DrupalCon Sao Paulo: Lessons to be learned when building community
DrupalCon São Paulo was going to be the first DrupalCon in the southern continent, and the first to happen outside the US-Europe axis. Such a ground-breaking idea could not happen in a less significant place such as an emergent country, and an emergent global city.
But it never happened.
It failed big time. Why? What were the causes? Was the local community ready? What about the global community?
Without any resentment, we wish to immerse in a community talk, inviting anyone to share ideas and thoughts about this, believing we can all learn much from what has happened and what it tells us about our community.
The bottom-up organized DrupalDownUnder turned into DrupalCon Sydney and it was a major success. DrupalCon São Paulo, on the other hand, was cancelled. But from the ashes of frustration the community in
Latin America began to grow its community-driven spirit. Several DrupalCamps in the region have emerged at an amazing rate and a DrupalCon-like event is being built from scratch. What does this tells us about grassroots movement?
Comments
I will attend this talk. I was disappointed in Sao Paulo not happening, regardless of the reasons, and I want to attend events in that region in the future. I'm looking forward to this. I think Latin America, but especially Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico (in no particular order) are going to be big in Drupal and technology in general going forward.
If this session doesn't make it into the crowded schedule, please have a BoF !
I'd really love to see this happen. I think we as a community should spend time learning from our missteps as well as our successes!
Definitely a must see session for Drupalcon, let's learn together from our mistakes as community.