Thursday, 13th September 2012Council web team join in Digital Festival fun as Brighton hosts its second Drupal Open Source Camp this weekend

Members of Brighton and Hove City Council's web team will be joining over 70 'Drupalers' this weekend for sessions and workshops presented by other members of the Drupal community. The council are currently migrating their website over to Drupal, an Open Source platform for building websites and applications which runs over 2% of the web, everything from Data.gov.uk to The White House website.

Steve Purkiss, local Drupal Trainer and Consultant, is organising the weekend's free line-up of activities along with other members of the local group. Steve founded the Brighton Area Drupal Association and was recently elected Director of the US-based nonprofit Drupal Association in their first ever community elections. Steve helped oversee the council's migration to Drupal and remarked:

"It is great to see the council and many other local enterprises adopt Drupal as their open platform of choice for building web sites and applications. Creating immersive web experiences and making the most of the latest technology requires continual innovation and by working to a common goal on a common, free, and open source project, we affect the bottom line and innovate faster.

Drupal's culture of helping others as well as ourselves fosters great communities, and creates more jobs and opportunities for local people and suppliers. Its motto 'Come for the code, stay for the community', really shines through on a weekend like this, we welcome anyone to come along and see it in action for themselves!"

Drupal is one of the largest Open Source communities and many 'DrupalCamps' are held around the world every week, providing space for not only sessions and learning, but also act as 'pop-up' co-working spaces where those involved with the project get together and work on improving the software, as well as working on non-code areas such as organising and tidying up case studies for the http://drupal.org web site.

With Open Studios on Friday 14th September; fifteen sessions over two tracks covering business, beginner, and more advanced topics on Saturday 15th; and an un-conference style day on Sunday 16th where attendees host their own sessions on topics of interest, there are plenty of opportunities to discover more about Drupal and see just what it is that makes this open source project such a resounding success.

For further information and free tickets to the weekend's events visit http://BADCampUK.net

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