Unofficial Social Friday Night - Drupal Camp NW 2013

On Friday the 22nd there will be sprints at Techhub which run in parallel with the business day at Drupal Camp NW 13. I’m hoping to be there for the sprints pending confirmation of my holiday! After the sprints/business day it makes sense for everyone to get together and go grab some food and drinks. Since everyone will be around the northern quarter we should make the most of it....

November 16, 2013 · 2 min · Mike Bell

A Call to Arms - Support your local Drupal Community

For me the the Drupal community is amazing, it’s always felt like a family, one you can rely on to help and support you. It’s time for a call to arms, people need to support their local and regional Drupal user groups and events. A lot of these events are volunteer run, it takes time and energy to run meetup after meetup and big events. The people that organise and run these events are quite something, 9 to 5 days don’t exist for them....

October 13, 2013 · 2 min · Mike Bell

An update to DrupalCamp 2013

There’s no easy way to put this but as of this post I’m withdrawing from organising DrupalCamp NW 2013. A lot of things have changed over the past 4 months some good some not so. I intend to spend as much time with my friends and family and avoid the stress of organising the event. Where does this leave the event? Pretty much in the same place as it was a few months ago, I’d love for more people to step up and take charge of the event....

April 20, 2013 · 1 min · Mike Bell

We Went Big...

This is hopefully going to be the one of the first of many posts going through the motions of organising DrupalCamp NW 2013 or project “WTF are you doing???” The full title of this post is “We went big, now to go bigger”. What do I mean by this? Well for start 2012 was amazing the fact that we managed to pull it off and provide such a great event means that we have a lot of work to do....

March 30, 2013 · 2 min · Mike Bell