Back from DrupalCamp Prague

lacisoft — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:00:12 +0000

Last night we’ve returned from DrupalCamp Prague, a two day event with a lots of interesting presentations about Drupal and related technologies. The schedule had some interesting presentations and i attended to almost all of those. The ones i liked most were Search is sexy by Robert Douglass and Using Features by Andrew Burcin. Also an interesting session was the case study held by Jakub Suchy, Using Drupal for your bussines.

But these DrupalCamps are not only about the sessions, socializing is also an important thing and we did exactly that, lots of beers were consumed while talking about Drupal and other topics. I must say that the first social event was held at the U Medvidku restaurant, where the strongest beer in the world is brewed and obviously we tried this beer. Its good, very good.

Bye the way. Prague is a very very beautiful city and has a unique atmosphere and charm. I intend to return here for a more thorough visit. But until then i will have a few nice pictures and lots of memories from there.

Romania was represented at DrupalCamp Prague by eight drupalers: Alina Fleser (alinafleser), Maria Mihaela Cîmpean, Diana Precup (dianaprecup), Andreea Ungureanu, Igor Ştirbu (igor.stirbu), Gabriel Ungureanu (gabrielu), Claudiu Cristea (claudiu.cristea) and myself (Bodor László (lacisoft)).

The most important thing is that while talking about Drupal and Romania we reached to the conclusion that we should organize a DrupalCamp next year in Romania to further promote Drupal and to involve more people in the Drupal community. We started the planning but have nothing to announce at this time. But i can say that if everything goes fine next year there will be a DrupalCamp in Romania!

Leaving for DrupalCamp Prague

lacisoft — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:37:56 +0000

I’m going to DrupalCamp Prague tomorrow. I’m going there to learn new things and meet new people from the Drupal world.

I’ve only started working with Drupal a year and a few months ago. Meantime i learned to use it, to extend it and i started to like it. Initially i hated it because i was used to hard things and always tried to do things the hard way and couldn’t even think that there is a simple solution to a problem. Like installing a module from Drupal.org. Meantime i learned that Drupal can be very simple, but very powerful

Also Drupal has gained a lot of adoption lately. At least from what i see, more and more people adopt Drupal. This is partly because Drupal is easy and has lots of modules. Modules for almost everything. A basic site in Drupal can be set up in a few minutes and customized in a few hours or less.

I’ve read on Dries Buytaert’s blog that even the White House started using Drupal for whitehouse.gov. This is a great proof that open source software can be as good as proprietary or even better. And major companies must not fear adopting and using open source software and open technologies. If the White House can use it then i guess everyone can.

I hope that while in Prague i will learn more about Drupal. I’m curious for example what novelties does Drupal 7 brings us. Also security matters and scaling of Drupal for large sites are subjects of interests for me. And the schedule promises to deliver these things.

And if i’m in Prague i will also visit this wonderful city. I’ve heard many good things about Prague and i will certainly invest a few hours daily into visiting the city. If you know some good places to eat or drink, or you have some recommendations then post them in a comment.

And if you’re in Prague too for DrupalCamp drop me an email to laci [at] lacisoft [dot] ro and we can go out drink a beer or something.

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