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To get site owners to start thinking about upgrading to Drupal 8 and to build anticipation for the upcoming release we are organising an upgrade Bingo and we want the whole Drupal community to benefit from it. If you want to get leads for site upgrades, Drupal 8 hosting, or paid Drupal 8 module development, you should not miss out.

Voting just opened for the Popular choice prize of the Context.IO App Challenge on DevPost. We’ve submitted a [Drupal module](https://www.drupal.org/project/contextio) for the competition and it would be really great if we could win the Popular choice prize. We are however not asking you to vote to support us, instead we would like you to **vote for the Drupal community**: if we win the prize we will use it to prove to developer tool companies that Drupal is a market worth investing in. Should we win, **we’ll split the 5k$ prize money over 2 sponsorships for upcoming Drupalcamps**.

Building a large Drupal site may be a complicated task, but building small parts of it as prototypes helped us to build [Go Ask Alice!](http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/), a flagship site of the [Columbia University in the City of New York](http://www.columbia.edu/). If you are about to build such a large site, then continue reading why, what and how you should build using prototypes. (This is a transcript of my part from our presentation at [Drupalaton 2015](http://2015.drupalaton.hu/) with Kristof Van Tomme.)

We’ve just released [Context.IO](https://www.drupal.org/project/contextio), an API module with a [Feeds](https://drupal.org/project/feeds)] plugin submodule that uses the context.io API to import emails into a Drupal site. If you build something interesting with the module in the next 6 days, you can participate in the [Context.IO App challenge]( http://contextio.devpost.com/) and make a chance to win 50k USD.

The Belgian startup scene is a very active ecosystem, that can quickly become overwhelming for entrepreneurs looking for help. That’s why we did a survey to identify as many active players as possible. We started to compile a list to make it possible for startups, no matter of their current development phase, to find useful information about organisations that could help them succeed.

If you are still hesitating if it's worth the effort to sign up for [d8upgrade](http://d8upgrade.org), we wanted to give you an account from one of our users who did already do so. We asked **omong_kosong**, if we could interview him for a blogpost, what follows are his answers to the questions we sent him.