Slides from my session in Drupalcon Chicago co-presented with Ivo Radulovski, Christefano and Jeffrey A. McGuire.

1. Building Successful Local Communities: Insights and Best Practices Ivo Radulovski (segments) Austrian and Bulgarian Communities João Ventura (jcnventura) Portuguese Community Christefano (christefano) LA Drupal Jeffrey A. “jam” McGuire (horncologne) Germany / Italy

3. Objectives

4. Organization / Legal Entity

6. Service Providers

8. Meet people that share your Drupal passion

9. Share knowledge (Drupal, but not only)

10. Network

11. Cooperate

13. Handling Money

14. Signing Contracts

15. Local Branding & Marketing

16. Dealing with Contacts

17. Define a Team

19. Event Organization & Logistics

20. Sponsorship Management

21. Website Development

22. Graphic Design

23. Translation Team

24. Social Coordination

25. Drupal Public Training Coordinator

27. Press Releases

29. 7 Sessions at the Sofia University

30. 3 Expos with Drupal Panels in 3 Cities

31. Drupal 7 Release Party

32. Drupal Camp

33. Coding for a Cause

34. Drupal Party

36. 80 members in groups.drupal.org

37. +200 posts about Drupalcamp Sofia

38. 250 active members

39. 300 registered on drupalcamp.bg

40. 2000 registered users at drupal.org (+60% growth)

43. These early members are still around, and some are now active members.

44. A community is a group of people with individual agendas – conflict is a certainty, given enough time.

46. 3 Drupal sessions in 3 university / cities

47. Drupal 7 release party

49. 119 attendants registered in Drupalcamp

50. 158 members in groups.drupal.org

53. Monthly at least

54. Different types of meetups:

55. Meet in a bar (scalability problems)

56. Barcamp

58. groups.drupal.org

59. #drupal-* IRC channel on freenode

60. Your website

61. Other channels (not recommended):

62. Mailing lists

63. groups.google.com

64. Facebook

68. Get it done , and then grow it slowly

69. Because it will be created, managed and maintained by volunteers

70. It only needs to tell who you are, what you’ve done and what you’ll do

72. Encourage the creation of new communities

73. Meta-communities

74. In Europe, there’s a continent-level group of communities organizing vertical Camps