 My name is Wally Aramon. I'm one of three directors of Drupal Camp London, so I've been doing this for about last six years now. I started off as a volunteer actually in year one, and then they asked me to take more responsibility on. I enjoyed it and I've been doing it ever since. So in 2013, I actually did know anything about Drupal. I recently graduated from Kingston University of the Computer Science degree, and I wanted to know more about web development, so I chose Drupal after doing some research. I thought, OK, Drupal is the most hardest one. That's the one I'll go and try and learn. So I just volunteered for this event. Long story short, on the first day I was actually approached by a recruiter from Accre and I was hired. They almost had some interviews on that day, then some follow-up into the next day, and two months later I was hired by them. I wasn't even looking for a job. I didn't know anything about Drupal at the time. So when I first started out, I was a volunteer, helping pack in the bags, helping with the reception, signing people in. If there was any manual handling involved, then I would help out with that without any responsibility. So I'll do anything and everything that was asked of me. Then after that, as I got more responsibility, I started managing the volunteers completely. I took that job on because I knew how to do it. After that, once I became a director, I took a little more responsibility with strategy, some finance stuff, bringing people in. Actually, one of the ideas was to increase our marketing exposure to people. So once I took more responsibility on, those were the kind of ideas that we had to think about how to increase the attendees, how to get more sponsorship in, what do we need to do to connect the attendees with the sponsors. The different stakeholders that actually come to this camp, because everyone is coming for different reasons. So those are the things that I'm working on these days. I still manage the volunteers, but that's something that I want to offload to our new starters. So we've got an understudies group, so about four people or four or five people. They'll take responsibility for the stuff that I've been doing every year so that I can focus on growing the camp and making it bigger. Our aim is actually to make it bigger than a Drupal con. That's the aim, we may not achieve it, but we'll try and get there as close as possible. In a lot of ways it's still the same, it hasn't changed, and in terms of organization and how we do things, that has changed drastically. So it's always a success over a year, even though we're running around like headless chickens and organizing things a little bit late. But we've made lots of changes under the hood, so we're a registered CIC company now. So that's official, and people go different roles, so I'm one of the three directors. Alex was the director, Leon told me the director. So if anything goes wrong, we are responsible for it. And then we've got the company secretary, which is Paul Rao, so he organizes all our meetings, but a lot of the stuff he does actually overlaps with others, and he's actually taken on a lot more responsibility. To the point where he's almost like running everything by himself, it feels like it, but he runs it with Jennifer Mills, who's from the City University. She helps us out a lot. So yeah, we've got a better structure in place. So in the past, we would struggle to actually get sponsors, but now we're an established brand, we know who to contact, and for this year we've locked out all our sponsors before the new year, in December, or maybe just touch in January. So that was a big achievement because we got all our ducks in a row, and we actually managed to execute really well. So for the next few years, that's what we'll be concentrating on, so we need to get new people in and solidifying everything that we've learned and executing it really well, actually. The smaller the camp, the easier it is to actually run things on an adult basis, using just spreadsheet and a Word document. So I've been to Drupal Camp Bristol, and I've been to Drupalcon Barcelona. I haven't been to many other conferences actually, simply because I'm busy running this one, right? The ones I have been to, they run really well, and there's lots of ideas that we can take from them. For example, we actually partner with an agency called Lemburg, which they have for the last three years, I think, helped us create a web app for the sessions, and they do it for Drupalcons already, and I approached them. So this is one of the other changes that have become a director. So I approached them, and they were more than happy to do the app, and it's been a great partnership ever since. Now that is something that's in place, and we can do that and have that every year. And the same thing with you, we can do the videos every year now, because you know exactly how things are, you know where all the rooms are, so that's all in place. We don't need to reinvent the wheel constantly, right? So there's lots of other things like that that we can actually take from camps. Actually, I've been speaking to, I forgot his surname, but Michael, who helps run a Drupal conference in Germany, so he would like to collaborate with us and start open to that so we can help him and show him exactly how we've done things and the ideas that we can take off him as well. All you got to do is just start from the bottom, just volunteer. I'd say volunteering for a camp is the best way to get exposure to meeting new people, figuring out what's what, figuring out who to talk to, maybe potential jobs maybe, even if you're an agency. We've got people that actually contract that volunteer because they want to give back to the community and also it opens up opportunities for them. So volunteering is probably the most cost-effective way to do it as well because the ticket is free, you're volunteering, you get to network. That's the value, that's where the big value is. So networking while volunteering is good. If you don't want to volunteer because sometimes it's also nice to not do any work, then just turn up to any Drupal camp or Drupal cons, pay for the ticket and you'll get a similar experience. I suggest we do both cover all the bases. Oh, in five years time, I want them to be as big as a Drupal con. I want us to get all that ducks in a row, have everything running smoothly where we don't even think about it. And the biggest changes I want to make with Drupal camp, London is for us to facilitate and help the networking that goes on. So you've got people that want to hire, people that are looking for new jobs, people that have one offer services, people that are looking for services, people that are looking for new leads, all these people are here. I want that to be a seamless process where we facilitate the networking. So as soon as you buy a ticket, that's already happening. So by the time you come to Drupal camp, London, all that is already set up and ready for you. You just take boxes and what you're looking for and then we facilitate the rest. You still have to, we open the doors, you still have to go through it. That's up to you. The opportunity will be there. But that's where I see ourselves and that's the value that Drupal, any conference, that's the value that comes with any conference. But I don't think enough conferences focus on those things. So that's our goal and target.