LinuxFest Northwest is happening on the weekend of April 26-27, 2008, 10 AM to 5 PM both days, in Bellingham. In spite of its name, it's intended to be an open-source festival, not just Linux.
At the March SeaDUG meeting, we discussed how to get a Drupal presence going at LinuxFest Northwest. This Wiki page (feel free to edit) is for planning how to do that.
There are 3 main ways for us to get involved with LinuxFest. The sign-up deadline of April 1st has passed now! Several people are giving talks, but we didn't get enough interest for a booth, so we do not have one.
Attend
Who is attending? Which days? Where are you staying?
- Jennifer - plan to attend both days and stay over night; I just made a reservation at the Travelodge, 101 North Samish Way, (360) 733-8280, $60 per night (plus tax). Carpool anyone? I could take up to 3 other people in my relatively small but fairly comfortable 4-door hatchback (plenty of room for luggage). I live in south Shoreline (near 145th & Aurora).
By the way, there is a shuttle bus from North Seattle Community College available.
Talks
We can give talks about Drupal at LinuxFest. Here are some ideas (some of which came from the SeaDUG March meeting):
- Angus Pratt is already signed up for "0 to 60mph - 5 page Corporate Website In 45 Minutes", which will be an introduction to creating a business web site in Drupal. Since I'm still creating this presentation I would be happy to tailor it to whatever might fit as a more general introduction to Drupal. (Note to Jakob: I would be happy to see Drupal added to the title I just don't quite know who to ask to do that.)
- Jennifer Hodgdon signed up to give "Custom Content Types for Drupal Web Sites" (CCK and Views overview)
- David Hazel Drupal GOTCHA'S - Hardening and Optimizing your Drupal site. With a strong community and robust core, Drupal, an open source content management platform, is a solid foundation on which to build your website, whether it be community or corporate. The community has contributed almost 3500 (3472), this can be a bit overwhelming for someone trying to put up a Drupal site that is fast and secure. This talk will cover some of the easiest, and most important things you can do to improve the performance and security of your site.
- Ubercart - Jakob
Booth
As a non-commercial exhibitor, we can get a free (small) booth at LinuxFest with an Internet connection. If we do that, for maximum effect, we would need to have someone sitting at the booth for the whole festival. If we want to do this, we need to have people sign up to staff the booth for the following shifts:
a) Saturday 9:30 AM (set-up) to noon
b) Saturday noon - 3 PM
c) Saturday 3 PM - 5:30 PM (stow monitors, cables, etc.)
d) Sunday 9:30 AM (setup) to noon
e) Sunday noon - 3 PM
f) Sunday 3 PM - 5:30 PM (cleanup)
Who would like to sign up? If we get 6 people signed up, then we can figure out what to display. Sign up here (include which shift(s) you would be willing to do:
Definitely willing to staff booth:
1. Jennifer - one session, any time/date
2. [[http://groups.drupal.org/user/7909 |Angus Pratt]]
3. Andrew Becherer - One Sunday session that does not conflict with my speaking schedule.
4. David Hazel - One Session that does not conflict with my speaking or volunteer schedule.
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Maybe willing to staff booth:
1. Bram Wessel - Not sure yet if I can get away that weekend, but if I do go, I can man the booth for a shift or two.
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Note: Not enough people signed up to staff the booth, so we are not having one!
Booth Ideas for next year:
- Drupal Camp promotion
- Show/tell what Drupal does
- List Drupal talks happening at LinuxFest
- Area Drupal user groups to get involved with
- Pass out promotional materials from those staffing the both, for the whole festival
- Jakob said he might be able to supply a nice big monitor
We were also offered a room to hosting a Drupal Track. The idea would be to have scheduled talks, and then more informal workshops when presentations aren't going on. Maybe next year, if we have enough interest - the organizers of LinuxFest were open to the idea, but we didn't feel like we had enough people to staff a room for the whole fest, if we couldn't even staff a booth.