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Denver Drupal Meetup Recap, January 2012

It has to be said that the January Denver Drupal meetup was a far more interesting live television broadcast than the President's State of the Union address. We didn't have nearly as many viewers or inspire a drinking game, but we also did not have any bitter partisan politics characterized by half of the audience applauding random statements while the other half made disapproving facial expressions.

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Hong Kong Drupal Meetup Recap, November 2011

While Scott was coordinating the Denver Drupal meetup's annual Drupalgames, Jason was on the opposite side of the globe visiting the Hong Kong Drupal user group.

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Second Annual Denver Drupal Games

Our schedule for Denver Drupal meetups puts our November meetup two days before American Thanksgiving, a time when many people are out of town or otherwise unable to attend the meetup. Last year we decided not to cancel the meetup, and instead took advantage of the smaller group to do something a little different in November, and we did the first "Denver Drupal Games", a fun site-building competition.

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Denver Drupal Meetup Recap, October 2011

October's Denver Drupal meetup was focused on "DevOps," with a presentation by Ned McClain from Applied Trust. Ned had given a similar presentation at the Boulder meetup last month, and kindly agreed to make the trek to Denver for those of us who missed the first one. Ned started by talking about changing approaches to development, quickly explaining the difference between the traditional "waterfall" approach with bigger release cycles, and the "agile" approach with smaller release cycles.

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BADCamp 2011: Sessions, Free Training and Sketch Books

This weekend seven members of our team we’ll be joining hundreds of Drupal enthusiasts for BADCamp 2011. This fantastic regional event will be held at the UC Berkley campus, boasting keynotes from Drupal’s creator and project lead Dries Buytaert, Lullabot CEO Jeff Robbins and Danese Cooper, Open Source Strategist at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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September Denver Drupal Meetup Recap

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]...

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August Denver Drupal Meetup Recap

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.

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DrupalCon Denver's Theme: Collaborative Publishing for Every Device

At current growth rates, mobile will be the most common way to use the web as early as 2013. Already, 1 in 5 mobile users don't own a computer. They access the web entirely on mobile devices, mostly phones. Mobile means a big change to how we use the web, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg. We’re just starting to realize a fully-networked world, where the web is accessed from any device.

July Boulder iOS Meetup Recap

This past Tuesday iOS developers from across the metroplex gathered at Google's new digs in Boulder. The night started with some brief announcements from meetup leader Justin Shacklette who informed us that his first iPad game Jab-a-Face has finally made it into the app store. Congrats Justin!

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July Denver Drupal Meetup Recap

In the DrupalCamp Colorado 2011 keynote, Angie "Webchick" Byron mentioned that being involved in the Drupal community is one of the best ways to advertise yourself and get Drupal related work.

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