Hey
Em Space is organizing a 1 day Drupal mini-conference in Melbourne on Sunday 3rd Feb 2008.
Registrations are open and tickets are selling fast. Please visit the registration page to book your place.
Financial sponsors are Em Space, Taniwha Solutions and Lonely Planet.
The location is The Alley Bar in Melbourne's historic AC/DC lane. This venue is in the heart of the business district and within walking distance of your hotel if you are staying near the Linux conference. We have function facilities, projector, wireless and can comfortably hold about 50 geeks. Lunch, morning and afternoon tea is provided, and the bar itself will open towards the end of the day.
We will be selling registration for $35 pp ($60 for 2). Registration opens on the 19th of November and will be announced here. Note, if you want to take advantage of LCA (as a side-dish of course), registrations for that event are open.
At the moment we are scheduling 4 presentations. If you have a good proposal, I encourage you to email me ASAP about presenting. If you are a high profile developer/mover-and-shaker who is interested in sponsorship to get to Australia, please contact me ASAP so I can hustle. :)
Thanks
Simon Hobbs & Caitlin Johnstone
Em Space
http://emspace.com.au
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Melbourne Bloggers Facebook Group
Hi sime
I have posted information about your mini-conference to the Melbourne Bloggers Facebook Group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5215107371 via a link to this post.
I set the group up for sharing information about events in Melbourne related to blogging. If you want to find out about any other events or know of any yourself we would be pleased for you to join our group.
Registrations Open
Registrations are open. Please visit the registration page to book your place.
We've got two presentations lined up so far:
* Gordon Heydon - e-Commerce 4
* Myself - theming Drupal semantically
We already have the venue booked, everything is locked in. Please show your support, and help us plan, by buying tickets early - thanks!
Wish I'd known about it..
Wish I'd known about it.. before it had already happened.. :(
@BrianGilbert_
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Hey Brian - this hasn't
Hey Brian - this hasn't happened yet! 2 months away
On track?
Hi sime, everything still on track for the mini-conf?
How are you going for presentations, numbers etc?
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Mark Matuschka
Glo Digital
Hi Mark Everything is on
Hi Mark
Everything is on track, there is no magic number - the venue is booked and paid for. In a couple of days we do the hard sell of the remaining tickets, including a little sweetener luck door prize. More to come. ;)
Any other presentations?
Are there any other presentations (confirmed or proposed)? Also, are there going to be any thing else - like a code sprint or anything like that?
--Ryan
--Ryan
Ryan Cross
Drupal Development Services
ProjectPier project management and collaboration software
I've got my ticket but I've
I've got my ticket but I've never been before - do I need bring a laptop? Or will taking notes the old-fashioned way suffice?
It'll be good to meet a few other people using drupal and the presentations sounds interesting, I'm still a relative noob so I expect to learn a lot.
Presentation Requests
Are there any plans for the Melbourne Drupal group to make an appearance at the Linux Conf? Sunday has an Open Day 12-4pm.
The Drupal Mini Conf look good Sime! I have some experience with Drupal and would be willing to talk on some topic. I wonder if there are any particular topics that would be of interest to people?
heya
Hi all
We're in the last 10 days, and I'm picking up the pace to sell the final tickets. I'll post various updates around the place.
Big news: there is now a lucky door prize of 1 week of certified MySQL training, courtesy of Lonely Planet. Please spread the news so I can sell these final tickets.
Luke: we can easily fit another 1 hour presentation! I think anything goes. Let me know what you'd like to do before next week for scheduling.
Ryan: the presentations so far are
* Simon Roberts (Taniwha Solutions) - Caching and optimization strategies.
* Gordon Heydon (Heydon Consulting) - Drupal e-Commerce 4
* Simon Hobbs (Em Space) - Theming Drupal Semantically
I'm thinking of changing mine, or adding one. I'd like to talk about Em Space's install profile - the good the bad and the ugly...
Sprints are possible, see below.
James: confirming what I sent by email, laptops are a goooood thing. If everything works out, we will be able to move some partitions around and create breakout areas for interest groups. Coupled with the fact that we don't get kicked out at the end of the day, this should create a good environment for mixing it up.
I'd definately be up for
I'd definately be up for having a bit of a geek out, write some code in a collaborative environment, help people get things working, etc.
FWIW, I'm thinking that the presentations may be more a catalyst for discussion, rather than totally a stand-up-and-lecture thing. One of the advantages of a smaller conference is that we don't have to be quite as structured. I'm writing my presentation now :)
Sime: is the bar open during the day, or only at the end?
Simon Roberts
Taniwha Solutions
programme
Will a programme be published?
I need to leave for the airport in the afternoon, so looking at 4 sessions starting at 9am I'm expecting this to wrap up about 2pm?
Is this correct?
Thanks for putting this on.
It does look good.
Regards,
Ashley
I think it'll take longer
I think it'll take longer than that to get the sessions, and any chat arising, done. Sime will know for sure, but I'm expecting 5pm as a more realistic finish time.
Simon Roberts
Taniwha Solutions
lyricnz is pretty much on
lyricnz is pretty much on it.
We'll do the presentations first. This way we can gauge the audience about how they'd like to finish off the day. For example, I can take some open demonstration sessions for the newbies and the developers can group off for deeper discussion.
The bar opens at the end, at least by 5pm.
thanks
Looks like I may miss the best part.
Are you at LCA?
Unfortunately no. Too busy!
Unfortunately no. Too busy!
For those following this
For those following this thread - check out the details here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/8585
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