Drupalcamp Vietnam 2016 was Successfully Organized in Ha Noi

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Drupal Vietnam community in collaboration with FFW Vietnam, VTC Academy, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) have successfully organized the first “Drupalcamp Vietnam 2016” with significant support from Drupal Association and Vietnam Free Open Source Software Association (VFOSSA) and international speakers.

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The event took place at HUST on 04/03/2016 with the desire to further strengthen Vietnam’s Drupal community and creating a space for people new to Drupal. The event itself received considerable attention within the OpenSource community.

Vietnam Drupal community has welcomed international speakers and tech enthusiasts from 6 different countries: England, Germany, Costa Rica, Philippines, Thailand and Morocco during the first DrupalCamp Vietnam. Our local community had a chance to meet international visitors, share and exchange knowledge about what’s happening globally. The camp has taken place for a full day, and there were 200+ attendees, thereof 25% are female and 25 years old in average.

International speakers and national experts were talking about Open Source, about Drupal community, Drupal’s power and it’s high adoption in enterprises, universities, government globally, also what is happening in Vietnam.

International speakers shared advanced tools optimize Drupal development, how to dealing with complex Drupal projects. Those topics inspired all attendees at Drupalcamp, especially with newbies. There was high engagement between speakers and attendees with lots of questions and created an open, sincere atmosphere along the Camp.

Conference Overview:

8.00 am: Registration

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8.30 am: Opening Key Note

drupal camp vietnam

Starting the morning, Tom Tran - Senior Architect at FFW APAC, who was the lead organizer of Drupalcamp Vietnam 2016 officially welcomed the audience and started the camp with a short keynote. He said “The open source community in general and especially Drupal in Viet Nam has been formed for a long period, but its contribution is not equal to its potential”.

Now is the time to accelerate both on the quality and quantity of active members and let the world know about Vietnam’s Open Source talents. This 1st Drupalcamp in VietNam is important for Drupal to grow its global talent pool, and this is an excellent opportunity for us to welcome new members and let the world know about us.”

Tom shared the fact that there are many Vietnamese talented developers; Who have been joining to big and complex projects such as, The portal of the Royal Danish family, Learning Management System, Stanford University, the system of websites for Johnson & Johnson, Government Portals. There is a clear evidence of the competitiveness of Vietnamese developers, and an excellent foundation for further growth.

8.45 am:

Mr. Nguyen Hong Quang - President of Vietnam Free Open Source Software Association(VFOSSA), a reputable person in the information and communication technology industry in Vietnam. He attended in the 1st Vietnam Drupalcamp and shared a topic "Building the Community base on Open-source software projects in Vietnam".

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9.45 am:

Mr. Le Trung Nghia - Consultant of the Research Center and National Development about Open Source, The Ministry of Science and Technology (RDOT) had a sharing "Open Source Software for Career and Startups". It was very informative and helpful for the IT's students and also who is working with Open Source. Mr. Nghĩa has great enthusiasm for Opensource; he has spent a lot of time and effort to translate documentation and promote it in Vietnam, He also organized and spoke at many Opensource events. His presentation was warmly welcomed and highly appreciated by the audience.

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drupal camp vietnam
10.15 am:

Mr Enzo - Eduardo Garcia is President of Drupal Costa Rica, CTO&Founder at Anexus IT. He is also known as active contrib developer. In “Drupalcamp Vietnam 2016” he introduced Drupal Console with the topic "Drupal 8 Development effective & efficient with Drupal Console". For those who aren't familiar with Drupal Console, it is a CLI (command line) tool to generate boilerplate code, interact and debug Drupal 8. He also spent some time to share about Drupal community and his mission.

He highly appreciated the efforts of Drupal Vietnam community; he joined this local Camp with the aim to give a hand to promote, strengthen the presence of Drupal in the developing countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America. He is now on his journey “120-days in the Drupal world” across the US, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, China. Seven countries, twelve cities more to come in his plan.

In Vietnam, he strongly impressed with the beauty of Hanoi, Halong Bay, along with openness, sincerity of Vietnamese people. He loves the Vietnamese food, especial with Pho. In 2016, he is running for the position of "Director at Large" in Drupal Association. “I have a great experience and appreciate your warm reception during the time I stay in Vietnam,” He said before leaving Vietnam to South Korea, next destination in his Drupal journey. Thanks Enzo for excellent support and connection with Vietnam community.

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11.00am:

Mr. Nguyen Duc Nam - Deputy Director - Center for ICT Bac Giang (Bac Giang Department of Information and Communication) shared with audience why his team chose Drupal to build products as web applications. Those products are widely used in Bac Giang province, a place 60km from Ha Noi capital: Document management, One Gate Digital, Investment management, Province information Portal..so on.

In 2012, after researching and comparing ten different top CMSs, they decided to choose Drupal base on Drupal’s power such as fast and professional development, flexibility, optimize cost and resources. “Document management” software has successfully deployed at 18 local departments, 48 local agencies leveled 2 and was chosen to be on the list of 7 Top Opensource products that will be funded by Ministry of Information and Communication for continuous upgrading and finishing for wide use our nation.

As a former student from the University of Science and technologies, he shared with IT students and newbies at the Camp about “Drupal learning curve”, “ it is hard at the beginning, but when you cross over that part, it would be fascinating. The longer you experience Drupal, the more you love it” he said.

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1.45pm:

Andy Truong is one of the Vietnameses who first experienced Drupal; he is the creator of Vietnam Drupal Group. He has contributed lots of Drupal documentation in Vietnamese version; he is also community activist with regular Drupal Meetups, workshops, and Drupal training in the Saigon, Southern part of Vietnam. Andy Truong is a technical consultant at GO1 now.

Attended in “ DrupalCamp Vietnam 2016” , he shared his experience on “How to build micro service on Drupal / How to leave Drupal safely”. Drupal is awesome as it provides us a framework for our applications. Unfortunately, it's not fit well with the style of microservices. Andy faced this problem and shared on how to deal with that. Through his speech, he also inspired newbies to Drupal with a bold message: “ Learn the architecture, not just learn the tools and framework”. To solve difficult issues, complex projects you need to deep dive within architecture, not only use the available tools or modules. Andy has nine years experience with Drupal, so his approaches with Drupal is helpful to people who wants to develop a professional career with Drupal.

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3.00pm:

Gerald Villorente - Vice president of Drupal Philippines shared a topic “Of Docker and Drupal”, with his charming Filipino style: open, humorous and energetic. Mr. Gerald has an extensive background and experience as a full stack engineer. He has been involved in a variety of projects ranging from front-end to back-end development, database and server configurations, Linux network and system administration, as well as Dev Ops tasks. He is a passionate open-source software advocate, creates and contributes to open source projects, is active in community meetups and talks, and does mentoring regularly. Currently, he is managing director of VielSoft Ltd Co., a web, and mobile startup development company.

All people in the conference were so excited, bravo to welcome Gerald when he started his presentation in Vietnamese: “Xin chào! Tôi là Gerald, Tôi đến từ Philippine. Tôi yêu Việt Nam” (Hello! I am Gerald, I come from Philippine. I love Vietnam). Then he shared about the basic of Docker and how containerization keeps dependencies isolated across all Drupal projects. We were glad to welcome Huu Cuong, Lead of Docker Hanoi Community at this camp. He supported with translation about Docker and willing to connect Docker Manila and Docker Ha Noi. That is how Opensource world works. Mr. Gerald also sent an invitation to join Drupalcamp Manila on 07/05/2016 at the end of his talk.

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4.00 pm:

Mr. Truong Tuan Anh - CTO and Co-founder of Bayo.vn, a social tourism platform took the last slot to share the reasons he chose Drupal for this Startup and his team’s challenges, experience in development, maintenance. Bayo.vn is a social platform for million visitors per month, real experience optimizing for a high performance Drupal site with 100% opensource software was highly interested in the audience; there were many people stay late until the end with many questions to the speaker.

Mr. Truong is known as a System Engineer with high enthusiasm and passion on Opensource. He is one of 7 Fedora global ambassadors and Vice President of VFOSSA. At the end of his speech, he guided newbies let take action to move on, experience, make an own path. Join in communities, connect and learn from other members, make the contribution that is a good way to have the best awareness, updates, knowledge and profile and also...friends. Open source and Drupal community in Vietnam are existing with many members and activities; it is always open, welcome and ready to support. Together we can build a healthy community.

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The last sharing from Vice President of VFOSSA is also core message of Drupalcamp Vietnam. Open, connect, strengthen the community with more talents, activities to make a good recognition to the world, keep inspiring, supporting more young people new to Opensource and Drupal.

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The conference lasted till 5 pm. There were 200+ attendees including experts, developers, IT students, fans of Opensource. Community members then hang out and had lots of sharing with speakers while enjoying Ha Noi beer, “Nem Phung”, “Đậu Mắm Tôm” and some other typical Vietnamese foods.

“Drupalcamp Viet Nam 2106” was an important milestone in the development of Drupal Viet Nam community, creating a right image to the world about Vietnam, a beautiful country with friendly, enthusiastic people and tremendous technological potential. We have learned from this first experience for the next Drupalcamp Vietnam organizing in Ho Chi Minh City.

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