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