The 2013 DrupalCon North American Selection Committee is looking for input from the Drupal community to help select the location for DrupalCon North America in 2013 (and beyond).
For more information on the 2013 process, see: http://association.drupal.org/node/1014
For the 2013 straw poll (open through June 19, 2011), go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/drupalconpoll
For the 2013 City Nomination form (open through June 19, 2011): see http://association.drupal.org/node/964
Programming: Tracks and Session selection
This thread is for all throughts about tracks and session selection. The group came up with the following questions to get the ball rolling:
- How many tracks and sessions?
- What is the right ratio of presentations and BOFs offerings to conference attendees? How do we determine more sessions vs larger rooms for sessions.
- What should the tracks be?
- Should there be track chairs and, if so, what are their responsibilities?
- When should the call for submissions be opened? For how long should it be open?
- How far out from the conference should the schedule be announced?
- What is the right balance between offering popular (e.g. voted) sessions and curated cohesive conference program?
We'll be discussing this topic and the responses listed in this thread as a group at our next IRC meeting, October 1, 2009 from 11am-noon Central time.
Read moreKick-off Meeting recap
The Drupalcon NA Regional Organizing Committee had its first meeting in IRC today. Our initial goal was to wrap our arms around the topics that we want to consider as a group: programming, speakers, sponsors, dates, logistics and location recommendations.
The plan moving forward is to set up individual threads for topic clusters in this g.d.o group. All are welcome and encouraged to comment. The group will continue to meet in IRC for an hour every couple of weeks to drive to consensus on these topics. Our draft findings and recommendations will then be published for comment here in this group for further comment before we vote on them as a group.
Read moreIRC Meeting
This will be an IRC meeting in #drupalcon to identify those who want to participate in this group and lay out an agenda and timetable in which we can start to reshape how Drupalcons are handled moving forward.
Read moreRefining the Drupalcon Process
The old way of selecting and planning Drupalcons sites hasn't been working. Turns out we didn't really allot enough time for the necessary infrastructure ground work to be done.
But, we've learned a lot:
- We learned that organizers needed more then a year to schedule, reserve space, and get contracts signed, especially with the continued amazing growth in attendance at each successive conference.
- We learned that we needed professional assistance to help with things like better communications with the community, sponsors, vendors, organizers.
- We learned that focusing just on programming, scheduling and speakers is a large enough task to warrant its own dedicated team
As a result, the Association will be changing our process to build a new module for DrupalCons. Hence this group.
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