The EOWG has identified three inaugural initiatives. They're noted here with their corresponding EOWG Slack channels:

Getting Started with Drupal

Purpose

To grow the Drupal Community by providing consistent, welcoming, inclusive content for Event Organizers to introduce newcomers to Drupal at their events.

Description

Many people find it difficult when they first join the Drupal Community to feel “connected”. Some find the more established members of the Community intimidating. Many people in the Tech Industry are introverts and may have other socially isolating challenges. This can lead to new people feeling unwelcome even if we’re doing our best to make them feel welcome.

Goals for 2021

  • Build a light curriculum (including pitch deck and potential programming) for Trainers and Ambassadors to use.
  • Set up a network of 5 "Trainers" willing to initially deliver the above curriculum.
  • Connecting "Trainers" to 5-10 other "Ambassadors" to deliver curriculum and give support at local events.
  • Pilot the curriculum at 1-3 events during the summer and officially launch at the end of the third quarter.
  • Identify individuals who may be a good fit for the Drupal Scholarship Program.
  • Begin to identify strategies to broaden the attendee base of local events.

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Drupal Event Platform

Purpose

The event website is one of the most important and laborious tasks associated with producing a quality Drupal event. For some events, the website is the main application that helps organize and build the entire experience from collecting session submissions to assigning presentations to the schedule. The Drupal Event Platform (DEP) committee within the Drupal Event Organizers Working Group (EOWG) is looking to reduce the time and resources it takes to create an event website site through the creation of a flexible and customizable website starter kit for event organizers.

Goals

  • Focus the website creation efforts of event organizers on a single open-source platform to reduce duplication of efforts
  • Create an MVP (minimal viable product) that can meet the needs of at least 80% of Drupal events globally
  • Reach and maintain adoption by at least 40% of all Drupal events globally
  • Model for Drupal best practices including accessibility, usability, inclusive design, documentation, security, performance, and internationalization
  • Provide an extensible, modular platform that allows event organizers to choose to use default functionality or build custom components

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Drupal Events Information

Purpose

To make Drupal event information easier to find for those within the Drupal community and for those interested in the Drupal community.

Description

Many users of Drupal and those that are new to or evaluating Drupal, have no idea where to go to find information about Drupal events. They are overwhelmed with the various places that list events but have no idea if any of these places contain a complete listing of all global events. People may have heard about DrupalCon, but have no knowledge of all the other events that are available for them to participate in. The overall goal of this group is to help centralize, maintain, and distribute this information to all looking for it.

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