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