By niuserre on

So I've been thinking about organising a DrupalCon in the UK for a while and once the Request for Proposals went out, I started seriously looking at it.

Would anyone be interested in getting involved in this? You don't need to know much about running events (I've got that bit pretty well covered) but I could do with some people who know considerably more about Drupal than I do (I'm no developer, that's for sure) for the programme committee and any other input is always welcome.

If you want to know more, please get in touch either here or you can e-mail me at [deleted] - I'm also on IRC a fair bit as [deleted].

P.S.
Cross-posted on the drupal.org.uk forums so apologies if you're reading this twice.

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dubovik’s picture

dubovik commented

when will this happen?

niuserre’s picture

niuserre commented

I'm looking at Autumn 2008.

tanoshimi’s picture

tanoshimi commented

Where do I sign up as an interested attendee?!

niuserre’s picture

niuserre commented

Not till we've got the proposal together and found out whether the Association like it or not I'm afraid, but thanks for your interest!

fronbow’s picture

fronbow commented

Sounds interesting, I might be tempted to offer any help.

Though why you'd want one here when the weather is terrible, unless you can find out what days summer will fall on next year ;)

niuserre’s picture

niuserre commented

I don't plan on being outside enough for it to matter and I burn when it's sunny ;-)

fronbow’s picture

fronbow commented

So, it's not just me then ;)

Another thing to think about is the relative prices of beer (and other stuff like food). I'm in Yorkshire where beer is round about £2 a pint, ISTR a pint in London costing double that (at least)!

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niuserre commented

I'll be negotiating discounts on alcohol with whatever venue we use.

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niuserre commented

There's a meeting planned for 8pm (so pretty much now) tonight on #drupalconuk on irc.freenode.net for anyone who's interested.

I'll be on IRC pretty much all day tomorrow so you can message [deleted] if you want to chat and can't make it tonight.

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cabbiepete commented

Bit of a drupal newbie but been working with CMS's for a while and now using drupal in London. I missed the IRC the other day how'd it go?

Pete
irc: cabbiepete

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niuserre commented

It went well. We'll be continuing the discussion over at http://drupal.org.uk this week and will hopefully have another meeting at some point. Minutes from the meeting will be posted there as soon as I have a chance to type them up.