Have you wanted to organize a new Drupal camp or similar event that features community-provided talks? Feeling daunted by the prospect of creating a website that will allow your team to efficiently collect, evaluate, moderate, and schedule the submitted sessions? This session will demonstrate a purpose-built solution that will make the process easy.

Prerequisite
Some experience organizing a Drupal camp or similar community event will help attendees appreciate the time-saving value of the features they will see.

Outline
Drupal’s Event Platform is a community-built, open source solution for organizing and promoting a Drupal camp or similar community event. In this session we’ll discuss what inspired its creation, how it got started, and most importantly how it can help with your event. We will cover recent additions like:
A configurable theme that will let your site reflect your camp’s personality within minutes of installing your site
A dedicated, built-in system to score and bulk moderate sessions
Tools to bulk generate time slots and drag-and-drop to schedule accepted sessions
A template on Drupal Forge you can use to spin up an Event Platform site in seconds
An updated content architecture designed to let a single site host content for multiple events (e.g. many years of an annual camp)

We will also explore the roadmap for the Event Platform, and how the next major version will embrace recent Drupal features like recipes and site templates to be even more flexible.

We will cover the modular architecture, and how you could use specific parts of the Event Platform if that would better suit your needs. We will demo the initial setup, session selection and scheduling, and more.

You’ll learn about the current technical approach, and most important of all, how you can help!

Learning Objectives
• The history of the Event Platform and how it has evolved to its current state
• How to install and configure the Event Platform to quickly begin collecting community-provided session submissions
• What's ahead for the Event Platform and how you can help

Experience level
Beginner