16 Sep

Jarkko Oksanen

Everyone in Realityloop will be attending the DrupalCon at Barcelona this year. There is always a lot to see in Drupal events and I've listed the things that excite me the most this year.

1. The Sessions

The sessions build the core of Drupal events. The sessions will be held on Tuesday-Thursday. It's always difficult to find the best sessions to go to, and often the quality of the speaker overshadows the interest of the topic. However the topic is still how we often choose our sessions. These some examples of the great sessions that we can attend, and that interested me personally the most from each day based on the topics!

1. Serving the Internet of Things (IoT) with Drupal (Tuesday 14.00)
    
2. Configuration Management in Drupal 8 (Wednesday 17.00)

3. 10,000 hours distributed, why being remote is the best way to run a team (Thursday 14.15)

As you can see from these three examples, the session topics will vary greatly. See the full list of sessions here.

2. Birds of a Feather sessions

BOFs are informal small sessions that are held "on-the-spot" and often include a lot more discussion and happen in smaller groups. If you didnt get a chance to talk about your topic, or there is no session that you're interested in, go join or start a BOF!

Read more on BOFs

3. The Sprints

Sprints are the coding and hands-on part of a DrupalCon. Get together to fix issues in your favorite modules, or just get help setting up your first Drupal website. It is a great way to start contributing code back to the community!

There is a lot of sprints at this years DrupalCon.

1. 19-20 September - Extended Sprints
2. 21-24 September - Sprints at the Barcelona International Convention Center
3. 21-24 September - 24-hour Supporter Sponsored Sprint Lounge at the Princess Hotel
4. 25 September - General Sprints, Mentored Core Sprint, and First-Time Sprinter Workshop at the Barcelona International Convention Center
5. 26-27 September - Extended Sprints at Makers of Barcelona

See an updated schedule and locations here.

Check out our earlier blog post about Sprints and what they are.

4. Community Social Events

Meeting the people face-to-face you work with on Drupal.org is one of the more fun parts of a DrupalCon. You can see the person who developed the modules you're working on, and ask a question about why they did something in a weird way. There are some community events that you should not miss.

1. First time attendee social
2. iKOS + Lingotek: Beers at the Booth
3. Trivia Night

You can find a more comprehensive list on the event website.

5. The city of Barcelona

When you're in a DrupalCon and your days are booked with great sessions and sprinting, it might be hard to allocate some time for sightseeing. But dedicating some time for that will make the trip much more worth it.

Go see Tibidabo.

Jarkko Oksanen (jOksanen)

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