Tanasity's blog

Every few years it's worth revisiting your working practices to see if there's been a change that you could benefit from. This is a story about our last change, which makes liberal use of mixed metaphors.

Drupalcon is the twice-yearly conference gathering Drupal developers, designers and users from across the world. It alternates between venues in North America and Europe, and has grown from a tiny event with about 40 people, back in 2005 to about 3,000 people at the most recent North American Drupalcon and 1,200-1,400 at the most recent European event.

At the end of 2009 a team of UK Drupal supporters came together to bid for Drupalcon 2011. We put together a bid, and were selected as the preferred bidder. Since then we've been beavering away with the planning.

Today we're pleased to be able to tell you that together with Tim Millwood, our Director Jeff Veit is co-leading the London 2011 team aiming to make Drupalcon London 2011 the best event yet.

Of course we provide hosting if a client needs a site hosting, and we almost always host sites during the development phase of the lifecycle, but given the choice between hosting ourselves and using a dedicated hosting company, we would normally advise our customers not to host with us.

Some customers find this quite surprising, but we see it as a benefit.

We're immensely pleased to be able to report that London is the recommended venue for Drupalcon Europe 2011.

Tanasity's Jeff Veit will be the joint team leader for the conference. Indeed, Tanasity wrote large portions of the conference proposal.

Originally Cambridge was mooted as the venue for the conference, but it was eventually rejected because we don't have a venue that is big enough; we expect at least 2,000 delegates for the week-long event.

Looking forward to the best Drupalcon so far!

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