Organising a DrupalCon
Organising a DrupalCon
Day:
Wednesday, 25. august 2010
Time:
14:45-15:45
45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)
Room:
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Organising a DrupalCon is just like any other project.
I will be going through the organisation of a DrupalCon illustrating and covering organisational internal and external processes, decision-making processes, managing a team of volunteers and responsibilities.
In preparation, you need to define the what, where, when, how, who and how much it costs.
- How do you set up deadlines?
- What are the specifications?
- How is the communication organised?
- How much room do you need to leave for additional development during the realisation?
- How do you determine the price?
- Who is the conference aimed at?
- Who has got the power to make decisions?
- How are decisions made?
- Who has the documented and the real responsibilities for what?
- What is the goal?
In addition, other issues will come up during the realisation:
- How to work with a team of volunteers?
- What tools do you use?
- How do you deal with things that you couldn't possibly think of at the beginning?
- How do you adapt to minor and bigger changes?
After a week of DrupalCon, the work doesn't stop there. Ideally, we learn how to make it better next time or reproduce what went perfectly this time.
I highly recommend attending
I highly recommend attending this session. Isabel co-organized DrupalCon Paris and as Project Manager of DrupalCon CPH she's busting her ass to make this conference a huge success as well.