Having watched
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupalcamp-how-and-q
I'm somewhat persuaded to be proactive and plan a Drupal Camp.
Now here is what I think it should look like:
Drupal Camp Jamaica
August 2010
Planning for 100 participants - not going too big, keeping it simple
1 day event
Location UWI [Either MSB or Chemistry]
2 tracks
$500 registration -[To be reduced based on sponsorship]
Atendee Package Material: Nametag, Stickers, Program, advertisements, Internet, Food and Drink
All sessions recorded and archived on website.
Sponsorship from places like - TECH: UWI(MSB, MITS, Computing), Panmedia, other Drupal Shops, and perhaps even the Government
FOOD: Juicy Patties, Grace, WATA
OTHER: Digicel, Claro, JCS, ICT4D, Hot off the Press or other printers.
Budget: $150K - 200K
Tracks to cover topics like: Intro to Drupal, Site building, Scalability, How to run a Drupal Shop, Drupal in Libraries, Drupal in Schools, Running a Large Drupal project, Maintaining multiple sites with Drupal, SMS and Drupal, Small Business and Drupal, Fire your Webmaster, Drupal and Communities, Theming, Module Dev, Drupal hosting, E-comerce using Ubercart and Drupal, Why Drupal Makes business sense, Advanced Drupal - etc, etc, etc....
We could import an influential Community member for a keynote speech and one or 2 of the tracks
Invite other Caribbean Druaplists - Trinidad, Barbados etc.
Invite: Corporate Jamaica, Students, Hobbyists, Small Business Owners, Other web Developers [Joomla, Plone, PHP, .NET], othere open source groups [JALUG]
WHATS NEEDED NOW:
-Commitment - people to help plan and implement
-Sponsors - To help with funding
-Volunteers - Willing hands to work before and During the day
-Links - If you know someone who knows someone who can help us
-Feedback - These are my plans - throw them out the window if you think stuff wont work and take new and fresh stuff to the board
Comments
Drupal
Why not look further afield for sponsorship and lets do it regionally.....and have a fellowship so that other can attend.
There will always be groups in TT and Jam but we really need to integrate the people from the other islands so as to get some critical mass and increase the opportunities for advancement.
BTW, i need to know the story about the CIVIC platform..Where is it currently? What do we ned to do to get it into use?
Rudi Daniel of DanielCharles Consultants
This would be the first camp,
This would be the first camp, I'm not too enthused to create something big. We just want to have a successful camp for this one. Success is the major focus and not necessarily reach, perhaps the second camp [Feb, 2011 or so] can go big based on the experiences.
That although doesn't limit foreign attendance.
With regards to CIVIC, I think the Administrators are the ones who have decided not to fully launched the site. The site has the infrastructure to support a vibrant community - blogs, forum, mailing-lists articles, etc... unless there are features missing.
Reviving this thread.
From our last meetup I promised to revive this thread.
Based on these items
WHATS NEEDED NOW:
-Commitment - people to help plan and implement
-Sponsors - To help with funding
-Volunteers - Willing hands to work before and During the day
-Links - If you know someone who knows someone who can help us
-Feedback - These are my plans - throw them out the window if you think stuff wont work and take new and fresh stuff to the board
I will delegate some roles.
mscale, Francia, bluecopper & dic_son - I am assigning you the roles of Project managers for this event as well administrative officers. Basically I want you to ensure everyone is aptly performing their role and to keep all project resources including people and facilities documented and accounted for.
URGENT TASKS: Date of event, Location, Budget, Sponsorship
frazras, axle_foley00, epocolis & varunity - will be planning the topics of the presentations, sourcing presenters and timetabling the whole event.
URGENT TASKS: Topics (relevant to Drupal in Jamaica), source presenters, organise tracks
trevorforrest, sumosystems, canen & mboodraj - will be in charge of promoting this event across the island to corporate Jamaica, schools and other technology/open source related groups.
URGENT TASKS: List target groups, gather contacts, design marketing material, determine publication methods, assist in finding sponsorship
If your name isnt listed here or you feel you are more comfortable in a different role please make it known. For those who are listed, yesterday is a nice date to start.
Volunteer
I'll help with the organization of the topics and tracks as well as the sourcing of the presenters....
Sure, I'd be happy to help.
Sure, I'd be happy to help.
First Drupal Conference
I'd be happy to help.
I have one question, when is the new target date? T
BTW, I came to the location for the last meetup, at 6:30pm, but the grill was locked. Unfortunately, I couldn't call because of problems with the phone. I waited around for 15 - 20 mins, then left because I saw no one and I didn't want to disturb the meeting by making a lot of noise. Was a decision taken to lock the grill when the meeting starts or was it kept at another location?
I ignore my question
I just re-read the post. Ignore my question. Team members when and how do we meet. Via skype? At a physical location. Which date. Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday afternoon between 6 - 8 is good for me.
Skype account: michaeldixonjm
Fortunately I had my phone
Fortunately I had my phone when I arrived and called Rohan who told me they were actually upstairs and not in the usual room.
Project Management
When is the revised date?
I would be happy to provide assistance/guidance with respect to project management.
Cool mboodraj, Maybe you
Cool mboodraj,
Maybe you could prepare something on managing Drupal projects then?
Re: meeting. Skype works well for me. My skype username is varun.baker
OK Great
OK Great, I'm glad to hear all the positive responses.
In terms of a meeting, I would prefer that we meet as sub-committees before a larger meeting.
That means the three groups mentioned previously:
A. Project Management/Administration [Group Alpha]
B. Event Planning & Presentations [Group Beta]
C. Marketing and Promotions [Group Gamma]
mboodraj: I sugget that you join group ALPHA.
We should start a New thread to discuss all related issues per group and a possible meeting time on skype. I hear DimDim is also a great online meeting place.
After all the plans have been discussed and documented, then we can come back here to arrange a larger virtual meeting and perhaps a physical Meetup.
I will now take the initiative and start a thread for Group Beta, please follow suite. Cross collaboration on threads is also encouraged.
LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR REPLY
Hi, Okay so Im alil late on this. Is the CAMP still on, has it passed? If not I suggest we meet in person at our monthly meeting twice or so and layout the ground work This will ensure everyone has the same information or understanding. Also it will give a sense of who is working with who.
I am enthused about this venture but I believe in planning before the actual planning of the camp starts
Glad about your enthusiasm,
Glad about your enthusiasm, Seems like no one assigned to the tasks took up a leading role. I guess this will be like a wheel barrow, wont move unless its pushed.
Please look at the ALPHA, BETA or GAMMA sub groups to see which role you best fit and try to lead out in the tasks assigned. maybe someone else might offer to help.
A. Project Management/Administration [Group Alpha]
Could we have a virtual meeting?
What time and date?
I will set up the DimDim meeting room, and we can use Google talk to supplement.
Group Alpha Virtual Meeting
I had suggested a meeting via skype but if anyone wants to use Dimdim or IM that is fine for me. Afternoons is best for me. I can be available on weekends, except Sundays. If we must speak on a Sunday late afternoon is good for me.
Virtual meetings
Skype : michaeldixonjm
DimDim: scytalejm
Gtalk : michaeldixonjm@gmail.com
topics for drupal Camp
I think we already have the topics for Drupal camp.
Intro to Drupal, Site building, Scalability,
How to run a Drupal Shop,
Drupal in Libraries,
Drupal in Schools,
Running a Large Drupal project,
Maintaining multiple sites with Drupal,
SMS and Drupal,
Small Businesses and Drupal,
Fire your Webmaster,
Drupal and Communities,
Theming,
Module Dev,
Drupal hosting,
E-comerce using Ubercart and Drupal,
Why Drupal Makes business sense,
Advanced Drupal
Is tomorrow night OK for everyone?
Say around 8pm? Tomorrow night. Can we have a quick meeting at that time?
is tomorrow night OK for everyone?
I can work with that time. Where do we meet? DimDim, skype or IM?
I think dim dim is easier,
I think dim dim is easier, especially if its an open room, or even better we can use IRC like real Drupalist we can just go to freenode and log into #jadrug, or as was suggested, multitechnology, we can utilise the advantages of all of the above listed.
Will be available @ 8 on Thursday
Will be available @ 8 for a short time. Dimdim preferred.
I could set up the room if you want.
Oh...by the way, Thursday is better for me.
Please let us work with the set date
I am signed in to DimDim. my user name is scytalejm.
@mscale We have waited a very long time for the meeting. Please let us not postpone it again. Let us meet even for 15 minutes.
Meeting
Will be here until 9 PM for any one available for a meeting to discuss Drupal Camp
http://meeting.mona.uwi.edu:80/dimdim/GetJoinConferenceForm.action?meeti...
meeting
Browser hung up.
Will restart the meeting.
Meeting now
http://meeting.mona.uwi.edu:80/dimdim/GetJoinConferenceForm.action?meeti...
Meeting
OK so lets get an official online meetup, I am suggesting 2, Tuesday & Thursday 6pm. We can do initial stuff on tuesday and finalise on thursday. im gonna set up an event please signup
New to Drupal
I'm new to drupal and would like to know if you have any meeting scheduled for this year in Jamaica. Also how did the last meeting go?
Nicky
Last meetup and next one
There is a proposed meeting on Feb 9th, 2011 at Chilito's. The last meetup was held on January 6, 2011 also at Chilitos. We had a great turnout and lots of interesting discussions. It was our Kingston Version of the Drupal 7 Release Party.
Ok; thanks for the info
Ok; thanks for the info Ureekah. I work up the road from Chilito's so it would be no problem getting there. Please reply with the start time. Thanks again.
Nicky
February Meetup
The time has not been firmly decided yet. As a guide the last meetup was slated to start at 6pm and went way into the night. So plan to get there anytime after work and stay as long as you want to or are able to.
If you want the exact time, then just subscribe to the group and check your messages or check the group closer to the day for an update on the time.
Besides, I'm sure someone else will respond to you with more information in a bit.
@JaDrupal Yea, the next
@JaDrupal Yea, the next meetup is @ Chilitos Wednesday at 6pm (Feb 9th). The discussion is here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/123644#comment-404294
I will create the event on the group page so that people can signup.