The first official Drupalcon (Drupal conference) was held in Sydney from 6th to 9th February 2013. Agileware headed up to Sydney and had a great time learning and interacting with the wider Drupal community.
Highlights included:
- Finally meeting some of the Drupal Rockstars such as Jeff Eaton, Angie Byron, Dries Buytaert, Addison Berry, Jess (xjm), Moshe Weitzman (Drupal.org user #23!) and MortenDK
- Catching up with other Drupal developers from last years conference in Melbourne, Drupal Down Under 2012
- Meeting up with old Drupal colleagues and work mates, a few of whom I’ve not seen for many years
- Coogee Bay, it’s awesome
- The talks and discussions that happened at lunch, dinner and in between the conference sessions
- Drupal 8 Web Services by Moshe Weitzman
- Upgrading your modules to Drupal 8
- Applied agile for Drupal projects by Vesa Palmu CEO Wunderkraut
- Building for a Post-Mobile World by Jeff Eaton
- Keynote: Senator Kate Lundy
- Moving a mountain – deploying Drupal @ UNSW
- Sharing content between Drupal sites by Tarrant Marshall
All the conference session audio a video of the presentation as well as a presentation download is available here, http://sydney2013.drupal.org/program/schedule
All session recordings are also available on Youtube, DrupalCon Sydney – February 2013
The stand out best session for me was the “Climbing the Drupal Ladder” by Addison Berry and Jess (xjm). This session was only attended by about 4 people in total, small is beautiful. We were able to have a much higher level of interaction with Addison and Jess, asking questions and having a great discussion about promoting Drupal within user groups, learning to contribute to Drupal and running Drupal sprints. So for me, this was perfect and provided a lot of new ideas and approaches.
It was also quite amazing to finally meet so many of the voices I often listen to on the Lullabot Drupal Podcast (Jeff Eaton, Angie Byron, Addison Berry to name a few). I have been listening to this podcast since the early days in 2006 / 2007 and Lullabot have been fundamental to my Drupal journey and assisting with teaching the Agileware team best practices and exposing us to new ideas. So thank you Lullabot!
A big special thanks go out to the organisers of the Drupalcon 2013 conference, volunteers, speakers and sponsors. They all did an astounding job, the conference went off like clockwork and everyone was smiling. I think we all left on a very big Drupal high as a result. The official Drupal wrap-up is available here, http://sydney2013.drupal.org/drupalcon-sydney-wrap
Below are some of our photos from the Drupalcon Sydney 2013 conference. There are more photos on the Agileware Facebook page as well as the official Drupalcon photos in Flickr.com
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