Thursday 5th August
Attendees: Dave Sparks, Owen Lansbury, Nicole Ritchie, Kristy de Vries (second half)
DrupalSouth 2021
- Good uptake on Early bird tickets
- 130 tickets sold
- 70 speakers/sponsor tickets
- Aim to hit 300 in total
- Marketing material ready
- Learnings: Have a dedicated team of volunteers for the next virtual event
- Not a very engaging response from audience and volunteers
- More structure around timelines, call for papers etc. for future events
- Good having a professional events organiser
- Done extra stuff we wouldn’t have thought of
- Better sponsor engagement on the platform - sign up to be a sponsor
- Expand reach to more sponsors
- Next event in November
DrupalSouth Wellington
- Most likely be called off due to the latest Covid outbreaks
- Dave to talk to Alex next week
Website
- Need more volunteers or interested interns