DrupalCampNYC 10 will be the largest New York City Camp to date, with 500 anticipated attendees and over 30 high-quality sessions across a spectrum of Drupal-related disciplines.
It's all happening on Saturday, December 10, 2011 at John Jay College in Manhattan, for the bargain price of $20. Your registration fee will not only cover a full day of top-notch Drupal content from some of the finest minds in our community, but breakfast and lunch as well.
DrupalCamp sessions are created and presented by camp participants. For this camp, sessions will be organized into the following tracks:
- Development sessions might talk about topics including module development, security, tools and environments, best practices, etc.
- Site building sessions address topics around the Drupal admin, community-contributed modules and tools, and more. If it's not Development, and it's not Presentation, and it's part of the site creation process, it's probably here.
- Presentation encompasses design, front-end development, and theming.
- Business and end users is more geared toward the non-technical facets of Drupal. This might include project management, team dynamics, tips for content managers and editors, agency issues, marketing, and so forth.
- Sysadmin and performance is the track for things like hosting, database optimization, testing tools and protocols, CDNs, and various other topics.
Within each of the tracks listed, there will be content suitable for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Drupal professionals. Additionally, there will be New/Newish to Drupal sessions early in the day, to help bring up to speed those who do not yet have a deep knowledge of Drupal; birds of a feather sessions will allow participants to engage in open discussion around specific topics.
Finally, each time slot will feature a Community Spotlight speaker. This speaker, drawn from the NYC Drupal community, is a recognized expert in his or her area of Drupal and will speak on a high-impact topic of his or her choice.
Also of note: there are a few sponsorship opportunities still available. Benefits and levels are available here: http://drupalcampnyc.org/sponsors/how-sponsor
The New York City Drupal community is a collection of friendly people that are eager to accept newcomers, who are always welcome to any event. Regardless of your experience with Drupal, or lack thereof, we warmly invite you to join us for DrupalCampNYC 10.
Get know Drupal, grow your skills, share your wisdom, or just make some Drupally new friends.
Tickets will sell out quickly, so register ASAP. See http://drupalcampnyc.org for full information and to reserve your seat!
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Where To Park
The "Getting There" page on the Drupal Camp NYC 10 website (http://drupalcampnyc.org/about/getting-there) only offers options by subway and bus. For those of us driving down from Boston, that's not a lot of help. We plan to drive in on Friday 12/9/2011, stay over Friday and Saturday nights, and drive back on Sunday 12/11/2011. That means we need to find a hotel room for Friday and Saturday nights.
Of the 10 hotels listed at http://drupalcampnyc.org/about/venue, eight of them have no rooms available for those nights. The cheapest rooms at the other two range from $1,130 to $1,290 for a two night stay! So, staying in Manhattan is out of the question.
Instead, I found an affordable hotel room around White Plains. But that means we'll have to drive in to John Jay College from White Plains on Saturday morning and park our car somewhere. Also, I presume conference attendees will be socializing for much of Saturday night after the conference, and we'll want to stick around for that.
So, do any of you who are local to NYC know of a parking lot or garage near John Jay College where we can park the whole day and pick the car up late at night, possibly midnight or 1:00 AM if we need to?
What are typical rates to park for an entire Saturday in that part of Manhattan?
MBR - getting around
Yes, there are a LOT of options, we can speak on Monday if you'd like, call me or Natasha at the office, 212.575.5609 and we'll help you coordinate. There's a number of parking garages in the area but the one I use is called GMC Parking on 57th between 11th and 12th (on the south side of the street midblock). REasonably priced, RIGHT off the west side highway so easy if you're coming from White plains.
Call me monday early, i'll be glad to help, -J
Joe Bachana
First Employee at DPCI
1560 Broadway
NY, NY 10036
212.575.5609
www.dpci.com
redux in NYC
By the way, we can try to look for some other hotels in the area for you just as a backup to the White Plains plan. Let me know if you want us to do that for you, it indeed is a busy time of year in NYC, but you never know...
Joe Bachana
First Employee at DPCI
1560 Broadway
NY, NY 10036
212.575.5609
www.dpci.com
Comfort Inn Manhattan Bridge
The prices here are slightly more affordable but its about half an hour away from the venue on the D train. The hotel is less than two blocks from the D train on Grand Street.
Check out the link here:
http://www.comfortinn.com/hotel-new_york-new_york-NY355?sid=xLmGxi.CGNJO...