Sunday, February 8, 2015

DrupalCamp Mumbai 2015 unfolds

Platinum Sponsors, FOSSEE, IIT Bombay
The DrupalCamp Mumbai 2015 was held at IIT Bombay on 7th and 8th February. The organizers were Rachit Gupta, Ani Gupta, Vishal Gala, Prof. Sunthar from IIT Bombay, Gobinath Mallaiyan and the others from Drupal Community. The Platinum sponsors were TATA Consultancy Services & IIT Bombay FOSSEE. The Gold sponsors were Blisstering Solutions, Capgemini, Axelerant, iksula, intelliswift & Srijan. The Silver sponsors were TRIGYN, QED42 & other partners. If you are looking for career options, there will not be a better platform for you to come and meet with the top Drupal companies.  All of them had their stalls with wacky goodies and contests with exciting prizes.  The kits in the form of keychains and badges for the event were sponsored by TCS.
There were more than 600 participants varying from students from various colleges to Professionals and Experts. 

Kits
These were the sessions which were conducted at the DrupalCamp Mumbai 2015: 

Mike Lamb +Drupal Mumbai 
The event was kicked-off with a welcome note by Prof Sunthar followed by a keynote by Mike Lamb, the Director of Marketing Technology Strategy at Pfizer, currently a service member of the board at Drupal Association. The keynote was live-streamed as well. 
Note: Some important sessions were recorded and soon will be made available on Youtube.

VMCC, IIT Bombay
Day 1:
Drupal in a day workshop and training by TCS: This workshop was basically for newcomers and students.

The two best workshops conducted were Porting D7 modules to D8 by QED42 and Headless Drupal for Drupal experts by Azri Solutions

Contests

CXO roundtable & Panel Discussion, for heads and decision makers of drupal association only & Birds of Feather for any Drupal enthusiasts were arranged for supportive and productive setting of the DrupalCamp, proliferation of open source in education in India and for discussions related to Drupal and open source. There was also deliberation on Drupal campus ambassador programme(DCAP).
Drupal campus ambassador programme(DCAP) aims to introduce Drupal to top indian universities and engineering college by creating a network of Drupal Campus ambassadors across different universities and engineering colleges of India. 

Panel Discussion

CXO RoundTable

Day 2:
This day was exclusive for Hackathon & Codepsrint.

Codesprint: All the beginners and enthusiasts amassed to learn Drupal.

Hackathon: Especially for skilled Drupalers, where they challenged each others mettle.
Codesprint



So, this concluded the DrupalCamp at Mumbai. Let’s aim for much more accomplishment of the eminent DrupalCon in India in 2016. 


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