 Is my mic oh good morning Drupal car look at this Good morning. Hello. Hey, so thank you for getting out of bed This has got to be a record for the number of people who are here before the session got started, which is awesome So you get to see the jokes at the beginning um, we have Crowdsourced that's kind of the fashion this year with crowdsourced our opening session We have a number of guests who we will get to One by one in a moment. Thank you all for getting out of bed as well Very very quickly welcome to Drupal con who's at their very first Drupal con Who's it there? Wow. Keep your hands up. Who's at your very first Drupal community event? Wow, thank you so much. Welcome to our community It's this is very this is just the baseline of how we do things everything else gets a little bit weirder So my name is Robert Douglas This is jam Jeffrey McGuire and our show today is the history of Drupal con Told by the people who are actually there and for whom Drupal con changed their life so It's people like this that go to Drupal con and have life-changing experiences Oh, and this one time at Drupal camp. I kind of had to go and kill the kitty Excuse me, what you don't think I know how to hack Drupal core That's half of what Drupal camp is hack ed So are we gonna scrum soon because I'm getting kind of antsy We all know the feeling So for those of you who don't know the history of Drupal con it began in 2005 not so far from here in Antwerp Where we had the first Drupal con and I'm going to tell the first Drupal con Changed my life story Drupal con changed my life because I showed up in Antwerp and I had it was only two days long There were only 26 people there and at one point I had lunch with Dries Dries who created Drupal and as we were walking back to the venue talking about how I hate my Java job He said, you know Robert Somebody ought to write a book about Drupal I'll do it. I said and From that moment Drupal con had changed my life because actually Dries hooked me up with a publisher and then a week later I was writing a Drupal book and it was a hard work and B It helped put Drupal on the map and helped give me a career in Drupal And I could quit my day job doing crappy Java web development and do Drupal full-time. So Drupal changed my life Drupal con Thank You Robert Douglas for the very first Drupal book. Sure Now another person who couldn't be here today For whom Drupal con changed their life was chicks Carolee Nageshi. Sorry chicks. I really can't say your name and He gave us this testimonial also about Antwerp about how Drupal con changed his life It was in 2005 in Antwerp and It was the first of three Drupal cons that have completely changed my life at the time I was a pretty much broken software developer from Hungary and In Antwerp, I have found friends from countries that I have just been a tourist before at best It was a very eye-opening it was a new perspective And also at this Drupal con After lunch, I have asked a dream Why don't we have security at Drupal.org Email address perhaps just an alias to somebody My advice is to be very careful when you are asking something like that I have found myself as the founding leader of the security team For the big big change So it's a common theme Also at that Drupal con was Neil drum How did Drupal con change your life Neil? It was really when Drupal's kind of turned into a career for me I'd recently dropped out of college and going back, you know after I had worked at civic space for a bit Would have been a reasonable thing to do, but you know showed me that Drupal something I could make a career out of and I've seen the community ever since Thank you. Whoo Soon after that was the Drupal con in Vancouver 2006 Where are you going? Are you? She's changed a lot And Also not here today is Khalid Bailey Dean who for whom Drupal conchanged his life my name is Khalid and I've been with Drupal since 2003 so 11 plus years now The company that I founded and still run is to bits.com. That's number two and then be it s.com which specializes in performance and hosting for performance my first Drupal con was Vancouver 2006 and I just Decided to attend because it's kind of close by Since I live in Canada and there I met Please I didn't realize how tall he was and I met Robert Douglas and Peter and Lyle and Boris Mann and and the other People whom I virtually interacted for during my sheltered Existence of two years the childhood in Drupal Matt Mullinway from WordPress was there and I happen to have you know Boris Mann invited me to lunch with with Matt just seeing that there is a big community out there from all over the world and the fact that this can be the way to Have a career in free software Seeing that there is a community there that are the users out there Then I started to to change that into from a first-apart time Job and then a full-time job Since 2007 I didn't know that being there would turn it into a full-time job people wouldn't realize that Attending a Drupal con would would change their life in that way Until they go and attend That's the value of Drupal con so Among many benefactors to the Drupal project that have allowed us to get to This stage of micro world dominance that we're at Google has been a friend and helper along the way and in 2005 five Drupal was part of the for the very first time of the Google summer of code and the very last place qualifier Google summer of code students was This woman right here Mentored by this man right here So Angie Byron, how did Drupal con change your life? So so as Jan mentioned I came into Drupal and to open source participation in general through Google or a Drupal summer of code and I worked on this module and then after I was done with the module kind of Robert kept saying hey If I give you 500 bucks will you make this theme and I was like okay, you know And it was cool because I actually got to turn Drupal into sort of a freelance gig, but I Was really really really terrified to go to an event because I thought everyone was like big and smart And I was just kind of like this kid out of school But somehow someone convinced me to go to Drupal con of Vancouver Which I did And it was just amazing because I was really shy and really mousy which nobody would believe me anymore And I was sort of like ducked in the corner of the hotel room sort of working on stuff and hoping someone would see my Google summer of code shirt and maybe figure out who I was and People just came over and they were so friendly and so welcoming and so open And it was just like mind-blowing to me and I made tons of friends And it was just amazing and then the other pivotal thing from there is you know We're in the middle of this Drupal release. It was Drupal 4.7. It's kind of taking a long time I know this doesn't ring any bells with anybody But it was amazing because you know again I kind of had no confidence in myself But I went to this code sprint that they were having and most whitesman sitting there like handing out bugs to people to work on And I was like he came me this bug and I'm like oh, but do this is way over my head He's like no no no just try it and see what happens And it was neat because I in the process of reviewing the patch actually found a bug Which I didn't expect and it actually revealed some darker deeper issue that we ended up fixing And so it just felt that empowerment of really like helping to make this thing That's that I loved more awesome and meeting tons of awesome people so and to this day We're still staying up all night working on code. So there you go. Yeah. Thank you, Angie Hey, so Russell's Russell's 2006 was was very much like this con I showed up at the venue for my very first Drupal con and ready for registration I handed grease a 20-year-old notes and I got handed a t-shirt and I was in and Yeah, I went to a bunch of sessions and at some point my brain was full but Drupal con Brussels changed my life because up until then I had been in One career that I really loved as a performing musician and one career that I was good at but I didn't really enjoy which is writing and translation and I was looking for a way to support my family better and I was learning Drupal because it looked promising and it was hard But it seemed exciting and I went and I heard what was going on with it I saw MTV UK UK was there right and it was a this real thing and it was amazing and I wasn't able to go to another Drupal event for 18 months But by that time because the inspiration that I got in Brussels beginning of 2008 I started working full-time as a Drupal consultant and by late summer of 2008 Was employee number 18 at Acquia. So Drupal con very seriously changed my life awesome so the next Drupal con after that was Drupal con Sunnyvale and Sorry about that Dries Pater, how did Drupal con change your life? Sure? I mean actually I would say more than one Drupal con changed my life But I was asked to talk about Sunnyvale and so in Sunnyvale 2007. I believe We were trying to get Drupal 5 released, but I could be wrong about the version and I was there, you know working with the core developers and a You know a man called Jay Batson He started bugging me literally like he wanted to have like 30 minutes with me I'm like, nope. I'm here working on Drupal 5 with the core developers. I have no time to talk to you And so he kept bugging me You know through email like showing up in person and I kept pushing him off and eventually I said sure I'll have breakfast with you and you know Jay and I we talked about starting a company together and You know we literally started dating I guess, you know at that time and roughly nine months later Acquia was born Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Come here Dries That's a great. That's a beautiful story Dries However, I have to say that Jam and I have always imagined that happened a little bit differently. Maybe Oops, sorry, maybe more like this Playing the role of Jay Batson is Darth Vader on the left. Can we have the mic on please? Destroying machine and it's always the little things, you know My toilet backed up last night too really All right, you ready? You have only begun to realize your power join me and I will complete your training But I wanted to pick up some power converters atashi station If you only knew the power of the corporate side Gabo never told you what happened at Drupal con Barcelona Wait, there was a Drupal con in Barcelona I mean when did that happen? How many people even showed up? Dude, it was in 2007. It was awesome. There were like 400 people there. You you really should have come That's not true. That's impossible Search your feelings. You know it to be true Dries you can destroy the word press they have foreseen it it is your Destiny join me and we will rule the internet as CEO and CTO I'll never join you I'll give you stock options That actually sounds pretty good. Oh well, all right Now we know So after that well Barcelona as was just mentioned with 400 people there Dries obviously not one of them This person Kerry Gordon his life was changed at Drupal con Barcelona Hi, I'm Kerry Gordon and I run a company called the cherry Hill company Most of what we do now is develop web-based systems and our weapon of choice now is Drupal I started doing this 20 years ago when I walked into a library and they had a computer but didn't know how to turn it on I Learned Drupal by reading the code which at that time was doable because it wasn't like Quite as humongous as it is now Although I still think that's the best way to learn Drupal. We got a client 2000 in early late 2006 early 2007 their requirement is that they supported 11 languages IAT N internationalization and Localization out of the box weren't working for them mid 2007 and that point I think we're up before 72 with the internationalization we were running it into a brick wall and I Knew that Drupal con was coming up I'd never even thought about going through con but I knew that Drupal con was coming up in Barcelona So I knew that Jose Riera was was going to be involved and I knew that the board would be there I didn't know them other than names at that point. So I said, okay. I can buy a ticket get on the plane Go to Barcelona You know for a few days It was all right until I actually walked into Drupal con That's that's when I got in trouble because you know, I started meeting people first person. It was before I met I'm not everyone else. I've looked around and said we got to one of these in Los Angeles introduced myself to trees say we got to one of these in Los Angeles and magically I Guess a year and a half later I Didn't get to do a Drupal con Los Angeles, but I Became the Drupal con event director That's what I got out of Saying maybe I can get this question answered by going to Drupal con. That's what Drupal con gave to me right So next up is Drupal con Boston 2008 another video contestant whose life was changed I'm introducing Doug van but Drupal con Boston 2008 Was towards the letter portion of my first hundred days in Drupal Josh was aware of the project I was working on and that I had a team working on it So I showed it I showed him the code that night tells me hey, dude your course hacked so I actually made the call a phone call that evening from the uber dinner and Fired the team that was working on this big huge social network project. Oh change of life You know we were doing Drupal wrong We were so happy to get the benefits of Drupal and who isn't happy to get the benefits of Drupal benefits the benefit of Drupal Drupal being hacked that's that's not really the benefit you're looking for Drupal con changed my life And that it put me at the right time at the right place with the right people And I was able to connect with people who knew the situation better than I did to all you would be core hackers That are hacking away at core Do you really want to kill kittens that way? There's it's just it's just so bad. It's just so sad The Drupal API is so Accessible and extendable There's no reason to have core. Please don't oh Let's go back a slide shall we oh No, go forward one Rob Okay, we'll do it that way Nick Venehoff. How did Drupal? Nick Venehoff? How did Drupal con change your life? Before I can tell that story. I have to go a little bit back one week back more or less And just a moment before that. I was looking for my first job the first thing that really should have changed her life or the next step in your career and I found a company and they advertised with oh we played a radio and You can go and go travel and that company was called crimson back in a time now. It's wind of crowd. I think I'm sure and They sent me the first week of my job to Sega and was full of people and I was so overwhelming I Same as jam. I fell asleep in a session because it was too much and That really changed my life because I wasn't as outspoken as I was I didn't travel as much And now I've lived in Spain doing Drupal lived in Portugal doing Drupal lived in the States doing Drupal And I now helped we open up an office in Ghent in my hometown It really changed my life really changed my life. Thank you Stella power. How did Drupal can change your life back in 2008? I was working in IT I wasn't particularly happy with my job And I was doing Drupal as a hobby just for fun So people have been telling me about Boston in Barcelona. I was like, okay I'll go and honestly what the fuss is about So I took some time off work. I went to Zaghet and I was simply blown away Blown away by the community the people I met. I met WebTik. I met Addison Mary I even I think I gave a session on coder with Doug Green who had been my mentor so it was just an amazing experience and So yeah, I went home next week. I quit my job so Quit your job quit your job So I started a Drupal agency in Ireland told EnerTech and it's very successful and we're over 10 people now So it it really did change my life fast-forwarding to 2009 Our next contestant also by video is Brian Schensky Brian. How did Drupal con change your life? Well, my name is Brian Schensky I heard that Drupal was was something to look at and I very quickly noticed the you know the similarities between sequel forms back in the day and The things that I was doing inside of Drupal and I said to myself by God this thing has legs and Luckily in 2010 DC was close enough to my home in Michigan that I could I could make the trek and It felt like I was going home all over again It felt like I was in the company of people who really understood Understood the market they understood the mission of the technologies They understood each other that that feeling of community came on So strong in DC for me That I knew I knew that I had found where I wanted to take my career next But the thing the one thing that stuck with me That that sealed the deal for me was at the very very end of the entire week Where we all gathered on the steps of the conference center and and took the group photo That was something that was That was truly unique to be able to see that picture and and see myself in that picture That was something that was tangible proof that I was part of part of the Drupal community and that meant a lot to me Thank You Brian Matthew Radcliffe, how did Drupal Khan change your life? So today I Do I work with Drupal and I love being a core mentor at Drupal Khan. It's a great. It's a great thing a great feeling and You'll often find me on Saturday just working on Drupal in a coffee house And it all began at Drupal Khan DC for me at the second session I attended it was called Drupal sucks by Jeff Eaton of Lullabot fame and his guest host Earl Miles with a hand puppet Injecting comments about how there's a module for that and whatnot And so I learned that we come to Drupal Khan to to to share what we know Whether it's from the features module or the pet the patterns module the debates that we had at Drupal Khan DC and then finally it culminates in this day of sprinting at the end and Now it's a full week, but back then it was just a day and so Drupal Khan inspired me to Contribute back to the open-source community. It also gave me this crippling coffee addiction And you're even wearing your Drupal Khan Washington t-shirt. Yay so Not on the slides, but here in flesh and blood Jacob and Emily. How did Drupal Khan change your life? so my first Drupal Khan was in 2006 in Vancouver and there's many ones that make changes, but I think in DC 2009 was the biggest one and it all started with a Camera a menu and Doug van although really it started with Morton me and my friends were at the DC Convention Center And we had no idea where to go and Morton start. He flagged everyone down come to the after Conference restaurant, so we went there and their Doug van found us looking for a seat and said here Let me introduce you to Jacob So as everyone knows there's only like two menus in a restaurant for like a hundred people So I was taking pictures of these things the menu and sharing her camera around and she liked my camera. I guess After we didn't see each other for most of the conference, but then we got to see each other at the Lullabot after-party And we talked Drupal most of the night and then Four years later So four years later our wedding website was called Drupal camp wedding and My bridesmaid who is definitely not a Drupalist had everyone there toast to that Drupal thing. Whoo that Drupal thing Hey, so I think we also have a think we have a new definition for we talked about Drupal all night David's storyline, how did Drupal Khan change your life? Hey, so this is a playing hooky story, right? Yeah, it definitely is So in 2009 I was working at a small design shop in Washington, DC And I'd left the train to walk to work and they saw a sign for Drupal Khan And you know, I'm thinking oh, I've heard of Drupal I installed it once and it wasn't that great and so I sat at my desk You know a few hours go by convinced a co-worker to come with me to just check it out over lunch So me and this co-worker we didn't have a ticket so we just kind of walked in and I guess security was pretty tight But I didn't I didn't really notice that So we walked in I attended a few sessions. We stayed basically the rest of the day So after that I came back to my my desk to get my things that I obviously left them there for whatever reason and pretty much overnight we'd taken our Custom developed CMS and started leveraging Drupal right then After that I quit my job. I found a job of working on the team that was bringing There's a there's a theme here. You're job And I was I started working on the team that was bringing White House that gov to Drupal So within you know a really short period of time. I had a full-time Pretty prominent Drupal job from playing hooky to White House got gov. Congratulations. David. Thank you. Thank you So how many of you in the last couple of months have had a bucket of very cold ice and water poured over your heads The ALS ice bucket challenge. Anybody did it anybody that anybody see one. Do you have any idea what we're talking about? Oh great So jam I had this idea about how we could kind of speed up Drupal that Drupal a you know It's a little bit late. We need to get it out But the problem is there are bugs there's so many damn bugs right so we have a challenge for this Okay, and this is gonna go viral and you're all gonna do it and we're gonna get Drupal a out the door Hello, my name is Robert Douglas, and I'm here today to take the bug elimination challenge To raise awareness for too many bugs in Drupal 8 I am now Going to eat this here plate of a bugs Too many bugs too many bugs. We've got to get rid of these bugs So as you can see all the bugs are gone every last one of them And I have done my duty for Drupal 8 now. I hereby nominate three people To also do your part for Drupal 8 you are Tom Erickson, Dries Patard and Josh Koenig You have 24 hours have fun The hell There's something on my back. There's something on my back This is my shirt. He's in my shirt. He's in my shirt. He's in your shirt. He's in my shirt One less bug Paris 2009 who was there by the way? All right, great Matt Seldon, how did Drupal Khan change your life? When we went there we plan to Film a couple of really silly episodes of the Drupal Khan Going down to Paris and stopping at various places in Europe like a roadshow and Doing so Went while planning that was the first time that we had contact with the Drupal Association and Dries himself And the the amazing thing for us was that The organization and Dries was so accessible and open and we could say like we want to come home to your house In Antwerp and fool around with your kids and put it on video and Show it to people and we want to take part in the opening ceremony and all the answers we got was that's okay Okay, so we did and today we're a diamond sponsor of this Drupal Khan Thank you, Anya your harness. How did Drupal Khan change your life? So today we're at Drupal Khan as one of Germany's biggest Drupal companies But it wasn't always like this We were the local user group in Hannover When we decided to build a company But we had one problem We had no name And then one day we decided the whole team to go to Drupal Khan Paris had a wonderful time there met a lot of Drupal listers drank a lot of beer and did also some nice sightseeing with our travel guide Robert and There was the next problem we had The problem was that Anya Mirko Stefan Stefan and me had some crazy names and Robert couldn't keep them. I just couldn't say Stefan and Stefan the right way especially Stefan and Stefan and He also didn't distinguish their faces for any reason. I don't know why I was calling them all Stefan by the end even Anya so we tried to make it easier for him and and Then decided to simply rename Stefan and Stefan and named then Gündar and Paul and That was a nice solution. We went home from Drupal Khan Paris and then Some weeks later. We had the solution to our first problem, too We had a name for our company and now it's called and Paul And Paul, thank you Your job quit your job Joseph Wienerschnitzel Dabernink, how did Drupal Khan change your life? So my first Drupal Khan was Copenhagen and before that I spent a whole year Working in Central America as a volunteer And I had some great mentors that explained me how to contribute to Drupal because I was using it for the For the website there, but I didn't know how to fix things that were broken in Drupal So this hand-holding enabled me to really feel be able to contribute back by writing patches and doing presentations Yeah, then I came back to Austria Met the great Austrian Drupal community and all together we got to Drupal Khan Copenhagen Which was just overwhelming in particular. I remember Amitabh session about organic groups Which was hilarious and you should see the video. So for example Angela Merkel She would say that the world needs rules in that video and that's also true for Drupal 8 by the way Yeah, so that was my first Drupal Khan. I got hired then and since then I'm attending all the Drupal Khans in Europe Have a job and have a good life. Thank you So we're gonna fast-forward to San Francisco a little bit which also changed Doug Vans life now We're at Drupal Khan San Francisco 2010 But if you want to hear a second story of Drupal Khan changing Doug Vans life It's all the press and invisibility I got from from standing up there with this, you know 15 year old kid on an accordion and Jeff Robbins on vocals just you know whaling out the Drupal song That was that was a lot of great press and a lot of great fun Definitely a life-changing experience When Robert Douglas says record the Drupal song you record the Drupal song Thanks, Doug, okay, I want to