Montreal DrupalCamp2008

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Montreal DrupalCamp 2008 is HAPPENING! It's happening in Montreal on October 3rd and 4th, 2008!

Le CampDrupal 2008 arrive en ville! Il se déroulera à Montréal les 3 et 4 octobre 2008!

For more information, see the website at drupalcampmontreal.com.

Montreal DrupalCamp / CampDrupal Montréal

Nature

  • less panel oriented than the bigger events / moins orienté vers les présentations magistrales que les conférences
  • BOF oriented / d'avantage orienté vers les session thématique en petits groupes
  • have some pre-annouced topics but allowing people to add them as we go... that being said, the actual schedule would only be established on the spot / les sujets seront déterminés à l'avance, mais l'horaire final sera établi sur place
  • have sessions oriented toward mobilizing coders around projects (some defined before hand, others to be determined) / avoir des sessions accompagnées pour mobiliser les codeur autour de projet (certain déterminé à l'avance, d'autres à l'évènement lui même).
  • demo sessions / sessions de démonstration
  • be sure to provide "skill level" ratings for sessions / indiquer le niveau de compétence requis
  • try to make sure that people can be in environments where people can discuss code or not! / essayer de s'assurer que les gens puisse se retrouver dans des environnement ou il peuvent parler de code ou non.
  • Business fair: help clients find a provider / Foire d'affaire pour aider les client à identifier des fournisseurs
  • free (based on sponsorships) / gratuit ($20 suggested donation)

Timing and Duration / Date et Durée

  • Friday, October 3rd from 9:00-17:00 + supper and drinks
  • Saturday, October 4th from 9:00-17:00 + supper and drinks
  • Possibility for extended coding/documentation sessions on Sunday if there are enough people interested (otherwise, that can always be done more informally at some internet café or something).

Typical OpenSpace Agenda day

This is mostly time and space organisation. All those slots will be filled in collectively during the first 9AM "plenary session" (the so-called "Opening" of the OpenSpace). During that session, everyone sits in a circle and presents themselves, (the "Icebreaker"). Then people are welcome to come forward in the middle of the circle, one by one, and announce topic(s) they want to (be) talk(ed) about. They then write it down on paper and place it somewhere in the grid below, which should be printed out on a wall somewhere. This person is then responsible of:

  • showing up at the time and place scheduled
  • making sure notes are taken during the session
  • reporting back at the plenary at the end of the day

Schedule changes are possible provided the responsible of the session agrees to the change.

We're planning on having 1h-long sessions to squeeze the most out of the little spaces we have.

Time Space A Space B Space C
9h Opening plenary
10h Session Session Session
11h Session Session Session
12h Lunch break
13h Session Session Session
14h Session Session Session
15h Session Session Session
16h Closing plenary
17h Day finished, people go hang out in restaurants and bars

See also this user guide for the general procedure I will more or less formally follow.

Attendance / Fréquentation

  • The venue has a capacity of about 75 people / Les lieu on une capacité d'environ 75 personnes.
  • We'll aim for about 75 people consisting of users, developers and designers. / On vise environs 75 personnes dont des utilisateurs, développeurs et "designer".

Location / Lieu

Les bureaux d'Alternatives
3720 avenue du Parc, bureau 300
Montréal (Québec), Canada
H2X 2J1
map

Driving: Plan some time to find parking... as there isn't much available

Public transit: take the 80 north from Place-des-Arts metro (or south from Parc) and get off at Avenue desPins.

Food / Bouffe

There will be two lunches, catered by Palmyra.ca.

We will be providing some refreshments and snacks but you are encouraged to bring more.

For supper we might consider ordering pizza on Friday... then probably go a (or many) restaurant(s) on Saturday.

Other logistics / Autres logistique

  • projectors: Koumbit has one, Alternatives has one... it would be nice to have another 2-3 though.
    (thatpatguy says: My office has a projector that I can bring if still needed (and I'm assuming it is since this bullet point hasn't been updated yet))
  • Reliable wireless: Alternatives has wifi, but we might want to get ilesansfil.org's "event kit" to make it more reliable
  • Required hardware:
    • Agenda building:
    • Markers
    • Little square papers
    • Big sheets of papers
    • Little blue funtak thingy

Outreach / Communication

  • need to establish clear "themes" (see below)
  • need to make the "reasons" to come more clear (i.e. that might be why the meetups aren't attracting people)
  • want to attract people that aren't already in the community
  • holding the event at a "cool" place also attracts people
  • we need to start announcing ASAP.

Funding / Financement

IMO, we need to pay for (prices to be added soon):

  • the venue (2 days)
  • lunches (2)
  • morning/afternoon coffee/tea/snack (4)
  • "first round" of drinks in the evening (2)
  • T-shirts (50-100)
  • prizes, other?

Sponsors / Commanditaires

Suggested themes (add yours!) / Thématiques suggérées (ajoutez les vôtres)

Please indicate sessions that you would be willing to lead/offer or that you would like to participate in (include your name and if it would be a beginner/intermediate/advanced session) / Veuillez indiquer les sessions que vous seriez intéressé à offrir ou que vous voudriez assister (inclure votre nom et le niveau de compétence requise ex. débutant/intermédiaire/avancé)

Sessions Offered / Séances offertes

  • Francisation de Drupal: Comment faire pour que les modules les plus populaire soit systématiquement traduit en français (ex. par le billet d'un projet financé par la francophonie (Pierre-Etienne Paradis/paradiso, débutant)
  • How to install Drupal if you've never used it before (WHO?, beginner)
  • What's new in Drupal 6 (for everyone who stayed with Drupal 5 while waiting for key contributed modules, many of them are late RC phase and it's time to consider switching) (Matt Corks, beginner)
  • How to use Views 2 (Matt Corks, intermediate)
  • Making a D6 multilingual site (Matt Corks, intermediate)
  • Drupal 'recipes', for both 5 & 6. Pros & Cons of different methods (e.g. using Taxonomy vs Views for archives, etc). (WHO?, intermediate)
  • Roundtable discussion on useability practices for sites built for clients who are non-technical (Pat Cooney, all levels)
  • Le «développement Drupal durable»: Partage de trucs et techniques pour créer des projets Drupal viables au-delà du jour de leur mise en ligne, que ce soit pour les clients, les gestionnaires de contenus et les développeurs en charge de l'entretien (niveau intermédiaire, proposé par David Lesieur)
  • DrupalCamp

Offered by webchick (let her know which ones interest you!)
* Drupal 7: Where we are, where we're going
* Contributing to Drupal... in action!
* Testing, testing, and more testing.
* How to give patch reviews that would make Steven Wittens proud.
* Crazy crap like Organic Groups, Actions/Workflow, Panels, NodeQueue, Views, CCK, etc.
* Drupal community stuff: Drupal.org redesign, DROP, Drupal Association, etc.

Offered by LiquidCMS (let me know if any interest)
* presentation of CAPSA (Collaborative Article Publishing System Architecture) which is a very complex Drupal project that i work on for the NY Times.
* a run through of my Authenticate module which is a very cool module which scours the net for possible plagiarized content
* any of the various site admin tools i have developed such as mail_redirect or php_errors
* RSS feed caching system for Brightcove video warehouser
* using phpEd to debug a Drupal site
* techniques for multideveloper environments

Sessions requested / Séances demandées

(ajoutez les sujets que vous aimeriez voir aborder par ceux qui les connaissent!)

  • Recipes for painless upgrades...

Help wanted / Aide demandée

Please add your name to the item that you'd like to help out with (otherwise, I'll have to do it :-/)

  • contact potential sponsors to secure funding
  • find projectors
  • film and document event
  • traduire cette page
  • ...
  • and, umm, develop better tools for documenting and organising this event than this wiki page!