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DrupalCon Prague 2013 - From one to many

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We were at DrupalCon Prague 2013.

Last week (23.-27.09.) Cocomore attended the European DrupalCon in Prague with three colleagues penyaskito (Christian López Espínola), jsbalsera (Jesús Sánchez Balsera) and kfritsche (Karl Fritsche). We also attended the extended sprints before and after the Con to contribute to Drupal 8 Core.

Like on all the other Cons there were a lot of interesting sessions, BoFs and discussions with other Drupalists. If you couldn't make it to the DrupalCon you can watch most of the session records at the YouTube channel from the Drupal Association.

group picture by @schnitzel

Extended Sprints

The extended sprints were at the Hub Praha the weekend before and after the Con, which was located some tram stops away from the conference center. Everybody had enough space here to help working on Drupal 8 core. The hub had three conference rooms for the "Hard Problems" discussions. We used our experience with Drupal to help the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiatives (D8MI) to make Drupal 8 the best multilingual CMS! Also all the other core initiatives and core committers attended these sprints, so patches could be committed fast. It is always a pleasure and a good experience to work with all the people from the community.

Sprinting in the Hub Praha - Karl, Jesús, Christian

Sessions

The Con was located in the conference center in Prague next to the Vyšehrad. From here you had a good view over Prague, while contributing to Drupal 8 in the Coder Lounge. So at least everybody had something from the beautiful town of Prague.

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It was hard to pick a sessions with nine parallel tracks (115 all in all). You can read the complete program including links to the recorded videos at the DrupalCon Prague website. I strongly recommend the keynotes from Dries about "State of Drupal" and Aral Balkan about "Experience Driven OpenSource". In advance I recommend the following sessions:

  • From Not-Invented-Here to Proudly-Found-Elsewhere: A Drupal 8 Story from Alex Pott (D8 Core Committer) about the possibilities and advantages from moving to already existing frameworks.
  • Standardization, the Symfony way from Fabien Potencier (Project-Lead Symfony) about the philosophy and concepts of Symfony.
  • Translation Management from Michael Schmid and Christophe Galli (Maintainer TMGMT) about the Translation Management Module. It was amazing to see what they did in the last two years and that they are already working on a Drupal 8 version. A must see if you have to translate a lot of nodes.
  • There were more good sessions but I tried to keep this short.

Outside the sessions

In the Coder Lounge next to the session rooms you had the time to contribute and test on Drupal 8. There were always a lot of people there so you could get help quickly. I think some of them have never seen a single session. Also the hard problems discussions were continued there.

by Gábor Hojtsy - "Busy in field translation/language discussion to make field DX better than D7. Fields/entity and multilingual! #d8mi"

In the day you had the sessions and at the night we went to the 24th floor of the Corinthia Hotel to continue sprinting with others all night, which led to a high shortfall of sleep but was really funny. For the dinner there was a nice social event "Cheap Frosty Beverages & A Killer View" in a beer garden in Prague, for all who found it. On Thursday the last day of the all the sessions the Drupal Trivia took place in the Hilton Hotel. It was a big fun and the team "Create Table" (Nathan Haug, Jen Lampton, Florian Weber, Vijaya Chandran Mani, Tobias Stöckler, Karl Fritsche) won in a three team tie against "Breaking Head" with Gabor Hojtsy and Cathy Theys and Acon Armada.

For everybody who wanted to contribute on Core but never did, there was an introduction to all community tools on Friday and 50 volunteer mentors (amongst others Karl Fritsche) to help everybody to get more contributors. This is a good example to see how helpful and welcoming the Drupal community is. A big thanks to Cathy Theys (YesCT) to organize this event in Prague.

Another good example how amazing the Drupal community is happened this week too. In under 24 hours yched's project on DrupalFund.us reached its goal. Now he can contribute to Fields API more powerful. Congratulations!

Next Drupal Events

It was a nice DrupalCon. Thanks to all organizers, sponsors and volunteers who made this happen. I'm excited about the next events, even if I now have to make up a lot of sleep.

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