September 1, 2008

DrupalCon 2008: Szeged – The Final Wrapup

Szeged inspired a boat-load of blog posts, tons of bugs, lots of documentation, hours of video, a wack of patches, and lots of other great stuff that no one thought to tell me about ;)   I’ve been spending some time going through what’s happened at Szeged (being on the side lines myself) and digging through all the good stuff to find the real gold nuggets from the latest Drupalcon.

Drupalcon Banner

Drupalcon Banner

Photos

One great thing about Drupalcons is you have dozens of people with camera phones and camera snapping photos of every IRC nick and Drupal developer that get within range of.  This provides a great opportunity to put some faces to the names.

Video

Many sessions were videotaped, and are up at the sessions page on the Szeged Drupalcon website.  They make for some great watching!  The “State of Drupal” session by Dries is always what I find most interesting personally.  I’ll be watching with interest :)   It should be noted most of the sessions also have the slides available too, listed on the same page.

Fan Mail

Some people have also have given this Drupalcon some great feedback as well.  Such as Mikkel Høgh in his blog:

It’s hard to find words for how great I think it has been. Meeting so many talented and friendly people has been inspiring. There is something special about the Druapl community. Unlike other computer events or conferences I have been at, everyone has been friendly and open to me

Development

There is also some great new development that has been sparked on by Drupalcon Szeged.  Such as anew MediaRSS module being contemplated.

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August 29, 2008

Loads of updates from Drupalcon Szeged!

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There are quite a few blog posts up now about how Drupalcon Szeged is going, here are some of the picks of the crop:

Whew. So day 1 of Drupalcon Szeged was a whirlwind of fun. Szeged is a very cool town. Lots of things going on, easy to get around and the weather is awesome! I’m not a good note-taker at all but here are the highlights for my day: 
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Day one of the Drupal Con in Szeged, Hungary. Morten and I made the initial keynote speech by Dries & Co. Well, almost. We were in the door about 4 seconds, there was some clapping, and we left. 
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The famous starting keynote of DrupalCon!
After an official introduction by Gábor and Kristof (Thank you for noticing the 7% rule has been improved to 10%! see image) we came to know that Belgium attendees are represented with 3% of the whole conference! It’s not much but I expect it to grow! After this it was time to get a short look on the Drupal development project and get information about where it is heading.
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Day 2 started out with the Awesome Testing Party, which consisted of a room full of people in pairs learning how to write automated tests. I had hoped for at least 10-20 people there. There were 80+ (!) and together we enjoyed delicious Hungarian pancakes and chocolate. I still have yet to thoroughly review the results, but as of this moment there are 24 of the testing issues bumped, several with patches that need review, and one that even got committed during the session! :)
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