Drupalcon Chicago

I've been having a lot of conversations about HTML5 and Drupal 8 this week while in Chicago — both with people here and with people back in New York. And the Core Conversation proposal deadline is coming up soon!

This is what I'm thinking. Let's present a real-world "This Is What We Think Should Be Done". As a call-to-action, where people can get involved and there are leaders driving each thing.

I'm thinking of submitting this proposal. And present as a team, team-tag style (one person do each section):

I'd like to run with the idea for allowing conference-goers to try out assistive technology at DrupalCon Chicago.

Who wants to go to DrupalCon? I would love to set up a carpool and share a room with some folks.

Drupalcon Chicago: March 7th-10th 2011

http://chicago2011.drupal.org/tickets-and-registration

If you haven't registered yet for DrupalCon Chicago, think about doing so today. Registering now not only saves you money by getting you the early bird pricing of $350, it also lets you shape the conference to your interests and needs by voting on the proposed presentations.

Only registered attendees can vote on the proposed sessions, and the voting deadline is this Friday, December 24th at 9am ET, according to http://chicago2011.drupal.org/news/drupalcon-chicago-session-selection-p...

Hi all. I am a web developer at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. For DrupalCon Chicago, I would like to organize a panel discussion around healthcare for the Business and Strategy track.

Using the submission guidelines, I want the session to address these questions:

I completely realize that there's no rigorous scientific method to this, but I'd thrown it together in an effort to convince someone that Drupal was not a risk and was on the upswing. My argument was that the real strength of a CMS was evidenced by its developer community.

NOTE:
WordCamp SF (May 2010): 770 attendees
DrupalCon SF (Apr 2010): 3000 attendees

The Drupalcon NA Regional Organizing Committee had its first meeting in IRC today. Our initial goal was to wrap our arms around the topics that we want to consider as a group: programming, speakers, sponsors, dates, logistics and location recommendations.

The plan moving forward is to set up individual threads for topic clusters in this g.d.o group. All are welcome and encouraged to comment. The group will continue to meet in IRC for an hour every couple of weeks to drive to consensus on these topics. Our draft findings and recommendations will then be published for comment here in this group for further comment before we vote on them as a group.