Drupalcamp Colorado 2011 June 11th and 12th in Denver

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greggles's picture
Start: 
2011-06-11 09:00 - 2011-06-12 17:00 UTC
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Drupalcamp or Regional Summit

Howdy folks!

Very exciting news here that Drupalcamp Colorado will be June 11th and 12th at Denver's King Center facility on the Auraria campus (next door to the building where it was in 2010).

After a 300+ turnout last year we hope to have 400 people this year and have a limit of about 500. Can we sell out again?

The official camp site is http://2011.drupalcampcolorado.org/

Announcements will also be posted here as we get close to ticket sales, session submission, session voting, and schedule announcement.

Yay Colorado!

Comments

YAYZ!

Dave Reid's picture

YAYZ!

Senior Drupal Developer for Lullabot | www.davereid.net | @davereid

Excellent!

jimmynash's picture

Looking forward to another great camp! Thanks to all involved!

Also throwing my "hat" into

techgirlgeek's picture

Also throwing my "hat" into helping with DCC this year as much as possible.

Sponsoring

Rick Nashleanas's picture

We're planning to sponsor again this year.

Rick Nashleanas
www.monarchdigital.com

Registration is open

sreynen's picture

The site is live and registration is open now. http://2011.drupalcampcolorado.org/

Drupal Camp Beginner's Track Live CD

bhosmer's picture

I'm not sure who is in charge of the beginner's tracks, but from helping out with our recent Florida Drupal Camp, I noticed a need for an easy way for beginners to follow along and have a working installation the day of the camp.

I posted in the Florida Group about a live CD that might be useful: http://groups.drupal.org/node/141019

Go for it

sreynen's picture

Hi bhosmer,

Are you coming to DrupalCamp Colorado? If so, you can just go ahead and do this, maybe add your name to the volunteer list. The tracks are split up by subject, so there's no beginner track exactly, but each session has an experience level and we'll hopefully have beginner sessions in every track. Session submission is still open, so if you want to put together a session around this, that might be a good way to introduce it.

If you can't make it to DrupalCamp Colorado, maybe someone else will volunteer, but I'd encourage you to come and do this yourself if you really want to see it happen.

re: Drupal Camp Beginner's Track Live CD

protitude's picture

I was actually thinking of starting a beginner session where I try to get everyone up and running on a local install or maybe a server install of D7 that they could play around with, should this just be placed into the session list though and not necessarily be a part of the volunteer list?

Sessions are good

sreynen's picture

Yeah, to clarify, I was only suggesting the volunteer list if someone is doing something (like providing Drupal CDs) outside of a session. If you want to walk people through something, submitting a session is generally the best way to do that. An alternative is the pre-camp training, but that's a bit more involved.

I would think a session would

protitude's picture

I would think a session would make sense for something like this although it could get much more involved with a pre-conference training as well. What do you think would work best? Maybe I can pull together a few people to help in a pre-camp training session to make sure everyone gets something out of it...

@protitude - Checkout

lee20's picture

@protitude - Checkout WebEnabled (http://www.webenabled.com). Each user can sign up and create a Free Drupal site with a few clicks. The Trial account offers 250MB free storage which should be more than sufficient.

I use webenabled myself and

bhosmer's picture

I use webenabled myself and love their service, but often wifi with 300 people using it at once gets a little sketchy. This was the idea behind the live cd. No one has to mess around with configuring MAMP/XAMP on newbie's machines and they can have a working install when they walk in the door.

Often the tremendous effort of actually getting a drupal install can be a barrier to a newcomer.

I have signed up already for one session, but wouldn't mind helping out with the trainings before hand either.

Would there be a sponsor that might want to help out with the cost of pressing of the discs? Perhaps they could have their logo on the disc or something?

I don't mind coordinating the discs if this is what you guys want to do. I am in Florida though.

This is an interesting

protitude's picture

This is an interesting approach, is there a live cd already out there we can use or would we have to build this from scratch? I think it would be pretty simple to create a vm and distribute it over the network as well assuming they have the ram to handle a vm.

If we do a pre-camp training we could charge for the session and then put that money towards creating cd's and any printed materials. I wouldn't mind paying for the CD's either. Although I think if someone shows up with a computer that doesn't have a cd-rom that could be a problem (netbooks, macbook air). We could use USB drives for those people but then it gets a bit more expensive too, but with a pre-camp training we could plan for an exact number and make sure everyone pays for their own drives...

Overall I think it would be pretty hard to get a bunch of people on a local copy of Drupal and introduce them to some basic concepts in an hour session so a pre-camp training might make sense but we also would want to keep it super cheap and accessible to the newer people in the crowd which may be hard to do in a pre-camp session since the newer people in the crowd might not seek it out. Perhaps some reaching out to the beginners would solve this...

Yes, I just created a live

bhosmer's picture

Yes, I just created a live CD. It is here: https://github.com/benhosmer/Drupal-Camp-Live-CD That was what my original post was about, reading back I didn't make this post very clear. It is based on crunch bang, so it is very lightweight and should run on almost any intel based machine. Once the user inserts the disc and reboots, crunchbang loads and then launches a browser and loads a plain vanilla drupal 7 install where they are logged in as admin. It is all completely automated and ready to go. All they have to do is wait for the disc to load. I believe the .iso could also be put on a usb drive, but as you said, that would involve a bit more since some usb drives aren't bootable.

This year in Florida, we had an entire beginner track. It was not simple to get everyone going with an install. I came up with this idea to maybe solve this issue.

It sounds like your camp is a little different. A pre-conference training session instead of a beginner track.

PSD/CSS SESSION

lenichols's picture

wonder if anyone of the presenters will cover psd conversion in designing drupal themes.

This sounds good. I'm

JHarahush's picture

This sounds good. I'm interested in learning how to better collaborate with graphic designers when theming.

Getting the Most Out of DrupalCamp

jeisel's picture

I'm going to be attending the site building Drupal pre-conference workshop and both sessions over the weekend. We're in the midst of switching our Web site over to Drupal, so I'm slowly getting my head around a lot of this stuff. Does anyone have some recommendations on how to get the MOST out of the three days? What should I come prepared with? What should I do to be prepared? Any tips (no matter how basic or seemingly obvious) would be appreciated!

Prep for DrupalCamp

JayDarnell's picture

Hi jeisel,

If you're a reader grab a copy of the book Using Drupal: http://www.amazon.com/Using-Drupal-Angela-Byron/dp/0596515804/ref=sr_1_1...

Even through Drupal 7 has been released and continues to grow in popularity and this book focuses on Drupal 6 I think there is enough solid information inside to be of great benefit for a complete beginner. The first few chapters alone are a great primer for this weekends site building workshop. No other book helped me understand the basics of Drupal half as much when I first started out.

-CB

I would say just come well

protitude's picture

I would say just come well rested, laptop fully charged, phone fully charged and have a good time. Definitely try to figure out which sessions interest you most but don't overlook talking to everyone around you. Sometimes you end up meeting someone who can help you much more than any one session. You may want to keep an eye on the BOF's as well which are usually a more interactive environment...

Don't be shy & BoF's

Rick Nashleanas's picture

Like most conferences, you learn the most outside of the sessions by talking with other attendees.

In my early Drupal conferences, I went to sessions and the Birds of a Feather didn't interest me. Don't discount the BoF's. If there is a subject of interest, go! The right BoF can make all the difference.

If you see me there, say Hi!

Rick Nashleanas
www.monarchdigital.com

Surveys!

greggles's picture

If you didn't attend, please complete this survey: http://2011.drupalcampcolorado.org/content/camp-survey-non-attendees

If you did attend, please complete this survey: http://2011.drupalcampcolorado.org/content/camp-survey-attendees

Thanks!