Drupal SF meetup

I went up to the City tonight for the San Francisco Drupal meetup. Hannah and I took the train up together, with my taking a taxi to the meetup location.

There were about 15 people at the meetup, ranging in experience from previous release co-maintainer (Neil Drumm, who, honestly, is fabulous, we lurves him) to just installed it and tried it once. Also known as the range of Drupal user ID from 5088 to over 200000+. Most of the people at the meetup were developers instead of just users, which made me happy.

The presentation was for the patterns module, made by Chris Bryant. The module and surrounding infrastructure address the site setup problem where profiles fal short (in particular, with module add-ons and configurations). One of the surprising features of the module is that, even though it automates a lot of site setup, it does so through form submissions instead of accessing the database directly.

I wish I could say that I was the dynamic, outgoing person I want to be in these situations, but I wasn't. I wasn't uncomfortable, per se, but I was definitely with a group of people I didn't know. I ended up leaving soon after the presentation, and walked back to the train station. It wasn't nearly as far as I thought it was.