This is the central coordination group for planning the European DrupalCon. This group is responsible for:
- making recommendations to the Board for the location of Drupalcon Europe 2011 and beyond.
- organizing and coordinating all non-logistical details for Drupalcon Europe starting 2010. This includes: programming, speaker selection, social activities, the conference Web site.
See also North America, South America and Australia & Asia
Drupalcamp Timisoara 2010, Romania
Drupal Romania Association (http://drupal.org.ro) currently organizes its first major event, the Timisoara 2010 Drupalcamp, taking place during 5th and 6th of June, 2010. Registration is now open, and we will launch the call for submissions soon.
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DrupalCon 2011
Hi Everybody,
First up, we, the European DrupalCon Selection Taskforce, apologize for the delay and lack of communication.
Consider this account of what has happened and what we discussed about, an attempt to improve the process, that we have started for the very first time.
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Drupalcon 2010 in Copenhagen
The Drupal Association just approved the proposal from the Danish team to organize Drupalcon 2010 in Copenhagen. The conference will take place in August, the exact date will be finalized in the coming week.
If you wonder what kind of greatness is waiting for you, check out their proposal at http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35 or http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35?print&book_recurse
Congratulations to the Danish team!
EDIT: The dates are 23 - 26 August, with events on the day before and day after likely.
Read moreThe Selection Taskforce DrupalCon 2010 Recommendation
Hello Drupal Community and DrupalCon Teams!
It has taken longer than originally expected, but finally after long and careful deliberation, we, the selection taskforce committee, recommend Copenhagen for the DrupalCon 2010. The commitment and relentless enthusiasm of the Danish team during the evaluation process gave us also full confidence that they are ready to organize a DrupalCon that rocks in the 9 months that is left.
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Transparency ?
There were a lot of talk of transparency when this whole drupalcon 2010 + 2011 started
i for one is missing this now
We are at least a month over the deadline - and very little have been told out to the public from the european group.
I know im not the only one who really hope to just hear something. - yup the danes & ze germans did meet in stockholm this weekend, and without any fighting breaking out ;)
To be dead honest - we need to hear something soon - else its gotta be pretty hard to get everything done in good time for 2010.
So could we:
Berlin Q & A IRC meeting
The DrupalCon Germany IRC Q&A will take place October 13th at 20:00 CET (7 p.m. UK, 2 p.m. US Eastern) in Freenode #drupalcon channel.
Have a look at our proposal and proposal page (some good questions came in since we posted) here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/28210
We're looking forward to answering your questions!
Read moreRevised Schedule for DrupalCon city announcement
The Scandinavian team introduced a new element, and we realized that the IRC meetings are actually very valuable.
We would like to have all three teams up for a meeting (the London team is following tonight), to complement our scoring.
The Germans are missing, as of now; when could you do an IRC meeting?
Because of these IRC meetings, we have been pushing our internal meeting date as well, so everyone has a chance, of communicating with us, before we make our recommendation to the DA.
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DrupalCon London 2011 Proposal IRC Q&A
If you're interested in a London DrupalCon please join us on IRC #drupalcon for a two hour Q&A session starting 9 p.m. (GMT) on Friday 9th October.
Hats of to the Copenhagen team who did a similar Q&A session this week which you can read here:
http://drupalcon.dk/planning/node/115
We'll also post the log of our session here as a comment.
You can read the DrupalCon London proposal here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/28098
Read moreCopenhagen Q & A IRC meeting
If youre interested in figuring out what it is we wanna do with drupalcon in copenhagen 2010 or 2011
Then we now invite to a official IRC meeting the next 2 wednesday in the #drupalcon IRC room.
The meetings will each be about 2 hours
- 7 october 20.00 - copenhagen time
- 14 october 20.00 - copenhagen time
The idea of this meetings is that we wanna answer anyone that have any questions about anything related to Drupalcon Copenhagen. We wanna talk about them out in the open and give you the answers straight up.
Read moreDrupalcon 2010, where would you prefer to have it? (log in to vote)
Drupalcon 2011, where would you prefer to have it? (log in to vote)
Location Selection Taskforce, personnel change
Germany has submitted a strong nomination to host DrupalCon in Berlin. As I am the Vice President of the Drupal-Initiative, Germany's Drupal-supporting non-profit, and since the Drupal-Initiative is in part sponsoring the nomination proposal, and helped plan and draft it, I feel it would be unfair for me to rate the other proposals. One could say there is a conflict of interest.
Read moreDrupalCon 2010 and 2011 Proposals are in
And the proposals are all in.
We have therefore nominations for the following cities in the following years:
2010
The bear against the vikings :-)
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DrupalCon Europe 2010 / 2011 in Berlin [UPDATE]
Cool: Proposal just in time ,-)
The German Drupal Community is proud to nominate Berlin for DrupalCon Europe 2010 or 2011. See attached PDF for details.
[UPDATE]
During the hectic excitement around the preparation of our proposal, Isabell Schultz's name came up in some discussions. In a moment of over-enthusiasm, it was included in our proposal by mistake.
DrupalCon Copenhagen
The proposal for copenhagen is on the drupalcon.dk site http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35
or can be read as one page here: http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35?print&book_recurse
or in the attached pdf.
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London DrupalCon Europe 2011
The Drupal UK community is pleased to nominate London for Drupalcon 2011.
Read moreOrganizing draft IRC discussion
IRC chat to discuss the the draft document for the organizing group: http://groups.drupal.org/node/27246
The meeting will be held in #drupalcon Thursday at 20.00 Europe/Berlin time.
Please mark your availability here: http://doodle.com/ehsypu6f6mhsgwst
I'll announce the best time later today.
City selection for DrupalCon 2010 still wide open
Please note that the list of cities from http://groups.drupal.org/node/26241 (as per the BoF in Paris) is just a list of possible suggestions. Please see the draft document that has been proposed for city selection guidelines: http://groups.drupal.org/node/27246
The goal is to publish that document at the end of this week (after incorporating feedback from the community) and to start receiving city proposals immediately after that. Since we need to have recommendations to give to the Drupal Association by October 15 the proposal phase will have to be short. The proposal phase will probably end October 1. After that we will have the proposals reviewed by the events agency to gather their feedback in time for the October 15 deadline.
If you want DrupalCon in your city/country in 2010 please review the document and add your feedback!
http://groups.drupal.org/node/26241
On how to choose city for 2010
This is a reply to the comment Guidelines for selecting a city?, highlighted as a separate discussion.
Selecting a city for 2010 is no doubt a difficult task. Drupal Association leaves this task to the European community (or in effect to this discussion group), and gives us free hands to use whatever method we like (within reasonable limits).
I think we can conclude the following:
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Lisbon for Drupalcon 2011
Considering notes from the BOF and many comments from Drupalcon Paris, why I thought Lisbon could be an interesting choice:
- International Airport.
- Number of conference venues (including University of Lisbon1).
- Small city, easily possible to walk everywhere.
- Beautiful architecture and history, not a tourist trap however.
- Extremely friendly people.
- Inexpensive accommodation & living.
- Bairo Alto: 4 blocks of just bars, easy social meetup point!
- Beaches for those that want.
