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Contribute your ideas for a new & improved Seattle DrupalCamp in 2008

The 2008 Seattle DrupalCamp will take place on Friday and Saturday, June 27-28, 2008. Location:
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
4408 Delridge Way SW
Seattle, WA 98106

DrupalCamp website: http://seattle.drupal-camp.org/

NEW SIGN UP PROCEDURE
If you were among the first 80 people to signup, register again here: http://seattle.drupal-camp.org/drupalcampseattle-2008
If you were not among the first 80, sign up on the Wait List: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12432

The first 80 people to sign up are listed here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/11296/attendees (list is frozen)

The following information has been moved to the DrupalCamp website and is now considered to be static.
Go to http://seattle.drupal-camp.org/ for up-to-date information.

Proposed Schedule

Friday schedule

09:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome & Introductions, Talks, BOFs
12:15 Lunch (provided)
16:30 Closing Statements
16:45 Clean up
18:00 Happy Hour Pike Place Brewpub @ 1st & Pike in the market. No host bar, space reserved for ~40.

Saturday schedule

09:30 Registration & Welcome
10:00 Welcome & Introductions, Talks, BOFs
12:15 Lunch (provided)
16:30 Closing Statements
16:45 Clean up
18:00 Happy Hour

Talk & BOF Schedule

Talks: 30 minutes for a talk, 15 minutes for questions and answers, 15 minutes for transition/gatherings/discussion

BOFs: "Birds of a Feather" - more informal gatherings of people with a common interest to ask and answer each others' questions. Subjects to be determined by interest of attendees

Friday, June 27, 2008
Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
Building a Site Series:
10:15 Information Architecture
11:15 CCK
12:15 Lunch
1:30 Views
2:30 Intro to Themes
3:30 Theming BOF
Development:
Module Development Intro
Other talks and BOFs
Hang out, talk with people, snacks, propose and sign up for BOFs, hold BOFs, etc.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
Talks and BOFs Talks and BOFs Hanging Out and BOFs

Talks and BOFs to be possibly scheduled - some need presenters

Talks

all talks should touch on * Contributing to the Community

  • Media (video, audio, etc.) Support with Media Mover - Arthur
  • Images/ImageCache/Albums - Scott
  • Data import to nodes/CCK - Greg
  • Web services module in Drupal - Greg
  • Flex and Drupal Services, case example - Gord Christmas
  • committing a module or contributing patches to drupal.org - Greg
  • Staging and deployment - Greg
  • Theming - Jarod/Jennifer - PHP for Themers (Resource: http://www.themeswiki.org/Building_Drupal_5_Themes )
  • Site Planning/Information Architecture - Gregory
  • Panels 2 - Gregory
  • Internationalization - drewish (Andrew Morton)
  • "How-to commit that module you made for that client" - Karl
  • Installing and Install Profiles - Angus Pratt
  • Debugging and Troubleshooting Techniques
  • JQuery
  • RDF
  • SimpleTest
  • Version Control (CVS/SVN demonstration)
  • How to contribute back to Open Source (Documentation, Patches, Issue Queue)

BOFs

  • Regular Expressions Introduction (mentioned to Robin earlier this year) - Jennifer can teach this if there is interest
  • Menus: how to show that a primary page is active in a menu when you are on a secondary page

Session Details

Theming Introduction: how to find a theme as a starting point (theming engine, version compatibility, issue queue, accessibility, usability), how to modify it

Facilities

Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
4408 Delridge Way SW
Seattle, WA 98106

Renting from 9 am - 5pm plus 5pm -8pm in the theater only on Saturday only

** Need a way to shade windows for better screen viewing

Calendar dates

Logistics

Logistics Moved to http://seattle.drupal-camp.org/logistics

Timing and Scheduling

*sessions should be 1 hour or maybe just 45 minutes and 15 minute to 1/2 hour break in between sessions
* Jared really wants to process video Friday after the sessions before the party and get it online that night, please see him if you are interested in helping- thanks
* if you have slides for your presentation please post them beforehand for people to see and maybe follow along

Technical

  • Equipment
    ** Projector: Gregory
    ** need have powerstrips: Gregory has 4 or 5
  • video recording
    • what sessions should we record and who is going to do it?
    • what is to be done with tge videos?
    • the people who talk need to repeat the questions into the microphone
  • Internet access: wifi routers on multiple channels for each room (Shawn)
  • presentation equipment
  • If we have an IRC channel going, should we project that on a screen during the presentation? Same for Twitter...

Recording Audio and Video
* Organizers: Jared
* Cameras: Jared, Shawn,
* Document quick edit and upload procedures; post to Groups, SeaDUG

Hospitality

  • Organizers: Bram
  • Catering: Catering will consist of platters of sandwiches, veggies, chips for 100 people. Herban Feast is unavailable June 27/28 - we're exploring other options.
  • Coffee: In addition to coffee itself, we need cream, sugar, cups, and a coffee urns. Bram will check with YCAC to see what they can provide.
    **Tullys was suggested as an option for boxes of drip coffee. The closest Tullys location to YCAC is the Fauntleroy store ~2.5 miles away:
    4205 SW Morgan St
    Seattle, WA 98136
    206-938-4450
    **Uptown Espresso - West Seattle Robin thinks we can get them to donate.
    *Water: YCAC has drinking fountains. We'll need at least 1 bag of ice each day. Bram will check with YCAC to see if they have an ice maker, water pitchers. Drupal Camp Seattle will encourage people to BYO mugs, water.
    *Snacks: Granola bars from the Cash and Carry. ~$200. Two servings each day, setup in the AM, replenish in the PM. 200 units.
    *Lunch beverages: two options suggested were Dry Soda were Jones Soda, who are local and may be willing to donate.
  • volunteer needed to help organize the Friday night party at Pike Place Brewery.
  • Name tags, sign in: Bram - there will be a registration site that will capture attendees names - we will print nametags from this list on sheets of sticker labels.
    *Friday Happy Hour: Pike Place Brewery is confirmed. We have reserved cordoned off area for ~40. No deposit required, we just show up and buy beers for each other.

Signs

Budget

Transportation

Transportation moved to http://seattle.drupal-camp.org/transportation

  • Carpool Diem: Rideshare to conserve transport and parking
  • Public transportation: Youngstown is easily accessible by Metro bus:

Metro routes 120 and 125 stop directly in front of the building and connect to downtown in 10 minutes. Route 120 also connects south to Burien while 125 connects Youngstown with Capitol Hill when it switches to Route 11 as it goes through downtown and to South Seattle Community College as it heads to White Center.

Visit Metro Online or call Metro at 206.553.3300 for additional information.

*Youngstown is just a short drive from downtown Seattle:

From Interstate 5 or State Route 99, take the West Seattle Bridge Exit. Take the Delridge Way SW (South Seattle Community College) Exit. Turn Left into the Youngstown Cultural Center parking lot just past SW Genesee Street at 4408 Delridge Way SW.

The Youngstown Cultural Arts Center offers free parking.

Lodging for Out-of-Towners

Lodging moved to http://seattle.drupal-camp.org/lodging

List of nearby hotels & motels with rates
* http://www.urbanspoon.com/p/1/2/Seattle/Hotels.html
* Ace Hotel http://www.acehotel.com/
* Travelodge West Seattle 3512 Sw Alaska St, Seattle
* Georgetown Inn http://georgetowninnseattle.com/
* La Hacienda Motel "I swear I saw this place on Cops"

Notification & Publicity

Publicity moved to http://seattle.drupal-camp.org/publicity

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