Report about DrupalForum 2012

We organized a big event in the world of Ukrainian Drupal community. Annual international conference Drupal Forum 2012 was very successful.

At 9 a.m., February 10 we started the registration. Everything was fast because of our great registration team. At about 10 a.m. the number of participants was so great that we had to linger official opening of the conference.  

The opening was held in the big conference room. It is great that Drupal Forum is so popular! We had no free sits there. AMgrade’s Executive director Eugene Shalennyi told a speech from the scene. Eugene greeted all participants and invited representatives of conference golden sponsors.

Eugene asked Mark Marchenko, AMgrade’s CEO for official opening. AMgrade was the main organizer of the conference and its Diamond sponsor!

Mark warmly greeted all the participants of the conference. He also marked that you don’t have only to take something from Drupal community, but you also have to make contributions. It applies not only for the companies, but also to those people who specialize in Drupal CMS.

After the conference opening all were invited to rest with a cup of coffee.

While the participants were talking and drinking coffee, big conference room was transformed into three small rooms. Three separate streams of reports were help there.

Reports started with a little delay. I’d like to mark that there was no free sits in the room for juniors. It is very pleasant for us, as the conference’s highlight was the stream for those who have only heard about Drupal. Such situation in the room for juniors tells us that the number of Drupal specialist in Ukraine will be growing.

Almost each report was lasted more than 45 minutes. Speakers prepared excellent. Information was great.

It is especially great that all reports have been recorded on camera. And within a couple of weeks everyone will be able to watch these reports.

First day reports ended at 6:30 p.m. After that most of the participants went to the Italian-Japanese restaurant «Sen Su Yaki». Great dinner, cocktails, music, dances… And party moved to the Night club «Platinum»!

The second day of the event started by schedule. But not all of the participants came at 11 a.m. Althoug by our experience from the previous conferences it is the best time to start on Saturday.

We had two streams of reports and BoFs in the second day. BoF reports were very interesting! Such bright personalities as Mark Marchenko, Juriy Gerasimov, Vadim Mirgorod were presented in the room for BoF reports. They discussed three-day code sprint in Kharkov, multilingual of Drupal and other.

At 4:30 p.m. the conference was ended. Eugene Shalennyi expressed his gratitude to participants and sponsors of the conference. Mark Marchenko was closing the conference. He marked again the importance of Drupal community and its growth. Eugene Shalennyi was granted by brevet for active part in Drupal community development in Ukraine.

We are waiting for all photos from the conference. As all participants have noticed professional photographer hired specially for this event=)

See you on the future events! =)