Save the date - Drupalcamp Galway - April 4th 2009

Whohoo! Let me know if I can do anything to help.

Also, fyi, there's OSSbarcamp the weekend before in Dublin (http://www.ossbarcamp.com/) - it's all on open source and I hope to be doing a presentation on Drupal. So the timing is perfect, the ossbarcamp will be a great way to promote Drupal, and also promote the Galway Drupalcamp. Yay!

I'm keen to hear more about the event and the plans. I suppose you guys are handling all the promotion.

For the first event, we did alot to cover the educational sector and open source developers/users, etc. We should see what other sectors we can connect with.

I was contacted by someone after the event we had at DIT. He was really bummed out he didn't know about it. His office was right across the corner from DIT. He's a web developer in the NGO/Charity sector, and I think there are alot of potential Drupal users in that sector.

I would like to also see more people from the design world in Ireland. I think there's alot of potential for independent designers or small design houses to get into Drupal too.

Need any help finding places to promote?

I have friends in the NGO sector that we can follow up with. I've added them to the marketing doc Scor would have shared with you. You should add any additional contacts you have there. It's great to have them all in one central place.

I'm keen to hear more about the event and the plans. I suppose you guys are handling all the promotion.

Not at all. Once the dates are fixed, anybody will be welcome to help and promote the event. We'll need a volunteer to make a poster, others to post the event in their social networks etc. This is why I started putting together a spreadsheet so that we are ready to advertise whenever we decide to fix a date (probably in mid January when most people are back from holiday). I can share this with anybody interested in getting involved in the marketing (already shared with Alan, Heather, Stella and John).

We can target any public really, there is no reason to restrict ourselves to PHP programmers. The NGO/Charity sector will be indeed one of our main target. I'll post our ideas for the event in the next days and all this will make sense.

I somehow totally brain-farted and missed the spreadsheet! I will check it out now :) Glad to help out in any way. I posted the original .ai files for the poster, and I could help out bringing any of your napkin-sketches to life.

I'm looking at camps around the world to plan docs sprints at, both to get work done and teach others how to carry on their own doc sprints. Ideally I'd like to have a space (could be a table or a small room or a corner of a floor ;-)) where I could set up camp most of the day and people could come and go to work/learn as they wish. I'd also love to do one or two presentations (about docs and/or other topics, as wanted). So, let me know if you think that is workable in your space. I'm hoping that the camp in the UK will time well with this so that I could go to both.

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I was just reading the plans for the next Drupal event in Galway and saw that you need sponsorship for web hosting. Annertech would be delighted to provide free Drupal hosting to the two charities involved in the event. We can provide free hosting (indefinitely) as long as the sites don't get too large or complicated, one year otherwise. However it sounds like you just want to develop 2 straightforward static sites, so that shouldn't be a problem. Lemme know what you think.

I think this is a great idea guys. I really like the idea that we can help some charities out. I'll try to help in any way I can, just lemme know what I can do to help.

Cheers,
Stella

We need to come up with an original name for the challenge. So far we have:

What else do we have?

I do like the "Drupal n'go" cos it's a play on NGO... quite clever really

Just a note to confirm that io1 have agreed to be a sponsor for this, scor has the details. Hopefully a few of us will make it down.