Successful Communities & the New Breed of Drupal Events

segments — Sun, 15 May 2011 05:51:38 +0000

Ivo Radulovski

Jens Beltofte

Kristof Van Tomme

The Drupal community landscape is changing. A host of new events is springing up: Design Camps, Dev Days, Business Days, Gov Days, CxO summits, and more. The success of these events in bringing together new communities of experts and professionals to facilitate growth and exchange in their areas of common interest is key to Drupal's continuing success.

This session will discuss how Drupal communities–local-, interest-, or vertical-based–are growing and changing. We are looking for insights into what is working, what needs more work and what best-practices are emerging.

Intended Audience:

Community Members, Community Leaders, Media, Analysts, Business Leaders

Questions answered by this session:

Why organize events?

What kind of Drupal events are happening? How do they differ?

What motivates people to join or leave the (local) Drupal community? Why are some more active than others?

What kinds of goals and objectives can communities set for ourselves? How do we measure our success against those goals?

Why do connections with other Drupal user groups, open source projects, and local communities matter? How can we better evangelize Drupal in all these areas?

Schedule info

Time slot:

24 August 10:30 - 11:30

Room:

Maple Room

Slides:

Drupalcon_Community_Session_London.pdf

DrupalCon London 2011 - Drupal Verticals

Successful Communities & the New Breed of Drupal Events