During DrupalCamp Chicago, a couple of "DrupalCamp Organizers" BoF sessions led to the decision that an updated and improved DrupalCamp Organizing Guide (DCOG) would serve the community well - providing aspiring user groups with valuble information about organizing their first camp, as well as providing experienced user groups with a structured place to share resources and lessons from their experiences.
I volunteered to take a first stab at the DCOG reorganization as I started out looking at the existing guide, I decided that instead of plowing forward with a rewrite, we needed a good outline for the document(s) as a first step.
With that in mind, I've created a new wiki page - DCOG Version 2 Outline. It contains an outline of the various topics that I think the document should contain. Clearly, this is a community project - there are a lot of Drupal community organizers smarter than myself, so I am looking to them for help in making sure the outline doesn't have any issues, gaps, or omissions.
Once we've chewed on this outline for a bit (I'm thinking about a week), I'll start the process of filling it out from various sources including the original DCOG, various DrupalCamp case studies, and my general knowledge. If you know of any case studies or additional sources of knowledge, please share them in the comments below. If anyone wants to help out with the narrative, please leave a comment below (feel free to claim a section!)
Clearly, this is going to be more than a one-page document. As things progress, we'll have to decide how best to break it up. As part of the narrative, I'm planning on linking to existing resources, case studies, and sample documents * again, if you know of anything that should be linked to, please include it in the comments below.
Feel free to update the outline - it is a wiki after all! Since wiki pages don't allow for comments, feel free to use this post for any comments, questions, or discussion items.