DrupalSouth Wellington 2010 - The New Zealand Drupal Event Wellington City Waterfront, Saturday & Sunday 23-24 January 2010

Waterfront Venue in Central City; Mac's Brewery Bar & Restaurant

Bevan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:57:41 +0000

We're really excited to announce that Mac's Brewery Bar & Restaurant will be the location of DrupalSouth Wellington 2010. The Brewery bar is right on Wellington central city's waterfront, between Te Papa and the Wellington Convention Centre. Yes, that means it's less than 300 metres from Linux.conf.au Wellington 2010 which is the week leading up to DrupalSouth!

The function room at Mac's is upstairs, so it has great views over Wellington harbour. With the mid-summer dates we have booked, we are confident the balcony will be wll used. And perhaps most importantly – keeping in the tradition of DrupalSouth – there is a bar with beer on tap and a brewery at the back!

Mac's brewery is also right next door to the NZ stock exchange building (NZX) and Circa Theatre. Here's a map of the venue showing just how close it is to LCA;

View on Google Maps.

We are working on getting a good internet link into the venue. At this stage the best option would be to install our own backhaul from the NZX building where Citylink's fibre network extends to. However we need contacts in the NZX building who are willing to help us out. Please contact us if you can help.

Callout for speakers and sessions!

dman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:36:31 +0000

Looking for volunteers

We are now ready to start filling in some speaking slots. If you have an idea for a session or presentation you'd like to give, pleaseregister or log in and write up a short proposal.

Presentations

I don't think there will be any shortage of speakers, so get in early with your topics. Joint presentations from different developers working on different projects in similar areas would be especially interesting, so feel free to collaborate or volunteer to contribute a spot to someone else's session!
We hope to be able to reach a consensus of 'chosen' presentations without too much work, but if we get too much response for the available time we'll look into a vote of some sort. We are not expecting to split off into different streams for the presentations, but we'll see how that goes.

Sessions

For BoF sessions or workshops on specific topics, we probably will split off into groups. These may be collaborative events, and can have multiple facilitators, but need not have a formal presentation prepared, just a desire to get together and share knowledge ad do something.

Suggestions for topics you'd like to see are also welcome!

The Next DrupalSouth, Wellington January 2010

Bevan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:22:16 +0000

Following in the success of DrupalSouth Christchurch November 2008, DrupalSouth Wellington January 2010 is in it's planning stages. It will be close to LCA Wellington 2010 both in time and location, and will feature excellent overseas and home-grown speakers & attendees, such as;

Angela Byron (webchick); Drupal 7 core committer, Drupal community nurturer, and co-author of Using Drupal
Addison Berry (add1sun); Documentation lead, recipient of $100,000 Knight Foundation grant for Drupal documentation, co-author of Using Drupal
Emma Jane Hogbin (emmajane); co-author of Front End Drupal, uber-documenter, Drupal evangelist/speaker and community all-rounder
Dan (dman); Numerous drupal modules and high-profile NZ websites including The Vintage Aviator and Sorted.org.nz
Others, yet to be determined.

To get updates, subscribe to the NZ Drupal group, follow @DrupalSouth on twitter and get involved!

Social Networking Tags; Flickr, Del.icio.us, Twitter, Et cetera

Bevan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:24:23 +0000

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This help us find each other's posts, tweets, links, photos and videos and pull them into one DrupalSouth lifestream-kind-of-thing. They'll show up in the new "Who's tweeting about DrupalSouth" block.

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Press Release: DrupalSouth: The New Zealand Drupal Event for 2008

Bevan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:19:51 +0000

DrupalSouth is the New Zealand Drupal Event for 2008. DrupalSouth will bring NZ's Drupal community together for the first nation-wide Drupal event and the first ever Drupal camp in NZ.

DrupalSouth runs for two days in the first weekend of November, starting at 9:30 am on Saturday 1st November and concluding at 6 pm on Sunday 2nd November 2008. The morning of each day will be filled with presentations, while the afternoons will be open to less formal talks, discussions, demonstrations, tutorials and hacking.

Many of the speakers are well-established Drupal and Open-Source community contributers like Dan "dman", Brenda "Shiny" Wallace, Bevan Rudge and Marek Kuziel (Open ID, Python, Postgres). Others have won NZOSS awards for their contributions to Open Source, like Joshua Campbell and Dave Lane.

The awesome line up of presenters will present on a variety of topics, such as How Drupal stacks up in enterprise, OpenID and Drupal and Google Maps in Drupal, to name just a few.

DrupalSouth presents a great opportunity for attendees to learn new and interesting Drupal skills, techniques and resources, network face to face with industry leaders and Drupal professionals, companies and users, engage new clients, employees and contractors, discover how others are using Drupal or promote their own company or services.

DrupalSouth is great value at $50 NZD and includes catered lunch on both Sunday and Saturday and drinks on Saturday night. You can register for DrupalSouth at DrupalSouth.net.nz/conference.

DrupalSouth is sponsored by these great Drupal companies from New Zealand and abroad Signify, Catalyst IT, CivicActions, Egressive, Encode and Evolved Development.

DrupalSouth is organised by a collection of individual Drupal professionals in the Christchurch Drupal community, primarily; Jonathan Hunt of Hunt Design and Egressive, Gold of Evolved Development and Bevan Rudge of CivicActions.

Find out more about DrupalSouth at DrupalSouth.net.nz.

Welcome to DrupalSouth.net.nz

Bevan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:49:05 +0000

DrupalSouth sponsors and organisers are excited to (finally) present to you DrupalSouth.net.nz! We have been working hard over the last week getting our hands greasy, pulling in views, nodes, content types, CCK fields and other nuts and bolts.

If you're coming to DrupalSouth, register now! There is only room for 50 attendees at DrupalSouth, and places are already filling up fast.

DrupalSouth registration costs only $50 NZD, which is great value! Just look at what you get;

Quality presentations and talks by the best of NZ's Drupal community
Learn new and interesting Drupal skills and resources
Face to face networking opportunities with industry professionals and companies
The chance to engage new clients, employees and contractors
Promote your company or services in the NZ Drupal community
Discover how others are using Drupal
Catered lunch on both Sunday and Saturday
Drinks on Saturday night
A great social event too!

Any profit generated from the event will be either donated to the Drupal Association, or held in trust for the next major NZ Drupal Event. No one, including the organisers, is generating income from this event.

Don't forget to checkout our sponsors; It's thanks to these high profile Drupal companies that DrupalSouth has been made possible:

Many thanks also goes to the wider Drupal community who have contributed modules and code to Drupal core, all of which has made it possible to get this website out in just 7 days; Isn't open source just great!

We look forward to meeting you at DrupalSouth.