Drupal Camp Delhi 2014

Hi Rajeev, Vabhaiv,

Sure this is the best time to plan for another great event.

I will get that setup by next week. I think its already there but let me see.

Even Drupal Camp Delhi websites. :)

Thanks

Lets start

Shall we plan the next meetup next Saturday at CP? Will be convenient for everyone as it is a central location.

Yes we can start on next Saturday at CP.

Hi All,

I will try if I can revive the last years list somehow. :)

Although I am in love with JNU library canteen, CP tops the list.

I will be back by Monday, lets catch-up on what can be done.

Great Going.

Thanks

Once again as ever sounds good to heard about DCD, Excited to join you guys for organizing this event. Lets kickOff things and plan accordingly.

-
Ravindra

Hello All,

Can you guys please confirm, place and time when we can meet, I will also like to join at JNU, but if everybody agrees at CP then its also fine for me. So lets confirm place and time and i hope saturday is already be finalized.

Can we also list down some discussion points for this meeting, so that we can have a healthy discussion and some fruitful outcome of same.

CP is good as its is approachable.

Hi Folks

I am going to migrate to Delhi in next month.So it will be very become the part of DCD to learn & share the thoughts
Kinda add me to the mailing list and drop me a mail regarding the discussion points for this meeting, place and time . So that I will check it according to my schedule.

Thanks for the reply Prashant.
It would be great if we can have the mailing list back.
Lets discuss over in the meeting this weekend.

Guys, lets finalize the Time and Location for our first meeting.
IMO, Its still hot outside, so lets meet in comfort of an Air Conditioned office, and discuss things at Srijan, CP.

Prashant, Please let us know at what time is the office premises available. I personally would like to have this meeting in morning.

Hi All,

Mailing list is being set up and hopefully will be up by Saturday or at max by Monday.

Srijan Office will be used for the Saturday Meeting.

I think for action points this meeting mainly will be around planning our next Successful DCD2014.

@all please suggest any suitable time. I suggest 10AM if it suits everyone.

Thanks

Hi Everyone,

Please confirm if tomorrow is fine with everyone or should we replan the meeting.

Your reply is very valuable.

Thanks

Hello Guys,

Lets meet around 12am tomorrow atleast on saturday we can have long nap. Are we meeting at Srijan's CP office. Please confirm

Hi All,

Summarizing Details for location and venue,

Time: 10:00 AM

Address:
8A, Vandana building,
11 - Tolstoy road, Connaught place
Delhi-110001, INDIA

By Metro: Get down at Janpath and five minutes walking towards Tolstoy Road. Near to British Council.

Google Maps Link to destination: https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Vandana+Building/@28.626722,77.221564,18z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x390cfd345ef00445:0xd5e7525211788229

In case of any other assistance you can reach me at 9999445689 or mail on this group.

Thank You

Done

Hi All,
I think we can use social sites and http://meetup.com/ to reach huge amount of people.

@Swapnil - There is no need to create new group. We already have group at meetup & we can use that to schedule meetup. Thats what we were using last year.

http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-India/

Hi Everyone,

Our mailing list is active now. Please subscribe over here http://list.drupalcampdelhi.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dcd

I also want to be a part of DCD and looking forward about the event.

http://www.meetup.com/Drupal-India/events/207754492/

People interested to be a part of different event teams, please join us tomorrow.

Can someone share the planned event budget?

Is there a shared google doc?

Megan Sanicki (Associate Director, DA) is planning to visit India in January for 2-3 weeks. She will be visiting Delhi and few other cities and connect with the local community folks. This was discussed in a meeting between Megan and a few community leaders from India, Shyamala R, Rahul Dewan and Jacob Singh, at DrupalCon Amsterdam last week.

It was also discussed that it would be great to have Drupal Camps or Meetups in these cities around those dates as the community presence would be maximum for Megan to interact with.

Does it make sense for us to organise DCD in Jan'15 and have Megan as one of the keynote speakers? As suggested by Jacob, this would also help us plan the event better as we are running short on time for dates in Dec.

"DCD is the largest camp, and it will be a pity if Megan cannot see this in action.", said Rahul Dewan. His proposal is to use the same dates in Dec (or sooner) to have a large scale Codesprint in Delhi (instead of the Camp).

Your thoughts?

Jacob has also suggested having a central organising committee comprising people who agree to spend 5-10 hours weekly for at least a 2 month period before the event, which coincidentally I have been proposing in the past 2 meetups. Your thoughts again?

On a slightly different note, all the documents (budgets, sponsors, speakers et al) for the past 3 Drupal Camps in Delhi can be found here - http://goo.gl/h6IGNv.

Although, I have tried to consolidate all the info that we had on DCD over the years, still if you feel anything is missing, please feel free to reach out.

Cheers!

P.S. - Appreciate the patience if you have reached here.

It great that someone from drupal association is coming to India but I don't think this is good reason to shift DCD to Jan 2014. Because then we need to plan every thing according to the dates they will be available and any shift on those date at last time will affect our event.

DCD a community event which we do and attend every year. I talked to other people and it felt discouraging to them that we are thinking to shift DCD to Jan 2014 and missing a year in between just to show someone else our community strength.

I feel that we should go for organizing DCD in Dec 2014 in full throttle as planned earlier and then in January we can organize a big Drupal Meetup.

It’s a great idea & it’s nice that we are going into right direction.

We have always talked about it, to have responsibility of all things related to DCD on certain people. Who can lead others to make this event successful. But we never reached on any conclusion ever..

I would also like to chip in this group. I understand the responsibility of being part of the group as I have been actively shared the responsibility to make DCD successful for last three years. I can spend 5-10 hours of my personnel time during planning & execution of the event..

If experience of others with me during organizing this event have been satisfactory, then please consider my volunteering for the event in this organizing committee.

Thanks,

Nice suggestion and having an organizing committee will help to plan things in right manner and get decisions quickly. I vote in favor.

Some suggestion from my end

If we can have an open opportunity for getting in this organizing group based on their contribution in organizing events and meetup in future. People from other cities who were active in there cities will be left out when moved to delhi. Lets nominate someone also who can restructure this group each year or in 2 years.

It shall not be a Company affair of people in this group because we have listed down names with employers as people from other companies are also eager to participate but coz of company affairs they feel left out. If we are having a company affair then lets get member from each company this will get equal contribution from all Drupal firms working in Delhi.

All above suggestions are just to avoid partial behavior which is the big issue which comes out whenever we have an organizing committee.

Hi Nagella,

We are planning a Meetup + training in hyderabad, tentatively on 18th Oct 2014. I will be creating the event in hyderabad group. Do watch out for updates there.

@tajinder.minhas: Right there with you. This is an effort to democratize decision making AND create accountability. Not a standing thing, just a group to lead the community effort for the event. Would be re-formed every year depending on who shows up.

@parth_gohil: Got it. sorry. As I said, I'm not super involved, I'm just trying to facilitate the process and those are the names I heard. My bad.

@RajeevK: That's great.

@Mayank: How are you on all this? Can you setup a standing meeting with the folks I named and contact/consider Prath and Rajeev who would also like to be part of it?

I would advise against having a group larger than 5-6 people. It gets very messy to manage and take decisions. Can we as a community just empower the 4 people I named, or do others feel they need to be part of this core group?

Honestly, it doesn't matter much, everyone will be involved, and people who are involved will have a say in things, but we need some clear leadership just to move forward or we will get stuck in "consensus by internet" for the rest of our lives and no one wants that :) I'd like to not get stuck on "who is in the government", it's really not that important. Credit goes to everyone who participates.

Best,
Jacob

Cool. I think we've got momentum.

Can you all update the group on the status of the date change (if any), and perhaps share a work plan that people can sign up to participate in?

There will be a meetup at the Acquia office / Stirring minds coworking on Asif Ali rd on the 17th.

If you're coming, please register so we can plan:
http://drupal-delhi-oct.doattend.com/

The registrations are open again.

Some folks from Pune are waiting on date confirmation, can we please have that finalised? I understand that it depends on the venue and other factors but getting an ETA would help as well.

This would help everyone who plan to attend DCD and to make appropriate arrangements.

Thanks!

@all: We have a confirmation for 10th and 11th January for DCD 2015! :)

Cheers!

Finally dates are fixed! :)

Mayank, Please share the booking details, need to workout the sessions plan too.

Great news!!! DCD Dates are finalized.

Everyone, here are things that were discussed in last Meeting.

Things which have been finalized
* 10 and 11th Jan, dates finalized.
* Megan coming for the Keynote.

Things to be done.
* JNU Booking to be done. (1 Audi, 2 LT, 1 committee hall - Day 1), (Day 2 - Conference hall)
* Audi
* Keynote.
* 150+ for Drupal training
* Contact Colleges, Placement cell. (Volunteers needed)
* Conference room
* CXO / Lightning talks
* How to sell Drupal to your clients. (May Be, or something similar for Marketing people.)
* 1st LT
* Drupal specific Sessions.
* 2nd LT
* Preferable Non Drupal specific Sessions OR Pad time with a Code sprint OR some other Drupal sessions.
* Open Source (finalized) - Pavithra / Vaibhav
* MongoDB (may be) - Pavithra / Vaibhav
* Symfony (To be reached) - Mayank / Srijan
* Angular.js (To be reached) - Mayank / Srijan
* Catering
* Same catering will be used as was last time.
* Multiple counters (4)
* Only veg food.
* Sponsorships
* Brackets
* 50K - 6 sponsors Max.
* Booth
* Sponsors banner on homepage
* Goodies in reg kit.
* Logo in Mailers.
* Tweets.
* Logo on banner, standee on venue
* 25K - 8 sponsors Max.
* Shared booth (with 1 to 2 more)
* Logo on sponsors page.
* Tweets
* Logos on banners and standees

Will keep posting in this thread.

Yes Dipen,
These are non drupal sessions. These sessions would be from the people who are in the top list in their specific domain (we are trying to get the best people), and who will be contacting them.
Also, these would be special guest sessions, (so that we may explore new areas and integrate those with Drupal), and we are not planning them to post any request for a session in the camp.

Good News!

DCD 2015 site is up now (sorry without theme). Have a look at http://drupalcampdelhi.prod.acquia-sites.com/

The Website design is here -> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxrdLpYLdWRrT3J5Tm9Bclg5Z3Ezbm5kYkRNbH...

Thanks to Neeraj and Tajinder.

Hi, I mistakenly join this group.But are you guys planning for drupal camp 2014 I really want to attend that.I have attended the previous one in Jawahar lal nehru campus.I am new to drupal but still if i can help you in website content mgmt n ol i will .ol d bst for the event:):).

Domain now points to Acquia cloud -> http://2015.drupalcampdelhi.com/

Please review the site, add any bugs you see here -> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10vXtEuTTHj0E9DZcAWmvs5QwVu49Iziu...
ignore UI please, Design coming soon :)

So finally Jan 2015. Waiting for the day......... "Drupal Camp Delhi 2015"....

Great, Thanks Rohit for taking this live.
A big thanks fo Madhukar Kothari for UI and Neeraj Kapila for Design.
Please file if there are any issues / bugs, in the spreadsheet shared last time. There are few know UI issues, and will be resolved soon.
Prashant / Mayank, please go ahead with the call for papers / sessions.
Expecting Mayank to share the PPT for marketing and guest session soon.
Any updates on Drupal Training and Hackathon, have you (Prashant, Mayank) guys started with it ?

This is enough just remember dates and venue :P and you are good to attend DCD