DrupalSouth Wellington A Success

1 Jan 0001 3-minute read

DrupalSouth attendees pointing at Angela 'webchick' Byron (Drupal 7 core committer) in the center

DrupalSouth Wellington 2010 was a booming success! And that would be an understatement. 100 Drupallers from NZ, Australia, North America and Europe came together for 2 Wellington-wet days in a brewery and couldn't stop talking about Drupal!

Here is DrupalSouth by the numbers;

1: Code sprints
2: Tracks (simultaneous sessions)
2: Duration in days
2: Lunches provided
2: Organisers
2: Attendees from parliament (Green party)
3: Keynote speakers from North America (Liz Henry, Emma Jane Hogbin & Angela Byron)
3: Platinum Sponsors
3: DrupliBeanBags
4: Attendees from the IRD
5: Gold sponsors
5: Percent of attendees from Hawkes bay
5: Months to organise
6: Companies involved in the wireless internet
6: Wireless access points
7: Value of each bar token in NZ dollars
8: Silver Sponsors
9: Varieties of beer brewed on-site
10: Start time on Saturday
11: Thousands of dollars turned over in event production
15: Attendees from NZ government agencies (IRD, Greens, NZ Police, various ministries, etc.)
16: Sponsors
16: Percent of attendees from Australia
16: Percent of attendees from Christchurch
18: Age of youngest attendee
20: MBs of synchronous bandwidth
21: Percent of attendees from Auckland
26: Speakers
28: Attendees who also attended LCA the week before
29: Sessions
30: Percent of female attendees
32: Percent of attendees from Wellington region
36: A3 sheets of printed sponsor logos
60: Registration cost
64: Cost of food and snacks per attendee
100: Registrations sold
220: Bar tokens printed

Some of my personal highlights were;

Spontaneous code sprint on Saturday night
Drupli-bean bags
Natasha's Dr Seussian poem about Drupal Permissions
Getting the group photo (unfortunately a lot of attendees were not present at that time)
Drupli-Thank-You-Card signed by attendees
Fast and Rockin' internet
Dave Spark's session on managing clients
Webchick's energy
Satisfaction of pulling off such a magnificent event
Energy among others to organise the next DrupalSouth (See DrupalSouth 2011 and Beyond)

Thank you to;

The organisers for all their hard work and their families for their patience and support.
DrupalSouth's sponsors
Everyone who helped make the internet great
Katie Graham at Delicious Mint and Josh Campbell at Zype and Egressive for their awesome design contributions
Packt, Pearson, O'Reilly and others for great book give-aways and other swag
Speakers for such great presentations
Attendees for just rocking the house!
Mac's Brewery and Restaurant for being so accommodating and keeping the drinks flowing

Read other's post-DrupalSouth write-ups at;