"Come for the code, stay for the community" – this is Drupal's motto, but...is it difficult to build community on your location, given the post-pandemic new reality, remote work, etc.?
The answer is absolutely not!

Prerequisite

Outline
During this panel session, we'll share our experiences organising various local events: Drupal & beers, meet-ups, Drupal Day and Drupal Camps.
From creating a website for your event to managing invoices and other payments.
How many days should the event be? Where? How do I promote it? Do I invite featured speakers? How do I find them? Will there be sponsors? What do I need to consider when preparing sponsorship packages? We will answer all these questions with our experiences and also share our activities roadmap with you, detailing all the necessary tasks to organise a wonderful Drupal Day or Drupal Camp.

Learning Objectives
This talk is proposed by members of Drupal associations from different countries such as Portugal, Belgium or Spain, where the community is vibrant and the organisation of Drupal events is more than frequent.
For the moment the following members will participate as well, but we are contacting much more organisers:
Nick Veenhof - from Belgium
Pedro Cambra, Cristina Chumillas and Montaña Franco - from Spain
Ricardo Amaro and Hernani de Freitas - from Portugal
Anne-Sophie Picot - from France

Our idea is to help other countries to organise events and foster their local community by sharing our experience and knowledge.

Experience level
Beginner