Portland Event Idea: Drupal Mini-Camp

NeutralSpace can handle the location and will sponsor the event if people decide that our location is a good fit. I posted several posts about that on this page.

Thanks

Kerry Finsand

Version is a great question.

I'm reluctant to commit to a drupal 6 presentation when views for drupal 6 are still in alpha, so if covering views and arguments in 5.7 wouldn't be useful, I'd certainly be willing to attend sessions instead :)

This conference sounds like a great idea!

Like Dean, I'm not sure I have enough knowledge or experience to lead any sessions, but I'd be happy to help with grunt work. Unfortunately I don't have any connections that might lead to a venue or sponsorship, but I could help with administrative details such as registration.

I'm assuming we can discuss this at the March Drupal meeting? I plan to be there.

I'd love to help out with a community building session as well.

My idea for the political one would get into CiviCRM, organic groups, etc. But community building is definitely a different issue.

I also use Drupal for community sites and have been working to get all the neighborhood associations here in Gresham onto a free Drupal multi-site setup that I created. It's at an easy-to-remember address (unlike the city's web site) and we can put up content easily that doesn't have to be approved by the city. Currently, city pages are just contact info, minutes, bylaws, etc. and they put up events. We're planning to use it for community building.

Maybe a few of us who do these kinds of sites can help lead a session on it? That way there could be people who have expertise in different areas of this, particularly when you get into list serves and mass mailers.

I've been trying to encourage as many political groups, campaigns, community groups, etc. to use Drupal and (if needed) CiviCRM. I think having sessions that show such groups the benefits, how easy it is to use, etc. would really help get more people here using it.

Jenni Simonis
Gresham, OR

Yes, I would be interested in co-presenting on theming. I'd like to get involved, and I have more background in design, information architecture, and usability than in development.

That said, I'm also interested in co-leading a session about information architecture features of Drupal. Despite some of the major usability problems with the admin interface that Grant described at tonight's meeting (which are also being discussed quite a lot in the Usability Group), I think Drupal has the potential for excellent usability for the end-user given the powerful taxonomy-related contributed modules. Just an idea, but maybe the information architecture topic could tie in to some degree with SEO if there aren't enough people to lead separate sessions on the two topics. At a high level IA and SEO relate to findability.

Oh, if there's interest in breaking down the logistical responsibility into several smaller areas (e.g. one person doing the A/V and another managing registration), I would be happy to help with some of it. I don't think I have time to take on all logistical responsibilities, however.

i've created a wiki page for presentations here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/9748

i think as far as responsibilities, i'd like to see that done at a DrupalCamp organizational meeting rather than on a wiki page. i'll pester dave to post a org meeting event, people who'd like to volunteer can throw in a comment.

That's referring to the Skyline Ridge community site that was demoed at the Feb meeting. It was an excellent example of what you could build with Drupal by creative module use and zero coding.

Awesome. We're lucky to have you hereabouts. You might want to join us at the organising comittee, from the sound of things, or at least speak to the guy in charge of sponsorships. I do know that your setting up a conference site and reg system would be a big plus.

Grant