FLDC15 Planning kick-off

Posted by ultimike on November 25, 2014 at 8:06pm

Seeing how we're behind the 8-ball a little bit in planning FLDC15, Mike Herchel, Dennis Solis, and I just had a quick call about how best to proceed. The call was open to anyone paying attention in the #drupal-florida IRC channel.

Based on a number of factors, we decided to pursue Florida Technical College (FTC) as the venue for next year's camp. If available, this will greatly simplify the planning: we know them, they know us.

As for dates, we're looking at April 11 as our ideal date at this point. This is 1 month before DrupalCon LA, and a couple of weeks after MidCamp and NYC Camp. This will give us 3+ full (non-holiday) months to get all our ducks in a row.

None of this is set in stone and all of it is up for debate. In the interest in getting things moving, I've already started the conversation with FTC (nothing to report yet).

The more people who can participate in this discussion, the better. Let us know if we're missing anything, if you think this is the best idea since sliced bread (mmmm, sandwiches) or if we're totally off our rockers (in which case, it was all Herchel's idea).

Thanks,
-mike

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Posted by mherchel on November 25, 2014 at 8:12pm

Only local images are allowed.

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This all sounds good to me so

Posted by alexdmccabe on November 25, 2014 at 8:39pm

This all sounds good to me so far.

Herchel - don't be making fun

Posted by densolis on November 26, 2014 at 1:59am

Herchel - don't be making fun of Alvin!

What do you think of making each years camp website a sub-domain of fldrupalcamp.org? This way we can keep the old session slide show around for a while. I noticed badcamp does this.

Ha :) Anyway, I think we

Posted by mherchel on November 26, 2014 at 2:53am

Ha :)

Anyway, I think we already do this. See http://2013.fldrupalcamp.org/ and http://2012.fldrupalcamp.org/

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Yes

Posted by JCL324 on November 26, 2014 at 5:16am

I had to take 2011.fldrupalcamp.org offline, something was in there sucking up server resources. And I need to get 2014.fldrupalcamp.org up from devPanel. We always have the current year active but it just points to fldrupalcamp.org.

Also, I purchased fldrupal.camp when .camp became available in late spring. Maybe a new marketing hook?

JCL

Ah - was not aware we did that.

Posted by densolis on November 26, 2014 at 3:15am

Mike,

Ah- was not aware we did that. Very nice.

Settingup DC 2015

Posted by densolis on November 26, 2014 at 3:22am

All,

As I understand it, the plan is to re-use the 2014 site / software and re-theme it for 2015. I can copy the 2014 site to the 2015 site and start removing the 2014 content orders after Thanksgiving.