Drupal Balkan Summit: 2 days, 100 Attendees, 1000 ideas!

The Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, 8-9 December, 2012

QArea Drupal developers visited Drupal Balkan Summit on December 8-9, 2012 in Zagreb, at the Croatia Chamber of Economy venue. Drupal Communities from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia became the main organizers of this event.  Drupal Balkan Summit was dedicated to discuss the tools and open source techniques used for creating powerful websites on Drupal platform. This two days event gathered about 100 Drupal programmers, various sized regional shop employees and many Drupal fans.

The relevance of Drupal Balkan Summit

As Drupal is one of the most popular platforms in the world for creating high quality websites, QArea finds Drupal services pretty demanded for customers. The next facts became the good reasons to take a part in Drupal Balkan Summit:

• The part of clients who prefer Drupal as a platform for their websites is constantly raised, that makes developers improve their skills. Such events became a good opportunity to get new experience;
• About 19 000 free-contributed modules  are available to extend Drupal capabilities;
• There are more then 2,1% of websites in the world use Drupal  as their platform and this number is growing.

The objective of Drupal Balkan Summit

Communities-organizers aimed to let people share their skills between each other, covering as more Drupal topics as it possible, such as:

• Development of the websites at any level of complexity,
• 1000s ideas  and suggestions to be implemented in the future and make Drupal easier to use yet functional,
• Expanding Drupal capabilities with wide range of available tools,
• Improvement of security and design of Drupal websites,
• Detecting open source strategies suitable for the specific business needs, and more.

Attendees of Drupal Balkan Summit

Drupal Balkan Summit is a biannual regional conference organized by Drupal communities from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia in order to gather Drupal fans in the one place. The number of visitors is 100 people (when 80 in previous summits). There are Drupal freelancers both the pros and newbies; employees and representatives from Non-Government/Profit Organizations among the participants.

Whether client aims to get high quality forum, blog, corporate website, eCommerce website, or any other type of dynamic or static websites, Drupal platform meets all the requirements and turn any web dreams into reality. Generally, QArea developers noticed that the main goal of community was reached. Our developers shared their experience with others and gained many new ideas from Drupal specialists. Many issues became clearly for Drupal users. So, we expect increasing of quality of Drupal projects.

QArea  is a software outsourcing company that provides clients with Drupal services, include website development and further maintaining. Depending on the size of the specific project and requirements of the customers, QArea provides three types of business models: Dedicated Team, Time & Material, and Fixed Costs. QArea team of developers consists of 200 programmers and designers and Drupal web developers that constitute a significant part of them. In addition, QArea delivers Mobile Application and Desktop Application development and Testing services.