DrupalCamp

On 25-27th of November in Donetsk (Ukraine) there was DrupalCamp, an international event related to the content management system Drupal. The event gathered more the 170 people from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Venues of the DrupalCamp were conference-halls of Shachtar Plaza и Ramada hotels. While the conference there were 20 sessions, 5 BoFs, code-sprint and a party. Elloria rock band performed some Drupal songs, rock covers and their own themes. Slides and videos from the event will appear on the DrupalCamp website soon: http://donetsk.drupal.ua/.

25-27 ноября в г. Донецке прошло событие международного масштаба DrupalCamp, посвященное системе управления содержимым сайта Dupal, которое собрало более 170 участников из Украины, России и Белоруссии. Местом проведения стали конференц-залы гостиниц Shachtar Plaza и Ramada. Во время конференции было прочитано 20 докладов, проведено 5 обсуждений в формате круглого стола, состоялся код-спринт, на котором участники писали программный код и совершенствовали систему Drupal и ее компоненты. Также, с участием донецкой музыкальной группы Elloria прошла вечеринка, на которой прозвучали песни о Drupal, популярные рок и авторские композиции. Слайды и видео с конференции в скором времени будут выложены на сайте http://donetsk.drupal.ua/.

I was very excited about attending DrupalCamp Kyiv 2011. It was awesomeness and the most fantastic Drupal event that I have ever visited in Eastern Europe. It had the same Drupal spirit as one was on DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010. Most of the slides were in English. Interesting sessions were performed by guys who worked in Belgium company Inuits, which was sponsoring students to attend this event.

I was visiting sessions about Services, MongoDB, Git, Varnish, participated in the small talk with Yuri Gerasimov about future of Menu Token module and performed two sessions. First one was about Best practices for cross-browser compatibility of Drupal website, which I prepared for DrupalCon Chicago 2011 and the second one was about OpenAcaDept – Drupal distribution for building academic departmental websites.

I was very happy to meet and to drink beer with some well known guys in Ukrainian community. They had made great contributions to d.o and at that time were seating in front of each other and having fun. I also liked talking to Michel and Safeen from MadCap.