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DrupalCon London

DrupalCon London. 22-26 August 2011. Croydon – “Greater” London. 1750 participants Much smaller than Chicago (~3000 ppl ) Biggest Drupal Europe conference yet Relaxed, small and cosy (?) conference… Fairfield Halls not big… Lots of selling, sharing, job-hunting, very vibrant

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DrupalCon London

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  1. DrupalConLondon 22-26 August 2011

  2. Croydon – “Greater” London. • 1750 participants • Much smaller than Chicago (~3000 ppl) • Biggest Drupal Europe conference yet • Relaxed, small and cosy (?) conference… • Fairfield Halls not big… • Lots of selling, sharing, job-hunting, very vibrant • No US-style ‘Church of Drupal’ evangelism = relief!

  3. Dries Buytaert- Keynote http://london2011.drupal.org/scheduleitem/keynote-state-drupal

  4. Dries Buytaert - Keynote • Drupal needs to start working on its marketing/look • Strong engineering effort but marketing not so good • Compared drupal.org/ and wordpress.org/ • Recognisedopportunity for adoption across an organisation’swebsites • lots of tools used across many websites • CERN’s situation is not unique and it has been recognised. • Direction of Drupal may help future large-scale implementation.

  5. Keynote:The Future of Social Media • http://london2011.drupal.org/scheduleitem/keynote-future-social-media-historical-perspective

  6. Training • Advanced configuration of Views, Panels • Very useful – shows what’s possible • Recommend NODEONE website for further training, exercises, screencasts • http://nodeone.se/learn-drupal/ • http://nodeone.se/blogg/drupalcon-training-for-free.

  7. Drupal Business Day • “We invented the Web. 20 years later we got Drupal” – CERN’s perspective on adopting Drupal as an Enterprise platform > link • What is CERN | Challenges of the web at CERN | Why Drupal | Where are we now? | Where are we going? • Presented with Nicolas Bocquert of Linalis • ~40 people: reaction: “WOW!” • Questions • Are you going to adopt Drupal 8? What was your experience with migrating between 6+7? How did you communicate with the community that you had had released Drupal? Why Drupal and not Joomla! or any other CMS? How are you going to manage the data migration of 10,500 websites? • Results • Increase our visibility • “it doesn’t matter how challenging it is, the point is that CERN is using Drupal!” • New contacts • ACQUIA management very interested in discussing with CERN

  8. Session Highlights • The Path to a mobile Drupal • Web Typography and Drupal; putting Arial out to pasture • Multilingual Drupal solutions • Creating and measuring User Experience

  9. Summary • Interesting + vibrant • Confirmation of what I already knew • Exposure to lots of new stuff • Totally stoked about Business Day reaction  • Never, ever go to Croydon.

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