#DCLondon 2015: “If I can do it, so can you”
Anna Hanchar
Wed, 03/04/2015 - 17:49

For the third time, Drupalcamp London warmly welcomed passionate drupalistas who flew in from all over the world to do Drupal, talk Drupal and live even more Drupal. 

The rainy Saturday of February 28th was lighten up by the inspirational talk of Dr. Sue Black who shared her story of how she went from a young single parent with 3 little children to become a computer scientist, entrepreneur and social activist. “If I can do it, so can you” is the message to all of us. Her program #techmums is one of the possible steps towards a not only more equal world, but towards a better future for all of us. Drupal and its open, strong and supportive community is one of those steps as well.

Drupal 8 is coming and you can feel the excitement within the community. I can’t help myself but I am absolutely exited every time I think about the enthusiasm and effort the community puts into battling issues and creating beautiful solutions. In the session of Schnitzel we saw an amazing improvement in terms of multilingual. This is a huge promise not only for Drupal 8 based client projects, but also for people who want to get digital and learn technology with a little help of their own native language. Anyone who speaks a second language can contribute and support this initiative. 

It was a pleasure to learn more about frontend tools in the talk “Rocket surgery for brain scientists” of Tom Bamford. He even talked about accessibility.

In the presentation of Josef we learned how to upgrade the Drupal 7 modules that integrate with rules to Drupal 8. This module is very important from the UX perspective as it helps us to create and send customized mails notifing your users about events of a wide variety starting with the new comment added to a blog post and ending with the emails on successful purchase in your online shot. Integrating this module into Drupal 8 Core is a great step towards more scalable and user-friendly solutions.

IPaul Rowell talked about what we call editor user experiencein his session. This is also an important topic for us at Amazee Labs as we want to be friends with our content editors. It's always great to get fresh and new input on this topic and to compare different approaches.

For myself it was a special DrupalCamp as it was the very first time that I gave a presentation with the aim of sharing our way of applying the User Centered Design approach. I was more than happy to receive interesting questions, seeing smiling people and feeling like a part of the Drupal community.

Seeing familiar faces, creating an impact by sharing knowledge and sprinting, is enriching and gets me even more motivated – this is what this DrupalCamp was about. We are looking forward to attend DrupalCamp London in 2016.