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
Drupal Design Sprint Organizing Guide
Note: This guide has been moved to http://drupal.org/node/247987. Please put any further edits there.
Focused "design sprints" - where developers get together for several days of intensive planning and produce a set of proposals for future work - are a new feature of Drupal development, having been piloted in Chicago, USA in February 2008.
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Vancouver Drupal Camp - It's a Go! Join the Group and Lend a Hand
After significant discussion, wondering and mustering, a rag-tag team of volunteers has stepped up to wrangle Vancouver Drupal Camp.
Details: {See Attention all Drupal Enthusiasts}
Date: May 9-10, 2008
Where: Friday sessions at SFU Wosk Centre for Dialouge (Hasting and Seymour), Saturday sessions at Workspace (21 Water St., Gastown)
Who:You and about 80 other people (first come, first served - stay tuned for registration mid-April)
What about a DrupalCamp New England?
Feeling a little bit of a post-Drupalcon lull and mulling over travel plans to next weekend's DrupalCampNYC4, I found myself wishing that there was something a little bit closer to home to look forward to going to occasionally.
Read moreDrupalCampPDX Presentation Ideas
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DrupalCampPDX will be held Saturday May 10th 2008.
If you're interested in presenting a topic or would like to suggest a topic then make a note on this page.
I'd like to offer the following advice to anyone who's hesitant to sign up to lead a session: You know more than you think. Ask yourself what presentation would you have liked to have seen six months ago. We're going to have a wide range of people attending and the odds are very good that you know more about at least one subject than the rest of us do.
You're encouraged to team up with other people. Having two people present works really well. If you're doing a demo one person can "drive" while the other describes what's going on and when you hit the inevitable snag you've got someone to keep talking while you get it straightened out.
Read moreOpen Source and Drupal specific events in 2008
Last updated by Chris Charlton on Sun, 2008-07-27 19:23
A list of major open source events and planned or scheduled Drupal-specific events for 2008. Please include additional items, people taking the lead in organizing something, and so on.
Open source events
- Sunnyvale, CA P-Camp is Saturday, March 15th
- Mashup Camp, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA March 17-20th, 2008
- San Francisco, Open Source Business Conference Tue Mar 25 – Wed Mar 26
- London - Usability Sprint April 7th-11th would be six weeks after Minnesota
- Open Web Vancouver - April 14-15
Semantic Drupal FP7: Code sprint series
Last week at Drupalcon in Boston I realised that it's just not possible to apply for a development FP7 (the 7th Framework Program of the European Union) for Drupal. Things are going so fast that any plan would be obsolete before the project could get granted. That's why I think it would be the most interesting to do a proposal for a series of expert meetings throughout Europe that brings together people to discuss their implementation of the semantic web in Drupal, every time followed by a code sprint.
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First ever DrupalCamp in India
Hi Friends!!!
We are thinking of organizing a Drupal Camp here in Ahmedabad and thought of having some suggestions from all Drupalers to organize this camp.
We are expecting more than 300 attendees to join us in this camp. Any comments/suggestions on tracks, sessions, length of the event, ways to better the event etc. are more than welcome.
Since Drupal is a community driven CMS, we thought that the community is best to give us useful suggestions to organize this event.
Rajat
Gloscon Team
Ahmedabad, India
Drupalcon Boston 2008 Video Encoding Project
UPDATE
If you would like to be involved in the encoding of DV content, please post the following information and we will contact you with login information for the content.
I am hoping that we will be getting started on video transfer this week. If that is the case, encoding should be ready to begin sometime end of next week. Please post the following information in this thread:
- Your machine(s) specs - processor/memory/OS
- Your internet connection specs - up and down
- How many hours per week you can devote to encoding
- Do you have the ability to edit DV content prior to encoding - this is primarily to trim beginning and end of video along with boosting gain if needed.
SF Drupal Users Group Meetup!
The SF Drupal User's Group (perhaps to be nicknamed SF DrÛG?) will be meeting on Monday, March 17, 5:30-7pm - at PariSoMa! (http://parisoma.wordpress.com/contact/ - in SOMA SF, 10 minutes away from Civic Center BART).
Since many of us will have just come back from DrupalCon, there should be a ton to talk about. And if not, then it's just a social!
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Drupal Asia Pacific Conference 2008
*UPDATE* - This event's details have changed and has been postponed a new date. Please visit http://drupalapc.org for more details
I am pleased to announce that the next large gathering of Drupalers will be held in Sydney, Australia from May 18th - 22nd 2008 at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center Darling Harbor in conjunction with the Open CeBIT expo and conference. We're inviting people from all over the region - and that means you!
The Drupal Asia Pacific Conference is a major event to gather Drupalers to learn, discuss and advance Drupal. It is also a great opportunity to network with other community members that operate in the Asia Pacific region and who may not be able to attend community events on the other side of the world.
The conference will feature dual tracks over 3 days and a single theatre over a day and half that will also be open to the broader Open CeBIT audience. We are partnering with the Joomla community to host a website building contest which will be prominently highlighted at the OpenCeBIT Conference. All attendees will be provided free entry to the CeBIT expo (20th - 22nd) and offered discounted tickets to the Open CeBIT conference. We will also be hosting a booth as part of the CeBIT Exhibition to educate and promote Drupal to businesses, government, and individual attendees of the exhibition.
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Drupal Meetup at BarCamp Austin 3 - Saturday, March 8th
When: 5:00pm-6:00pm (tentatively)
Where: GSD&M Idea City, Omega Lab (2nd floor)
If you will be in Austin for SXSW and you love Drupal, come show it at BarCamp Austin 3! There are lots of rooms and times available, so the schedule is very flexible. There should be plenty of time and space for anyone to present, maybe multiple.
Read moreNotes from DrupalCon BoF Event coordinator session
On Tuesday March 4th during the North American DrupalCon 2008 in Boston, Mass. a BoF session was held on event organization (meetups, camps, jams, etc.). The group included people from Berkeley California (USA), Los Angeles California (USA), Wisconsin (USA), Belgium, Hungary, and China (me ;) )
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Attention Drupalers: Will you be in Austin for SXSW 2008?
If you haven't heard, BarCamp Austin 3 will be taking place at GSD&M Idea City in Austin, TX on Saturday, March 8th, 2008. This event is FREE to everyone and will feature a wide variety of presentations, demos, and entertainment.
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international 'Learn Open Source' training/meeting in Benelux
'Learn Open Source' searchs new talent for open source communities.
Main target-group: people not familiar with Drupal, with some interest in open source in general.
Target group is offered hands-on-training.
Training is hard working during a relaxing Drupal-meeting, in the inspiring forests at the Belgian/Dutch border.
A poster for schools/universities is aiming at this target-group
Curious? Welcome at: www.learnopensource.net
6 september 2008, Results:
- after 55+ posters
Towards a Drupal User Group Installation Profile
Hi,
I am the founder of the Belgian Drupal User Group (http://drupal.be), we also have a lot of visitors from the Netherlands.
This weekend I organised two User Group related meetings at FOSDEM2008 (http://www.fosdem.org/2008/schedule/devroom/drupal).
Meeting: Dutch speaking Drupal User Groups
During the first meeting we made an sitestructure + actionplan (which will be published here when it is ready) to create a common installation. More details will follow but the general idea was
- a single installation for both drupal.be and drupal.nl
Drawing Board for Seattle DrupalCamp 2008
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.
DrupalCampGalax I - February 23, 2008
LSNet will host an open multi-cultural multi-lingual gathering to promote popular participation in the World Wide Web through content management technology (Drupal).
Participants will learn how to:
* post announcements of community events
* publish photographs of community interest
* write a blog - online diary
* write news stories about community issues
* build community websites
* ...
Framework for a Drupal 6 release party and media blitz
The local folks in attendance at the Drupal 6 launch meeting probably came away with a good feeling about our group. Firstly, A lot of the agenda points have many similarities to what we discussed at our first meetup. Secondly, the release of Drupal 6 (if all goes according to plan) just happens to coincide with our next scheduled meeting next Tuesday hosted by Lullabot.
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New Attendees tab on event nodes
I just added an Attendees tab to all event nodes on this groups.drupal.org site. This lists all users who have signed up for an event. Signup happens by clicking on a one of the node links that reads 'i am not attending'. I'd love someone to create two graphics which will sit at the bottom of event node views which encourage users to attend or unattend an event. The current link is a little too subtle.
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Time to Give Back: Become a Speaker at Drupalcon Boston 2008
Hello,
We are looking for speakers for the upcoming DrupalCon in Boston. Since you are subscribed to a business and marketing related group, you might be especially interested in the "Business and Marketing" track (see http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/business-and-marketing-track-descriptions ).
This track covers the following topics:
- The Drupal ecosystem
- Businesses learning to use Drupal
- Case studies
- Showcases: NPO, Education, News, Media, Government, Healthcare
