[development] DrupalCon Barcelona: call for presentations
Dries Buytaert
dries.buytaert at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 15:58:22 UTC 2007
Hello all,
as you know, DrupalCon Barcelona takes place next month! Yep, that's
next month already. :)
We have room for a big venue for 4 days with at least 3 parallel
tracks. If we aim for 6 1-hour sessions per room per day, we can
host 72 sessions in total. I believe we actually have the room to
organize more than 3 parallel tracks.
Anyway, on http://drupalcon.org there are currently 22 proposed
presentations (see http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/sessions),
which means we are about 50 presentations short. *gasp* Hence, I'd
like to invite you to submit your presentation proposals -- login at
drupalcon.org and go to the "create content" page. We'll probably
communicate a deadline for such proposals relatively soon -- at one
point we need to compile a conference program as it helps attract
attendees. You know how this works. :)
If you've never been to a DrupalCon before -- don't be afraid to
present. Everyone is encouraged to participate and present, and all
sorts of presentations are welcomed. These can include deeply
technical presentations ("Drupal 6 menu system internals"), fun
presentations ("How to trick Dries in committing your patch?", "A
history lesson in Drupal flamewars"), tutorial style presentations
("How to contribute patches", "Theming Drupal", "Drupal in
education"), beginner sessions ("An overview of the best Drupal
modules"), brainstorm sessions ("How could we make Drupal easier to
use?", "How could we make Drupal easier to theme?"), panel
discussions ("How to run a successful Drupal company?"), showcases
("How we built site ABC for company DEF"), you name it. We'll have a
mixed audience (prospects, beginners and experts) so we need to cater
for all those people.
So, give it some thought, and help us compile a compelling program.
Feel free to swap ideas on the mailing list or to request certain
presentations. Somewhere next week, I'll move this thread to
drupal.org along with additional details. It would be great to have
more than 22 presentations by then ...
Thanks all,
--
Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
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