Posted by starbow on September 26, 2007 at 5:29am
Hi Event Organizers,
I was wondering if anyone had any tips for getting the word out about BadCamp? We have announced on campus, created a g.d.o event, and a barcamp entry. And we'll be sending announcements out on craigslist and meetup.org. And individuals on Planet Drupal will be blogging about it. I am not sure what we need to do to qualify for getting listed on the drupal.org front page.
What else are we forgetting?
thanks,
-tao
Comments
drupal.org homepage, PHP UGs
I am not sure either about the drupal.org homepage. I heard that there are no agreed rules so far to promote stuff there or not, and "smaller event announcements" might not be continued there. This is still up to the webmasters mailing list to decide.
You might also find it useful to look for local PHP user groups. I am not sure if they are strong in the Bay Area, but some Drupal events cohost with the PHP user groups, so bringing them in, or at least letting them know about the event might be a good idea.
Write a great post
Tao -- write a great post announcing it in the forums, then bug IRC / a site maintainer (or email me) and we can promote it.
Seems to be a no go.
Hi Boris,
The front page of drupal.org seems to have been closed to local events. We followed your advice, and actually got a badcamp notice on the front page for a couple of hours. But then it was pulled. When we tried to track down why, we got the following email from kills:
Sorry, but we don't want to have local events on the homepage
anymore. There are simply too many of them. Post them on
groups.drupal.org and they will show up on the "events" sidebar block.
Kind of a buzz-kill getting pulled off the front page. And the advice is absurd. There are so many events in the groups calendar, that it hardly ever shows events more than a few days in the future. For an event like BADCamp, all our sessions will be full and registration closed by the time it shows up in the events sidebar.
Perhaps there could be a modifier for the events (ei: Less that 25 people, 25-125 people, more that 125), so the larger events could get a little more attention.
And it would be great to get the current policy written up somewhere, so other groups don't waste their time trying to find out where is appropriate for them to try and get announcements posted.
under debates
I think targeted event promotion is important and I think groups.drupal.org should help people in doing that (ie. targeted RSS feeds per region, emphasizing events closer with automated discovery), but there are more pressing issues to fix around events first (ie the calendar and event submission is quite buggy, but Moshe and Karen is hard at work in fixing it). My blog post about this is at http://hojtsy.hu/node/32. What role does drupal.org have in this is a different question. I know this does not help people with an immediate need to promote bigger events, and how drupal.org itself handles announcements is still under debates: http://drupal.org/node/183135