Dries Buytaert

Eén using Drupal

Eén (Dutch for 'one'), a public TV station reaching millions of people in Belgium, redesigned its website using Drupal: see http://een.be.

First Belgian DrupalCamp

Next weekend, on Saturday June 27, the French-speaking Drupal community in Belgium is organizing Belgium's very first DrupalCamp. The event takes place in Louvain-la-Neuve which makes it pretty accessible for both Dutch and French-speaking Belgians. Details are available on http://drupalfr.be. Due to the work of Gilles Bailleux, the event got some great press in this weekend's edition of the Belgian newspaper, La Libre Belgique. Both a screenshot and a PDF are provided below.

It's always great to meet Drupal people, so I currently plan to go to Utrecht on Friday, to Louvain-la-Neuve on Saturday, and back to Utrecht on Sunday to help with the Drupal 7 usability code sprint. It's just great to see so many community events being organized -- we've gotten to a point where there are often Drupal events happening at the same time in different places in the world.

Antwerpen Studentenstad using Drupal

I started work on Drupal as a graduate student living in Antwerp. Drupal was just a little hobby project. Today, the Antwerp student organization is actually using Drupal on http://www.antwerpenstudentenstad.be. Cool!

Ketnet using Drupal

Ketnet is a public children's television channel in Belgium, owned and operated by the VRT, a public broadcaster. The Ketnet site is using Drupal! (Hat tip: Seutje)

P-Magazine using Drupal

Belgian men's magazine P-Magazine (LSFW) recently switched to Drupal. I don't know who built the site, but I'm told it is hosted on a multi-server cluster at Combell. More proof that Drupal is growing strong in Belgium. Cool!

Drupal talk at FeWeb

I gave a Drupal presentation at the annual FeWeb conference here in Belgium last night. FeWeb is a Belgian association for website developers; this year was the sixth edition of their annual conference.

I was shocked, surprised and pleased to find that everyone in the audience had heard of Drupal and almost half of the audience had actively used it. I had lengthy conversations with a number of Belgian Drupal shops, including Coworks and Connexion, and discovered that almost all of them have made Drupal their main platform during the last year. Most reported that they can't keep up with the Drupal demand.

Clearly, Drupal has grown massively in Belgium over the last year ...

Boekenbeurs using Drupal

Boekenbeurs.be, the site of Belgian's famous book fair, received 3 awards at the Belgian CMS Awards last week. The site, built with Drupal, was designed and implemented by Calibrate. The site received an award for web 2.0 functionality, SEO implementation and best public overall award. Stunning design!