DrupalCon London August 2011

Croydon – “Greater” London participants – Much smaller than Chicago (~3000 ppl) – Biggest Drupal Europe conference yet Relaxed, small and cosy (?) conference… – Fairfield Halls not big… – Lots of selling, sharing, job-hunting, very vibrant No US-style ‘Church of Drupal’ evangelism = relief!

Dries Buytaert - Keynote

Dries Buytaert - Keynote Drupal needs to start working on its marketing/look – Strong engineering effort but marketing not so good – Compared drupal.org/ and wordpress.org/drupal.org/wordpress.org/ Recognised opportunity for adoption across an organisation’s websites – lots of tools used across many websites – CERN’s situation is not unique and it has been recognised. – Direction of Drupal may help future large-scale implementation.

Keynote: The Future of Social Media historical-perspective historical-perspective

Training Advanced configuration of Views, Panels Very useful – shows what’s possible Recommend NODEONE website for further training, exercises, screencasts for-free. for-free

Drupal Business Day “We invented the Web. 20 years later we got Drupal” – CERN’s perspective on adopting Drupal as an Enterprise platform > linklink – What is CERN | Challenges of the web at CERN | Why Drupal | Where are we now? | Where are we going? Presented with Nicolas Bocquert of Linalis ~40 people: reaction: “WOW!” Questions – Are you going to adopt Drupal 8? What was your experience with migrating between 6+7? How did you communicate with the community that you had had released Drupal? Why Drupal and not Joomla! or any other CMS? How are you going to manage the data migration of 10,500 websites? Results – Increase our visibility “it doesn’t matter how challenging it is, the point is that CERN is using Drupal!” – New contacts ACQUIA management very interested in discussing with CERN

Session Highlights The Path to a mobile Drupal Web Typography and Drupal; putting Arial out to pasture Web Typography and Drupal; putting Arial out to pasture Multilingual Drupal solutions Creating and measuring User Experience

Summary Interesting + vibrant Confirmation of what I already knew Exposure to lots of new stuff Totally stoked about Business Day reaction Never, ever go to Croydon.