Open Source CMS Summit and DrupalCon, Vancouver 2006

The Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit is going to be in Vancouver in February 2006. For Drupal developers, it will combine code sprint and future planning sessions with an opportunity to discuss approaches to problems such as identity, data exchange, and even the potential for things like shared code libraries or components.

When

February 7 - 9, 2006*

*Social events both before and after, so plan travel accordingly

Where

UBC Robson Square
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Organizers

Chad Phillips, Angie Byron, Boris Mann, Roland Tanglao, Matt Westgate

Sign up

We maintain a list of people who plan to attend. If you plan to attend, enable the checkbox on your profile page (see my account > edit-tab > Drupal-subtab) and you will be added to the list. We might send out some updates or additional information to those who subscribed.

Costs

Free. Lunch, dinner and drinks are your responsibility. Depending on sponsorship levels, we may ask for a small donation to help cover the costs of the rooms. As well, Moose Camp and Northern Voice are separate events, for which you must register if you would like to attend.

Schedule

The schedule is a work in progress and will be completed in cooperation with attendees as well as the special interest groups from other projects. Please see the schedule. Feel free to add suggested times for events directly to that page, or discuss on the drupal-con mailing list, or in the comments here. So many choices! The goal is fewer presentations and more working sessions/code approaches. Since multiple CMS's will be attending this conference, sessions will be divided into morning (all CMS's) and afternoon (CMS specific) groups.

Morning (all CMS's) sessions

These are topics that will likely become sessions in the final morning schedule. They will most likely be large group, cross-platform presentations.

Afternoon (Drupal-specific) sessions

These are topics that will likely become sessions in the final afternoon schedule, and would preferrably happen in small workgroups, with a focus on making decisions and/or producing code.

Please help us gauge interest in and view the complete list of these sessions at the sign up site. This will help us plan for the size of room that needs to be available for each session.

T-Shirts

We're doing things a bit different this time around. Goodstorm will be printing the t-shirts, and you'll order and pay through them. If you want your shirt to be waiting for you in Vancouver, you must order no later than February 1st. Afterwards, Goodstorm will still be able to sells shirts a la carte, and ship them anywhere in the US.

Accomodations

There is an Accomodations page listing hotels in downtown Vancouver. They are all within walking distance to Robson Square where the conference will take place. Ianiv Schweber also arranged for special rates at the Ramada Inn - group rate available, first come, first serve basis -- group ID:3092.

Other Important Info

Power

Power will be the standard US/Canada 120V, so don't forget to bring an adapter if necessary. We'll try to round up the necessary power strips from local Drupal folks, but you may want to bring your own as well

Ride Sharing

Leave comments on the travel page for interested parties

Related Events

The First Official Meeting of the Secret Free Software/Open Source Beer Drinking Cabal, February 7, 7PM

Northern Voice and MooseCamp, February 10 & 11, 2006

MooseCamp is in the tradition of BarCamp, an all day open space for people to gather together and demo, code, collaborate, or just hang out. Northern Voice is a community-based blogging and personal publishing conference that will cover everything from sessions for people just figuring out what the big deal is about blogging to panel discussions and demonstrations sessions. See Northern Voice for more information. For some ideas about what will happen at MooseCamp, check here.

For Fun

Ski Trip

A visit to Whistler and/or Vancouver's local coast mountains either right before the conference or right after.

There are many other potential Vancouver-area activities, from sailing to scuba diving. Feel free to use the wiki to self-organize.

Sponsors

Bryght

UBC Robson Square

eZ Publish

Iowa State University

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