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DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014

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Some weeks ago (29th Sept - 3rd Oct) Cocomore attended the European DrupalCon in Amsterdam with five colleagues: penyaskito (Christian López), kfritsche (Karl Fritsche), jsbalsera (Jesús Sánchez), LoMo (Lowell Montgomery) and Carsten Müller where there, and we also attended to the extended sprints before and after the Con. The numbers of this Drupalcon are impressive: more than 2300 attendees from over 64 countries. There were more than 100 sessions so, either if you came or not, you will find the link to all the DrupalCon Amsterdam sessions handful!

Diary

Saturday - Getting there

On Saturday we travelled to Amsterdam. It’s like always an exciting day, looking forward to see again not only friends from the community and new people to know, but also being able to reunite again coworkers who live almost 2000 kms away. And when you get into the airport you start recognizing people from other events, or only because we all wear Drupal t-shirts!

Sunday - Extended Sprints

The extended Sprints were hosted at Berlage Meet & Workspace, an amazing place just near to the Centre Station. There was plenty of space there to sit and help working in Drupal 8 core. As always is great to work with all the people from the community.

Monday - Sprints and Community Summit

On Monday the Sprints moved to the conference venue, Amsterdam RAI. The place there was even bigger for all the sprinting people (around 180 sprinters) and you could see people working not only in Drupal Core but also in important projects like Drupal Commerce or Drush. Karl joined the Community Summit and participate in the group about training experiences.

Tuesday - Start of Sessions

There were 120 sessions this year. so it was a really hard decision to choose between them. You can access to the complete program including links to the recorded videos at the DrupalCon Amsterdam website. The Opening Session, or prenote, was mostly a history of DrupalCon told by people which lives were changed there. Some histories were fun and some others were beautiful, but there were time to include some jokes and fun parts with a curious recreation of some events. Then came the Keynote by Dries Buytaert, and the Drupal 8 Beta One was announced! The keynote was a discussion about how to make the Drupal project development sustainable, by making the contribution more attractive to people and organizations. After that the traditional Group Photo was taken.

As you can see, tons of people :-)

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Wednesday

On Wednesday the beta was finally released, so everyone could just download and install it, and make all the needed testing. This day’s Keynote was delivered by Cory Doctorow, science fiction writer and the co-editor of Boing Boing, among other achievements. You can access to the Wednesday schedule and access to all the sessions descriptions and videos. But this day was also strange, because all the Spanish community, with ours Christian and Jesús among them, looked really agitated. As we knew the day after they were invited to assist to a secret meeting by the Drupal Association, because the city selected to held the next DrupalCon was Barcelona, and they should know in advance.

Thursday

On Thursday there wasn’t a Keynote, but instead a number of small but interesting Drupal Lightning Talks. We want to remark the Console module, based in the Symfony Console Component: a CLI tool that helps creating new modules, controllers, etc automatically. And the #D8in8 initiative looks like a great way to involve a company into learning and contributing in Drupal 8. Lowell made a awesome job summarizing the Q&A with Dries that we can only recommend you to read, although you can also hear the audio. Again, the schedule is available online with links to the sessions descriptions and videos. At the end there was the Closing session, where they talked about future events like DrupalCon Bogotá and DrupalCon Barcelona was unveiled. That same night we assisted to the Trivia Night, hosted by the Irish group. It was tons of fun, but really hard. Our team was named 1396891800, because the timestamp when Heartbleed was announced, and thanks to Christian we won the prize to the best handwriting!

Friday - Mentored Core Sprints

Fridays was all about sprinting. Karl and Christian worked as mentors helping people, and Carsten, Jesús and Lowell were sprinting.

Saturday - Extended Sprints

On Saturday we went back to Berlage Meet & Workspace, so we were sprinting again.

Sunday - Goodbye Amsterdam

At the end all the good things have to end, and we had to get into the airport and travel back to our respective cities, Christian and Jesús travelling to Sevilla and Carsten, Karl and Lowell to Frankfurt. It was a really great DrupalCon, but we expect Barcelona to be even better!

Sessions

We attended to a bunch of a great collection of sessions, so we want to recommend some of them that we found really interesting:

What's next?

DrupalCamp Berlin

There is the DrupalCamp Berlin happening at the 15th and 16th of November in our capital. We are looking forward to meet you there again.

DrupalCon in Barcelona!

The next european DrupalCon will happen in Barcelona. We are happy about the decision made by the Drupal Association and we are looking forward to see you all again next year in the sunny city of Barcelona!

Thanks!

So it was a great DrupalCon. We can only say thank you to the organizers, the mentors, the local group and all the outstanding people that are part of this amazing community. We are proud to be part of it. img-20140928-wa0001_0.jpg
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