badcamp

BADCamp is upon us!

http://badcamp.net/

WorkHabit has several sessions going on. Anyone else planning to attend? Comment and maybe we could work out some carpools.

Lee and I are looking for friendly housing during BADCamp. We're coming up from Los Angeles and we'll have our laptops, sleeping bags, and stories from DrupalCamp LA. All we need is a floor!

Please send us a note at https://exaltations.net/contact?category=DrupalCamp

I was planning on dropping in on BadCamp next weekend, and just noticed the event registration is closed. Not only that, the waiting list is closed (wtf is that about). This makes me sad, because it means there are a lot of people who could be learning something about Drupal who are going to be hanging out in San Francisco all weekend with nothing to do.

Hello, I am flying in from LA into Oakland to attend Badcamp and looking for housing offers, or share hotel room, or anything to cut down costs. I think best to rent car at airport (although I am sure it will be expensive to park it in Berkley). Any advice or offers to share would be appreciated.

Please submit your BADCamp session proposals by Thursday, Sept 25th (http://www.badcamp.net/node/add/session). We want to have enough time for attendees to vote their preferences, and then let the presenters know their time slots by the end of next week.

We will have a Birds of a Feather room available for sessions that don't get slotted in the official schedule.

Anyone attending BADCAMP?

Folks,

After talking with Tao at the last meeting I'm going to go ahead and start pulling together all the people who are interested in helping with our Fall BADCamp. First thing I'm going to do is make a round and talk to all those who helped with the last one and those who have already expressed an interest in helping out this time around. After that I'll likely schedule an organizational meeting so we can all get in the same room to work out details. Please stay posted here for more info as it develops. Please feel free to be in touch if you have any questions, either on- or off-line.

Regards,

Dan

Well we have about two and a half months until BADCamp, and I was wondering what the status of it was.
Are we sitting down and waiting for someone else to tell us what to do, or is something actively happening that I don't know about?

I can personally volunteer my time to the website, to which I can offer my skills (which are pretty everything Drupal related except for hosting and graphic design, but I can do theming).

If nothing is happening, the thing that's most urgent for us is probably choosing dates (October 10-11 or 11-12, or 10-12 probably), and finding a venue.

The discussion for BADCamp 08 got underway at yesterday's BDUG meeting. I followed up with one of our administrators to get the dates of weekends in late September - early November when space is available, and there is no Cal football happening on campus (so parking is less of an issue than it was last year). It seems like there are two prime dates: Sept 20th & 21st, and October 11th & 12th. Of these two I am leaning towards October, so we are not too close to DrupalCon Szeged (which is the last week of August).

Not only was the Bay Area Drupal Camp a successful gathering and a lot of fun, but it turns out it was also a successful fund raiser for the Drupal Association. Thanks to our generous sponsors and t-shirt sales, we raised $950 more than we spent putting on the camp. That money is now a holiday gift to the Drupal Association from BADCamp and the Berkeley Drupal Users Group. We hope some of this money will go to help groups with less access to corporate sponsorship put on regional camps of their own.

Once again, special thanks to Dan, Chris, Pete and Jen for all their work making BADCamp happen, and to Sun and OpenCircle Tech for the great after-party. Let's do it again next year!