europe

Hi everybody,

My name is Henno Gous, and I am a qualified industrial engineer and Drupal web developer from South Africa. I will be moving to Europe with my wife in in March/April 2014 and I'm looking for work. The actual location where I find a job will probably determine where we move to... we're open for suggestions :)

I'm currently finishing my Ph.D in industrial engineering, focussing on innovation management. I have also worked as an internet strategist, business analyst and web developer over the last 6 years and I have extensive knowledge of the Drupal platform.

DrupalCon Prague is a little way off yet but I'm already getting excited about it. I've been looking into the feasibility of travelling there by train from London. Here are the logistics for travelling from the UK via Cologne in Germany http://seat61.com/Czech.htm#Prague.

It sounds like a fun adventure to me! I wondered if anyone else was thinking about doing something similar. Perhaps we could hold DrupalCon's first international train sprint and call it "Drupal On Rails"?

Give me a shout if you want to shun Ryanair and doing some collaborative overland travel planning.

Ed.

DrupalCamp North West is coming to Manchester 24th-25th November 2012. This is an ideal opportunity for anyone interested in or using Drupal to gather with like minded people, hear others present sessions and generally enjoy collaborating in a relaxed manner for a fun packed weekend.

Kijk eens naar deze Survey en vul hem in, kost 2 minuten en kunnen we zo samen analyseren wat de status is van Drupal in de verschillend elanden van Europa.

My friend and I are looking for a few good events we can attend while in Europe (May 26-June 6). We'll be in London on May 26th, and in Rome on June 6th. I'd prefer it to be in London, Amsterdam, France, or Italy, but we're open to events in other locations.

If anyone knows of any, or can point me in the direction of how to find some, please respond tot his, or email me at john@clickninjas.com.

Thanks!

John Kucsma, CAPM
Click Ninjas, LLC
http://clickninjas.com/

Hello to all!

I would love to exchange exp. from the European Drupal Community and local user groups from Europe.

I will arrive in Jakarta on the 22. October.

So I will be in the following areas, where I could meet up with local Drupal enthusiasts.
Jakarta
Palembang
Jambi

probably between 26 - 30th October.
in Kalimantan

Then later in Jakarta and Bali again until the 1-2 Nov.

I'm founder of Drupal Bulgaria (see www.drupalcamp.bg/en ) and active Member of www.drupal-austria.at

I would like to discuss the development of the Community in Indonesia / Europe and how we can help each other to develop Drupal.

Regards,
Ivo Radulovski

A lot has happened since the dutch/belgian drupal community met on the drupaljam in breda to kick off the organization of the next drupalcon in Maastricht, Netherlands.
What first started as a wicked idea from Bert Boerland at the entrance of the Szeged venue, has now shaped into the current proposal that has been submitted to the Drupal Association.

Sedan sessionen Drupal in the Cloud | Drupalcon Szeged 2008 är jag mycket intresserad av Amazon EC2. Nu i veckan öppnade Amazon upp EC2 Europa vilket gör det hela än intressantare för oss på den här sidan Atlanten.

För en “small” server betalar man US$0,11 per timme i Europa. Det blir knappt US$80 per månad, just nu nästan 640 kr (innan kronan dök i värde var det ca 500 kr). Kostnader för trafik tillkommer förstås men den är helt rörlig och priserna är låga.

En enkel VPS kan man få för halva det priset eller mindre så detta är inget riktigt budgetalternativ. Jämför man med att sätta upp en helt egen server blir det dock billigt tror jag. Tar man med att man slipper betala för reservhårdvara, möjligheten att skala upp till många fler server på några minuter och bara betala för dem de timmar man använder dem etc. så blir priset väldigt attraktivt.

This week I had a talk with Mixel Kiemen, who is an assistant at the MOSI research & teaching group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. It seems that he is in a better position to lead an effort for a European Grant application for Drupal development.

He started a group at http://groups.drupal.org/academics
Apparently there was to much overlap with http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-research-and-academia so he joined this group.

After Boston and the introduction of Long term Drupal, the semantic web has been getting a lot of attention. Kristof suggest expert meeting for semantic web in a recent post. I like the idea much, although I would not restricted it to semantic web (but as every one will be interested in it, it will be the focal point any way). I think a list of short goals (Drupal7 or Drupal8) versus long term goals are needed. The long term goals will require more than two years and experiments may get organized more collaborative than has been the case in the past.

Currently I'm taking up contact with the FP7 contact points to see if we can setup expert meetings. If you check the FP7 site, you'll notice it can fit many of the pillars in general but non in particular. Some creativity will be needed according to the contact point. ... To be continued