DrupalCon in South Asia? 2013?

Posted by highermath on February 14, 2011 at 3:59am

Is the South Asian community ready to take on a DrupalCon, perhaps as soon as January 2013?

If so, now would be the perfect time to start discussing it. It would be great to open this discussion before DrupalCon Chicago, next month. Of course, if you are going to Chicago, we can have a very informal meeting there.

To be clear, there has been no discussion, let alone a decision of any kind by the Drupal Association. This is strictly a fact-finding mission by me to gauge the level of interest in your communities.

The best way to make this happen is for folks to support the idea and commit themselves to being involved should it come to pass.

In that tone, it is critical that nobody talks to prospective venues, sponsors, or suppliers, on or off the record. Doing so could kill the idea. Do not tag this DrupalCon India (or Pakistan or Bhutan...), or do anything to unreasonably set expectations.

You should also know that there is a semi-active Asia-Pacific Regional Organizing Group, based mostly in Australia. They would be involved in organizing an event in the region.

Please keep this discussion on the record and in this thread, at least for now. If anyone absolutely must contact me, please use the contact form.

For reference, the Drupal Association Events Plan, which is only somewhat out of date, is available at http://association.drupal.org/node/342

I have done my best to tag this appropriately. If it is mistagged, please change it, if you have permissions, or send me a note if you do not.

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Posted by highermath on February 14, 2011 at 10:21pm

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Excellent idea

Posted by monirbhuiyan on February 14, 2011 at 10:58pm

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thank you very much. Go ahead please, we will be supporting this from Bangladesh.

Keep in touch.

Exciting news

Posted by hypertext200 on February 15, 2011 at 3:15am

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Sri Lankan Drupal community is small but we are there always, you to support. Great to hear that exciting news welcome Drupalcon to South Asia.

Senior Drupal Developer at DrupalConnect

Trying to rope in owners of educational institutions

Posted by netbabu on February 15, 2011 at 3:44am

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I am trying to rope in private owners of educational institutions/colleges in India to get involved in Drupal events. They have deep pockets but they are not aware of power of drupal. They are usually carried away by Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, etc.

As a serial entrepreneur cum technologist, I am pretty much confident of how drupal can shape up career/life of students and I know what kind of programs/events have to be organized in colleges. I am looking forward to connect with as many academics/professors/HODs to make this happen.

I hope this will create a strong foundation for South Asia conference in 2013!

-Babu
Drupal Projects showcase: http://paramprojects.com/website/drupal-servicesprojects
Drupal for retailers,third-party affiliate integration: http://paramprojects.com/website/shopzilla-ppc-advertising

Its really awesome

Posted by gomesh on February 15, 2011 at 4:45am

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I really support this conference , Its good to see that its happen in South Asia.

Hello, Briefly, I'm the

Posted by sunitgala on February 15, 2011 at 5:04am

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Hello,

Briefly, I'm the founder and CEO of Blisstering Solutions, a Drupal shop. We are bronze sponsors at DrupalCon Chicago, and were bronze at San Francisco as well. We are headquartered in Oakland (near San Francisco) and have 30+ employees in our Mumbai office.

It is really nice to see support from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and hopefully we can attract a few people from the Middle East and ASEAN. Most destinations are about a 3-hour flight New Delhi or Mumbai, presumably the most likely venues because they have the best international connectivity.

Our group has experience in organizing events, and will be delighted to help organize DrupalCon SouthAsia.

Please contact me directly (sunit.gala@blisstering.com) or via the contact form if there's anything the Drupal Association decision makers might need.

Sincerely,
Sunit.

Support From Mumbai

Posted by pavithra.raman on February 15, 2011 at 4:54am

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Hi,

All the Drupalers from Mumbai will be there in full support. We are also having a Drupal Meet this Sunday on 20th Feb, 2011. Will definitely put in a words our colleagues out here.

~Pavithra

Where is the meet and when is scheduled?

Posted by loveleenkaur on February 15, 2011 at 5:19am

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Hi Pavithra,

I would like to know the details of the meet scheduled on 20th in Mumbai.

Regards,
Loveleen

Drupal Meet Mumbai

Posted by pavithra.raman on February 15, 2011 at 5:30am

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Hi Loveleen,
We are having a Drupal Meet in Mumbai on 20-Feb-2011 @ 4pm.

You can checkout the post here
http://groups.drupal.org/node/124989
It will give you details of the agenda and the venue.

~Pavithra.

Thanks Pavithra Ill see you

Posted by loveleenkaur on February 15, 2011 at 5:43am

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Thanks Pavithra
Ill see you at the event :0)

Location in mumbai

Posted by patelmanishin on February 15, 2011 at 5:31am

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Hi Pavithra,

Can you please give me the location in mumbai. Where you guys are going to meet on this Sunday on 20th Feb.

Thanks
Manish Patel

by 2013

Posted by shehal on February 15, 2011 at 5:00am

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d7 is going to kick wp's ass
by 2013 sri lanka will have a bigger drupal community
:D

Hello, All the Drupalers from

Posted by tejaspmehta on February 15, 2011 at 5:02am

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Hello,

All the Drupalers from Surat have their full support. We will try to be there. Its nice move.

Thank you
Tejas Mehta

Nice to see DrupalCon coming to South Asia!

Posted by srahul07 on February 15, 2011 at 5:36am

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Hi All,

Its nice to see DrupalCon is coming to South Asia. We all the drupal developers based here in Mumbai are in full support of it.

Rahul B. Shelke
My Cute Office

https://mycuteoffice.com/

Waiting for conference from Delhi

Posted by pushkarpathak on February 15, 2011 at 6:03am

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Hi,
Drupal is great, looking forward for the conference!

Thanks and regards
Pushkar

Long waited moment for our region

Posted by miktham on February 15, 2011 at 6:34am

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Hi ! All Drupal Buddies,
It's really greatest privileged to host in our region. which enable all of us and people who not aware about drupal wisdom to know more on it.

I am one of a member in sri lanka drupal section, definitely our contribution will be there for DRUPAL WORLD !

~~~ DRUPAL EXPERIMENTAL USER SINCE 2006 ~~~

DrupalCon in South Asia.....Very nice Idea

Posted by chintan4u on February 15, 2011 at 6:51am

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hi....
Full Support From Mumbai Druplers...

mailed u ....

Posted by Sree on February 15, 2011 at 7:53am

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Hi,

I have E-Mailed you via contact form on the same day when you made the post.

We are a bunch of drupallers from mumbai & we are there to support the event.

Thanks,

Sree

DrupalCon in South Asia

Posted by gauravvdeshpande on February 15, 2011 at 8:41am

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Its very good idea.
My best wishes,regards & full support.

Thanks a lot,

Gaurav

Gaurav Deshpande

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It would be Awesome if we are

Posted by flyankur on February 15, 2011 at 8:54am

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It would be Awesome if we are able to bring it - Lots of support from New delhi !

Ankur

looks great! looking forward

Posted by yogesh1110 on February 15, 2011 at 10:08am

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looks great!
looking forward for the conference!

_

Posted by beautifulmind on February 15, 2011 at 12:02pm

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Can you provide us with some resource (guidelines, how tos, etc.) using which we can plan such events?

Regards.

BeautifulMind

Thats great news, welcome

Posted by chia on February 16, 2011 at 2:18pm

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Thats great news, welcome South Asia drupalcon :)

From cochin,kerala

Posted by naushunaushad on February 19, 2011 at 8:34am

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Hi buddies
This is realy a great news for us.go ahead.......................

Support from Drupal Hyderabad group

Posted by siva_epari on February 19, 2011 at 11:29am

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Hi Drupalers

Nice to see this huge amount of response from the South asian community. Members of Drupal Hyderabad group are ready to support this conference and will definitely see to make it a success.

We discussed the same in our local group meet and maybe planning some runup events to the main conference to build up the heat. I would suggest all to make it a habit from now onwards to mention about the conference at all drupal events or whenever you meet new drupal group members to spread the awareness. What we need is a huge group of people(something around 10k or so) who know about this event well in advance so that they can plan accordingly. As this will be a major event in the south asian region, we should at least expect such level of awareness.

I would suggest the following points to build awareness of this event:

Have a irc meeting regularly(maybe weekly)
Put up a banner in your websites, blogs, etc. about these meets
Hold D7 awareness meets & migration camps. Hint the audience about the conf there

Please put up more suggestions to pull more south asian drupalers to this thread.

Siva Kumar Epari

Support From Bangalore User Group

Posted by anil614sagar on February 20, 2011 at 4:31pm

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Hi Everyone,

Nice to see great initiative from all around south Asian community. It's nice to see Drupal groups in Asia are becoming more and more active.

Here is my two cents to prepare for the large event.

Conducting regular meet-ups at own regions to make Drupal widespread.
Attract companies to sponsor the meet-up venues and make them involve.
Be more active in Drupal user groups of own regions like asking questions & answering questions.
Plan for Drupal Camps once in every 3 months or 6 months.

We are conducting regular meetups @ Bangalore. We will take this idea forward and will discuss in our meetups.

Cheers,
Anil Sagar,
Sr. Drupal Developer,
SourceN,
www.sourcen.com,
www.anilsagar.com.

Hi all

Posted by manoj.surala on February 21, 2011 at 10:21am

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Good to see so many comments on this event.
This shows how fast drupal is growing in all the parts of the world.
Feeling happy for being a drupal user.

great news for me

Posted by khanshakeeb on February 23, 2011 at 7:36pm

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We did a very small drupal meetup in Karachi, Pakistan I wish if I get good funding and people who can share their knowledge among us it would be great. I have seen it was very good experience for me , before do that I email some drupal people in order to help us but unfortunately I couldnot make it.

Drupal Workshops should be started

Posted by figover on February 24, 2011 at 2:27pm

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Hello guys,

I would encourage you that you should arrange Drupal Workshop in your cities and Drupal Seminars.

Then we would be able to arrange Drupal Con.

You can not do anything with just writing here. You should be practical.

Please contribute in drupal community. If you need any help about CVS, i will guide you.

Please become practical otherwise we would have nothing in our hands.

I am also arranging Drupal Workshops in my city http://groups.drupal.org/node/121339

I am Muhammad Iqbal .. a professional Web Developer in PHP and Drupal, working as Senior Drupal Developer at FIGOVER Web Development Team. Also I organized two Drupal Camps in Islamabad. First Drupal Camp Page is https://groups.drupal.org/node/357553 and

I'm reminding this again

Posted by ayesh on May 20, 2011 at 9:33am

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I'm reminding this again friends...

DrupalCon in South Asia

Posted by figover on July 29, 2011 at 6:21pm

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Hello guys,

There is no movement about this Con. Please let us arrange small workshops to prepare for DrupalCon.

2013 is very close !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Count me in...

Posted by amit_kriplani on February 29, 2012 at 5:29am

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Based in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) I am Drupal Developer from more than three years. Been waiting for drupalcon to India. Really wish to come. Count me in with my friends.. can't wait :)