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Looking back after 3 Drupal CXO weekends in Europe

CEO, Co-Founder
Mar 29, 2012
In January we held the 2012 Drupal Process CXO meetup in Microsoft's new Amsterdam office (event photos). The feedback from attendees was overwhelmingly positive, several people said it was for them one of the most useful Drupal events in recent past. The meetup provided an opportunity for peer-to-peer learning about the business processes used in large European Drupal shops, the tools and services they use, sharing best practices, and discovering how Drupal companies can grow from an entrepreneur centered culture to a process driven one. The Drupal community is still characterized by a large number of fast growing businesses. All of these companies are experimenting with different processes to solve similar problems. So there was a lot to learn from each other, and based on the participants' feedback that's exactly what happened. A special thank you goes out to Michaela Kraft and Jan Depping from Microsoft who made the Drupal process meetup possible, Microsoft for hosting and sponsoring the meetup, NodeOne for sponsoring the dinner on Saturday and to Acquia for contributing to the dinner on Friday night.

Reviews of the meetup

There's a few event summaries by some of the other attendees at:

A few of the resources that were shared on Twitter during the event are (#drupalproducts):

The European CXO event series

The 2012 Process Meetup was the 2nd event in the stand-alone CXO series we've organized with a focus on business development and quality assurance processes. The first meetup took place in Brussels (2010) also a great success, sold out in 3 days with 60+ attendees coming from all over Europe. The 3rd meetup in the CXO series was the Products Meetup in Rome (24-26 February, 2012) which concentrated on Drupal products and their business models. There's another post that is going live together with this one, specifically about the Drupal products meetup Lessons learnt from the Drupal Products Meetup. I really like how the events have become a place where business owners can share experiences and how the events have created a European network of Drupal executives that is more than a Linkedin group. I'm sure we'll see more border crossing collaborations as a result. We are planning 2 more meetups, one for the winter of 2012 and one in early 2013. Topics we are considering for the future meetups are: Agile Drupal and Drupal sales. If you have feedback or ideas about how we could make the events even better get in touch.

Kristof Van Tomme is an open source strategist and architect. He is the CEO and co-founder of Pronovix. He’s got a degree in bioengineering and is a regular speaker at conferences in the API, developer relations, and technical writing communities. He is the host of the Developer Success & the Business of APIs and the API Resilience podcasts.

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