European Regional DrupalCon Organizers
This is the central coordination group for planning the european DrupalCon. This group is responsible for:
- making recommendations to the Board for the location of Drupalcon Europe 2011 and beyond.
- organizing and coordinating all non-logistical details for Drupalcon Europe starting 2010. This includes: programming, speaker selection, social activities, the conference Web site.
See also North America, South America and Australia & Asia
Scorecard for DrupalCon Europe Location
This document was approved by the European Regional DrupalCon Organizers after a discussion and vote on September 24, 2009.
The Location Selection Taskforce will use these criteria to evaluate locations, teams, and venues. Each item will be given 1 to 3 points. In addition, the events organizing firm hired by the Drupal Association will evaluate locations and venues with their own criteria geared at production issues, and return a ranked list of preferred venues. Finally, a preference poll open to anyone in the Drupal community will be run, and this too will generate a numeric score that will influence the recommendation to the BoD.
European Regional DrupalCon Organizers
This document was approved by the European Regional DrupalCon Organizers after a discussion and vote on September 24, 2009.
Drupal process meetup Amsterdam
January 27-28-29 I'm organizing a follow up of the Drupal CXO days in Amsterdam. The event will again be sponsored by Microsoft (special thanks go to Michaela Kraft who organized the venue and the budget for the meetup).
This meetup aims to facilitate peer-to-peer learning about business processes between leadership of Drupal shops. What are the best practices? What kind of processes do you need? How do you grow from a entrepreneur centered culture to a process driven culture?
Drupal products summit
I'm considering organizing a Drupal products summit some time this fall. The main purpose of the meeting would be to create a knowledge sharing platform for Drupal shops/individuals that are working on a product: anything built with Drupal that has a repeatable business model (can be specialized services for Drupal shops, distributions, applications, websites built with Drupal that target a certain market segment).
The main practical outcomes I hope to achieve with this meeting are:
- The creation of a workgroup that will build an ethical Drupal Application Store
- Increase of knowledge about lean startup methodologies in the Drupal community
- Strengthening the network of Drupal product companies and the creation of a mutual support community
Online PR person (Drupal Blogger outreach) - DrupalCon London 2011
The DC London Marketing Team needs to urgently recruit an Online PR person to help write press releases and distribute useful information and news about DC London to the Drupal blogging community and other interested stakeholders. The role will involve building a mailing list of Drupal bloggers, plan communications campaigns, write interesting press releases, and distribute information and goodies to bloggers. Also, importantly, get feedback from the blogger community and listen to their ideas and respond to requests for info where required.
Looking for volunteers for Drupal Developer Days Brussels
We are looking for motivated volunteers that can help organizing the Drupal Developer Days Brussels that take place February 4 - 6, 2011. http://bxl2011.drupaldays.org . This is a free event which aims at fostering the Drupal software and its community.
The current organizing team consist of a small band of talented volunteers, but to make this event shine we need help from much more people.
Volunteers with all kind of profiles are welcome. Currently we are looking for people that can help by:
- Getting sessions on video
- Writing copy for the website
Drupal Developer Days, Brussels, February 2011
The first European Drupal Developer Days conference will take place on Saturday and Sunday February 5th & 6th, 2011, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium. This two day event will be preceded by a code sprint on Friday the 4th.
DrupalCon London
The Drupal Association and the European Drupal community is pleased to announce that DrupalCon Europe will be hosted in the United Kingdom in 2011. We are inviting engaging speakers and are planning over 75 sessions, appealing to everyone from beginners to top level developers, designers and architects. This is the perfect opportunity to network, gain new skills and share your passion for Drupal. Please support this great event.
Drupal Government Days
In April, 2011 the Drupal Government Days in Brussels will be held for the first time.
We want to bring government representatives, Drupal users, developers, evaluators and businesspeople together.
There will be sessions, talks and more at the Drupal Government Days in Brussels.
Some preview on possible topics:
Drupal / Open Source adoption
Case Studies, Projects & Solutions
Open Government initiatives in Europe
Drupal & Open Data
Open Public
Efficiency, Effectiveness and Transparency
eIdentity and eSecurity Integration
Services for Businesses & Services for Citizens
Thank you!
The first Romanian Drupalcamp is over. There were a lot of exciting presentations and a lot of fun too.
Here are some statistics:
Live stream - DrupalCamp Timisoara 2010
We have a very good start at DrupalCamp Timisoara 2010, with more than 150 participants already registered at conference. See the schedule here http://drupalcamp.ro/schedule and follow the live stream here http://drupalcamp.ro or at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/drupalcamp-timisoara-2010
Tommorow, 6th of June at 18:00 online session Timisoara-Copenhagen with mortendk on DrupalCon Copenhaga 2010.
DrupalVolCon Paris
The guyz over at Paris are organizing a Mini DrupalCon Paris for those that are stuck in France, with live video feeds from and TO the conference. Probably @ LaCantine.
So if you were supposed to present a session... maybe this can still be done.. with some ustream/ubicast action ...
We will keep you posted as events unfold
Drupalcamp Timisoara 2010, Romania
Drupal Romania Association (http://drupal.org.ro) currently organizes its first major event, the Timisoara 2010 Drupalcamp, taking place during 5th and 6th of June, 2010. Registration is now open, and we will launch the call for submissions soon.
DrupalCon 2011
Hi Everybody,
First up, we, the European DrupalCon Selection Taskforce, apologize for the delay and lack of communication.
Consider this account of what has happened and what we discussed about, an attempt to improve the process, that we have started for the very first time.
Drupalcon 2010 in Copenhagen
The Drupal Association just approved the proposal from the Danish team to organize Drupalcon 2010 in Copenhagen. The conference will take place in August, the exact date will be finalized in the coming week.
If you wonder what kind of greatness is waiting for you, check out their proposal at http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35 or http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35?print&book_recurse
Congratulations to the Danish team!
EDIT: The dates are 23 - 26 August, with events on the day before and day after likely.
The Selection Taskforce DrupalCon 2010 Recommendation
Hello Drupal Community and DrupalCon Teams!
It has taken longer than originally expected, but finally after long and careful deliberation, we, the selection taskforce committee, recommend Copenhagen for the DrupalCon 2010. The commitment and relentless enthusiasm of the Danish team during the evaluation process gave us also full confidence that they are ready to organize a DrupalCon that rocks in the 9 months that is left.
Transparency ?
There were a lot of talk of transparency when this whole drupalcon 2010 + 2011 started
i for one is missing this now
We are at least a month over the deadline - and very little have been told out to the public from the european group.
I know im not the only one who really hope to just hear something. - yup the danes & ze germans did meet in stockholm this weekend, and without any fighting breaking out ;)
To be dead honest - we need to hear something soon - else its gotta be pretty hard to get everything done in good time for 2010.
So could we:
Berlin Q & A IRC meeting
The DrupalCon Germany IRC Q&A will take place October 13th at 20:00 CET (7 p.m. UK, 2 p.m. US Eastern) in Freenode #drupalcon channel.
Have a look at our proposal and proposal page (some good questions came in since we posted) here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/28210
We're looking forward to answering your questions!
Revised Schedule for DrupalCon city announcement
The Scandinavian team introduced a new element, and we realized that the IRC meetings are actually very valuable.
We would like to have all three teams up for a meeting (the London team is following tonight), to complement our scoring.
The Germans are missing, as of now; when could you do an IRC meeting?
Because of these IRC meetings, we have been pushing our internal meeting date as well, so everyone has a chance, of communicating with us, before we make our recommendation to the DA.
DrupalCon London 2011 Proposal IRC Q&A
If you're interested in a London DrupalCon please join us on IRC #drupalcon for a two hour Q&A session starting 9 p.m. (GMT) on Friday 9th October.
Hats of to the Copenhagen team who did a similar Q&A session this week which you can read here:
http://drupalcon.dk/planning/node/115
We'll also post the log of our session here as a comment.
You can read the DrupalCon London proposal here:
