DrupalSouth Wellington will be on Saturday and Sunday 23-24 January 2010 – just after LCA. Note that these are not the dates announced earlier this week on Twitter and a few other places (We were were missing some information we thought we had).
The venue is in central Wellington and is amazing! It is just a few hundred metres from Linux.conf.au and the Wellington Convention Center. Keep listening for the announcement sometime in the next two weeks – as soon as contracts are signed and deposits are paid.
Our sponsors have partnered with us to help make DrupalSouth the biggest Drupal event ever in NZ. They are;
- .nz – who bring you great .nz domains like
*.geek.nz - Catalyst IT – Specialists in Open Source Technologies
- Egressive – Drupal development, Linux support and hosting
We still have space for plenty more sponsorship – please get in touch if you want to be a part of NZ's greatest Drupal event.
We've confirmed attendance of our featured and keynote speakers from overseas;
- Angela Byron (webchick), Drupal 7 core maintainer
- Emma Jane Hogbin, (emmajane), co-author of Front End Drupal, uber-documenter & Drupal evangelist
- Addisun Berry, (add1sun), Drupal documentation lead
- Liz Henry (lizhenry), Blogher.com developer – the largest community for women bloggers, built on Drupal since 2006
Session topics and teasers for these speakers will be announced shortly.
We are also discussing sessions with several local speakers. Please get in touch if you want to run a session, present an interesting project or lead a discussion.
Development of the event website is underway and will soon be ready for your viewing pleasure.
We could use more help updating the website, rounding up more sponsorship, finding and organising presenters, and taking care of the many smaller tasks that come up. Organisers who contribute significantly will get reduced or free entry, as well as acknowledgement on the organisers / individual sponsors page. Please get in touch with any offers to help, sponsorship or expressions of interest in speaking, presenting or otherwise being involved.