Drupal Event Organization

Drupal Camp LA 2009 will be taking place from August 8-9th. Our annual two day event features training, sessions, an install fest, and networking opportunities with hundreds of Drupal users!

New this year is our DrupalCampLA 2009 Shirt Design Contest! You design a shirt and the winner will receive a printed shirt with their design or a Drupal book (provided by book sponsors). Each prize option valued over $25.00!

Rules: Entries must be submitted before Monday July 13, 2009. Designs can be in color. Multiple entries per person is allowed. Usage of the Drupal logo is not required, but helps. One or more of the following phrases should appear in your design(s):
* Drupal Camp LA
* 2009
* Los Angeles
* www.drupalcamp.com (or just drupalcamp.com)
* www.ladrupal.org (or just ladrupal.org)

http://badcamp.net/drupal-camp-san-francisco-case-study

Con esta reunión cerramos el ciclo de reuniones presenciales.

Participantes: @Joyita, @rquilca, @juanlema, @develCuy y demos la bienvenida a Ronald Chilquillo (@ghiace)

Aprovecho para comentar que @ghiace se mostró super pilas y enganchado con la organización, alegra mucho saber que se puede contar con gente como el para organizar el evento.

Acuerdos

• Los organizadores garantizan el espacio y la difusión del evento, pero los participantes(grupos/comunidades) arman las sesiones(ponencias, charlas, presentaciones, install fest, exhibiciones, etc).

BarCamp Bangkok 3 will be held on 23-24 May 2009 (See BarCamp Bangkok site). A Group of CMS users/developers in Thailand is trying to organize a kind of CMS Showdown at the event.

Currently there are three teams participating: Joomla!, WordPress and Drupal. Anyway this CMS Showdown still call for participation from other CMS. The event is not actual competition but fun event of porting prototype theme to each CMS within the BarCamp night. All results from the Showdown will be released as GPL.

DrupalCamp Colorado Registration has been opened! You can register at the main camp website - http://www.drupalcampcolorado.org

DrupalCamp Colorado is the regions biggest gathering of people interested in Drupal. The event is based around sessions proposed from the community and voted on by attendees. Camp is funded by a mix of entry fees and sponsorships.

DrupalCamp Colorado 2009

June 27 and 28th we will be at the Denver PPA Event Center (2105 Decatur St. Denver, CO 80211).

DrupalCamp Perú

Ambas reuniones fueron muy importantes para madurar ideas y alentar la participación de los miembros del grupo. Los participantes fueron:
Sesión 2:
@Joyita, @juanlema, @rquilca, @cvargas, @ywarnier, @develCuy

Reunión Drupal Perú:
@Joyita, @xander21c, @juanlema, @ywarnier, @cvargas, @rquilca, @marvil07, @rcechang, @develCuy y la visita de kike (un diseñador experto en producción)

Fotos
http://picasaweb.google.com/dokeoslatino/DrupalPeru#
http://picasaweb.google.com/dokeoslatino/SoftwareFreedomDay2009Reuniones...

I attempted to organize a "DrupalCon" last year in Australia with mixed results, and learned quite a lot. Several people in the Australian community are pushing to organize a "DrupalCon" again and I am aware that other people in this region and others are keen to do the same.

This highlights several issues with the current arrangements for organizing international/regional drupal events and how the community and the association work with them.

All,
We are in the early stages of planning an Atlanta Drupalcamp, and wanted to reach out to see if other camp organizers had best practices, tips, ideas, etc. to share. More specifically, I was wondering if anyone has kept any old notes or a checklist of tasks they could share. I've been digesting the BoF notes and organizer's guide, but since this is our first camp any further direction would be welcomed from more experienced camp leaders.

We have tentatively secured a facility from a local university and are targeting a September timeline (2 weeks before or after Drupalcon Europe).

Em Space are happy to announce DrupalCamp Melbourne 2009.

This event will take place at the CAE (Centre for Adult Education) on Saturday the 16th of May from 9am to 5pm.

Keynote
"Drupal at Lonely Planet" - John Carney

Please purchase your tickets now! We look forward to seeing new and old faces.
https://secure.emspace.com.au/drupalcamp-melbourne-2009

Hi group,

DVD's for drupal camp India have been travelling a lot and its been 2 months since drupal camp india, I finally heeded several mails asking about videos and went ahead and ripped all the DVD's into separate videos for each session. Find below the links to all the sessions but one, Case study of I Love Bolly had CRC error in one the VOB files (I am trying to get that online too)

Introduction and keynote - http://www.archive.org/details/introduction_and_keynote_dcamp_pune_09

Drupal Song - http://www.archive.org/details/drupal_song_dcamp_pune_09

Advanced module development - http://www.archive.org/details/advance_module_development

Galaminds Architecture - http://www.archive.org/details/galaminds_dcamp_pune_09

Patterns Module - http://www.archive.org/details/patterns_dcamp_pune_09

Syncing drupal development, staging and production sites using migraine - http://www.archive.org/details/migraine_dcamp_pune_09

I've searched around and come up short. Can anyone tell me if dc2009.drupalcon.org was built on an existing conference module or installation profile?

On the train ride to the airport after Drupalcon D.C I met up with two Drupal themers from different parts of the country. We had a discussion regarding Drupalcon and the design and theming elements of it. He had a decent suggestion to encourage more growth. He suggested putting on a mini Themer-con that was designed only for Designers/Themers/UI folks.

We talked about it and then thought that maybe at Drupalcon Paris there could be an internal Themercon. Essentially we take one or two rooms and making them the theming presentation rooms.

There is an interesting write-up about remote presentations on the Open Media g.d.o. made by Kevin (kreynen@drupal.org). From their experiences it seems like it should be feasible to make a habit out of remote Drupal presentations.

We are planning on supporting remote presentations again at the Open Media Camp. We did this at last year's Drupal Camp Colorado and were able to get all but one remote presenter connected during the camp. The one problem came because that person didn't test the VNC, iChat, or Skype connection ahead of time. Testing is key to this since every location has different firewall and packet shaping configurations.

This post is an open discussion on the future of Drupalcon management. After Drupalcon Boston held in March, 2008 it became clear that Drupalcon was (is) growing at a rapid rate and that the underlying management infrastructure needs an upgrade. Changes were made for Drupalcon Europe as well as for Drupalcon D.C (2009) and these have proven to be successful. The process still needs to evolve such that we not only meet the demands of the attendees (expected to be 1,200 strong at D.C) but give these attendees the high quality conference they expect. In short, we can and should do more.

Two-Day Crash Course

In two days, participants will build from scratch a rock solid, commercially supported, aesthetically pleasing community website with an online store, without writing a single line of custom code.

UPDATE: Now our space-time continuum has been corrected to allow visits to both DrupalCon and Har2009 this is the time to get yourself a ticket, double check that camping gear in the attic and let me know if you'll be able to come!

August 13-16 2009 Hacking at Random, the next iteration in a 20 year long tradition of open air hacking events will be held in Vierhouten, the Netherlands. These events are (self)organized every 4 years (2 years after every ccc-camp) and are every geeks dream in cool presentations, workshops and technology phun in every way imaginable. I will be there for sure and I post this to find out if there are more Drupal people interested in coming to this event and possibly help to organize a Community Village.
Depending on the number of volunteers and contributers I can imagine anything from just a bunch of small tents gathered around a Drupal Flag drinking beers in the sun to getting some bigger event tents to hold getting started sessions, (security) code sprints or a CMS hacking face off.

The Association met the other day and set the following dates for Drupalcon proposals.

January 31st, 2009: Proposal Deadline Drupalcon Europe 2009 to be held fall 2009
February 15th, 2009: Deadline to submit an intention to submit a Drupalcon North America 2010 proposal.

March 1st, 2009: Proposal deadline for Drupalcon North America 2010
ongoing (2010, 2011, etc.): 30 days before the precending Drupalcon in the target region.

DrupalCamps, code sprints, and even Drupalcons are hard to hold without sponsors. It's important that sponsors are given a good value for their money or they will not sponsor future events. There are many ways to provide value to sponsors. The goal of this page is to come up with a list of many of these ways.

There is also a lot of great information about organizing events and handling sponsorship money on the DrupalCamp Organizing Guide.

Some of you may have noticed that Drupal Day Milan had a picture announcement on drupal.org. The advert was placed in the upper left corner of drupal.org's frontpage is the same place you see "Drupal Security", "Drupalcon D.C"
and other "ads".

I'm always amazed by how awesome the Drupal Camps and mini-conferences are and how many there are around the world.

Did you attend a camp in in 2008? Please add it to this list and include a link to the website (if there is one), the dates of the event, the number of attendees, and any plans for 2009.

2008

• DrupalCampWI - held January 19th 2008, approximately 50 attendees in Milwaukee, WI. Planning a larger one day event at Bucketworks in Milwaukee, targeting February 2009.

Help support LA Drupal, Drupal Camp LA, and local Drupal community efforts by purchasing and wearing a commemorative shirt celebrating the 2008, second annual, community training event. Hundreds of you registered and attended, and we're proud of the event but looking forward to help make 2009 a reality we're looking to make sure folks have ways to support the group and purchasing our commemorative apparel will help do that.

See all the shirts

Drupal Camp LA T-shirt - http://www.zazzle.com/drupal_camp_la_shirt-235897092826435939

Drupal Camp LA womens t-shirt - http://www.zazzle.com/drupal_camp_la_womens_t_shirt-235141426948959987

Drupal Camp LA 2008 Flame Shirt (White) - http://www.zazzle.com/drupal_camp_la_2008_flame_shirt_white-235560627359...

Drupal Camp LA 2008 Flame Shirt - http://www.zazzle.com/drupal_camp_la_2008_flame_shirt-235275421491414852

Drupal Camp LA 2008 Flame Shirt (Women) - http://www.zazzle.com/drupal_camp_la_2008_flame_shirt_women-235741697710...

More information on Drupal Camp LA - http://drupalcampla.com

Chris Hughes from Dimdim will be giving our a community a personalized demo of their powerful online meeting and collaboration platform. It provides a self contained solution with many key features:

• No Install to Start/Join meetings
• Easily Share your Desktop
• Audio & Video Conferencing
• Present PowerPoint and PDFs
• Private & Public Chat
• Whiteboard & Annotations
• Record and Playback Meetings
• Multiple Presenters

These are just some of the potential uses:

• An improved training platform for the Drupal Dojo, companies, and individuals

Is there a page wiki or otherwise that lists all of the external websites dedicated to Drupal groups. It would be nearly identical to
http://drupal.org/language-specific-communities
or
http://drupal.org/project/l10n_server

but for all external sites, for example L.A Drupal (http://ladrupal.org)?

Over in the DrupalCampUK event planning thread started by Galooph, Richardcanoe mentioned:

"There are lots of Apache - MySQL - PHP implementations out there now for both windows & MacOS which are designed to be hosted on a USB stick.

Attendees could have a drupal on a stick as something to use at a DrupalCamp, but also to take away and play with. This would enable non tech users to get to grips wth the look and feel and test modules and settings.
" http://groups.drupal.org/node/15537#comment-54618

Course Date: 2008-10-31 09:30 - 17:30
Venue: 112/114 North Acton Road, NW10 6QH, London
Training Outline: http://www.nobleprog.co.uk/training/drupal+views+module
Prices: From £300 per person
More information and booking http://www.nobleprog.co.uk/course+date/drupal+views+module/1195

[version en français ici : http://groups.drupal.org/node/15683 ]

Hello and thanks to everybody for participating in drupalngo,

First, last week-end was great. Check
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23drupalngo
http://video.google.fr/videosearch?q=drupalngo
to get an idea.

One of the crazy goals of drupalngo was to make a data driven, community oriented website just over a week-end.

All presentations are in Hungarian. The conference is for free but you need to registrate.

The venue: CEU Konferencia Központ (Hungary 1106, Budapest, X. kerület, Kerepesi út 87.)

For more information visit: http://drupal.hu/konferencia/2008

The Iowa Drupal Users Group is declaring November "Drupal Hand-Up Month". Join Us!!

http://drupalcampchicago.org

Who/Why:

For over 2 years Chicago Drupal has truly highlighted the benefits of an open source initiative. We have built resourceful bridges between many local Chicago establishments including non-profits, entrepreneurs, Drupal development companies, independent consultants, hobbyist, and others in the mid-west. Our goal for this Drupal Camp is to bring everyone together for open communication, education, fun, and industry networking.

What:

english version
Una vez más puedo decir que este evento superó mis expectativas, un verdadero éxito!

Muchas gracias a Yannick Warnier, Nicolas Borda, Carlos A. Horna Vallejos y al pastor Luis A. Nuñez por las excelentes charlas que dieron y por correr con todos sus gastos. Según lo que pude percibir, los asistentes quedaron muy contentos con todas y cada una de las charlas. Creo que el aporte dado a la comunidad del Software Libre y Drupal es invaluable. Me quito el sombrero por ustedes.

Les cuento la Historia Previa en mi blog.

We're planning a fun and informative day in Dublin for both novice Drupal users and Drupal developers.

Our gracious and generous hosts at DIT (Dublin Institute of Technology, The School of Computing) are providing the space free of charge, as well as tea/coffee and a lunch for attendees! We have room for one large space, and smaller rooms for break-out sessions. All of the rooms are in DIT on Kevin St. View the map.

Everyone welcome! Please register on this site, and use the "sign up" button here if you plan to attend.

Please download the event poster, print out and post where you can. Poster in PDF**

Freebies! Lynda.com have offered coupons for free access to online Drupal training videos; as well as a Lynda.com Drupal Training DVD, which we will raffle off! (a $50 US value) And the grand prize in the raffle is a year's hosting for a Drupal site, sponsored by Indytech!!!

Event Info | Sign Up | Sessions | Location/Direction | Sponsorship

DrupalCamp Australia 2008
When: Saturday, Oct. 18th : 9am - 5pm
Where: Sydney University

Announcing the 2008 DrupalCamp Australia! It will be taking place on Saturday, October 18th from 9am - 5pm at the University of Sydney's School of Pharmacy.

We are currently looking for some good presenters and topics for discussion. Some of your favorite, dedicated, Australian Drupal developers will be joining us so don't miss out! Places are limited (Only 45), so sign up now!

Read on for all the details

DrupalSouth is the New Zealand Drupal Event for 2008. DrupalSouth will bring NZ's Drupal community together for the first nation-wide Drupal event and the first ever Drupal camp in NZ.

DrupalSouth runs for two days in the first weekend of November, starting at 9:30 am on Saturday 1st November and concluding at 6 pm on Sunday 2nd November 2008. The morning of each day will be filled with presentations, while the afternoons will be open to less formal talks, discussions, demonstrations, tutorials and hacking.

I think it is crazy that the regional events don't get more coverage over at the drupal.org main site. DrupalCampLA just had a 400+ person event, but if you put DrupalCampLA into the d.o search box, all you get is a forum post from last year where one of the badcamp organizers mentions them as inspiration. We (badcamp) will probably have around 300 people show up and I am sure DCNYC was huge. g.d.o placement is nice, but d.o is missing out on a big marketing opportunity by not bragging about these events more.

I was talking with Amazon on IRC about video handling, and he suggested I post this here as it might be useful to event organizers.

At DrupalCamp Seattle we spent a lot of time talking about how to handle the video from the sessions, and one of the conclusions we came to was that it needed to be handled ASAP because the longer it waits the more people move onto other things. Initially we were going to have a "video sprint" right after the camp to handle the capturing/transcoding/uploading. Instead, one of our local users Gary Varnell (http://groups.drupal.org/user/6388) came up with a way to capture/transcode on the fly to his Linux laptop over firewire. He wrote a blog post detailing his setup including the perl scripts he wrote to handle it:

http://regx.dgswa.com/html/node/65

English title: "Free / Libre Software for Opportunities in the Net" (translation below)

Afiche:

Anuncio:

Hora y Fechas

24, 25 y 26 de Setiembre, de 18:30 a 22:00

Objetivo

Dar a conocer el Software Libre como una alternativa real, viable y sustentable para desempeñar actividades económicas total o parcialmente a través de Internet, tanto para profesionales dedicados al desarrollo del software, como para empresas e instituciones que buscan el máximo aprovechamiento de la tecnología a un menor costo.

Lugar

Ciudad Universitaria de Perayoc, Auditorio de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Físicas y Matemáticas - UNSAAC
Cusco, Perú

Idiomas

Español (principal)
Inglés (traducción en vivo)

Público Objetivo

Dirigido a profesionales, estudiantes y empresarios interesados en el tema. Dicho evento se llevará a cabo en la ciudad de Cusco los días 24, 25 y 26 de Setiembre, con una duración total de 8 horas académicas(45 min. cada una).

This is easy and quick, nothing fancy, no voting - just post your session idea (title) and your name/contact info and show up to present that day! We have sessions open from 10am-2pm each day (Saturday and Sunday) and each session should plan for 45 minutes each.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/12528 (edit wiki page)

If you can't see or edit the wiki page, be sure to join our group which may be required for editing the wiki page.

Aye aye and good bye! This is the last pub meetup before Drupal Camp Victoria 2008
http://drupalcamp.northstudio.com

Anyone with ideas or interest should show, maybe even if you don't have either...

Social Location:
http://www.executivehouse.com/barts/bartholomews.html

Bart's has great food and beer, how can you go wrong?

The last Tuesday of the month is the official day!

Cheers,
Gord.

I would like to have a Drupal event at Perú and did not found more representative place than Machu Picchu, Inca people were genius who constructed a sanctuary upon a rock solid mountain in the meddle of high jungle. It is also a wonderful place for vacations and opportunity to meet people outside U.S. and Europe. Also, Perú was recently qualified with "investment grade", making our country an attractive choice for investment and businesses.

DrupalCampLA is September 13-14 and will be located in Los Angeles area.

For those who haven't seen the DrupalCampLA promo video then be sure to see it at DrupalCampLA.com, and please make sure you vote on our camp attendance poll if you plan to attend or not. Thanks!

Video: http://drupalcampla.com
Attendance poll: http://groups.drupal.org/node/13157

Short notice, but here it is anyways!

At bart's again, be there!

We will be discussing various things for the upcoming Drupal Camp Victoria in September.

Location:
http://www.executivehouse.com/barts/bartholomews.html

Cheers,
Gord.

If you find yourself needing the official Drupal logo colors for your favorite Adobe design software then download free color swatch sets. Color swatches for Adobe Fireworks/Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and even InDesign are available for download for free.

Download the Drupal color swatch sets for Adobe software at XTND.US.

Fireworks (and Dreamweaver)

Photoshop (and InDesign)

First Annual DrupalCamp Victoria

Yay Content! We have been updating the site and now have a proper schedule listing under the Speakers menu

Please register at http://drupalcamp.northstudio.com, this groups node is a placeholder only

We here at http://www.northStudio.com are happy to present the very first DrupalCamp Victoria!

Announcing the most fun you haven't had yet this summer! The event is still in the planning stages, but we're keen on setting up an Ubercamp for the weekend of July 25-27. We know it's short notice - only 2.2 weeks away - but we're going to do our best to make it happen, make it fun, and make it fruitful.

We're coming up on the second Tuesday Wednesday of the month again, which means that the Drupal Denver/Boulder User Group is meeting at pingVision tomorrow night.

6:30pm - Gathering, pizza, soft drinks
7:00pm - Discussion and presentations

Because Drupal Camp Colorado is being held in the Micro Business Development Center that is home to Deproductions/Denver Open Media, we have access to equipment and bandwidth that wouldn't be available at many other Drupal Camp locations. This allows us to offer a remote presenter track at Drupal Camp Colorado.