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Building Community
- 1. Hosting Meetups, Camps,Conferences, and Online Projects Building the Community that Builds Drupal
- 2. The Presenters AmyeScavarda, msamye.com
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- 7. About this DrupalCommunity We like to gather in large groups.
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- 10. DrupalCamp Victoria BritishColumbia, Canada 2008 September Drupalcon Boston 2008
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- 12. Gather in groups...and take pictures of ourselves.
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- 14. Drupal Design CampBoston, 2009 key point-place of the Design4Drupal movement
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- 18. Oh, yes Andwe work on code.
- 19. Drupalcon Boston CodeSprint, MIT, 2008 March
- 20. But, none ofthis happens completely by accident. What makes our gatherings successful?
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- 22. Meetups The basicsof hosting small meetups also form the essentials of hosting larger events.
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- 24. How to finda Place Room at a Drupal-using institution.
- 25. A Drupal shopor major Drupal user's office.
- 26. A university's classroomor lecture hall.
- 27. A set ofrooms donated by the likes of Sun.
- 28. A restaurant orcafé with wifi found on Yelp.com
- 29. Time Finding timefor yourself to organize anything. Can't help with that.
- 30. Finding a goodtime for everyone else to attend: After 6:30 p.m. weekdays.
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- 32. Whole week fora conference.
- 33. Has anyone surveyedpotential attendees, or have any other experience or thoughts?
- 34. Telling People aboutthe Place and Time Also known as: getting people there.
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- 37. Meetup.com, there isa global group and some kind souls pay for accounts locally. Get yourself added with the ability to list events.
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- 40. Running into peoplein the street.
- 41. On beyond meetups!Actually, on beyond small meetups.
- 42. Meetups and campscome in all sizes.
- 43. Large meetups (over50) can be the size of small camps, and large camps (200) can be the size of smaller conference-size events.
- 44. Organizing a DrupalN'Go Event
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- 46. Beg, borrow orsteal
- 47. Promote, promote, promote
- 48. Good planning is crucial http://www.flickr.com/photos/25472916@N00/2889918228
- 49. Cho ose simple , achievable sites to implement
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- 51. Involve NGOmembers in the event
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- 54. Blog post: http://drupal.org/node/427410Zikomo Ireland: http://www.zikomo.org Rural Science Association: http://www.ruralsa.ie
- 55. Conferences ConferencesConferences are what happen when your gathering gets too big for any space you can conceivably beg, borrow or steal. If we consider that camps are an order of magnitude more work than meetups (on different timelines), conferences are the next stage above this. (You already know this, you're at one.)
- 56. You run intovarious new problems: Space rental. You will no longer be able to get 'in-kind sponsorships' for a space that can hold 500 people. - Contracts with the space that lock you into vendor contracts. - Regulations requiring paying certain staff people: janitors, medical staff (events over 1000) Insurance requirements for said space. Wireless access (always an issue. You'll now have more people telling you it's not working.) Planning of afterparties, and attempting to figure out what percentage of your audience is likely to attend. (All of those amazing photos are an extra in community building.) Even more effective signage. Printed programs that go through a design and revision process. Printing the programs. Getting them to the event. Projectors. Lots of them. And screens!
- 57. All of thesethings take money on a large scale. (Use your imagination for the visual.)
- 58. Yeah, it's kindoflike that.
- 59. The same principlesfor effective code sprinting apply: Break the components down into bite-size chunks for small teams. Designate mentors-leads-captains for various teams. Check in regularly with your teams. Plan in the beginning (like for calendar dates). Then, coordinate more than you plan. Keeping it real.
- 60. Virtual Communities Drupal.organd the assorted #drupal IRC channels. Drupal's Open Learning Initiative Drupal Kata – Learning how to make good projects. Drupal Dojo – Arising again, with a new fall/winter lineup * New Dojo Website * New Kata website, building off Open Atrium * Open Media Project - Integrating and extending the Open Media platform. Programs and Events * Drupal Master Class - Building a website from start to finish * Community Building - An ongoing roundtable discussion about community building
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- 63. invite great speakers(stalk and talk!)
- 64. University venue (cheapand built for crowd learning
- 65. promote at localevents
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- 67. we won't makeyou use your imagination for money
- 68. We hope youall had as much of a good time here as we did putting it on. We leave you with, how to know you are have put on a successful Drupal event. If it ends with something like this...
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Editor's Notes
- #5 This was sort of a large group for February, 2005. This gathering was in Antwerp, which I believe is counted as the first Drupal conference. Lesson: starting small can lead to big things!
- #29 Promote within NGO community Promote in Drupal community – need someone to build the site!
- #30 Like most camps – organise venue, rooms, power points, flip carts, projectors Good estimate on numbers attending Pick team leaders Have Drupal pre-installed with common modules Use drush! Provide access to server
- #31 Pick websites that are simple Limited features Use an existing theme and modify Be realistic If more than one site, choose similar groups, with easy to understand motivations
- #33 2 is good More get underfoot Get them to add content Good way to learn Initial introduction session Limit contact – everything must go through team leader