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.
Many of the speakers are well-established Drupal and Open-Source community contributers like Dan "dman", Brenda "Shiny" Wallace, Bevan Rudge and Marek Kuziel (Open ID, Python, Postgres). Others have won NZOSS awards for their contributions to Open Source, like Joshua Campbell and Dave Lane.
The awesome line up of presenters will present on a variety of topics, such as How Drupal stacks up in enterprise, OpenID and Drupal and Google Maps in Drupal, to name just a few.
DrupalSouth presents a great opportunity for attendees to learn new and interesting Drupal skills, techniques and resources, network face to face with industry leaders and Drupal professionals, companies and users, engage new clients, employees and contractors, discover how others are using Drupal or promote their own company or services.
DrupalSouth is great value at $50 NZD and includes catered lunch on both Sunday and Saturday and drinks on Saturday night. You can register for DrupalSouth at DrupalSouth.net.nz/conference.
DrupalSouth is sponsored by these great Drupal companies from New Zealand and abroad Signify, Catalyst IT, CivicActions, Egressive, Encode and Evolved Development.
DrupalSouth is organised by a collection of individual Drupal professionals in the Christchurch Drupal community, primarily; Jonathan Hunt of Hunt Design and Egressive, Gold of Evolved Development and Bevan Rudge of CivicActions.
Find out more about DrupalSouth at DrupalSouth.net.nz.
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Chat with Australia
Hey Guys,
You might've noticed I also posted about the DrupalCamp Australia, which seems to be a similar date. Wish we could've organized a bit more so they weren't so close together. Maybe next time.
Anyways, you might want to cross post the event to the Australia group. Also, come check out #drupal-au on Freenode IRC - drupalers who are awake when you are! =)
--Ryan
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--Ryan
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That is a shame -- Bevan
That is a shame -- Bevan first started posting the DrupalSouth event back in July :-(
@Ryan if you subscribe to the NZ group you should get this stuff.
Yep
Brenda it is a shame, but lesson learned for next time. I forget his name/contact, but you might want to mention the event to your catalyst colleague(s) here in Australia. I had also been talking about this event for awhile, mostly to people in IRC and locally until we had something confirmed. It sounds like the NZ group is getting to be a good size though, so good luck.
I only subscribe for email announcements to a few groups here, my mail box is already flooded enough ;) Unfortunately I only check out this group every so often.
Perhaps it might be a good idea to start talking about pooling our resources and doing a larger conference. I'm still trying to figure out the best option for the Drupal Asia Pacific Conference. DrupalCon 09? :)
--Ryan
--Ryan
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This Weekend!
DrupalSouth is THIS WEEKEND! There are still a few places if you or anyone you know wants to come. Register now!
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