Drupal Design Camp LA

http://thinkvitamin.com/code/css3/free-css3-video-course-24-hours-only/

I propose we come up with a (or several) reusable DESCRIPTION(s) of Drupal for use in proposals to clients... you know, the people who aren't geeked out on Drupal, and, quite the contrary, have no (expletive) clue what it is, or what it does.... and mainly, WHAT THE BENEFIT(S) IS OF DEVELOPING IN IT IS(ARE).

I feel like descriptive text should distill itself down to about 2 sentences that provide a widely applicable (and perhaps wildly general) concept of why clients should commit to the Drupal platform.

Here's my stab:

Being a relative Noob, I'm very interested in Drupal best practices. Attending DDCLA was about the best thing for me.

One thing that kept happening was hearing the presenter saying "There's a module for that!" OK, but I didn't write them all down, and there were so many across the sessions I know I missed most of them. What might seem obvious to some are not so for newbies like myself.

Maybe someone's got a nice list of the modules mentioned during DDCLA? Where? Maybe post here?

Thanks!
Jeff

Who's going to Drupal Design Camp LA this year? Feel free to post here if you're looking for co-presenters or rideshares. There's also a discussion in the San Diego group about rideshares to DDCLA.

Even if you don't need a rideshare or a co-presenter at the camp, please vote up this post so that others can easily find it on the group's Recent activity tab. Thanks!

It was pointed out to me today that there isn't enough promotion going on for the upcoming Drupal Design Camp LA conference, so I wanted to post a status update. In case you haven't heard, we're having a design-oriented DrupalCamp in the spirit of Design for Drupal and the Drupal Design Camp conferences in Boston, the Bay Area and Prague. It's coming up on February 5-6th. There will also be a full day of Drupal training the day beforehand on February 4th.

Is anyone able to join me for a site visit to the Spring Arts Tower in Downtown LA next week? The venue is already booked for the Drupal Everywhere and Drupal Design Camp LA events, so this visit will be for evaluating nearby parking, where to up registration, seating, projection/presentation space, and so on.

As one of DrupalCamp LA's lead organizers, my sense is that DrupalCamp LA has moved out of the realm of what a camp is and into the realm of large summits and conferences. I talked a little bit about this in a recent LA DrupalCast episode, and while I definitely thought DrupalCamp LA 2010 was a lot of fun and a moderately successful event, I think DrupalCamp LA occupies a strange place in the spectrum of camps, summits and cons.

If you haven't been to camps other than DrupalCamp LA or if you're wondering what this "Design for Drupal" stuff is, please bear with me and read the entire post and my comments below.