Drupalcamp

Drupal community events are a great way to meet new people, grow your skills, and expand your knowledge about all things Drupal, but there are a few improvements that community organizers can leverage from our friends at WordPress to improve the experience and share resources. Below I’ve outlined my experience as an event organizer and a few areas of opportunity for the Drupal community.

From November 6th through the 9th, members of the Mediacurrent team headed to San Francisco for the Bay Area Drupal Camp. Hundreds of Drupal enthusiasts convened at the Palace of Fine Arts to take part in some fantastic sessions, code sprints, and all the San Francisco has to offer. Mark Casias and Matt Davis weigh in for Part 2 of BADCamp's highlights.

From November 6th through the 9th, members of the Mediacurrent team headed to San Francisco for the Bay Area Drupal Camp. Hundreds of Drupal enthusiasts convened at the Palace of Fine Arts to take part in some fantastic sessions, code sprints, and all the San Francisco has to offer. Below is Part 1 of their weekend highlights.

Alex McCabe

I’ve only been to San Francisco once before, and I was much younger, so the entire trip was essentially a new experience for me. San Francisco is a beautiful city, and I’d love to return sometime.

I'm very excited to be a featured speaker at this year's DrupalCamp Los Angeles on Saturday, September 6th and Sunday, September 7th. This event, held at annually at the conference center at the University of California, Irvine, is a free event for the Drupal Community of Los Angeles, Orange County, and the Greater Southern California area. My session will focus on Responsive Web Design using Sass.

Getting a new regional Drupalcamp up and running appears daunting at first, but the support of the Drupal Community helps provide a giant head start. At Drupalcon 2014 in Austin, SVP of Professional Services Jeff Diecks shared some tips to help ease into the planning process.

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Getting a new regional Drupalcamp up and running appears daunting at first, but the support of the Drupal Community helps provide a giant head start. While helping the Louisiana Drupal Users Group organize the first Drupalcamp New Orleans planned for Saturday, March 29, I've discovered a variety of helpful services to cover the basic needs for the event.

When preparing to present to your local drupal group, a drupalcon, or code group, the first decision to make is to decide what you want to talk about. It is likely that anything that you would consider presenting to others is something that you are interested in and passionate about. This is good.

In Saturday’s keynote, Ryan Szrama of Commerce Guys presented the most engaging presentation of my Drupal career. He pointedly avoided another discussion of Drupal Commerce (gasp! see his awesome commerce-related keynote from 2011) and titled Saturday's keynote, "How the GPL Inverted Drupal's Learning Curve." Honestly, this didn’t quite pique my interest, but au contraire!