Cool: Proposal just in time ,-)
The German Drupal Community is proud to nominate Berlin for DrupalCon Europe 2010 or 2011. See attached PDF for details.
[UPDATE]
During the hectic excitement around the preparation of our proposal, Isabell Schultz's name came up in some discussions. In a moment of over-enthusiasm, it was included in our proposal by mistake.
We apologize unreservedly to her for our error. She has not been involved in the preparation of our proposal in any way and her neutrality as a juror should not be doubted. The error was entirely ours.
The current, revised version of our proposal does not include her name.
DrupalCon Germany Team
[UPDATE 091009]
You're welcome to join the Q&A IRC Session on tuesday 13. september at 20:00 Berlin local time. Join us #drupalcon IRC channel. Thank you for your interest.
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Today we got a date: 6.9.10 - 10.9.10
Today Krystyna from the TU-Berlin confirmed the date in September 2010.
We are welcome from Monday 06. September till Friday 10. September in Berlin at the TU-Berlin Campus in central Berlin. Take a look at the http://www.tu-berlin.de/menue/ueber_die_tu_berlin/parameter/en/ and click on "3D-Campus" for a 3D Model in google earth.
Plan your trip to Berlin from the weekend before until the weekend after the Con to have enough time to enjoy Berlin.
Stephan
Questions for the Germany Team
After reading through the proposal, I've got a few questions.
-- At this point in time, who do you see filling the role of 'lead organizer' that will coordinate between the organizing team, the Drupal Association and the logistics company? Will that position be salaried?
-- How do you see the respective roles of the event organizer and of the local teams combining effectively? See: Technical, Food, Trade Fair, Venue. My understanding is that a logistics company will be hired to help coordinate between the actual running of the conferences and the Drupal-specific portions.
-- Where do you see a place for implementation/project planning within the current track structure?
-- On the 'Open Source/Unity' track. How do you see this DrupalCon being inclusive of other open source content management systems?
-- One group that seems to be missing from the proposal is the DrupalGangers. Can you clarify what your vision is for including them as part of DrupalCon Berlin?
Looking forward to hearing more!
RE: Question
Dear Amye,
sorry for the delay in answering your questions.
At this point in time we couldn't appreciate how much time and work this position needs. If it's possible we will fill the position with someone from inside the community. If we foresee that a fulltime position is necessary we need to think about a salary. We discuss this point with the Drupal Initiative.
Good question. I think actually no one knows the proper procedere because it's the first time ;-) But imho in case of berlin, most of the relevant points (eg. renting the location, dealing with the catering company and local traffic organisation) can be done from the local teams in cooperation with a non-profit association (eg. drupal initiative or
drupal association). If the community decided not to take the university as the place for the con, it's necessary to reshuffle the pack. apart from that helping hands are always welcome ,-)
Actual our plan is to rent 14 rooms (smaller ones up to 50 people, the middle ones up to 200 people and the large rooms for up to 1000). The idea is that a part of this space could be used for implementation/project and BOFs.
In Germany, we have begun exploring common ground between various FOSS projects. We are all becoming convinced that we need to position Open Source IT against Closed Source IT in the marketplace and stop wasting our energy and losing potential jobs on infighting between Drupal, Joomla!, Typo3 and so on. The Typo3 project invited a Drupalista (jam from Acquia) to give a presentation at their recent annual conference in Frankfurt: "10 Reasons why you might choose Drupal for your project". Our idea is to invite other projects to give similar presentations and show off what they do best. We all have a lot to learn from each other because each project has its strong and weak points. So the initial idea is to have a series of presentations from prominent members of other OS projects; we hope this will open the way to more inclusive experiences going forward, but also to give us (the Drupal project) the chance to learn new things from sources that we have not yet seen or experienced.
When we were preparing our proposal, we wanted to produce a clearly superior Drupal experience and make that as clear as possible. Given the extremely tight time constraints that were upon us (since we also had an open, national decision-making process driving the selection of the city and much internal debate in general), the excellent venue, booking conditions, the strength of our team, ideas and so on all had first priority. The DrupalGängers has become a fixed part of the DrupalCon "tradition", and we certainly intend to facilitate the best possible experience. Berlin itself is our biggest ally on this front with its dozens of world-class museums, points of historical interest, culture and nightlife as well as endless parks, a friendly populace and excellent public transport. We will start making specific plans regarding guided tours, childcare and so on following some information gathering (we need to know some preliminary numbers and would like to do some kind of survey to kick this all off) and once budgetary issues are a little clearer overall.
Best regards
Stephan
A few pics from the possible location
Take a look at TU-Berlin the possible location for the DrupalCon 2010 in Berlin.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephan_luckow/sets/72157622568702528/
BTW: Salary
As a result of our discussion we're thinking that with the help from DA & the event company there is no need for a full time position in the local community. So no extra salary will be needed for the organisation of the german DrupalCon.
Stephan
The chatlog from Berlin Q & A IRC meeting 12. Oct. 2009
The chatlog from Berlin Q & A IRC meeting 12. Oct. 2009.
additional venue information
Moin,
there are not so many places in berlin for up to 2000 guests. Our suggestion TU-Berlin is definitly our favorite. But here are some other places to check out.
Messe Berlin http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/Internet/Internet/www.messe-b...
(the place for Linuxtag 2008 & Linuxtag 2009, the biggest one for up to 200.000 (?) guests)
berlin congress center http://www.bcc-berlin.de/en/home/index
(the place for the annual Chaos Communication Congress, fantastic place in the middle of berlin)
Estrel Berlin http://www.estrel.de/
(nice but not so central)
If you need on site support, let me know.
Stephan