Day 3 at Drupalcon

Day 3 also i attended more BoFs, met different project managers discussed about planning, tools, estimations, etc

I went to every booth, collected stickers, T-shirts from different companies.

Overall, the experience of Drupalcon is great as i get a chance not only to meet drupal developers across the world but also there are many new things that i come to know and learn.

There are popular drupal distros such as atrium, open public, open publish available which are being used by so many people across the world. For testing, automated testing being used using selenium, walter , automated deployment using hudson/jenkins

Next Drupalcon is going to happen in London and after that it is going to be in North America (Denver).

Day 2 at Drupalcon

On Day 2, i participated more in BoFs as we can always view the sessions online. Discussed with different people, attended day stage.

Day 2 was quite fun and exciting as i got a chance to talk with different drupal core developers and contributors.

Me and Angie Byron (Webchik)

Me and Angie Byron (this pose was suggested by Webchik)

Me with Core Drupal developers

Me and Atrium core developer (Jeff)

Me and Pantheon Core Developer

Day 1 at Drupalcon

The day started well with Dries keynote. View Dries keynote here.

http://chicago2011.drupal.org/keynote-dries-buytaert

Dries discussed about D8, co-maintainer, roadmap of D8, etc.

After that, i got a chance to get hold of Dries for a minute. Had an quick talk with him on Drupal 8, object orientation of drupal, new features in D8 and his visit to India. Took a quick snap with him :)

1st Day in Chicago

Hey guys, Landed in chicago last night along with prajwala to attend the Drupalcon. For those who don't know what is Drupal, here is a small writeup.

"DrupalCon is the twice-yearly gathering of Drupalers to learn about, discuss, and advance Drupal, and to network with other Drupal community members. There, you will have the opportunity to meet Drupal community leaders, top developers, your favorite module maintainers, dojo trainers, members of the Drupal association, potential business partners, and future employees!"

Travel was quite okay with no hiccups at London or at immigration in US. It was smooth than expected.

By the time we come out of immigration it was past 10 pm and we have been welcomed with cold weather, heavy winds and snow :)

Checked in hostel, got settled. Was feeling hungry. Thought both us of make a maggi. As you all aware, it is the most easiest food to prepare :) But unfortunately it was not the case with us :)

We screwed up 2 maggi packages by making some part of it overcooked and some part of it semi-cooked. Result, no food. Had few snacks which we bought from home.

Today, will go out , check out chicago and get use to the weather.

Keep you updated about drupal and my adventures :)

In Chicago

Hey guys, Landed in chicago last night to attend the Drupalcon.

"DrupalCon is the twice-yearly gathering of Drupalers to learn about, discuss, and advance Drupal, and to network with other Drupal community members. There, you will have the opportunity to meet Drupal community leaders, top developers, your favorite module maintainers, dojo trainers, members of the Drupal association, potential business partners, and future employees!"

Travel was quite okay with no hiccups at London or at immigration in US. It was smooth than expected.

In Chicago

When we come out of immigration it was night around 9 pm and we have been welcomed with cold weather, heavy winds and snow :)

Presently staying in hostel, which has free wifi :) 

Drupal 7 Release party, Hyderabad in The Hindu newspaper

Folks,

We got our event published in The Hindu Newspaper dated 13th Jan 2011.

http://www.hindu.com/mp/2011/01/13/stories/2011011350670100.htm

Drupal 7 Release party in Hyderabad Jan 8th 2011

Today, We had great time celebrating the release of Drupal 7 on the boat.

No. of people attended: 70 (approx)

Event Sponsor: Azri Solutions (http://www.azrisolutions.com/)

The event started with Venky giving an inaugural speech on open source, Drupal and the hyderabad community.

After that I had given a brief introduction to Drupal and how drupal evolved in last 4-5 years. Heard few good comments from professors and students.

Then we had a cake cutting (see image below).

We have given all the people a simple chit containing letters A1, A2, etc. We have selected 7 people who got the letters (A7, B7, C7, D7, E7, F7, G7) and had cake cutting with them.

After having the drupal cake, snacks and cool drinks, we have divided all people into 3 groups (Community, Learning and Code).

Community group has been lead by me. We discussed different ideas with students and professors of different colleges on how to increase the community participation, career opportunities and how best we can conduct workshops.

Code group has been lead by Prajwala where all developers meet and discussed technical details related to drupal, opensource, etc

Learning group has been lead by Rahim.

We had 1-1 sessions with students, discussed in groups and collected various ideas on how to increase the community participation, workshops, trainings and internships.

Azri has distributed Drupal 7 release stickers to all the participants who have attended the event.

At the end, we had 1 big group photo which we are expecting to get it published in the Hindu Newspaper.

Thanks to everyone who has accepted our invitation and made the party a huge success.

We will keep you posted about upcoming events very soon.

Asif