DrupalSouth 2

Sounds like a plan. I'd like to recommend the Hop again. I thought it worked quite well there last time.

My only request is that it's not on my daughters birthday this year!

Early days. :) We should be able to accommodate :)

Please keep me in the loop.

I'm keen to attend if there is something for Drupal module developers, such as coding standards, CVS tricks and tips, site optimization etc.

If the conference coincides with my ski trip that would help too :)

Kent Parker
Web development

Could be a good session idea?

I missed out on DrupalSouth last year but am keen to attend this time.

Ideas for sessions:
* What's new in Drupal 7 - What should developers and users expect?
* Build stories/case studies from NZ projects (I imagine this could fill a number of slots)
* A code sprint of some sort (maybe a pre-conference workshop)
* Drupal-based business models
* Development tools and environments (eg cvs)
* Project management - what works and what doesn't

Looking forward to this. Have been wondering about doing something for us north island crew as well, but Christchurch was a great venue and really good get-together.

Hi guys,

I was talking with the people at the Sydney meetup last night about doing a larger event this year, and one of the ideas that came out was possibly trying to do a AU-NZ event, or at least trying to organize an event that would be big enough in scope to make people from both communities want to attend (and maybe even people from our asian/pacific neighbors). I had commented that I saw this thread and it might be better to save some sanity and combine resources.

Would anyone be interested in doing this?

To be fair, I asked the attendees who would be ok flying to NZ if that's where it was decided to be held and about 1/2 said they might. Not sure how many of you might be willing to fly to AU. FWIW, I have also been told that Addi Berry (Doc Team Lead & Lullabot member) would be interested to fly down here if we put together a big event this year.

--Ryan

• What I would like to see is a run-down of various peoples favourite default set-ups and why they choose the modules that they do.
• Top tips for support and information when getting started ie drupalmodules.com, Matt Petrowsky's videos etc as I have found the forums, issue queues and official sites here either inhospitable or unintuitive.
• Rules
• CCK
• Views
• Tokens
• Image Gallery set-ups
• Fivestar
• An opportunity to ask for help/advice/ direction from someone/a panel willing to offer it - perhaps the opportunity to set up a support network/buddy
• Evaluation of project management modules STORM vs CiviCRM vs Events/CCK mashup etc
• Discussion of how commercial website design is achieved, the process, the cost, the expected time frame etc.

If it were in the North Island, the Hawkes Bay could be an idea?

Had another thought or two for topics:

• Scalability - how to 'future' proof your website - which modules lend to this but aren't overkill in the beginning
• Best practises - may be related to 'favourite set-ups' - the 'why' behind the 'just do this' or 'just use this'
• Drupal decoded - understanding terminology - standardising module terms. (if this is somewhere on a single page of one of the official drupal sites I'd appreciate being pointed to it)

Cool! There seems to be a lot of interest and momentum around this. I've received a fair bit of offline private messages about it too. Unfortunately I don't have time to help organize again till early 2010. I can help with some other resources though. Hopefully others can? There is still a lot of talk in the GDO/australia group about a DrupalCon/Camp. Be sure to keep in touch with them to coordinate. I'll be overseas from August 25 till December, and would probably not attend if it were in that time, but that's probably the best time of year for it, so don't let that be a hindrance.

Bevan/

I would like to see something on:
- RDFa
- site setup (install profiles, performance tuning)
- site maintenance (perhaps aegir, drush, cvs).
- How to best handle media

Perhaps DrupalSouth 2 could be a miniconf during, before or after Linux Conference Australasia, Wellington January 2010. See this other discussion on groups.drupal.org/new-zealand for more details.

Bevan/

In case any one is subscribed to this thread, but not g.d.o/nz, DrupalSouth 2 will most likely be in Wellington, mid-late January 2010. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/26217 for more details.