Welcome to the Drupal Event Organization group. Here we share meetup, camp, regional conference, and international conference organization tips and tricks. The event calendar should be used to announce events, not this group. Feel free to share your tips about successful events and plans, find partners to organize meetups.
There are some lists of tips for event organization:
- Drupal Camp Organizing Guide v.2
- Drupal User Group Best Practices
- DrupalCon Organizers Guidelines
- Notes from DrupalCon Boston Event Organizer BOF
IRC #drupalcamp
Twitter @drupal_camps
Dallas Drupal Days
Dallas Drupal Days, July 8 - 9, UT Dallas campus, School of Management.
Organized for the third year by the Dallas Drupal Users Group, Dallas Drupal Days is a two day, community-centered event for learning, teaching and sharing
Drupal.
Each day will feature a keynote speaker followed by three tracks of sessions all day. Breakfast and lunch are included in the nominal registration fee. Come to both days for $70, or just the Saturday Drupal Camp for $35.
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Third Annual Drupal Design Camp Boston Registration Open
The Drupal Design Camp Boston 2011 website is officially up! This means you can now:
- Register
- Propose a session-proposals are due June 12
- Promote the session by adding a conference badge to your website, email signature, or blog.
In keeping with the spirit of an unconference, we're also inviting everyone in the community to contribute to the design of the site by submitting their own original artwork to rotate as the background of the site. When you register, go ahead and add an image to this growing rotation of stunning photos, drawings, and graphics!
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Bay Area Drupal Camp 2011
BAD CAMP 2011
Bay Area Drupal Camp
October 21st, 22nd & 23rd, 2011
UC Berkeley Campus
The fifth annual Bay Area Drupal Camp will take place October 21st, 22nd & 23rd, 2011 on UC Berkeley Campus in California.
Register: Registration will open Friday Aug 5th at http://badcamp.net
Speak: Start working on your sessions, submissions will open with registration this year.
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Drupalcamp Centroamerica in Costa Rica, june 2011
The third edition of DrupalCamp Central America will be held at Puntarenas, Costa Rica, from june 2nd to june 4th, 2011. Registrations are open until may 18th.
More information about registrations and payment methods: http://drupal-centroamerica.org/en/registration
Most of the sessions will be in Spanish, but some of them are going to be in English. You can vote for your favorite sessions on the list of proposals:
http://drupal-centroamerica.org/en/conferencias
We invite those who are interested in sharing their Drupal knowledge to propose additional sessions:
http://drupal-centroamerica.org/en/node/add/sesion
Please check our web site for more information: http://drupal-centroamerica.org
pura vida.
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Communicating via email about an event
For DrupalCamp CO 2011 we ran into a bit of a problem with how to send out an email to the local community about the camp. We had posted on groups.drupal.org in the relevant groups (there are about 6 groups in or near Colorado), tweeted, and talked about it in IRC, but we wanted to email people, people who may have not heard about the Camp on the existing mediums. We have email addresses from those who registered for the camp last year, and groups provides a group broadcast to its members, but if we used each of these methods separately we would be sure to send duplicates to some people.
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Drupal Camp Sacramento Area 2011
The Sacramento Drupal Users Group is pleased to announce the first ever Drupal Camp Sacramento Area.
This auspicious event will be two days full of sessions, BoFs, code sprinting, and engagement. Registration is now open and session proposals are now being accepted.
Important Information:
Dates: Saturday and Sunday, May 28-29, 2011
Location: University of California, Davis
Cost: FREE!
Registration and more info: http://sacdrupal.org
Drupal Commerce Camp 2011
--Neu--- Mit bekannte Sponsoren und viel interesante Sessions !
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Drupalcamp Atlanta 2011 (Potential Date Discussion)
Hello,
We are in the early planning stages for Drupalcamp Atlanta 2011 and wanted to throw Saturday, October 8th out as a potential date.
Does anyone know if this conflicts with any other Drupal/OSS events or major happenings in the Atlanta area? I know Do it With Drupal and the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit are scheduled for the following week.
Finally, interested in volunteering? We will begin to tee up committee meetings soon. If you would like to help out please reach out to me at dave dot terry at mediacurrent dot com
Cheers,
Dave
Mediacurrent
Drupalcamp Bucharest 2011: Open for Registration
We announce that Drupalcamp Bucharest 2011 is open for registration on the event website at b2011.drupalcamp.ro.
Drupal Romania Association currently organizes its second major event: Drupalcamp Bucharest 2011, taking place during 7th and 8th of May, 2011 after the successful first Romanian Drupalcamp organized in Timisoara - last year.
Read moreDrupalCamp and Event Organizing Guide, Version10
This guide strives to help organizers of all types of Drupal-related events to effectively plan and organize their event. While most Drupal events are called "DrupalCamps", there are a number of other types of Drupal events that are also covered. The terms "DrupalCamp" and "Drupal event" are used interchangeably in this document.
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What is a DrupalCamp?
The term "DrupalCamp" is used to describe various types of Drupal-related events usually organized by a local Drupal user group. Tradtionally, DrupalCamps have effectively been either un-planned sessions (in the spirit of unconferences like BarCamp), mini-conferences with pre-planned sessions, or some attempt to combine both formats.
There is also a growing number of more focused Drupal events that are also organized by local user groups, but that don't really fall into the "DrupalCamp" category (hackfests, clinics, etc...) While these aren't strictly "DrupalCamps", they share many of the same attributes, and the planning and execution of these events are similar to more traditional camps.
The absolute basic necessities for a DrupalCamp are sessions, a host facility, and people interested in learning about Drupal. In reality, that's all that is absolutely necessary. Most DrupalCamps have additional features including sponsors, birds-of-a-feather sessions, snacks, lunch, t-shirts, and a social/networking event among others.
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Wifi solutions for camps
Hello folks,
Drupalcamp Colorado 2011 (June 11th and 12th) is in the fun position that we have a great low cost venue but no wifi in that venue. Gulp.
We're looking around for solutions and it seems like we will likely end up buying some routers/access points. So...we're curious if anyone else:
- Already has some industrial strength* routers that they would rent to us.
- Needs to also purchase/rent wifi gear for an event they are throwing and would be willing to help us pay for it
Drupalcamp Bucharest 2011 was rescheduled for May 7-8, 2011
Drupal Romania Association announces that Drupalcamp Bucharest 2011 was rescheduled and will take place in 7th and 8th of May 2011. The event was previous scheduled for April 16-17 but due some technical and organizational issues we had to postpone it.
Read the the Drupalcamp Bucharest 2011 event announcement.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this decision.
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DrupalCamp Organizing Guide Reorganization
During DrupalCamp Chicago, a couple of "DrupalCamp Organizers" BoF sessions led to the decision that an updated and improved DrupalCamp Organizing Guide (DCOG) would serve the community well - providing aspiring user groups with valuble information about organizing their first camp, as well as providing experienced user groups with a structured place to share resources and lessons from their experiences.
Read moreDrupalCamp Organizing Guide Version 2 - Outline
Please see this post for additional information about this outline and effort.
What is a DrupalCamp?
Types of DrupalCamps
- Conference-style
- Unconference-style
- Summits
- Clinics
- Hackfests
- Coding for a Cause
What are the steps in organizing a basic camp?
- keep it simple
- lead time
- find volunteers
- determining a target attendance
-
setting a date
- consider other local/regional events
- fiscal agent
- secure venue
- find sponsors
Building Successful Local Communities @ Drupalcon
Hi!
Check out our session at Drupalcon: http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/building-successful-local-communi...
I'm sure there is a lot to exchange and to learn from each other on this topic.
Regards,
Ivo Radulovski
DrupalCamp accounting practices
I was just wondering how other DrupalCamp organizers handled the money-side of putting on an event. We've hosted DrupalCamp Austin two times now, and both times we've just had the money flow in and out of our company's PayPal and bank accounts. Ideally, you would want the camp to have its own accounts so that the money can cleanly exist separately from that of the hosting company/organization.
Getting money
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Drupal Summit Latino 2011 - Lima, Peru
Toda América Latina celebra su mayor encuentro Drupal del año!
Por fin podemos anunciar oficialmente el lanzamiento del mayor evento Drupal del año: "Drupal Summit Latino – Lima 2011".
Lima (Perú) alojará el primer evento a nivel latinoamericano dedicado a Drupal los días 27, 28 y 29 de Enero de 2011.
Tendremos 36 conferencias dictadas por reconocidos y experimentados drupaleros provenientes de varios países de América Latina, Estados Unidos y Europa.
Se espera la presencia de más de 300 participantes lo que será sin duda alguna, a nivel continental, la mayor concentración jamás vista de experiencia y conocimiento sobre el software de publicación de sitios Web más exitoso del momento: Drupal por supuesto!
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Conference Organizing Distro (COD) Support Hour--in the Drupal Dojo G2m - Nov 11 2010
The Conference Organizing Distro Support Hour - Nov 11 2010
(cross post from http://groups.drupal.org/node/105194)
Topics Include: What's New in COD Alpha 2
Hosted by ezra-g
Chat to be held in the COD IRC room: #drupal-cod
AND
In the Drupal Dojo's GoToMeeting space: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/384253568
BADcamp 2010 Registration now open!
Registration, Session submissions, and voting is now available at http://2010.badcamp.net!
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First Ever DrupalCamp Phoenix
We've finally put together a DrupalCamp in Phoenix! It's Saturday, November 6, which will be a great time to sneak out of the cold of late fall and into sunny Arizona.
The site is up and working, though we're still looking for presenters and presentation ideas. If you're interested, head to the forums on the site.
The cost is $10 per person, though there is a $4 early bird discount until midnight tonight. (Sorry for the late notice.) The price of admission includes lunch, but you'll have to pay your own parking.
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