Camp/Conference formula for Drupal

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Chris Charlton's picture

With over 500 camp attendees and 60+ session proposals, us organizers of Drupal Camp LA needed a Drupal site that was built for organizers and attendees, with lessons learned from 3+ DrupalCons & 2+ DrupalCamps. Here is our formula for our awesome camp site.

"DrupalCampLA.com was built on Drupal 6 using core & contributed modules to handle event registration, sponsorship management, featured speakers, user bio's, and session proposals. The website features an attendee driven event schedule where members propose sessions and only registered members pick which sessions they'd like to see (in the BarCamp style). Planning the schedule for the day of events has been made flexible enough to allow organizers to maintain a master schedule with ease. Not to mention that all attendees get their own schedule view with the sessions they pick."

"The web site was based on the latest Drupal 6.x release and utilized many of the current generation modules such as CCK for content customization, imagefield and imagecache to handle imaging Views & custom theming built on Zen for content presentation." (A full list of the modules used is in the case study - http://drupal.org/node/519100 )

The download link is available in the case study post - http://drupal.org/node/519100 and has been made available by LA Drupal & This By Them.

Only local images are allowed.

"Session Proposals nodes were created by CCK to provide the following additional fields: Day (text select), Time (text select), Track/Room (text select). In addition we created a new taxonomy vocabulary called "Categories" so that sessions could be organized into the following: Business Side, Code & Development, Design & Usability, Drupalchix, Performance & Scalability, Showcase & Strategy, Site Building. Using taxonomy to categorize the sessions was very helpful because of the benefits of Views module integration. Using the categories we allow visitors to filter out sessions based on their interests."

The camp site code is available for download. It is everything you will need to get your own camp/conference site setup is included in a friendly package (download link available in the case study post - http://drupal.org/node/519100 ). Included is a readme file that explains how to setup the site. It's basically the same as setting up a normal Drupal site except you'll want to import the database file we've included so that all of our views/content types/settings are ready to go! We recommend using the camp theme as your base and adding styles as you see fit.

* The site code and data are provided as is, with no warranty and no guarantee of support. The code is released under the GPL license (same as Drupal core).

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Great resource

foxtrotcharlie's picture

Thanks for putting this up and making the site available for download :-)

Domains

jerdiggity's picture

@Chris: Good stuff.

On a (fairly) similar note, in case anyone plans on building a site like drupalcampla.com and wants to "custom theme" it (as far as the domain name goes), I made a list which can be found on my blog site -- the exact URL being http://www.jerdiggity.com/drupal/available-domains (sorry... don't want you to think I'm posting spam or anything, so you'll have to copy/paste) -- with... where was I? Oh yeah-- "I made a list..." Anyway, the list has something like 500 to 1000 available ".com" domain names that pertain to Drupal in one way or another. e.g. drupaldocs.net was available so I snagged it (primarily in case the documentation team wanted to use it). While I was there, I figured I'd make a list of everything I could find -- a couple examples that are still available as of this writing are DrupalFair.com, TexasDrupal.com, etc. So if you want, have at 'em.

(BTW, I looked through the d.o docs for potential "legal issues" & everything looked OK... Also, just out of respect, I emailed Dries for his consent/input so I don't want you to think I'm "spamming the place up" or doing anything shady or whatever... Just FYI.)

:)

drupal'capone.com??

gregoire's picture

A big \o/ for this drupalcamp and a bigger 'wow & thanks' concerning the site + making it available for download!

@jerdiggity: can't see drupalcapone.com in the list... have you registered it??

From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone):
"Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate (...) though his business card reportedly described him as a used furniture dealer."
:)

Looks available to me

jerdiggity's picture

I didn't register it... In fact I just did a "whois" on that one and it appears to be wide open (thanks for the info BTW). I'll add it to the list as scratched off in case you plan on getting it... If not let me know and I'll "unscratch" it. :)

Thank you!!

Susan MacPhee's picture

For Drupal Design Camp Boston 2010 we will be sure to reuse your formula for an awesome camp site. Can't thank you enough!

BTW, Any city that wants to use the design4drupal.org URL, I'm happy to contribute that!

Susan MacPhee
http://boston.design4drupal.org/

Thank you *so much* for this

monicadear's picture

I was just thinking this past week that it would be good to get organized with an introduction to Drupal to the community here in Hawaii.

So will be reviewing Design4drupal.org and the case study -- Thank you!

Interested in the intersection of justice, social entrepreneurship, and technology.

d4d Boston

Susan MacPhee's picture

Hi Monica,

Feel free to contact me with any questions about Design for Drupal Camp Boston. Also, I was just in Paris and may be able to track down a great Drupal 101 presentation for you. Oh shucks, if I must go to Hawaii this winter just let me know. ha ha

Also see; http://drupal.org/node/480322

Susan

Question

StefanCP's picture

Hi everbody,

Are there any european Drupal camps, maybe even Eastern European ones?

Regards

Web design, print design and outdoor agency
- web design, seo, sem, print and outdoor advertising, article writting, virtual shops -

Congrats @Chris Charlton!

DevElCuy's picture

Congrats @Chris Charlton!

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