Drupal Design Camp LA 2012 conference call #2 on July 17, 2012

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Posted by christefano on July 17, 2012 at 6:28pm
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2012-07-17 14:00 - 14:45 America/Los_Angeles
Organizers: 
christefano
oseldman
Techivist
Event type: 
User group meeting

Several of the organizers of Drupal Design Camp LA 2012 have scheduled an open conference call on on July 17, 2012 between 2-2:45pm Pacific (5-5:30pm Eastern). Anyone who's interested in being part of the organizing effort or is just interested in seeing how this conference is coming together is welcome to join us!

For calling in by phone and Skype, we use FreeConferenceCallHD. To receive the conference call information, click the Signup button below. The agenda will consist of discussion around upcoming tasks listed in the DDCLA 2012 planning wiki at http://groups.drupal.org/node/196533#tasks

What's Drupal Design Camp LA 2012?

DDCLA 2012 is our Drupal design, theming, accessibility and usability conference in Los Angeles, California. Our second annual DDCLA conference will be at Droplabs in Downtown Los Angeles, California, on October 12, 13 & 14, 2012.

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Today's meeting minutes

Posted by christefano on July 18, 2012 at 7:48am
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During this meeting we discussed the following:

  • Introductions by the call's participants: Cory; Ken from Aten Design Group; and Oliver, Miguel and Christefano from Exaltation of Larks
  • The venue's checklist around requirements (security, parking, food and snacks, etc.)
  • Insurance from the Drupal Association — Christefano will take point on this task
  • Borrowing a spreadsheet / budget from similar camps, such as Drupal Camp NYC or DrupalCamp Colorado, for this conference's budget calculations
  • Requesting seed funding from the Drupal Association — Oliver will take point on this task
  • Review of some highs and lows from Drupal Design Camp Boston
  • Discussing theme development / sponsorship for http://ddcla.org with Drupal design and theming companies — Christefano will take point on this task
  • Ideas around growing and getting the Drupal Design Camp LA group at http://groups.drupal.org/node/242368 approved

Various tasks have been claimed by specific participants of the call. All interested parties will be copied on related correspondence.

The next conference call is tentatively scheduled between now and July 28th and will focus on updates around the theme development / sponsorship, creating new content and / or a new site build for the Drupal Design Camp LA website, as well as sponsorship levels for the conference.