Dries Buytaert

Drupal Developer Days Brussels 2011: call for speakers

We co-located the very first DrupalCon in 2005 with FOSDEM, now Europe's largest open source developers meeting. The first DrupalCon was an instrumental moment in the history of Drupal that has set the tone for all other DrupalCons and DrupalCamps. Ever since, co-locating a Drupal event with FOSDEM has been near and dear to my heart. In keeping with this good habit (e.g. 2008, 2009, 2010), I want to call upon the Drupal community to consider speaking at the Drupal Developer Days in Brussels.

Registration is now open for this free-as-in-beer event. It takes place from Friday, February 4 to Sunday, February 6 in parallel with FOSDEM. On that Friday there will be a code sprint. On Saturday and Sunday at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), you can enjoy two days of presentations and workshops on everything that is happening and exciting in the Drupal world.

A large part of the program is defined by the attendees so you are encouraged to propose sessions. So, register and submit your ideas for sessions. Even if you don't present a session, you'll enjoy yourself and learn more about getting the most from Drupal. Plus, you'll be able to see where DrupalCon got started.

Drupal code sprint at FOSDEM 2010

FOSDEM 2010: call for speakers

Like the years before, Drupal was granted a developer room at FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting. FOSDEM is a yearly event for the open source community that attracts more than 3,000 developers from all around the world. It's good fun.

At the Drupal developer room you can meet fellow Drupal developers, listen to great talks and discuss Drupal. We'll have the Drupal developer room on Sunday, February 7th form 09:00h until 17:00h. The organizers are still looking for Drupal speakers; let us know in the FOSDEM 2010 group on drupal.org if you want to give a presentation.

Hope to see you at FOSDEM 2010!

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.