Planning wiki
Welcome to the LA DrupalCamp planning wiki.
DrupalcampLA Basics
Basics
Date: September 8-9 (tentative)
Venue: TBD (needs to be a medium sized space with a common area plus 2-3 rooms with tables, chairs, and projectors, seating about 20-30 people each. needs to be available from 9am Saturday to 3pm Sunday).
Speakers:
- Acheive Internet is sending folks
- Silona Bonewald might be able to come present
- Us Local folk can lead sessions
- (do we need anyone else? Planning to put out an open call.)
Tracks
- Developers: Installaton, hosting, custom modules, what's next for Drupal 6
- Designers: Theming, theming, theming, best practices and examples, some overlap with Dev. track
- Site Admins (Non-Technical): The more accessible side of Drupal. Site setup and configuration, user roles, adding modules, content creation.
DrupalCampLA To Do List
Prep
- Graphics and Design
- Logo - Squidster?
- Site Design - Crystal
- Theming of this site - Crystal (anyone want to help?)
- Publicity Blitz (gathering of the drupal people we don't already know)
- Creation of a page on http://barcamp.org with basically the same info as here
- Creation of event listing on http://upcoming.yahoo.com
- Creation of event listing on http://eventful.com
- Submit open call for speakers to all appropriate sites/communities
Planning
- Find a venue
- Negotiate chairs, insurance, projectors, etc if needed
- Gather sponsorships (already have some promised)
- Send out letters to companies who would benefit from a stronger drupal community in LA
- Figure out a way to take in funds, likely a separate paypal acct. document funds
- Set a budget
- Food
- Shirts?
- Decide on speakers
- Arrange for speakers (and transport if necessary)
- Set and publish schedule
Publicity
- Blog like crazy, get press from bloggers we know
- Take in registrations and keep list updated as the date draws closer
Prizes/Giveaway
- Rhino can provide box sets/cd's/dvd's as prizes to lure participants.