drupalcon

Over the last several weeks I've been contacting people in the DC Drupal community and the Drupal Association to evaluate whether DC would serve as a good space for the Spring 2009 North American DrupalCon. As we all know, it will and it will be awesome!

With our large and very active Drupal community, we'll be able to support it, and with all the nonprofits, associations, and political organizations based here there is a huge user and potential user base that we can engage and get to invest in Drupal. Our Convention Center is centrally located and surrounded by hotels and restaurants, which makes it convenient for people traveling from anywhere (including DC and the 'burbs) and for meeting and socializing after sessions are over. Plus, Washington, DC is a great city and a tourist destination in itself - it will be great to share the city with the entire Drupal community.

So, we are going to go for it. The proposal has been submitted to the Drupal Association, and now that the formalities are started, it's time to engage more people to further develop this and let the community discourse shape this into what will be an awesome conference. Here is the formal proposal we submitted if you'd like to give it a read: http://is.gd/X3m.

I just entered a proposal for the session that Aron Novak and I would like to hold in Szeged: a presentation of a new extensible aggregator in D7:

Proposal:
http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/new-aggregator-drupal-7

New aggregator:
http://drupal.org/project/new_aggregator

Hello,

are any of the http://groups.drupal.org/turkey members coming to DrupalCon Szeged 2008?

If so, I look forward to seeing you there.

mysty

A while back someone in Toronto had created a group called "Drupalcon Toronto". Although the group was denied in moderation I wanted to poke my head in the Toronto group to see if there was interest in doing a Drupalcon in Toronto and more-so if there was a group willing to put in the time and effort to pull off a Drupalcon in Toronto. A Drupalcon is a lot of work but we have some great people around the world as well as some established processes to pull it off. Maybe there are some great Drupaladians(?) that want to put together an awesome Drupalcon in Canada!

I just submitted a session/BoF/panel proposal for DrupalCon in Szeged suggesting ways of helping Drupal make greater inroads in the education sector (including research): http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/sessions/what-does-education-sector-need.... Any feedback is appreciated.

I thought I'd start a thread where we could discuss what else the Drupal in Education/Drupal in Academia and Research crowd can do in Szeged. Please post comments with suggestions/ideas for other sessions, BoFs, or just let each other know who's coming.

Alle DrupalCon Szeged Themen hier!

Wer wird da sein? Wer fährt wie hin? Wer hat freie Plätze im Auto? Wer sponsort ein paar Gruppen T-Shirts?

I think it would be awesome to have a UK drupalcon in 2009 or 2010. Does anyone have any ideas for where we could have it?

I talking to Warwick University about how much it would cost to hold it there (1200 delegates max.) but has anyone else got any ideas?

Would there be people to help out with the organisation of it, and willing to find sponsors etc?

Answers on a postcard.

http://drupal.org/node/243688

Wer fährt mit dem Auto hin?

I saw some brief discussion about DrupalCon Europe being in London next time. Anyone got any thoughts on that? Is anyone actually working on a proposal? Seems to me if it's going to happen, it will need a concerted effort from UK-based Drupal developers and businesses. Be curious to see if anything's going on/anyone is giving this any thought. The publicity would be great for all of us! :-)

That's right - come and get it!