drupalcampnyc3

DrupalCampNYC3 Recap

Jacob Redding — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:27:56 +0000

DrupalCampNYC3 is over and everything has finally been wrapped up. The camp was a big success bringing over 130 people together for one full day of Drupal Goodness and a second day of developer hacking. As usual the crowd consisted of people from all walks of life from the complete new-to-drupal person to the advanced Drupal hacker. It was a great time. Thanks to everyone that attended!

Now onto business. Sponsorships to DrupalCampNYC3 came to $2,628 cash after CC & bank fees. We spent $2,314 of that on T-Shirts, Stickers, buttons, Breakfast (2 days), Lunch (1 day), after camp drinks and other misc. fees (full discl. below). This left us with roughly $300 which was promptly donated back to the Drupal Association. We felt that this donate was an appropriate use of Sponsorship funds as it helps to advance Drupal and eventually will help seed future DrupalCamps.

Thanks again to all of our sponsors! Brooklyn Polytechnic IDMI, SonyBMG, Pando, CivicActions, Advomatic, NY Observer, Jewcy, iMed, Large Animal Games and Inkos Tea. As well as the individuals Thomas turnbull., Shawn Gregg, Michael Hannum, Matthew Tarr, Charles Lenchner

Disclosure of Funds received and paid out for DrupalCampNYC3

I'm a huge propent of transparent financial management for events like DrupalCamp and to that end here are the cash inflow/outflows for DrupalCampNYC3. I left out the sponsor's names because all sponsorships are equal in real value.

Funds Received =$2,628
- Paypal: 700 - 22(CC fees) = 678
- Sponsor: 300
- Sponsor: 300
- Sponsor: 400
- Sponsor: 1000 - 50 (CC fees) = 950
- Sponsor: 500 (paid directly to food vendor)
- Sponsor: 300 (paid directly to food vendor)
Expenses = $2,322.30
- Shirts + Stickers + priority shipps (VGkids); 1,478.30
- Breakfast 1st day (bagels & drinks) reimbursement to Michael Mandiberg: 300
- Breakfast 2nd day + office supplies reimbursement to Sam Tresler: 165
- Drinks at Brazen head (first day at bar) 80
- Lunch 2nd day: 140
- Drinks from Perelandria: (second day) 14
- Drinks from Duane Reade: (second day) 5
- Misc. cash expenses (delivery tips, pens, ice, bags, drinks, etc.) : 130
  mainly delivery tips but also too many runs to Duane Reade to pick up misc. crap
- Shipping expenses to shirt designer and Dries : 15
Donation to Drupal camp = $2,628 - $2,322 = $304 actual donation $300

That is about as upfront and honest as I can be with the expenses of the camp, all in all I think we did rather well with camp expenses and we're able to pull off quite a bit with what we had while also giving back to the NYC community and Drupal community! The remaining $4 btw will be used at a Drupalmeetup in NYC or another state.... I'll buy someone a coke ;)

Shirts have arrived

Jacob Redding — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:42:12 +0000

The DrupalCampNYC3 shirts have arrived! Tomorrow over 130 Drupalistas will descend upon Brooklyn Polytechnic to meet, talk, learn, network, hone, discuss, hack, polish and other things Drupal. With a crowd consisting of Ninjas to Newbies we'll be diverse enough to cover all topics Drupal.

If you're reading this and you haven't signed up do it NOW.

Drupal Camp is a free unconference styled after barcamps which basically means that we make it up as we go along. Traditional conferences usually have predefined sessions, lectures, etc. and, in recent years, have become more about marketing that the actual transference of knowledge. Barcamps and "unconferences" attempt to flip this trend by focusing on getting people together of various backgrounds and focusing the conference on moving knowledge from one to another.

The knowledge transfer is primarily by allowing the people to define what the conference is about. Of course each conference has some sort of theme like "Drupal", "Web 2.0", "Technology for social change", etc. but the session themselves are not defined until the conference. In the first part of the day everyone gets together, mingles, discusses and come to a consensus as to what they'd like to learn and/or discuss. This not only forces people to meet and talk with each other but also sets the tone for remainder of the conference. The other major difference in an "unconference" is that the attendees are the one that are presenting although they are often augmented by professionals and prepared lectures no single lecture is dedicated to a single person. The audience is free, and encouraged, to interject presenting new ideas, a new take and to interact with the presenter.

If you've never been to an unconference this is a great time to check one out! I'll See everyone Tomorrow!!

Drupal Camp T-Shirt proofs

Jacob Redding — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:08:02 +0000

Drupal Camp NYC #3 is just around the corner and this time we have T-shirts! After a lot of hardwork by Squidster, Sam Tressler and the great folks at Studio Blueprint we came up with the following logo. The shirts are being printed by VGKids out in Michigan and are paid for by the wonderful sponsors of DrupalCampNYC3.

If you haven't signed up for Drupal Camp yet, you have another incentive to sign up AND show up early (we have a limited amount of shirts).

We went through several designs and finally decided that the "Drupal man" should have an Orange-colort shirt to contrast the brown fabric of the shirt itself. Other variations included Red, Black and others...

Thanks Squidster!

I'm extremely glad that the design is off at the printers now as the process of designing a T-shirt is laborious!

Drupal Camp NYC #3

Jacob Redding — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:37:48 +0000

I sent out a mass email to the 161 subscribers to the New York City groups.drupal.org group today! July 14th at Brooklyn Polytechnic University I'm corralling the Drupalistas of New York City for my last Drupal Camp in New York City. Then I'll be off to China to find (and create?)Drupalers to have Drupal Camps with. Of course I'll have to learn the language first (I'm working on it).

We had to cap registration at 100 people this time because at the last camp we we're crammed into the main room. It was awesome but we were crammed. We also shortened the camp to a single day instead of the usual two. Attrition was really high on the second day and quite honestly everyone was just too "geeked out" to come to a second day. We do have the place reserved for both days if people wanted to run a second day. I'm casting my vote, however, for a Drupal fieldtrip to Coney Island!

Sponsors are starting to pledge their dollars which is great. The New York Observer is sponsoring lunch, Pando threw in some cash and a few individuals have given some cash too. Only a few hours after sending the emails I've already received a few more sponsorship requests which is awesome. If you're reading this, you're most likely a friend or family member that has zero idea what I'm talking about but in the off-chance that you're a Drupaler, Drupal-shop or similar you should consider sponsor Drupalcamp and coming out!

If you're looking to hire a Drupal developers, learn Drupal, figure out what Drupal is or hone your Drupal Ninja skills you need to be there!

Go to the DrupalCamp Wiki to learn more.