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
Editing the instructional video from Drupal Camp SF
We captured over 10 hours of video from <a href='http://drupal.org/node/58182">Drupal Camp SF a couple months back. We also have a budget in the neighborhood of $2,000 to put into editing it release. Before we contract someone out to start cutting the video, lets think about what we want to get out of it in the end.
Here is what we covered at the camp:
http://drupal-camp.org/camps/sfapril/notes
Day 1
* Bsics of the Drupal framework, community, and theming system.
* Basics of Drupal configuration
* Jeff shows us how to create an alternative navigation menu for users of sites. This will give users a much more streamlined menu interface.
DrupalCamp / CivicSpace barnraising in Las Vegas (YearlyKos)
At the Yearly Kos convention on June 8th the CivicSpace community will be teaching a workshop on building Drupal based netroots campaign websites. The workshop will be one full day and we will be teaching participants at every skill level. The day will culminate in a barn raising of a real world netroots campaign website thought up by the DailyKos community and built by workshop participants and facilitators.
For those of you unfamiliar with US politics the DailyKos.com community website is the highest trafficked political blog in the world. The YearlyKos convention is the first annual DailyKos community conference.
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DrupalCamp NYC - the movie...
<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5872660427561898805&pr=goog-sl" target="_blank>drupal camp nyc - the movie
thanks jacob redding!
Workshop vs. Camp
So, people have been asking about this. Could we perhaps make a decision to always use the phrase "Drupal Camp" to refer to free, community run events (like BarCamp, DemoCamp, etc. etc.) and use the phrase "Drupal Workshop" for paid training events?
I think this will help explain the two conferences. Or? Other names? Disagree?
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Pricing information set for DrupalCamp Johannesburg
The price for DrupalCamp has been set at R2500 for the 5 evening course. That includes training materials and supper.
This is equal to about $420, which is not a lot considering that some of the other DrupalCamps are charging $900 per person for a single day. There are only 10 positions available per course, so please sign up if you intend on joining us.
Read morecheck out drupal camp nyc
As promised here is the one link to rule them all...
http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampNYC
it's a wiki, so feel free to delete your name if you didn't attend, add your friend's name if they attended, add your email address, website, etc...
presenters - don't forget to make your final edits and post your links...
Also, when tagging please use the following...
- DrupalCamp
- DrupalCampNYC
- Polyidmi
++++++ Links of Note ++++++
http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampNYC
http://groups.drupal.org/new-york-city
http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-camp
http://groups.drupal.org
http://www.drupal-camp.org
Planning DrupalCamp Code Sprint near Portland July 19th-23rd
Update: We are still planning on holding this code sprint, but at different dates. We are actively working on lining up funding currently.
After talking with a lead Plone developer the other day who told me that code sprints are by and large hugely productive events for the Plone community I've decided to throw my hat in the ring to help organize one for Drupal.
Itinerary
The rough plan is to get a dozen or so serious Drupal hackers together for 3-5 days. Attendees should show up with a pretty good idea of what they want to work on and hopefully will be tackling problems that are best solved collaboratively. Every night we will go around and demo what's been accomplished during the day. If Drumm can come we'll have him help cook pancakes and big hippy/vegan dinners. We'll also make sure to have some fun outdoors.
Read moreDrupalCon vs. SuperHappyDrupalHouse
When I was recently down in the Bay Area, I connected with some Drupal folks and talked about planning for upcoming activities.
Since our last "con" was in North America, if we follow previous series, then the next one should be in Europe.
My personal current plans around this are to organize a DrupalCon around BarCamp Brussels / EuroOSCON 2006 in Brussels. Dries is presenting in Brussels, and Colin Brumelle just got word that his talk on "Music 2.0" has also been accepted.
The "cons" generally are a mix of developer and user work, and we've had lots of presentation-style content. Coding tends to be limited to (sometimes very successfull) hallway and hotel hacking. I think the timing and place of DrupalCon Brussels is probably a good one, but how do we make sure we get some fun hacking in?
Read moreStory about DrupalCamp and DrupalZA on Tectonic.co.za
Recently I was interviewed by Tectonic.co.za one of South Africa's leading open technology magazines.
Read moreLocal Drupal core developer, Adrian Rossouw, has announced the formation of a local Drupal user group and a training camp to teach South African web developers the Drupal way.
"Most of the developers that are working on open source projects only have communication with people overseas where the projects originated," says Rossouw.
"What I decided to do was just create a local talking point for people doing Drupal work locally to be able to ask people questions."
Drupal 2 day course (camp?)
Hello there,
I am currently in the process of arranging a 2 day Drupal course in the UK, hosted in Birmingham, at the end of July, for 8 developers. It which will be open to businesses in the West Midlands region (counties of Warwickshire, West Midlands, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire). [By the way, my employer OpenAdvantage (http://www.openadvantage.org/) is a government-funded organisation which exists to promote open source in the West Midlands (hence the restricted eligibility for the course).]
The materials will be released under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) (and GPL if there's any code), and will include presentations introducing the topics, exercises, and sample code (where appropriate). The aim is to provide developers with a brief introduction to Drupal: installation, basic configuration, module installation, customising templates, that sort of thing. Probably won't get round to writing our own modules, but will skate over the API.
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Should there be subgroups for each camp?
Do folks think that each camp should have subgroups? or should all discussion for all camps take place in this one group?
Furthermore, should there be any kind of "qualifications" for an event being considered a camp?
when does camp end and conference begin? Is there a difference between a camp and a boot camp? Free community based trainings and workshops vs paid professional development opportunities?
I'm looking to provoke a little discussion here.
Read moreDrupalCamp NYC - 13 & 14 of May
On 13 & 14 of May we'll be dorking out at the Polytechnic University Brooklyn Campus. if you are interested in attending or would like to RSVP, add your name to this page.
Polytechnic University Brooklyn Campus
Six MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
http://www.poly.edu/directions/
saturday and sunday schedule
10a - 1p introduction sessions
1p - 2p food break
2p - 6p afternoon session
DrupalCamp NYC will be broken down into three Workshops...
introduction to drupal - (saturday only)
this is for newbees/novice drupal users who would like to learn about drupal. what is drupal? how to install, configure, and which modules to use. how to utilize the support community. where to find vendors and custom drupal work. adam mordecai, from advomatic, will be spearheading this workshop.
