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Our trip to Amsterdam started really exciting. We bumped into a traffic jam caused by a car crash, that we could hardly leave so we almost delayed the check-in at the airport... Luckily we reached the flight, the engine was turned on and we sank into the seat while we were flying towards the sky. I was thinking about what to expect from this year’s Drupalcon.
That feeling! Walkin’ through the square in front of Amsterdam RAI, the venue of this year’s DrupalCon (Europe). Getting closer to the entrance by every step and to know that I’m part of a good thing! This was my morning treat today.
Did you arrive to work late? Did you leave early? Did you go out to get something official done during business hours? Your boss is sure to have given you the evil eye, but even if s/he did not realise, your absence has evidently raised your co-workers’ attention! They’re in, you’re not, you all get paid, so how is it?
As a result of our team’s slight growth in number during the past six months, the following question gained more and more emphasis: How to grow and develop as a successful company along humanistic values?
More than seven years have passed since I first met the Drupal phenomenon. I remember we used version 4.7, and barely two dozens people received Dries at one of the CEU buildings. Looking at this with corporate eyes back then, it seemed somewhat an immature but stirring assembly. However, the essence of this thing has been in the air already. I also felt on the occasion of last year’s Drupalcon in Prague and this year Drupalaton: the sweeping power of the community.
According to a Czech proverb, the term ‘going out for a beer’ is a notion assuming the consumption of at least five points. Anything below that is mere re-hydration by lager. Well, the IV team has performed to the norm every evening.
The registered headcount of this year’s Drupalcon was around 1700, which is more than a threefold increase compared to the Szeged event five years ago. Even back than it was an experience to make me shove my ties back in the wardrobe and leave the big corporation to create something new… to date.
Aral Balkan bent it like Beckham! With such a name, he could even be the Armenian guest player of Galatasaray, and then I could say: yeah, he bent it in, and from far, indeed! I am astonished for real. Using the perfect shade, he has painted the very curve that starts with a ‘why’ and ends in ‘we can change the world.’ The thing Dries is talking about on the first day, without putting all the feeling behind. Ladies and gentlemen, Balkan did it!
- Say, what does your husband do?<br>
- Drupal.<br>
- What is Drupal?<br>
- It’s free software.<br>
- Yeah, and can you live on it? Free, hmm?<br>
- Well, I don’t understand what from, but we can quite make ends meet. He gives advice. That’s paid well.<br>
- Why would they pay for it, when the software is free?<br>
- I don’t know, come on. I’ll ask him.
The Hungarian Drupal community organised the event named Drupal Weekend 2012 on Saturday and Sunday, 24–25 November in the IT building of Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
At this all-day-long conference, our aim was once more to provide guidance for beginners as well as professionals in the maze of the latest trends and technologies of the web, no matter whether they are developers, graphic artists or people whose job is to get them together.