drupal camp

Due to the bad exchange rate, and the general distrust of international outsourcing local clients are completely unwilling to pay people overseas to do any development, and the lack of (quality?) Drupal developers
makes the Drupal industry here stillborn.

I have several friends who are now doing freelance development, who areeither interested in, or have started doing Drupal development here in South Africa. All of these people I introduced / got interested in doing Drupal, and most of them just need a short introduction to get them up to speed.

So in the interest of getting my friends into the fold and improving the community, I have decided I want to run a short primer course on Drupal, for people who already know php / web development.

We've talked about this a little, but it's worth reading Zacker's post-mortem writeup about the San Francisco Drupal Camp.

Based upon the attendance at the last meeting we had
~10 folks
~7 relatively new users
~4 people looking to hire someone

I'd say we've got a mix to try to create a similar event in Denver and draw in folks from the Western plains and the Mountain states.