The Dream of Drupal Is Alive in Portland

Like the ’90s, Drupal really is alive in Portland, the city made popular again from the much-watched TV show, Portlandia. Portland is the homebase for the Drupal Association and host for this year’s DrupalCon, Drupal’s largest North American conference. 

This will be Forum One’s biggest presence at DrupalCon since we went to our first conference in Washington, DC, in 2009. We’ll have 17 web developers, project managers, and strategists attending the event from our offices in San Francisco, Seattle, and DC. We can’t wait to meet more Drupalers, share our experiences, and explore Portland!

During our Day Stage session, EPA.gov: Building a Sustainable Drupal Platform, we’re excited to share the challenges and successes we faced in migrating EPA’s large web presence to Drupal. In a “game-show” style session, we’ll investigate how we navigated the unique needs of a large government agency, share project challenges, champion our successes, and provide best practices for other large organizations considering moving to Drupal.

Another highly anticipated session is What Users Want (or Why Webpages are Dead) by Nam-ho Park and Stein Setvik. They’ll dive deep into real questions about the future of websites in the face of the rise of mobile and explore the implications for Drupal.

Each year, it is encouraging to see Drupal growing. With 613 active distributions and more than 25,000 contributors, Drupal is now the largest and most recognized open-source community. It will be interesting to see how keynotes from Dries Buytaert, Karen McGrane, and Michael Lopp address the sheer size of the project and how to get Drupal to even more users.

If you’re going to be in Portland next week, stop by our booth. We’ll have free “Nodetoriusly” awesome T-shirts that will be sure to take you back to the golden age of hip-hop. Plus, we’ll raffle off an iPad mini. And if you have a big heart and bright mind, consider joining our team by checking out our career openings. Come talk to us and help us keep the dream alive at Portland DrupalCon!