Youth Agora at DrupalCon Paris 2009

DrupalCon, the annual European Drupal conference, has just finished; it is the key event for everything related to Drupal, the engine powering most of the youth Agora products and projects: there were technical and non-technical sessions about Drupal and its development, as well as insights into the coming Drupal 7.

The Youth Agora development team was there and we also hosted, as a prize, Erik Roijen, selected as best community contributor for our ESN Satellite project, for the high-quality support he gave on a regular basis to everyone on the ESN Satellite support Google Group. Well done Erik!

Among the many interesting topics we heard about, the ones that will immediately impact on our development are:

• Drupal features: we will structure our templates with this new, clean, approach; we believe this is the best solution for sustainable updates.
• Usability and sustainable theming: we will improve the visual aspects of our templates and make them easier to use and manage.
• Aegir: we will experiment with it for our future massive deployments of Drupal sites.

DrupalCon was also a nice occasion to discuss our Drupal modules development with key community members, leading to new releases of Feed Scraper, Content Complete and Drush Views in the near future.