Posts by theme: Drupalcamp Chicago
It hasn't been all that long since the last DrupalCamp here in Chicago, but the next one is only a month away! DrupalCamp Chicago 2010 will be held June 26-27 at the University of Chicago Law School in Hyde Park on the city's South Side.
Not only does moving DrupalCamp into the summer mean that we'll hopefully have better weather, it also gives the local community a lot more breathing room as planning for DrupalCon Chicago 2011 gets underway. The University of Chicago Law School (which uses Drupal to run their site) is a beautiful venue with capacity to hold even more people than last year's sellout event. This year's camp will feature two full days worth of Drupal-related content, including curated sessions, community gatherings, Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, hands-on-training and more.
Registration is $40 for the event and covers lunch on both days. We recommend you sign up on the site and purchase your registration ASAP, as spots are limited. Sponsorships are also available for companies and organizations looking to make themselves better-known to Chicago's vibrant Drupal community.
If you're interested in presenting at DrupalCamp Chicago, now is also the time to submit your session! With five large classrooms to fill for two days, we're looking for all sorts of content, from introductory sessions for people new to Drupal all the way to advanced technical topics.
One of the great things about DrupalCamps is that they're truly community events that bring together people from all sorts of different backgrounds. This community spirit carries through to the way that these gatherings are produced and promoted; the codebase for the drupalcampchicago.org website is based on an installation provided by the organizers of last year's DrupalCamp Los Angeles, and the registration system uses a signup module developed by some of the organizers of this year's DrupalCamp Colorado.
DrupalCamp Chicago is also one of the first DrupalCamps to benefit from the fiscal agency of DrupalCon, Inc., the North American not-for-profit subsidiary of the international Drupal Association that supports Drupal education in the United States. In exchange for this assistance, DrupalCamp Chicago will (as it has in past years) donate any profits from the event back to the Drupal Association to support camps and other Drupal events around the world. Much like the software benefits from the contributions of those who develop code for it, the community also benefits from the efforts of those who work together to help spread the word to others.
We hope you'll come be a part of our community here in Chicago next month. See you there!
It's been a little over a week since Drupalcamp Chicago, which means we've had time to catch up on sleep and look back on Chicago's largest Drupal event to date. Executive summary: That was awesome, we are so doing that again!
Drupalcamp is coming to Chicago December 12 and 13! After attracting a sellout crowd last year, this year’s Drupalcamp has been expanded, and will be held at the Hotel Orrington in downtown Evanston, located just steps from Northwestern University and only a couple of blocks from the Davis Street CTA and Metra stations. Two dozen pre-scheduled sessions will be held on Saturday, along with BoFs, hands-on training, and other “unconference” activities on both Saturday and Sunday. The camp is being put on by the Chicago Drupal community and the Chicago Drupal Meetup Group, with generous assistance from the event's sponsors, who include Palantir.
The site for the camp was built by Palantir using the Drupalcamp L.A. 2009 codebase as a starting point. The site's Chitown theme was designed by our own Steve Fisher, and has already been released back to the community (it's just a dev release right now, but as always, patches are welcome!). The theme incorporates the Chicago Druplicon logo designed by David Hwang, one of the Field Museum's Drupal gurus.
Register now, and once your registration has been paid and confirmed, don't forget to submit a session proposal - we'll only be accepting them through November 13, at which point we'll be asking registered attendees to cast votes for their favorites before announcing the full schedule by November 25. And of course, it's not too late to get in on the sponsorship action - we've got a variety of packages at all price points, allowing you to get your name in front of several hundred Drupalers and support the community (any profits from the event will go to benefit the Drupal Association).
We're looking at this as a warm-up event for Drupalcon Chicago 2011; we might not have won the Olympics, but Drupal's the next best thing!
