BAD Ass Drupal Weekender - Call for Volunteers

Posted by Anonymous on August 14, 2012 at 9:05am

Hi all,

As you've no doubt seen I managed to make some time last week to get the http://BADCampUK.net site up and running with session submissions and tickets. Apart from that, I've booked http://theskiff.org and asked the Student Room if they are able to let us use their offices on the Saturday for another session room and a couple of spaces for BoF sessions, which would be nice.

Jo Summers organised a lot of stuff last time but this year won't be around to help as much due to running other events during the digital festival, and Jo Munro who also organises events is organising the Green Man festival so also isn't around much, so I need YOUR HELP!!!

There is much to organise
- sponsorship (paid upfront this time, I believe Jo is still chasing one or two from the last event in April!!)
- food (focus on lunch this time as many come down just for the Saturday)
- setting up (inc. taking photos so can put back in same place)
- promotion - please do tweet, mail your contacts, etc. and get them to come along!
- session submissions - we need some!
- people to cover the door/signin area
- room monitors
- videoing
- beers, shopping, etc.
- other stuff I've left out

So - anyone up for helping out? I'm quite good at getting these things started, not too great at doing it all :D

TIA!

Comments

URGENT call!

Posted by stevepurkiss (not verified) on August 17, 2012 at 2:22pm

Hi,

Please do have a think over the next week whilst DrupalCon is on as to how you could help with this event.

I've had no replies and there will be only three weeks to get everything sorted when I get back, I can't do it all on my own, it would be a shame to have to cancel the event - being part of the Brighton Digital Festival is an ideal opportunity to promote yourself and your services, along with learning more about Drupal and meeting more of the community.

Please help!

Your worn out BAD Ass organiser,

Steve

well done for sorting out

Posted by guy_schneerson on August 17, 2012 at 2:44pm

well done for sorting out badcampuk and hopefully it would be easier to get things going once DrupalCon is out of the way.

Hi Steve - well done on

Posted by kevster on August 17, 2012 at 2:49pm

Hi Steve - well done on sorting the site - I'll take a look sure there is stuff I can help with...

Kev

Up for help

Posted by gingerfrog on August 17, 2012 at 9:39pm

Hello Steve,

My name is Arnaud and I sadly miss the last BAD ASS camp, so very happy to hear there'll be one in September.

I have a car and am happy to help do shopping and stuff, or any other activities where spare hands are required, tweet and big up the camp through different means (twit, facebroke...) or anything that I can do. Busy so can't give all the time in the world, but anything to help such a great concept happen.

Oh, and well done for all the hard work you've already done, heard so much positive feedback from the first camp would love to help this happen

Arnaud Lepron
http://www.wiredmonkeys.com

Hey Steve, I'd be up for

Posted by yanniboi on August 18, 2012 at 10:59am

Hey Steve,

I'd be up for helping out! I haven't really got much time in the run up. But I would be up for doing registration/videoing/clean up and stuff like that on the actual days.

Let me know what I can do :-)

Yan

Thanks!

Posted by stevepurkiss (not verified) on August 18, 2012 at 11:20am

Thanks for all your responses, make me feel a little better!

I spoke to Jo last night who put my mind at rest a bit - as long as we give at least a week's notice for food (she has a contact) we should be ok. Jo helped out last time and she is able to help out after I get back from Munich, but what we really need in the mean time is more tweets, blogs, publicity all round - no session submissions yet so need to work on that too.

I also feel we should put more info on the website about Brighton, location, etc. but just don't have time - not hugely important but a lot of other drupalcamp sites have guides which ends up attracting visitors from further away so would be good.

I would love to get some coverage in the local Brighton press, not sure if anyone has any contacts there.

Thanks also for offers of help on the day, much appreciated!

See you after Munich for a catch-up and let's work out our way forward...

Oh, and some sponsors would be good too, details on the site :D

Also... Global Training Day on 14th September

Posted by stevepurkiss (not verified) on August 18, 2012 at 11:28am

One major bit I haven't sorted yet is what to do on the Friday, which happens to be the next Global Training Day - an initiative by the Drupal Association to get thousands of more people trained up for free / low-cost.

http://drupal.org/learn-drupal

We have potential use of the upstairs room in theskiff, but I was thinking perhaps we could do something different and Drupal shops in Brighton might perhaps open their offices up for a couple of hours to do some training of some sort? Introductory level for other local agencies considering Drupal.

At the end of the day, the more Drupal people in Brighton the easier it gets for all of us!

Let me know your thoughts...

BadAss relief

Posted by kerberos56 on August 23, 2012 at 7:27pm

Hi Steve,

I am a Drupal 'newbie'. I came along to the Brighton meetup at the Eagle last Monday, while you were having fun in Munich.

If you need some help organising and running the BadAss event, I have time on my hands to help you.

I have only been playing with Drupal for a month, so I cannot provide any technical input. However, I can help out on a more practical level over the weekend (Friday to Sunday).

Let me know how I can assist.

Regards,

Bill Harpley

Fab!

Posted by stevepurkiss (not verified) on August 26, 2012 at 11:10am

Bill - that's fabulous, glad you came along to the meetup!

I'm going to be back working on our BAD Ass Weekend either tomorrow or Tuesday, I just need to get some stuff done first that I'm doing for the DrupalBAM (Branding and Marketing) then I'll be back on the case.

I'd love to catch up with you sometime, I'm trying to get back down to basing myself at theskiff - you in Brighton usually?

Training

Posted by alickmighall on August 24, 2012 at 8:25am

We'd be happy to out on a couple of training sessions at our office on the Friday - manly aimed at developers, but could be suitable for agencies or clients. We'd do two separate hour long sessions (if there was interest)

1) How to set up a local dev environment and install Drupal.

2) Once you're installed, what are the next four or five things you might do.

Neither are likely to be definitive - just really an overview of how we do it.

I've also submitted a session suggestion but could only present this Saturday anytime between 9am-1pm as I'm busy for the rest of the weekend.

Drupal Open Studios

Posted by stevepurkiss (not verified) on August 26, 2012 at 11:14am

Thanks Alick that's great - I'm going to speak to other Drupal shops / agencies who use Drupal and see if we can get a few more of these up and running. I think it'd be good to put it under the banner of "Drupal Open Studios". DOS. Maybe Brighton Area Drupal Open Studios (Bad OS?).

Anyway, let's catch up sometime soon for a herbal tea and chat about stuff, Munich's finally put a few things in place in my mind and I'm a lot clearer on how we can grow the Drupal here!