The second DrupalCamp Peru is taking place this Saturday in Lima. While the first DrupalCamp in Lima was held during a larger Software Freedom Day event, this one will focus solely on Drupal. This is just another indicator of Drupal's growth in Peru. The presentations planned range from "What is Drupal" and "DrupalChix" to be presented by Danny Montalvo and Rosa María Orellana respectively, to "Using JQuery extensions for Visual Effects in Our Drupal Themes" to be presented by Nicolas Borda.
There will also be a roundtable led by Cesar Soplin, the head of web development at the Grupo El Comercio, a company that owns several newspaper and other media properties that use Drupal extensively. The discussion will cover usability, performance and scalability issues, and the current state of Drupal in Peru, and will include other leaders in Peru's open source community, including the main organizer of this DrupalCamp Fernando García and the lead developer of the open source project Dokeos Yannick Warnier.
Given the topics to be covered in the roundtable and with other major companies also using Drupal like Peru's biggest beer company Cerveza Cristal and many local universities, I decided to present on some of our ideas on how to manage and scale large websites, highlighting Features, Feature Servers, Drush Make, and Aegir. Specifically, I'll present on why you should use features, the problems that features servers solve, and how an organization - whether a large university or a web development company - can take advantage of all of these tools. While the presentation will be technical, I'll use a higher-level story line throughout it that should help make it easier to follow for a general audience.
There will also be BOFs happening throughout the day. I'll have some of our latest tools - Open Atrium, Managing News, MapBox, and a local Aegir installation - installed on my local web server, so if you'd like to check them out please just come find me. I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone and meeting new folks on Saturday!
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El Drupal Camp2, estuvo muy interesante, a me ha gustado mucho el tema sobre aegir, features, drush make, que actualmente estoy investigando. Ojala en los futuros Drupal Camps podamos seguir contando con tu presencia. Gracias por compartir.
I'm definitly going to assist!
I’m doing my master in URP university, so after my classes I’m definitly going to assist to this version of Drupal Camp!
I’m very excited to start some projects this new year i hope I can meet some new friends there to develop this ideas.
See you there!