DrupalCon is coming to Paris in September 2009

Posted by jpoesen on February 13, 2009 at 9:53pm

Great news! On Thursday evening, the Drupal Association board chose Paris to host the next European Drupalcon.

First of all we want to congratulate the teams from the other two candidate cities, Maastricht and Cologne. We know they worked hard, spent a lot of energy and did a great job. We're looking forward to working with you all — your help and experience will be more than welcome...

Paris is a good city for open source software, a great city for Drupal and, frankly, a fantastic place to visit. The community here has become increasingly active over the past two years and is excited to host enthusiastic Drupalers from around the world.

We want the conference to be attractive to as many Drupalers as possible. This is why the conference will feature tracks for coders, designers, site builders and students as well as companies and entrepreneurs thinking about using Drupal.

Novices and hard-core Drupalers alike are invited to share their common passion by participating in a day-long code and documentation sprint following the conference.

There will be sessions for all levels of Drupal users from beginners to seasoned pros.

There will be activities for significant others and significant little ones.

There will be business meetings and job opportunities.

There will be wine.

We need your help — Please join the effort

We want to thank everyone who supported the Parisian proposal and call upon all our friends in the Drupal community to join us in making this the most successful Drupalcon yet. Here’s what you can do:

Follow the organization team on twitter: @dcparis2009
Take part in the discussions on: http://groups.drupal.org/drupalcon-paris-2009, http://drupalfr.org, and http://groups.drupal.org/france
Chat with the organizers on the IRC channel #drupalconparis on freenode.

Comments

Wow all goes to drupal con!

Posted by Konstantin_by on February 14, 2009 at 12:38am

Wow all goes to drupal con! Cya

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Great news ! :-D -- Arnaud

Posted by Narno on February 14, 2009 at 1:45am

Great news ! :-D

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welcome to beijing

Posted by jinlong on February 14, 2009 at 2:11am

welcome to beijing !

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Bravo!

Posted by xmacinfo on February 14, 2009 at 4:17am

Mes félicitations aux cousins français de la part d’un québécois.

Congratulations to all. Now if I can find time and money to go in Paris and also convince my new boss.

When will a web site be available for Paris DrupalCon?

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Thx cousin ! The website is

Posted by ineation on February 15, 2009 at 7:07am

Thx cousin !
The website is not available yet and will at least not be open before the end of DC drupalcon to avoid confusion.

In the meantime we will communicate all available info on the Paris DrupalCon group and via Twitter.

Alex
http://www.ineation.com

Congratulations to Paris i'm

Posted by youkho on February 17, 2009 at 2:10pm

Congratulations to Paris i'm sure it would be great and for the website i think Alexandre is right it's better to avoid confusion and take time to prepare a beautiful one.

Good choice!

Posted by BioALIEN on February 14, 2009 at 4:29am

Paris is great and it's one train away from here. Let's hope London is the next in line for a DrupalCon.

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I am so totally there... -=-

Posted by purrin on February 14, 2009 at 5:13am

I am so totally there...

-=- christopher

My best congratulations

Posted by narres on February 14, 2009 at 8:50am

Since both cities Paris and Maastricht are having their own charme, each of them will be a well choice.

As already mentioned before and discussed at FOSDEM: We are willing to help you. Just give us a post.

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Well being also from only

Posted by patchak on February 14, 2009 at 10:58am

Well being also from only one TGV away from Paris, this time I have no excuse, my first DrupalCon, whooooooo !!!

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@narres and bertboerland@www.drop.org from Maastricht & Germany

Posted by JBI on February 15, 2009 at 10:47pm

As agreed at FOSDEM we wellcome help from Maastricht and Germany. We are willing to share information.

We should get together on some document to work on something like todo list and guideline that will help also next conference and candidacy.

yes yes and yes

Posted by bertboerland on February 17, 2009 at 6:39pm

I'll send you some ideas we had and other contacts

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@JBI

Posted by narres on February 18, 2009 at 7:39am

G.D.O is our playground :)

Thomas Narres
Keep the sunny side up

Great! I was planning to go

Posted by soupp on February 14, 2009 at 11:53am

Great! I was planning to go to Paris sometime summer just for a stroll but now it makes more sense to visit.

Desperately waiting to meet all the great Drupal guys and girls at the next Drupalcon!

Hope the Velib system will not crash by then. I heard they have some problems currently.

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Velib (a Self Service

Posted by ineation on February 15, 2009 at 7:11am

Velib (a Self Service “bike hire” system) works quite OK. The only problem is they have to replace damaged/lost/robbed bikes often, more than they expected ;-)

Alex
http://www.ineation.com

viva la paris

Posted by darrenmothersele on February 14, 2009 at 12:05pm

Congrats to Paris. I look forward to DrupalCon coming back to Europe. Any of the candidate cities would have been excellent, but Paris is a great choice. I've been looking for an excuse to visit Paris again.

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Great news! This will be my

Posted by solipsist on February 14, 2009 at 1:23pm

Great news! This will be my first time visiting Paris. Looking forward to a great time!

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on behalf of the maastricht team

Posted by bertboerland on February 14, 2009 at 1:32pm

On behalf of the DrupalCon Maastricht 2009 team, congratulations! We will be seeing you all in Paris.

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bert boerland

Congratulations, Paris

Posted by alex_b on February 14, 2009 at 2:56pm

Congratulations, Paris

Twitter: http://twitter.com/lx_barth

so great

Posted by chrysonline on February 14, 2009 at 4:22pm

So great !

so cool !

Great news

Posted by mdroste on February 14, 2009 at 7:40pm

I love Paris and my family too. We'll be there.

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c'est excellent! mais

Posted by noahb on February 14, 2009 at 8:34pm

c'est excellent! mais peut-etre on devrait changer le nom (DrupalCon) pour une fois. ;-)

Peut-etre, DrupalConf cette fois-ci?

tres bien! perfect. I was

Posted by Nchase on February 14, 2009 at 8:35pm

tres bien! perfect. I was always for Paris :)

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That's right DrupalCon

Posted by ineation on February 15, 2009 at 7:15am

That's right DrupalCon sounds "weird" in French (a "con" is a stupid guy).
That is why we decided to stick to "Drupal conference" for communications in french language.

But "DrupalConf" may be a good idea.

Alex
http://www.ineation.com

excellent point

Posted by jpoesen on February 19, 2009 at 11:31am

Excellent point.

We already discussed this and will raise the topic with the Drupal Association too to get their input.

For those of us that don't speak French: 'con' is indeed a 'stupid' guy, but with a bit heavier than just stupid. Think 'DrupalImbecile' or 'DrupalDouchebag'.

DrupalConf and DrupalConference seem likely candidates.

Joeri

Wonderfull in Paris . All here

Posted by alenergie on February 14, 2009 at 11:22pm

I am living in Paris 17 e district, arround Place de clichy. Exactly at Metro Guy Moquet
Since i have à Baby i am living with my girl friend in Rueil Malmaison .
So i get to the point , i can share my appartment with people that are coming from out of the city , or the country
I share appartement with help in drupal sites.
My project is to buildup for my communoty a site like ning , but better
So till there , have lot of fun
my email : alenergie@yahoo.fr
Angelo Clemente

alenergie

congrats! félicitations!! ;)

Posted by director87 on February 15, 2009 at 12:09am

Awesome job.

-mark nb.

Got Rosetta Stone last week!

Posted by Zahor on February 15, 2009 at 3:12am

Sweet! Just so happens I got Rosetta Stone French complete 2 weeks ago, so this is totally motivational for me to study.

Anyone who wants a discounted stay should contact me. I will have room for 4-6 people (maybe more, but I don't know if my wife will want to share our space - if she doesn't come, I'd have space for 8-9 or so). I have a timeshare that allows me to exchange there :-) I'll be there for a week.

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See ya all there :) I'm from

Posted by sburner on February 15, 2009 at 8:56am

See ya all there :)

I'm from Slovenia btw.

We'll be happy to see you there

Posted by drico on February 15, 2009 at 12:51pm

Great for Drupal ! Great for Paris !
See you all there !!

A french in slovenia ;)

I am pleased with the choice

Posted by attila_fabian on February 15, 2009 at 4:20pm

Paris is perfect for DrupalCon

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Very nice job to everyone

Posted by ericgundersen on February 15, 2009 at 6:08pm

Very nice job to everyone working on the Paris proposal!

This is going to be fantastic.

I am really excited for the debrief with your team after DrupalCon in DC.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ericg

thx. Most of the team will be

Posted by jpoesen on February 19, 2009 at 11:25am

thx. Most of the team will be there at DC. Looking forward to it.

Excellent! I get to stay

Posted by siliconmeadow on February 15, 2009 at 7:10pm

Excellent! I get to stay with my outlaws!
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What dates in September will

Posted by Bevan on February 16, 2009 at 1:01am

What dates in September will DrupalCon Paris be?

Bevan/

Wonderful news. Hope firm

Posted by jwuk on February 17, 2009 at 11:34pm

Wonderful news. Hope firm dates will be announced several months in advance, with a firm schedule of talks. Essential so that travellers can book cheap non-refundable tickets well in advance. I speak from experience of being unable to go to LibreGraphics in Poland last year because they couldn't get their act together early and from going to an open source conference in Malaga which was... well, not cancelled even, it just disappeared a month or two beforehand (I still went there because I'd already spent the money). :(

Dates not yet announced

Posted by OriPekelman on February 18, 2009 at 1:07pm

We will be announcing the final date very very shortly. But it will be early september.

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Paris better be ready for a bit a kiwi

Posted by Josh Waihi on February 16, 2009 at 1:10am

Cause I'm not gonna miss this one.

thanks to catalyst.net.nz for letting me contribute work time to Drupal.

The picture is not good to

Posted by rondev on February 16, 2009 at 1:42am

The picture is not good to illustrate Paris as it is a real concrete city. Very hard to find some green.

But have a good time and good meetings in it. There is plenty to do.

Between the Bois de Vincennes

Posted by sensi on February 24, 2009 at 12:02am

Between the Bois de Vincennes and the Bois de Boulogne be assured that you will be able to find some green (Luxembourg park, Monceau park, etc). :)
This picture show the Champs de Mars park, under the Eiffel tower.

Green Drop comet

Posted by buntstich on February 16, 2009 at 2:45am

You can see „the green drop comet” end of february in the sky ;-)

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/05jan_machholz.htm

buntstich

Gr8!!! News

Posted by lehren on February 16, 2009 at 9:55am

Hay Gr8!!! News

Deepsi

http://www.lehren.tv

Deepsi

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Yes! Every comes to Paris!!

Posted by Nicolas Georgeault on February 16, 2009 at 3:01pm

What a great idea!!!
Welcome to Paris friends. I'll be here this time and happy to meet most of you.
See you in september!!

Congratulations! Very nice

Posted by bonniebogle on February 16, 2009 at 6:29pm

Congratulations! Very nice work team Paris!

Great! I'll be on that TGV

Posted by vermario on February 16, 2009 at 10:51pm

Great!

I'll be on that TGV (6 hours from here)!

I'll be there

Posted by Konstantin_by on February 17, 2009 at 12:32am

I'll be there too

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GOOD NEWS!!

Posted by FactAnalyzer on February 17, 2009 at 1:59pm

Hope won't be missing this one too.
I really liked the "Drupalians" community in Paris at the last DrupalNGo workshop we had here in Paris. Unfortunately got too busy after and was not able to follow up with the community afterward. So I'm crossing fingers till then.

The Paris DrupalNGo workshop

Posted by jwuk on February 18, 2009 at 10:18am

The Paris DrupalNGo workshop event seems to be advertised at http://drupalngo.org/ but someone needs to fix their website. "Come and join us! October 4th and 5th, the Drupal French community is inviting you to these two awesome events..." it says. No indication of year, so it seems like it's in the future. But in 2009 those dates are Sunday/Monday, so I'm betting it's 2008.

No review of what happened at that event? :(
No indication of future events?? :(
Webmaster still alive??? :(

Poor Overworked Parisian community

Posted by OriPekelman on February 18, 2009 at 1:06pm

We are still on this. The website for the association was done, but we are still waiting on them for the data import. We will update the website as soon as possible, but with the Drupal Conf and everything this got a bit less prioritized...

It was cool, and we will do others...

http://www.af83.com

Bravo!

Posted by joachim on February 19, 2009 at 9:26am

Bravo!

Perfect! I will be there!

Posted by Junro on February 20, 2009 at 9:44am

Perfect! I will be there!

Excellent. We Will be there

Posted by epiraces on March 6, 2009 at 2:40pm

Excellent. We Will be there :-)

Paris, here I

Posted by Summit on March 6, 2009 at 8:01pm

Paris, here I come!
Greetings,
Martijn
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session language(s)?

Posted by chicagomom on March 7, 2009 at 12:21pm

Will sessions be held in French?

I hope so...

Posted by jwuk on March 8, 2009 at 1:05pm

... that would be part of the fun! :)

Oops, I think I just trolled! Seriously, I hope it will be like the wonderful LibreGraphicsMeeting that I attended in Lyon -- presenters came from all over the world and most of the sessions were in English, but there were indeed some in French. Personally I'll be very disappointed if I don't get the chance to listen to some chatter in French, whether in presentations or BOF sessions or just standing around in groups by the coffee machine.

Native language sessions

Posted by alfmorten on March 26, 2009 at 10:02am

My opinion is that the local user groups might well present some sessions in French, but thinking like that we might see sessions in Italian when in Rome, Spanish in Madrid and so fort. For most of the attendees, this is uninteresting so for the main part keep it to english so we all can attend and enjoy a fruitful experience.

When will come to Brazil?? =D

Posted by Elvis Oliveira on May 7, 2009 at 1:42pm

When will come to Brazil?? =D