Earlier this year at DrupalCon Chicago, the G.D.O NYC team first met to start work on bringing DrupalCon to the Big Apple. After many weekly meetings, late nights and re-arranged schedules we’ve got some wind our sales with a theme selected, venues explored and other many other steps underway.
Over the next few days we need your support to rally votes for NYC in the Drupal Association’s survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/drupalconpoll
If you haven’t already done so please vote for NYC here, as the Straw Poll closed on Sunday and every vote is an essential part of the support needed for NYC’s nomination to succeed. You can read more here:
Finally, we have created a site that communicates our core ideas for the NYCon and we hope that you find our vision inline with your life in Gotham here:
You can follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/drupalcon_nyc
The NYC Drupalcon Team
Conference Chair - Brian Short
Logistics - John Zavocki
Finances - Richard Baldwin
Programming (Sessions) - Robert Holmes
Developer Summit / Code Sprint - Forest Mars
Communications - Willy Karam
Comments
Face Book Page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/DrupalCon-NYC/152586011481917
more detail
Sure, melting pot and community are a natural identity for a DrupalCon NYC, but how might you use that identity to shape the actual DrupalCon, and what are some of the other core ideas you have for shaping the events? How might we do things similarly to or differently than the way things were done in previous DrupalCons?
Do you want everyone in one hotel again? Do you want to leverage all the media and info companies that are in NYC to show more case studies than usual? more design? maybe have a design4drupal or "An Event Apart?" within/alongside the DrupalCon?
Do you envision catering more to new/prospective adopters of Drupal, or to current users, or more to developers?
Sure, we can vote for next city based on whether we can or want to go to that city, but it would be nice to be able to vote based on what kind of conference the organizing team wants to produce.
Christopher Pelham
Director
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)
http://www.crsny.org
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is an arts & healing center located just south of Union Square in Manhattan.
Great Questions Christopher
We had them in the proposal to the Drupal Association, but we didn't want to make them public because we were not sure if we should ... as we wanted our vision to be unique and singular. Sorry to say, but we didn't want another city to say "Oh, let's do that!!!!"
We spent the past three months mulling over everything that you said above ... and way more. So, if you would like to know what we are proposing, come to our monthly meet-up and ask me or one of the organizers above.
We are all very excited about what we have come up with ;)
Excellent!
Excellent!
Christopher Pelham
Director
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)
http://www.crsny.org
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is an arts & healing center located just south of Union Square in Manhattan.