Portland, OR / Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) July 19, 2012
The Drupal Association, the non-profit educational foundation of the Drupal project and host of the DrupalCon conferences, today announced the addition of DrupalCon Sydney, February 6-9, 2013 to its growing list of conferences that educate and congregate on all things about the open source content management platform. Sydney was selected because of its growing interest in the Drupal community and increased Drupal adoption.
The conference will take place at the Crowne Plaza Coogee Beach with the theme of Growing Drupal Downunder. It is designed to be relevant to any organisation already using, considering using, or wanting to learn about Drupal for a CMS. The founder of the Drupal project, Dries Buytaert, will keynote the opening session and talk about the future of Drupal. Other keynotes, registration, call for papers and sponsorship details will be announced soon. There will be sessions for all levels of Drupal knowledge, as well as plenty of case studies, trainings and code sprints.
The local Drupal community is very excited that the momentum built at previous Drupal Downunder events in Melbourne and Brisbane has led to Sydney being selected for an official DrupalCon, said Owen Lansbury, Managing Partner of PreviousNext and a Drupal user for 5 years. We expect DrupalCon Sydney to play a key role in building awareness of how this amazing content management platform can help individuals and organisations build complex websites more efficiently and with greater flexibility.
Its a dream come true to now have a DrupalCon Downunder! says Donna Benjamin, a recent addition to the Drupal Association Board of Directors, and past organizer of Drupal Downunder Melbourne 2012. The global Drupal community needs events like these taking place outside the established centres of Europe and North America to really help the overall community grow. Its so good to see Sydney and S