Drupal Camp Asheville 2011
Well it's about time we got the ball rolling on planning for Drupal Camp Asheville. The goal is to have a meeting (presumably at Top Floor Studio in Asheville, NC) in two weeks to get the base plan laid out.
I started a google calendar here: https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=7i9imrputs2u7divjrt9p041gg... and can give write access to whoever wants it. I plotted the major drupal events I could find from a quick search. If you know more please comment and I will add to the list.
It looks like the best time for DCAVL is going to be Mid August / Early September. Before we set a date I wanted to check with the Boone folks to see when they were thinking of having theirs so we could coordinator with it.
If you would like to get involved with the planning of this years Drupal Camp Asheville, just let us know and we will put you in the communication channels. Most of the planning will take place in an open atrium instance and a wiki page here for volunteers. This links will be added soon.
Drupal Carolinas LLC
I've had grand vision for an organization to support all of the Carolina Drupal events and we had some great talks about it locally and at Drupal con which brought up good ideas and some concerns. The idea is to have an organisation run by Drupal folk in the Carolinas that can act as the fiscal sponsor and organisational hub and resource for other camps and user groups. I think at this point we are just going to start with Drupal Camp Asheville and the Asheville user group and go from there. We will be an open door to any Drupal user group/event in the Carolinas and happy to support them within our means.
The goal is to file the LLC this month. It will be a simple llc, operated by multiple managers, unit based, etc. Nothing terribly fancy about it. After we file we will get our EIN and open the official Drupal Asheville bank account. If Boone wants to bypass a traditional business fiscal sponsor we can open a Boone account as well and put someone from there in charge of it. I don't think there will necessarily need to be officers, just managers. Each organization can assign one manager to manage their bank account. (any volunteers from Asheville? I don't particularly want to do it this time around AND organize the camp too). Since we will all have our funds under a single roof, we will all need to agree on a philosophy of how to manage them. The original goal was not necessarily to make money, but maintain enough funds to support local user groups as needed and seed Drupal camps in the area. Any surplus would go to the DA. Again this is all theory, if we just want to tithe 10% to the DA and accumulate the rest to seed more events and put in to sponsorships for other events and projects (COD for example) then that sounds great too.
If any one wants to be a member of the Drupal Carolinas LLC we are creating, please let me know and I will make sure you are in those communication channels as well. We will talk about the details of it during the first local dcavl planning meeting.
If anyone wants to donate money to the organization to cover any unforeseen costs, we would be more than happy for that as well. We will be putting the few hundred from DCAVL 2010 into it and probably another couple hundred myself to get some starting capital.
Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions or criticisms. :-)
I will update again with specific dates for meetings and links to collaboration tools.