Posted by mikehostetler on July 2, 2009 at 6:38pm
On the heels of a successful Drupalcamp, there's been some talk of having a CiviCRM Dev Camp in the Denver area.
We'd like to guage interest. If you may be interested in learning more about CiviCRM specifically, please jot a quick comment in this thread. If you have any suggestions or would like to help, that's great too!
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I'll be there!
I will almost certainly be there. In fact, we may even be able to host it in my office building in LoDo (I work in the Alliance Center at 15th & Wynkoop).
Si!
Great idea, Mike. That would be a super event for the community, especially if there's a track for end users (in addition to Civi devs). Our little NPO tech group (CNTC) would be happy to help with logistics and promotion and such, too.
Check out my meetup organizing tool and my conference CFP tool.
This will be a paid training camp ...
Note that CiviCRM training camps are paid events (primarily to take care of expenses and also to support the project going forward). We charged USD 600 for the 2 day training camp in London and USD 300 for the one day user camp. We typically have a ratio of 1 core developer for 3-5 participants and try to limit the number of participants to approx 20 or so
We also are quite flexible with barter arrangements :) i.e. work a certain number of hours on the community forum / documentation / code in exchange for a reduced rate for the camps
lobo
Maybe
I was interested until I read $300 per day...
Similar cost to Drupalcamp would be a go, just to learn more.
Does Denver have the population?
At DrupalCamp there was CiviCRM BOF and almost all those at the table were from elsewhere. I'd be curious to know what sort of CiviCRM user- and developer-bases we have here.
Also maybe
I am interested in CiviCRM, for sure. But, $300/day is too steep. Agree with greggmarshall. If it was similar to DrupalCamp cost, I'd be there.
I use CiviCRM quite a lot -
I use CiviCRM quite a lot - especially for large e-mail campaigns (40,000+ addresses). I'd be interested in talking to others who have set up not only CiviCRM, but also all the pieces of the LAMP puzzle necessary to support it. A lot of the time you have to hack things up a bit to get them to work on your specific server setup. Discussions over best-practices, Drupal integration, and more would be great. I'm available to help organize depending on the time/date.
Definite interest
We organized the CiviCRM BoF at Drupal Camp Colorado and it's true that many folks were from out of town. Just seeing the growth in Drupal Camp over the past year (from 90 to 200) is a good sign. I think that there could be enough of a draw to bring in folks from neighboring states (and beyond) for a CiviCRM event.
The cost is high, but make sense considering that it is a training. Would it be possible to have it in more of a conference format with a combination of speakers at a lower cost?
Cost would be an issue, I'd start smaller
Thanks for the clarification Lobo... I understand the need for fees, and I don't question the value of what the attendees would receive. I'd be surprised if we could pull together enough people at that fee level to make it worth doing. I'd rather see us hold a more informal (and less expensive) camp-style event the first time around... depending on the success of that, bring you guys in for a future event.
Check out my meetup organizing tool and my conference CFP tool.
I would attend one day at
I would attend one day at $300, but wouldn't be able to afford 2 days. I would be willing to do some trade however for the 2nd day.
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A few comments and clarifications ..
Both these events were paid events (GBP 400 for training camp, GBP 200 for user camp) to cover the costs of the event. Event income was GBP 6000. and expenses were GBP 5500. We bartered GBP 1400 for training space and GBP 1250 in work hours for contributions back to the CiviCRM community. All figures are approximate :)
So its not that we are making a lot of money on these events :)
I do agree that having a regular meetup and the community training and helping each other out are good first steps. This is happening quite successfully in NY, DC, London and San Francisco.
I think there are big differences between a meetup, a DrupalCon and a training session.
lobo
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