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
Improving Groups.Drupal.Org
Update: We started this conversation based on creating a camps.drupal.org specifically for the planning and announcement of DrupalCamps. The thread has now been moved over to a discussion of improving groups.drupal.org to better help meetup and event organizers.
If you hold Drupal meetups, Drupal Camps, Drupal Jams, Drupal * please get involved as we are discussing the features that you so that you can focus on the organizing and not on the technology.
DrupalCon em Portugal
Hi,
Ok! Registered at the group :)
Now! What are the requirements demanded by the Drupal Association for preparing a DrupalCon here in Portugal?
I have some urgence in a reply, as you may imagine, so I can start making some contacts or not.
Best
Lopo
Drupalcon Boston, March 3rd-6th
The Drupal Association
is pleased to announce that the next Drupalcon will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA from March 3 - 6, 2008 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
This Drupalcon represents two big advancements for Drupalcon.
- Larger capacity. The last two Drupalcon's have sold out, capped at 450 people. Depending on final arrangements we may be able to handle 700 at this event.
- Community expansion. Drupalcon is being held at the same time/place as AIIM International Exposition & Conference, the largest content management technology conference in North America. Though technically independent of each other, the Boston team is working to arrange some cross-event access. The goal: introduce Drupal to thousands of potential new Drupalers.
The Drupalcon Boston 2008 team is working hard to finalize conference details before opening registration and the session proposal system. We are also just now finalizing sponsorship packages. Watch boston2008.drupalcon.org and the drupal.org home page (rss feed) for future announcements. In the mean time, start making your travel arrangements and gathering your session proposal information.
The Drupal Association encourages potential organizers from the community to start preparing proposals for the fall 2008 Europe Drupalcon and the spring 2009 North America Drupalcon. We are also interested in hosting Drupalcons in other parts of the world.
Contact the Drupalcon Boston 2008 team
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Merry Christmas from BADCamp to the Drupal Association
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!
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DrupalCampWisconsin
DrupalCampWisconsin
What
A BarCamp-style day of drupal-centric sessions and hacking in good ole Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sign-up at http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampWI
When
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
10AM - 10PM (Registration starts at 9AM)
Where
Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)
Multipurpose Room
1025 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI
Want to help out?
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Event.module replaced by Date.module and calendar.module
With some big help from KarenS, I've migrated this site to CCK date.module events instead of event.module events. Further, I've added a Group Events block in each group when the group has upcoming events (e.g. http://groups.drupal.org/mid-atlantic-usa). That block also notes the ical feed for that group.
Please report any bugs here.
Read moreDrupal local event brochure
This brochure was developed by Code+, for the local user group in London. You can modify the brochure as it's checked into CVS under the GPL license. You should give attribution to the original creators.
The brochure should be printed on card stock. It will cause color bleeding. It is meant to be folded so it requires that it be scored and then mechanically pressed to avoid cracking. This process should take at least 2-5 days to produce.
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Type based distinction for events, location information
Currently, our event listing is a flowing river of information and it is quite hard to distinguish between different types of events. I proposed that we add an event type vocabulary, which allows events to be tagged as being of specific type. Let's collect the list we are interested in having for events:
- User group meeting
- Regional conference
- International conference
- Virtual meeting (IRC meetings, Drupal dojo)
- Training
drupalcamp.org and the Conference Organizing Install Profile
A modest proposal:
How would the owner of drupalcamp.org feel about setting it up with the Conference Organizing Install Profile (http://drupal.org/project/cod) ?
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Audio, notes & other media from Bay Area Drupal Camp Sessions
I wanted to create this thread so that people could post any links to notes, audio, video, presentations or other media from the Bay Area Drupal Camp this weekend. Leave a comment here pointing us to whatever you've put up online.
The Drupal Camp seemed to be a great success, and thanks to all who helped coordinate and sponsor it.
I recorded 12 different sessions, and you can plug this RSS Feed into iTunes or your favorite aggregator to quickly download the following audio files...
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Drupal mini-conf in Melbourne after LCA
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.
Read moreOutcome from DrupalCon Barcelona Session (Dis)Organizing a Drupal Local User Group
Last updated by Michael Hofmockel on Fri, 2012-04-13 16:49
Here are some notes from the (Dis)Organizing a Drupal Local User Group: lessons learned session in Barcelona with about 50 people.
These notes are created with help from Gregory Heller and Matthew Saunders.
For those who were unable to attend - please provide your own knowledge/experience on how to best run these meetings
Drupal User Groups: Lessons Learned from the last 2 years
Read more2007: Year of the Drupal training event
While there have been many major accomplishments for the Drupal community in 2007, none have been more prominent than the outbreak of local events. I would like to get a total number of training events and a total number of attendees for Drupal training events that we could use in marketing. Here's an initial list of Drupal training events. Please update and add any events not included, like on this map.
Read moreA list of Open Source Events in 2008
Drupal has done well in the past by being associated with similar conferences. Most notably, Open Source CMS conference, and OSCON. If you are planning a Drupal Camp or regional conference you might want to arrange to be near to another open source conference.
http://opencheese.com/2007/10/14/open-source-events-2008/
Read moreOutline for DrupalCon proposals
There have been several requests for a proposal outline for the next DrupalCon.
Costs and sponsorship guidelines
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Bug Hunting and Patch Queues
One of the items that I have noticed from attending different user groups is the problem of targeting content to different skill levels. I've noticed a tendency for meetings to focus on beginner content while requesting more advanced topics that people would be interested in. As such, I think this tends to become boring for the more skilled developers and they slowly stop attending.
Read moreWiki: Drupal User Group best practices
Last updated by blacklabel_tom on Mon, 2015-01-05 12:07
We're trying to compile a kind of master list of how one might organize a DUG, and we need your help. What works well for DUG meetings? Share your thoughts.
Survey of attendees
- Who are you?
- What is your involvement with Drupal?
- What do you have a question about?
- What tip or insight would you like to share?
- What level of experience would you say you have? (new, not quite intermediate, intermediate, not quite advanced, advanced)
- What Drupal role(s) best describe you? (site-builder, themer, module dev., core dev.)
Site presentations
Read moreDrupalCon organisers' guideline
This WIKI is meant as a guideline for DrupalCon organisers. I have taken over some of the structure and information that the people at Plone published at http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006/evaluation/lessons-learned. Some of the topics and assumptions come from the DrupalCon BOF we had at DrupalCon in Barcelona. Feel free to dive in and add your ideas.
Read moreLearn from how others do it: Plone Conference 2006
The Plone Conference 2006 (Seattle) organizers shared lots of details about their conference experience, which is somewhat similar to how we feel and what we do, but also gives some interesting insight into how Plone people organize their event: http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006/evaluation/lessons-learned
(Tip from Dries)
Read moreTips for getting the word out about Bay Area Drupal Camp?
Hi Event Organizers,
I was wondering if anyone had any tips for getting the word out about BadCamp? We have announced on campus, created a g.d.o event, and a barcamp entry. And we'll be sending announcements out on craigslist and meetup.org. And individuals on Planet Drupal will be blogging about it. I am not sure what we need to do to qualify for getting listed on the drupal.org front page.
What else are we forgetting?
thanks,
-tao
