DrupalCamp NH 2011

In case you've been living under a rock somewhere in New Hampshire, or elsewhere in the northern New England area, DrupalCampNH 2011 is currently accepting registrations AND session submissions.

Okay... it's taken longer than I'd hoped, and I'm still not 100% on ALL the details on the site, but I'm ready to open this up for testing.

In order to prevent "too much" testing, I'm putting up a password to access the site, but rather than attempting to email everyone that has offered to help test, I'm just going to put that info here, at the minimum limiting the testing group to anyone that stumbles across this post...

The development/beta site can be found at http://dev.drupalcampnh.org, and the access login is demo/demo

We now have a venue/date for DrupalCampNH 2011!!

So I FINALLY just nailed down my contact at SNHU again after her vacation, and discussed pinning down our details for camp.

It appears that October 1st will not work now... another large group that was going to be on campus (booked previously) also took the auditorium that we'd need for the proposed event size.

I have an unconfirmed confirmation of a great Keynote speaker for DrupalCampNH 2011... :)

I'm not going to tell you guys for now, until after the venue and date are confirmed, and we can get a final confirmation from the speaker, but I'll just let you know... It's a good one!! :)

I'm willing to entertain a thread here as to guesses as to who the Keynote speaker will be... (And for those of you that saw my preview of the website at the last Manchester meetup, it is NOT President Obama or G.W. Bush... It's way better!! lol)

More announcements & hush hush details to follow!!

Okay, so I have been hard at work to complete two major tasks here... The website that I briefly demoed at the meetup last week is now at about 90-95% functionality and all but a few sections are themed and styled appropriately. Sponsors being the big element to really finish up.

I plan to have a dev site available by the end of this week for beta testing/QA. This site will be password protected (htaccess) to avoid to much traffic or randoms getting in, and will not be posting the user/password in the group to avoid the same kind of thing.

I just took a few moments to setup a splash page for DrupalCampNH today so that it at least looks like a site & camp is coming soon!

http://drupalcampnh.org/

I have the homepage of the development site mostly done, minus a few small items for the sidebar. I will be giving a quick peek at that development version (localhost only for at least another week) at the Manchester Meetup tonight.

The following is what we're estimating for a schedule on the day of event. This is open for a little discussion, but the times make fair sense in line with most camps, and getting in as much as possible into the day.

My hope still is that the venue can have 4 rooms (5 would be amazing). Assuming 4 rooms, the Keynote room (largest room) will have the Opening/Closing/Keynote/Featured Sessions, then 2 rooms possibly for voted sessions, then another for BOF/General Discussion/Coding.

Morning

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. : Volunteer Organization & Setup

As I mentioned at the Summit on Saturday, I have begun work on a concept (that so far I'm really loving) for the DrupalCamp NH 2011 website. In this post, I'm attaching two images, the first, the basic design comp for the homepage, and second one with numbered guides to go with the descriptions below... Please make sure to leave your feedback in the comments... I'm excited to hear any criticism at all (constructive of course) :) Once we agree on a homepage, I'll make a version for internal pages. There are notes below on some considerations for this design.