May
13
2008
Expert in Drupal? Totally new to it? Wanting to really dig into Drupal for a day or two?
A DrupalCamp is being planned. One, maybe two days of code, design, chat, sharing, testing, patching, learning, maybe showing off a little, laughing.
Have a thought on what it should look like? When it should happen? What we might do? Edit the wiki!
See you there! (Where ever that might be.)
- Tags: DBUG, DrupalCamp, design, code, Drupal
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Kieran Lal writes:
Hi Laura, I am glad to see you are organizing another event. I was wondering what ideas you had for making new users aware of Druapl. Did you have any plans to speak at events of adjacent technical communities like PHP, MySQL, Jquery user groups? Or do you have any intentions to talk at NPO, Newspaper, Education, Media events to attract new users to your Drupal event.
I'd appreciate if you could share what you think would work in attracting new users.
Cheers,
Kieran
Laura writes:
Because of the woeful inadequacy of the colleges and universities when it comes to engaging students in open source and, especially, teaching students web design (hello, Dreamweaver is pretty much a useless skill), we're planning on expanding our outreach to the community in order to grow our own ecosphere here. We have some presence already in related ad hoc and meet-up kinds of communities, but there's certainly room to expand upon that.
Drupal is a hard one to evangelize because it's so flexible and the community is so large. I think also the extremely rapid developmental evolution that characterizes Drupal's growth leads to situations where people think they know what Drupal is because they looked at it in 2005 -- which was what, 3 or 4 API generations ago. Blink and Drupal has grown and improved.
We'll also be launching our video series soon, which hopefully will catch some attention outside of our geographical region.
Matthew will be presenting about Drupal at NetSquared 2008. I wish we had the resources to do a lot of things like that.
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