DrupalSouth Steering Committee Minutes - 4 March 2025

Wednesday 5th March

In attendance: Marge, Julia, Dallas, Vladimir, Karl, Chris

  • DrupalSouth Melbourne 2025:
    • Committee was contacted by the Ukraine Drupal Community to display a banner for them, as they have with other conferences across the world. The Committee agreed we'll display it at the event.
    • ACMI venue looking great
    • Leaders dinner, run by Ironstar, is on again during DrupalSouth Melbourne. As always a large number of invited attendees will be at the dinner
    • Merchandise, sponsored by Sparks Interactive, has been ordered with name tags going to print on Thursday 6 March
    • Thank you to ours sponsors, your support has meant that we are unlikely to make a loss on this years event
    • Getting quotes for wrap up drinks on Thursday 13th afternoon - TBA!
    • Contribution day, Tuesday 11 March 9am-3pm
      • Venue : Multicultural Hub opposite Queen Vic Market
      • Two separate areas, one focussing on first time contributions
      • Larger than normal capacity, over 120 places available this time
    • Varnish for Drupal developers: the hands-on workshop, Tuesday 11 March 3:15 - 5:15pm
      • Venue : Multicultural Hub opposite Queen Vic Market
      • Varnish will run a session on setting up the varnish software
    • Splash awards, Wednesday 12 March 4pm
      • All nominees for Splash awards have been posted on the website
      • All Community Recognition awards have been decided
      • Trophies have been engraved, and in the hands of the Splash Award team
  • DrupalSouth Community Day
    • Looking at November date again, pending GovCMS Mega Meetup dates.
    • Need to get approved by Linux Australia
    • Planning on getting branding specifically for DSCD for this year and beyond
  • DrupalSouth 2026
    • Very Early stages of planning
    • Need to get approved by Linux Australia

Next meeting:

  • Scheduled for Monday 14 April 2025, however may change due to committee member prior commitments.
  • If you would like to be invited to a DrupalSouth Committee Meeting to observe, contact chair@drupalsouth.org