Drupal 8 Initiatives

It is already a week and a half since the DrupalCon Munich co-located sprint for the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative ended. It feels much less because most of last week was spent recovering and trying to lobby patches to get in. So it is now time to take a review of what we done and how we did.

It was a huge and active sprint starting three days before DrupalCon and ending three days after the DrupalCon sessions were over, covering the whole weekend before and after DrupalCon and including sprinting on the DrupalCon training day and the official sprint day. The biggest crowd gathered for the official DrupalCon sprint day with an astonishing four full tables for our sprint only with even more individuals sprinting at other tables. I think this was the biggest Drupal multilingual sprint ever. It was both great to get days in both before and after DrupalCon and hugely tiring. I personally struggled all week after DrupalCon to get my speed back.

Thanks to everyone involved!

First off, a sprint on this scale would not be possible without sponsors and significant on-site help. DrupalCon provided us with space on Monday and Friday, and some great food on Friday. The rest of the days would not have been doable without comm-press, dotProjects.be, Open8.se, OSINet and Acquia. The various amounts of financial sponsorships they provided paid for our weekend venue, soft drinks, sandwiches, ice cream, fruits and so on. Evolving Web sponsored DrupalCon tickets for various key contributors. Among the sprinters, Amazee Labs sent four of their developers for all days of the sprint! psegno.it also had both of their developers on site, who made great progress with key improvements. We also had Wizzlern, MD Systems and others contributing very valuable developer time. We even had a surprise dinner sponsorship from Capgemini. Christian López Espínola could not come to Munich, but decided to organize a sprint local in Sevilla, plugging in to the Munich sprint remotely, leading new people to fix multilingual issues there in person. If you need a multilingual project done, now you know where to look for experts!

Last but definitely not least, thanks for the huge help to the local organizers, especially Florian Klare and Stephan Luckow. They helped us manage collecting and spending sponsor money wisely with the Drupal Initiative e.V, prepared great sandwiches and fruit plates for us and even organized a sprinter party night with grill food. It was amazing to work with such helpful and flexible local organizers.