FOSDEM
FOSDEM wrapup
FOSDEM, the yearly Open Source gathering in Brussels, was good ol' fun. We had a crowd of 150 people in the Drupal developer room that must have collectively skipped their Sunday morning breakfast. Respect!
Sadly, I only attended 2 presentations but it seemed like the room was pretty much maxed out all day. I wish I could have attended more sessions but I spent a lot of time talking to people in the hallways to the point my feet hurt and my voice occasionally started to fail. I also gave a couple of short interviews, and went out for lunch with Danese Cooper (OSI board member), David Axmark (MySQL co-founder), Erwin Tenhumberg (Open Source Program Manager at SAP), and John Morrison (Union Legend).
Over lunch, Danese explained what makes Drupal stand out; Drupal is a tribe. She is absolutely right -- Drupal is a tribe of passionate users. These users all bring a piece to the table, making Drupal a great common platform. A platform that can be used to build any website you can think of -- no restrictions. A platform that becomes more rich and powerful thanks to the quality of the people that contribute to it. Growing is finding more people that want to join your quest, that believe in what you do, and that want to help the project succeed. It is at meetings like FOSDEM, that you feel overwhelmed and excited by the many people want to be part of the tribe. It is all good stuff.
Drupal schedule for FOSDEM 2009
Next weekend on Sunday, February 8, we'll have a Drupal day at FOSDEM, Europe's biggest Free and Open Source software conference.
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. The Drupal project was granted a developer room at FOSDEM to do exactly that: to brainstorm, to discuss and to share about Drupal.
Jo Wouters and batigolix, the Drupal devroom schedule wrestlers, made the schedule for the Drupal developer room available on the FOSDEM website this week. As you can see in the summary below, it is packed with interested talks. Everyone is invited to stop by and to take part!
On Saturday evening, there will be a social event in cafe De Monk for all the Drupalistas that are in town.
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 09:15-09:30 | Welcome to the Drupal devroom |
| 09:30-10:15 | What's new in Drupal 7 (Dries Buytaert) |
| 10:15-11:00 | Improving Drupal's page loading performance (Wim Leers) |
| 11:00-11:45 | Building a community website using Drupal (Niels van Mourik, et al) |
| 11:45-12:30 | Drupal multi-site for fun and profit (Emma Jane Hogbin) |
| 13:00-14:00 | Hacker-proof your code: Drupal security for developers (Neil Drumm) |
| 14:00-14:45 | Moving content from staging to live server (Roel de Meester) |
| 14:45-15:30 | Drupal showcase: Uit in Vlaanderen / Cultural Activities in Flanders (Davy Van Den Bremt, et al.) |
| 15:30-16:15 | Automated web translation workflow for multilingual Drupal sites (Stany van Gelder) |
| 16:15-17:00 | Taxonomy: Drupal's powerful classification system (Bart Feenstra) |
FOSDEM 2009: call for speakers
Mark your agendas because the Drupal project got a developer room at FOSDEM on Sunday, February 8, 2009. FOSDEM, which stands for Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, is a yearly free and non-commercial event for the open source community, held in Brussels (Belgium). With more than 3,000 attendees coming from all over the world, FOSDEM is the biggest open source event in Europe.
Our goal is to use the developer room to meet, discuss, and talk about Drupal. Right now, we're looking for speakers so let us know in the FOSDEM 2009 group if you want to give a presentation. Or, if you want me to present about a specific topic, you can let me know in the comments of this post. I'm always looking for good ideas. Hope to see you at FOSDEM 2009!
FOSDEM 2008 pictures
I spent a lot of time talking in the conference hallways at FOSDEM last Sunday, so I only took a handful of pictures of what went on in the Drupal developer room.
Some of the people in the Drupal developer room at FOSDEM.
Gábor explaining all the new features in Drupal 6. On this slide, he is talking about the awesome theme developer module (QuickTime movie) that was made possible by Drupal 6's theme system improvements.
Robert gave a great presentation about the Solr module for Drupal.
Drupal and MySQL hIgh-availability
While I invited Kris Buytaert to present at the Drupal developer room at FOSDEM, I couldn't make it to his presentation as it was scheduled for the last presentation of the day. Oops! Fortunately, Luc Van Braekel recorded almost all Drupal presentations at FOSDEM so I'm sharing the video of Kris's presentation to make up for it. It's is well worth a look, and no, we are not family.
Drupal schedule for FOSDEM 2008
On Sunday, February 24, we'll have a Drupal day at FOSDEM, Europe's biggest Free and Open Source software conference.
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. The Drupal project was granted a developer room at FOSDEM to do exactly that: to brainstorm, to discuss and to share about Drupal.
Joeri Poesen, the Drupal devroom schedule wrestler, made the schedule for the Drupal developer room available on the FOSDEM website this week. As you can see in the summary below, it is packed with interested talks. Everyone is invited to stop by and to take part!
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 09:15-09:30 | Welcome to the Drupal devroom (Joeri Poesen) |
| 09:30-10:30 | What's new in Drupal 6 (Gabor Hojtsy, Dries Buytaert) |
| 10:30-11:30 | Drupal Theming (Morten Heide, Bèr Kessel) |
| 11:30-12:30 | Usability and Drupal (Thomas Moseler) |
| 12:30-13:00 | Combining Amazon Web Services with Drupal (Thomas Bonte) |
| 13:00-13:30 | Asset Management in Drupal using the Asset Module (Wim Mostrey) |
| 13:30-14:30 | Introducing the Apache Solr Module (Robert Douglass) |
| 14:30-15:30 | Implementing Drupal for the Public Sector (Michel van de Ven, Frank Schaap) |
| 15:30-16:30 | Challenges for the CMS of Tomorrow and its Developers (Wouter Van den Bosch, Tanguy Coenen) |
| 16:30-17:00 | Web Service Development for Managers (Mixel Kiemen) |
| 17:00-17:45 | Drupal and MySQL High Availability (Kris Buytaert) |
FOSDEM 2008: call for speakers
Mark your agendas because the Drupal project got a 200-person developer room at FOSDEM on Sunday, February 24th. FOSDEM, which stands for Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, is a yearly free and non-commercial event for the open source community, held in Brussels (Belgium). With more than 3,000 attendees coming from all over the world, FOSDEM is the biggest open source event in Europe.
We will use the developer room to meet, discuss, and talk about Drupal. Right now, we're looking for speakers so let us know in the comments if you want to give a presentation. Alternatively, feel free to request presentation topics as well. Joeri Poesen from Krimson is the lead schedule wrestler.
