Last year I was fortunate to share the Open Sourcery Booth at NTen. The Plone foundation had a nice booth with lots of traffic, and the Joomla project had a nice booth as well.
This year I'd like to propose that members of the Drupal community that service Non-profit customers band together and have a joint Drupal community booth. I've done this with some success at the other technology oriented conference in the Bay Area and other cities. We jointly promote Drupal, talk about each other's industry case study Drupal sites, and share customer leads.
If you are Drupal shop that has NPO customers, I'd like to organize a Drupal booth at NTEN conference. Details are here: http://nten.org/uploads/10ntc/2010_NTEN_Sponsor_Guide.pdf
Also, the session submission deadline is today or possibly it was yesterday. So if you've not yet submitted a session for NTen please do so.
Kieran
Comments
Would love to participate
Kieran,
CivicActions would love to be part of this Drupal booth.
Aaron
Please keep me posted
Kieran,
I am interested because we are focusing more on non-profits, but we are already sponsoring another event in the spring, and going to Drupalcon of course, so unless cost ends up pretty low we probably cannot sponsor.
However, I may try to personally attend NTEN this year. Please keep me posted about the joint Drupal community booth, etc.
Thank you,
Lee
Lee Raney
Dallas Drupal Group
www.ChurchFinder.com
We're interested
I'd like to hear a bit more of the details, but it sounds like a great idea, and with it being a week before DrupalCon SF it will give me some time to enjoy the left coast.
Thanks for organizing this!
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology
Nonprofit Experience / Testimony / Networking
I'm in, at least to some degree.
I'm the Communications Director for the League of Women Voters of California. We're just starting to convert our Education Fund 501c3 site over to Drupal (www.lwvc.org). Whether it goes well or is a bumpy ride, I'd love to share our experiences with other nonprofits and network to find out their concerns, tactics, etc. If sitting in the booth is the way to do it, I'd be happy to participate, but I have very little money to contribute.
My testimonial might help (assuming it'll be fairly positive), since I'm part of the LWVC as a volunteer board member and would not be promoting myself or my organization as a Drupal provider. At the very least, it would spice up who is at your table. Alternatively, I'd be happy to provide quotes or record a short video testimonial, if you have the capacity to play it (off a laptop on the table, for example) without me being there.
-Jenny
Jennifer Waggoner
President, League of Women Voters of California
president@lwvc.org
www.lwvc.org
www.CAvotes.org
www.smartvoter.org
www.easyvoter.org