General BOF questions - how to do it?

Posted by Mary Howe on January 18, 2011

Sprints, Birds of a Feather, and other informal gatherings

How does a BOF get put together? I'm interested in a couple of ideas but don't know that I'm the person to actually RUN a BOF.

Can I suggest something and hope someone else wants to do it, or just start one and hope more experienced people come to it?

One of the sessions that wasn't accepted was about how to use Git in general (as opposed to relative to drupal.org). I'd dearly love to learn more about it, as I'm often flapping around in it screwing things up.

Another idea I had was not about Drupal at all, but just a little yoga session to give people a rest from conference activities. Appropriate, or not?

How do you announce a BOF and get a room and so forth?

Heya Mary! I blogged a little

Posted by Heather James on Wed, 2011-01-19 23:29

Heya Mary!

I blogged a little about BoFs, and how they normally work here:
http://acquia.com/blog/heather/why-i-love-bofs-drupalcon But I think we can do them even better. I even suggested a "BoF about BoFs"
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/forum/bof-about-bofs-how-use-open-space-te...

Do you think you might like to join with us?

I think the Yoga idea is good :)

I'd do the BoF about BoF

Posted by Mike Herchel on Thu, 2011-01-20 19:41

I'd do the BoF about BoF (assuming that it won't BLOW my mind) :)

I'd also like to learn GIT. I'm a fairly technical person, but I'm from the Windows side of things. So, I'm not familiar with too many UNIX commands and terminology.

But, I'd love to learn this to contribute my own themes and maybe a module or two at some point.