Hello Drupalers,
Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal and the CTO of Acquia is visiting India during the week of 07 Nov. He will be visiting Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad, to engage with the developer and business community, to further the adoption of Drupal open source "content management system" (CMS) in our country.
He will be in Delhi on 7th and 8th November. There is a proposal that from 11AM to 1PM on 07 November 2011, he deliver a Keynote address to the Indian developer community on the lines of http://bcove.me/hk55ca4q which he delivered at Drupalcon London from 22 - 26 Aug 2011.
There can be presentations and coding sprints after that. People who are interested in giving presentations are requested to respond with their presentation topics. We need to make this event a success and who knows a DrupalCon maybe organized in India in the near future :)
We need volunteers to help organize this event and spread some Drupal love.
The most immediate requirement is the finalization of the venue. It would be ideal if the venue can be booked by mid next week. Two suggested venues are IIT Delhi and JNU campuses. Here are the requirements for the venue:
An auditorium with 300+ seating capacity.
3-4 rooms for presentations with a seating capacity of 50 people each.
WIFI internet connectivity.
Similar event can also be organized in Hyderabad and Mumbai.
Kindly reply on this thread or contact me at ishanmahajan87@gmail.com.
Regards,
Ishan
Comments
Welcome Dries
We will welcome Dries despite him slamming Indian development
http://twitter.com/#!/Dries/status/1729306430
"Software bugs are disappearing and most bugs come from India -- http://is.gd/xxmu ;-)"
But This is India and Indian community, we will welcome you whole heartedly.
"Please help us fix :-D"
"Please help us fix :-D"
Silence is golden.No ROI
No RoI in giving free services.. did that years ago:-)
Your silence gives consent.I responded the same to Dries
I responded the same to Dries Comment (status on twitter).
if he thinks that most bug come from India! Probably he better can help or tell.
"Your silence gives consent." ?? ROFLZ! :-D
Silence is golden.Yeah
I thought you replied to me :-) Maybe I misread it.
Did you read Drupal in Crisis blog? http://www.unleashedmind.com/en/blog/sun/the-drupal-crisis
Ab tak Indians yaad nahi aaye aur jab itne bugs ho gaye aur gore logo ne unpaid contributions dena bandh kar diya to phir garib desh India ki yaad aayi.
Khair - hum to sabko gale lagate hein.
Very Interesting!! :- ) Just
Very Interesting!! :- ) Just checked that
Gale to hum lagate hi hain.. as
"अतिथि देवो भव:|"
Silence is golden.Welcome In India Dries.
I am feeling very happy for Dries comes up in INDIA. If he share some Drupal Knowledge with us. Then, Its really should be awesome.....
Regards,
Pawan Kumar Mishra
Sr. Software Engineer
OSSCube Solutions Pvt. Limited
Awesome News for all drupal lover resides in NCR
This is really great opportunity for all Indian Drupal Lovers to get a glimpse of him and his ideas.
Thank you Dries.
Hyderad Schedule
Guys can anyone tell me about the Hyderabad Schedule.
Hyderabad camp
Who is taking the lead in organizing the Hyderabad meetings?
Dries' visit schedule
Hi,
Here are the details of Dries' visit to India -
7-8 November in Delhi
9-10 November in Mumbai
11 November in Hyderabad
The plan is to have a Drupal community gathering in Delhi on the 7th. Dries will deliver a keynote address for around two hours, which will be followed by a Drupal coding sprint and 2-3 presentations. Srijan Technologies(http://www.srijan.in) will be one of the co-sponsors for the Delhi event.
Sponsors will be required for the Mumbai and Hyderabad events. Acquia may or may not sponsor these events. But this is not clear at the moment.
We are planning to have a meeting of all the Delhi volunteers later this week. We will keep you posted on the date and venue for the meeting. For those of you who cannot attend the meeting, the minutes of the meeting will be shared.
The community members in Hyderabad and Mumbai also need to plan a meeting for the people interested in organizing some event in their cities.
Regards,
Ishan
Meet Up for further plannings
As discussed already, dries will be in Delhi on 7th and lots of planning needs to be done yet.
Agenda of the meet would be to decide, a place other than IIT D Audi as they have some internet issues and plan for the rest of the day [ after dries keynote ].
Time is so short, so let's meet up & decide the rest of the agenda in this meet & finalize everything else.
Venue : JNU Library, Delhi
Date : Thursday 29th Sept, 2011
Timings : 05:30 p.m.
See you around.
Regards,
Nitin
Dries Visit Planning | Minutes of the Meeting
Schedule: [ 7th November,2011 ]
10 - 12 : 2 parallel sessions. Hello Drupal training / Code sprint
12 - 1 : Lunch/networking
1 - 3 : Keynote session by Dries
3 - 5 : Case studies presentation (6 ppt's 20 minutes each)
Requirements:
2 Rooms, 1 Auditorium (about 300 capacity)
Sponsorships :
Potential sponsors needs to be figure out.
Things to do and /or Expenditure:
Next steps:
You might wanna join the list [ http://list.drupalcampdelhi.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dcd ] for the further updates or discussions either to attend or to volunteer.
Thanks