! More people in attendance means more people who can answer your drupal questions and more community members to network with.

After the standard round of introductions, we spent some time with general community announcements: