Seattle DrupalCamp Location and Dates Determined
Finally...we have a location for the dates we want! DrupalCamp will be held at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center this year. Dates are solid for June 27 and 28th. Thanks for hanging in there as we all tried different locations. My one concern with YCAC is wifi access. Gregory and Shawn say they have extra routers they can bring, but I'm looking for someone to help and coordinate network issues. We are renting both classrooms plus the theater which holds 150 people. We can start ramping up PR and coordinating the rest of event now that we have location and dates. Let's get to it. My first thought is...do you we need to have folks register? I think we have plenty of speakers, but should we also promote the event more with a focus on bringing in more experts to give talks? Vancouver is doing both of these on a separate web site: http://drupalcampvancouver.org/. Add comments...your opinion matters.
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Vancouver is using
Vancouver is using eventbrite.com for registrations, which seems like a really nice solution. It does free events (I assume we're dedicated to keeping the event free.) It would be nice to have registrations, just to get an idea of how many people to expect, and with eventbrite being so easy to use it seems like a no-brainer.
There seem to be a lot of people in the PNW we could invite in to do talks, and certainly it wouldn't hurt our cause. Matt Westgate is in Portland, and Vancouver has any number of Drupal All-Stars like Boris Mann. CHX is moving to Vancouver soon as well. I assume we could talk Chris into doing a Gnomepal presentation. Reaching out to them is a great idea IMO. Having a separate website for the event seems like a fine idea, would be simple enough.
I was going to ask Gary (who gave the NWSource presentation with me) to do his talk on the process of choosing Drupal and what it brings to a business, but he just took a new job in Houston and he'll be gone by then. However, I bet I could get a good NWSource theming presentation out of our designer.
I also have a spare router, we just got a Time Machine and decommissioned our old one. I don't really have the network-fu to be coordinating that though.
I don't think we'll need to
I don't think we'll need to use eventbrite since we are going to keep it free. I think that we could setup a site using the work of Tao down in berkeley. He put together an install profile i think for the berkeley "bay area drupal camp"
http://www.CivicActions.com
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Eventbrite
Eventbrite doesn't charge for free events and offers a number of features that aren't currently stock in anything I've seen in Drupal. The UI is a little confusing at times, but the functionality is nice.
Not withstanding, a Drupal solution is cooler if you can create one. :-)
We have SeaDUG web site...
Might be a good place to have more control over the site features rather than here...
Keeping info in one place
Really important to keep all the information in one place. Great to meet you all yesterday at Linuxfest. I would like to do my intro presentation again. This time I promise to actually build the five pages...
I have some thoughts about not making the presentation quite so frantic.
Angus Pratt
Poet, Consultant, Web Designer
Diamond Technical Community
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http://groups.drupal.org/node/11296
http://www.CivicActions.com
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Closing comments
In an attempt to prevent having multiple simultaneous threads about the drupalcamp, I am closing comments on this one. Please see the DrupalCamp Seattle 2008 Event and the Session Planning Wiki. You can also see the Multi-Group Announcement. And of Course, you should check theDrupalCamp Seattle group for all relevant details.
http://www.CivicActions.com
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