HappyJiyoung's DrupalCon Munich 2012 experience sharing with lots of photos(English).

1. HappyJiyoung's
DrupalCon Munich 2012

2. HappyJiyoung
-My nickname for Drupal.org or other social sites like facebook, weibo, twitter
Drupal member for 31 weeks 2 days (as of 28th Oct 2012)
-Been making websites since 2001 with CMS to share information
XE(Korean CMS), WordPress, Joomla, Drupal
-hobby: taking pictures, sharing information, web study, making websites
-Currently living in Beijing with German husband
-Running Mind Body Seoul & Well-being Studio global community center and
venue rental business in Seoul, Korea
-Working as intern at Akryl Group digital agency in Beijing since Oct 16th 2012

3. DRUPALCON?
DrupalCon is the major international Drupal community events held two to
three times a year organized by Drupal Association and help and support
of volunteers and sponsors in Drupal community.
DrupalCon brings together the people who use, develop, design, and
support the Drupal platform.
Featuring dozens of curated sessions and panels from some of the most
influential people and brightest minds within the Drupal community and
beyond, as well as countless opportunities for networking, code sprints,
informal conversations.
DrupalCon is the premiere conference to hone your Drupal skills, connect
with the community, and learn about the future of web technologies
happen on the Drupal platform.

4. DrupalCon consists of
- Training
- Conference
- Code Sprint

5. Arrived Munich a few days earlier…
DrupalCon has Pre-Conference Training(seperate ticket purchase from
DrupalCon main ticket) one day before official DrupalCon
HappyJiyoung came to Munich a few days earlier to be in a best condition
for the full day e-commerce training and to settle into new environment
DrupalCon is run by volunteers’ participation and support. Volunteers
wanted message was sent to DrupalCon attendees(No discount or free
pass benefit)
After some thoughts and hesitation, I checked on some categories for
volunteer work and chose some part I could afford to help. (I was
attracted to the nice benefits of volunteering like meeting people…)

6. Volunteer Meeting people, making friends and opportunity to see
how DrupalCon is organized. Sense of belonging as a community member

7. 1,800 DrupalCon Munich attendee
Classifying 1,800 tags in alphabetical order

8. Various signage for events
Organizing by dates, location…etc

9. Various signage for events
Organizing by dates, location…etc

10. DrupalCon Munich T-shirts
Organizing by size

11. Beer time after finishing the work
You can get closer and it’s nice to see familar faces later

12. Beer time after finishing the work
Couple from London- gave me tips like importance of good rest

15. Nicolas on the left is from Argentina and still keeping in touch
Florian led DrupalCon Munich as German community member

16. Volunteer group photo on the last day of official DrupalCon
Highly recommend to volunteer!(Not all the people are here)

17. Official DrupalCon Welcome stage
Very comical and lots of laughter A-Z regarding DrupalCon Munich

18. Official DrupalCon Welcome stage
Very comical and lots of laughter A-Z regarding DrupalCon Munich

19. Official DrupalCon Welcome stage
Very comical and lots of laughter A-Z regarding DrupalCon Munich

20. Learning yodeling

21. Getting up and yodeling all together

22. Last Z…finishing A-Z

23. Florian at DrupalCon Munich

24. Introducing Drupal Association

25. Drupal Association
supports YOU - the Community, the Drupal
software project and its growth.

26. The DA Supports the Community by:
• Maintaining and updating the hardware and software
infrastructure of Drupal.org
• Empowering project participation and contribution
• Community Cultivation Grants
• Legal work and advocacy for Drupal project
• Funding of Scholarships
• Organising DrupalCons around the world

27. Why Join the DA?
We rely on membership fees to be able to provide all of the
above and more. There are about 800,000 Drupal.org
profiles...but only 3,000 members. Are you one of them?
Every membership helps.
Help us. Help Drupal!
Individual membership only 188 RMB or $30 / year
Organization memberships only 626 RMB or $100 / year
Join as a Supporting Partner and support D.O initiatives on an even greater
scale. Learn more on A.D.O. home page

28. JOIN NOW!
https://association.drupal.org/membership

29. More info
https://association.drupal.org

30. Drupal super hero 'Captain Drupal'

31. Merging North American & European web agencies

32. Captain Drupal’s heroic leaving

33. Captain Drupal’s heroic leaving

34. Q&A interview style Dries keynote

35. Q&A interview style Dries keynote

36. Spark, symfony2, strong multilingual

37. Gathering for group photo shooting

38. DrupalCon Munich 2012 group photo
Photo from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drupalassoc/7893709730/

39. Going to take sessions after taking photo

40. Session for Drupal beginner

42. Session about Drupal Theming, CSS, layout

43. Multilingual core is very actively develping…

44. Enterprise level project talk and Q&A

45. Enterprise level project talk and Q&A

46. Importance of building a good relationship

47. good relationship…with who?

48. To surprise and impress potential client…

49. Conversations going on at the lobby

50. Buffet style lunch time after session…

51. Buffet style lunch time after session…

52. Snack time

53. Snack time

54. Mineral water and apple juice

55. Best food ever DrupalCon (people said)

56. Taking photo in front of ‘Druplicon’

57. Fast WI-FI speed & power cords everywhere

59. panel, display suite, panopoly etc

60. Panopoly demo

61. Demo with drush

62. Great editor experience session

64. Using mic for asking question...

65. Still active discussion going on after session

66. Performance
session

68. Active discussion after session as well...

69. Active discussion after session as well...

70. China & Pakistan community session

72. Pakistani drupal developer answering…

73. Drupal sites/agencies in China and Pakistan

75. China’s infamous Great firewall

77. Pakistani Drupal developers

78. Project managing session-delivery on time

79. DrupalCon Munich official closing...and…

80. Message from D.A.

81. DrupalCon Munich income & expenses

82. DrupalCon Sao Paulo announcement(cancelled)

83. DrupalCon Sydney next year Feburary

84. DrupalCon Prague 2013 annoucement

85. DrupalCon Munich closing “Thanks”

86. Funny face photosoot with volunteers

87. Went to “Code Sprint” the next day

88. Mentor explaining about „Code Sprint‟

89. Code Sprint lounge for newbies for this

90. Developer from Israel

91. Web developer but new to ‘Code Sprint’

92. Thanks to Nicolas! Came here because of him

93. All the Drupalistas contributing Core are…

94. Angie watching Dries commiting patches

95. Drupal mentors and juniors teaching/learning

96. Code Sprint Day –newbie room scene
Photo : http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlozano/page16/

97. Code Sprint Day –Can you feel the passion?
Photo : http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlozano/page16/

98. Code Sprint Day –advanced room scene
Photo : http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlozano/page16/

99. Keynote: Fabien Potencier Dream, Experiment, Create, and Share
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pepej/7904549960/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Watch video: http://munich2012.drupal.org/speakers/keynotes/fabien-potencier

100. Keynote: Fabien Potencier
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/forweb-webagency/7881134276/in/photostream /

101. Drupal Community Resources & info
DrupalCon Munich, 08/20-24/2012
You can watch and listen all the keynotes and sessions from DrupalCon Munich program schedule
Watch and Listen here.
DrupalCon Sydney, Feb 6-9 2013
DrupalCon Portland, May 20-24 2013
DrupalCon Prague, Sep 23-27 2013
Drupal official website: https://drupal.org/
Drupal User Group: http://groups.drupal.org/
Drupal Ladder: http://drupalladder.org/
Getting involved in core Drupal development: http://drupalofficehours.org/
Drupal Association: https://association.drupal.org/
Drupal Membership Sign up: https://association.drupal.org/membership

102. Thank you!
Presentator: Jiyoung Yun
@HappyJiyoung
Photos without credit links are taken by me.
Feel free to use them with credit link back.
jiyoung@mswebmatrix.com