What is a Drupal Camp?

Drupal camps are a derivative of BARcamp created by Drupal community members Chris Messina and Andy Smith in Palo Alto, CA in 2006. The event was in response to the closed, invitation only event held by Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media for technical elites invited to collaborate at O'Reilly Headquarters over a weekend in Sebastapool, CA. The original camp was organized in less than one week and was held at the SocialText offices. The original intent was to share technical and social information with very loose organization. Attendance was open and attendees were encouraged to share their particular expertise. This principle of simple organization was a key driver for Drupal Camp San Francisco.

Why a Drupal specific camp?

From 2004-2006, Drupal events were small and it was assumed that attendees were new to Drupal. It was traditional to have introduction to Drupal sessions for new users. As the events grew in frequency and the capabilities of Drupal exploded, Introduction sessions frequently gave rise to demand for more popular sessions on popular topics. As part of a return to simplicity, we decided to return to our roots and target training new users. Therefore, we set aside half the capacity of the event to address the needs of new users.

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Attached is the final schedule for Drupal Camp San Francisco.

If you are attending Drupal Camp San Francisco you will need the follow:

Food and Beverages:

• You will need to bring money to buy food and beverages.
• There are vending machines on the 5th floor.
• There is a 20 restaurant cafeteria on the bottom floor with every type of food you could desire, including a grocery store, and multiple coffee shops including Peets coffee. We recommend Blue Bottle Coffee from Mint Plaza.
• We will break approximately 1.5 hours for lunch in a staggered fashion.

Computers:

This tutorial is meant for new users who are brand new to Drupal and web content management. In this all day tutorial we are going to review basic concepts of web content management, and social publishing.

We will demonstrate how you can install Drupal locally on your laptop or how to get Drupal hosted through a low cost hosting services.

We will review showcase web sites including: Education sites, Non-profit sites, newspaper sites, media sites, government sites, and health care sites.

We are pleased to announce Drupal camp San Francisco (a.k.a BADCamp). This will be a single Saturday event at the SFSU downtown campus at 5th and Market. We will start at 9AM and go to 5PM. The event will be hosted by the Information Management Systems Association, iMSA, http://imsa.sfsu.edu.

The event will include an all day Introduction to Drupal tutorial for 120 people. This event is primarily addressing new Drupal users and registration will be specific to this tutorial. Please encourage new users to register for this event.
We will have a room dedicated to Drupal.org redesign sprinters and Drupal core test writers which holds 30 people.
We will have two and a half rooms for sessions with a capacity of 44 people in 1 and a half rooms. And a room with a capacity for 60 people.

Presenters will be invited to submit sessions. We will be launching an event website shortly. Registration is free but you will be required to confirm your attendance before the event. The event is located above the Westfield mall on the 5th Floor in the SFSU downtown campus. We will not be providing food or beverages, but there is over 20 restaurants in the cafeteria below the event. The event is located above the BART and MUNI stop so please do not drive directly to the event. Spare the air.

We anticipate the event registration will fill up. There will only be room for 100-150 people in advanced Drupal sessions.