DrupalSouth Steering Committee Minutes - 10 November 2025

Monday 10th November

In attendance: Marge, Chris, Julia, Vladimir, Ash

DrupalSouth Community Day 2025

  • 117 tickets sold, 111 people checked in (~95% turn out rate, 97% accounted for via apologies)
    • Numbers only slightly lower from last year
      • 87 ACT
      • 9 NSW
      • 1 Other
      • 2 QLD
      • 1 Tasmania
      • 11 Victoria
    • Melbourne flight cancellations affected some attendees
    • Spidey senses suggest we have the strength and momentum to keep the event going into 2026
  • 9 sponsors signed up making the day possible
  • All volunteers and presenters  did an amazing job at running the day smoothly
  • Great vibes
  • Day 2 had around 15 people turn up - activities included table tennis, a jig-saw puzzle that the Pragma office has slowed down on, and discussing the future of Drupal
  • Feedback survey to be sent out week of 10 November, closing Friday 28 November
  • All presenters have been contacted for slides to be shared via DrupalSouth website
    • Technical talks were recorded and will be added to the website once processing has been completed.
    • Non-technical talks have the option to record their talks and share links back.
  • Early planning for next year include:
    • Different sponsorship tiers
    • Proper name tags
    • Using presenter and volunteer templates from DrupalSouth website instead of google forms

DrupalSouth 2026

  • Volunteer and presenter information to be released early December
  • Xequals to host contribution day
  • Three sponsorship contracts signed

Next meeting 

  • To be held on Monday 8 December 2025, however may change due to committee members running on empty
  • If you would like to be invited to a DrupalSouth Committee Meeting to observe, contact chair@drupalsouth.org