Last weekends we held great drupal event -- DrupalCamp Donetsk 2011. This is one of the places of next year UEFA EURO 2012 and it was really great place for our meetup.

About 170 attendees have arrived and were around during 20 sessions. It is very interesting that more and more new companies in Ukraine start developing using drupal and shows huge interest in local meetups. We had people from different cities of Ukraine and even several people from Russia and Belarus.

We have had beautiful bar party as well. Rock group in one of the bars were playing couple of drupal songs that made huge success!

You are welcome to read more about figures of the event here http://donetsk.drupal.ua/en/news/finishing-drupalcamp-donetsk-feedback-a...

Codesprint

As I was one of organizers of the codesprint, I would like to share our experience about it. We didn't have super rockstar developers at our codesprint but managed to do very nice job -- rewrite module draggableviews. There are plenty of very good developers in Ukraine but it is a pity that not many people understand importance of the contributing. So we started from ground level of using issues queue and creating patches and finished with workable code. We had several teams (every team not more than 6 people) who were working on different topics: draggableviews, couple views issues, porting api.drupal.ru to drupal 7, setting up development environment (for beginners). In this way we were able to attract new people to contributions but keeping our concentration for the final result.

I would like to thank all our sponsors and hope to see more people comming to Ukraine for drupal events!

Photos are available here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/115447083216533594560/DrupalCamp2011?authke...
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/100373468049652530283/albums/56805220...
https://plus.google.com/photos/111053704258459064817/albums/567977011279...
https://plus.google.com/photos/111053704258459064817/albums/567978260531...