It turned out we were traveling on the same train with @gaborhojtsy so it was my chance to question him about i18n issues. And I really love it how even most busy core (and around) dev guys in Drupal community are friendly and ready to share.
I loved the Camp organization. It was nice, neat and friendly. Moreover, organizers did learn on the fly making a better Drupal branded signs to navigate in huge Vienna Tech Uni building. And of course that geeky coffee machine.
Other great idea was to make the most of Vienna DrupalCamp presentations in English. It really attracted a bigger crowd from roundabouts. In my opinion, it's the way to go for smaller European Drupal events. Because of this it was probably one of the largest DrupalCamps in Europe yet. We discussed it with a few Drupal friends of mine who were visiting the Camp from France, Serbia or Hungary and all agreed that using de facto universal language of Drupal is exactly what attracted them to the event.
What really surprised me was the presence of sign language translators on some sessions and of course on keynote and opening/closing events. Somebody of Vienna crew made a great comment: "These guys will now have hard time translating from Drupal English to sign language Austrian". They did a good job though (I suppose).
The biggest turn down for the whole camp was absence of a very sensitive point: catering for lunch. From my quite extensive experience with Drupal events it's the only time where you can meet people informally (and still sober) to talk about Drupal or anything. Vienna camp approach was nice in a way (as there were dozens of extremely nice places to have a lunch around the venue). But with such terms people would really go eat with the folk they know already.
So my big discovery was that you can really focus on a badge of somebody near you while you are munching something. All those checkboxes "I'm looking for a coder" and so on. And I think many would agree. After all, Drupal events are as much about learning something new as they are about meeting your brothers-in-arms.
Some statistics:
Registered Users: 260
Attendees: ca. 220
Sessions: 37
Here are a few links to related resources:
Organizers: Info about organizers is on the website: http://drupalcamp.at/faq/organizers
Session videos:
http://www.archive.org/details/DrupalcampVienna2009StrategiesInCreatingA...
Session slides (click on session):
http://www.drupalcamp.at/sessions/the-schedule
Community results:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23dcvie
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=dcvie&s=int&ss=2&z=e
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136891637026
Individual blogs:
http://cocoate.com/2009/12/12/drupalcamp-vienna
http://mogdesign.eu/blog/drupalcamp-vienna-2009-report/
http://mogdesign.eu/blog/drupalcamp-vienna-2009-report-part-2/
http://atomicant.co.uk/blog/marek/drupalcamps-are-important
http://lin-clark.com/blog/semantic-web-and-drupal-drupalcamp-vienna
http://lin-clark.com/blog/semantic-web-and-drupal-pt-2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beta-robot/sets/72157622897682378/ (my photo set from #dcvie)
Thanks to @crizzirc for majority of links and statistics.
Hello,
the "Drupal Camp Vienna" was really nice and i fully agree with the points mentioned, that's why I'm sorry that i held my presentation in German ;)
Greetings from Vienna
Radulovski Ivo
Swww.segments.at
additional info on Drupal SEO (only in German so far):
http://www.segments.at/drupal-seo-modules
I don't mind where the event takes place. It'd be nice to have an event in Cork or somewhere else further south, but I'm not sure we have many active members in those areas. I know there was talk of Ennis (nudge conorc), and even Doolin, in Belfast, but I'm not fussed really to be honest. As long as people come and there's good sessions then I'll be there!