or how to set up the biggest conference of Drupal - one of the leading frameworks of the web

1. SECRET SAUCE FOR A
SUCCESSFUL OPEN-SOURCE,
COMMUNITY-BASED EVENT
or how to set up the biggest conference of Drupal - one of the
leading frameworks of the web

2. Front end Developer with origin story as graphic designer
João Belchior

3. • european company with 3
founders
• small core team of 5 + network
of freelancers and trusted
partners
• experts in drupal and technical
leadership, looking to branch out
• currently working with some big
clients and interesting platforms
(Arte, Corbis images, EDP)
marzeelabs.org
info@marzeelabs.org

4. DRUPAL
• free open-source content-
management framework
• drupal.org
• more than 31,000
contributed modules
• more than 2000 themes
• almost 1000 distributions

5. DRUPAL-BASED PLATFORMS
http://drupal.com/showcases

6. WHAT POWERS DRUPAL?
1,167,000 user accounts on drupal.org
95,236 active users

7. LOCALLY BREWED
Local communities foster drupal adoption
Geeks get together
Drupal 7 release parties map

8. DRUPAL MEETUPS
DRUPAL CAMPS
DRUPAL DEV DAYS
DRUPALCONS~50 in 2005 to ~3400 in 2015

9. Foster Drupal growth
help the community with funding, infrastructure,
education, promotion, distribution and online
collaboration at drupal.org.

10. WHAT’S A DRUPALCON
Community summit
Business summit
Tracks
Coding sprints
Bof’s (birds of feather)
Training
Parties

11. organised by the Drupal association
with local community involvement for all the local
influence and after parties
global community of volunteers for tracks session
selection
no speaker gets paid
WHAT’S A DRUPALCON

12. ASSOCIATION INVOLVEMENT
invite track chairs with suggestions from local community
this year - Portugal x2!
organize meetings
provide the structure, tools and contacts
solve conflicts
no pressure for session selection
with session selection

13. WTF IS A “TRACK CHAIR”?
someone from the community
backed by a global track chair
(someone that held the seat previously)
responsible for track promotion
inviting non-drupal speakers
responsible for session review and selection
makes sure the track is diverse and interesting

14. ITTAKES SOME WORK…
define tracks
promotion
session selection
conflicts solving
schedule creation
check in with speakers, maintain momentum

15. TRACKS AND SUBMISSIONS
• Business and Strategy
• Coding and development
• Content strategy (half track)
• Core conversations
• DevOps
• drupal.org (half track)
• Front end
• PHP (half track)
• Project Management (half track)
• Site building
• Symfony (half track)
• Community (2 sessions)
Sessions Submission
From May 13th to June 8th
72h before deadline
187 sessions
8h before deadline
319 sessions
1h before deadline
450 sessions
grand total
507 sessions
https://events.drupal.org/news/session-submission-recap-drupalcon-barcelona

16. FRONT ENDTRACK
https://events.drupal.org/news/session-submission-recap-drupalcon-barcelona
43 submissions
selected 13 + 3 alternatives
things of notice:
speaker experience
videos of previous talks
how well does he/she speaks english

17. https://events.drupal.org/dublin2016
Join other 2500 drupal geeks

18. Questions?
@jolidog
joao@marzeelabs.org
Thank you