A story of how DrupalCamp Kyiv 2009 emerged

Everything started a year ago, when Yaroslav Aghnyuk, the director of NGO “Internet Initiatives”, decided to arrange the first in CIS minicamp, dedicated to Drupal. Details of the preparation process could be tracked in google group, and in brief minicamp has been organized in 10 days by one person, who gathered 40 developers from 4 cities of Ukraine. The participants prepared 4 presentations, exchanged their experience, and just got inspired by the barcamp atmosphere.

In almost 6 months, Ciklum, namely HR Manager Alexandra Lipes, following footsteps of the last year minicamp, found Yaroslav Aghnyuk and offered help in holding a much bigger scale Drupal Camp this year (with international participants and organizers and more solid financial support). For Ciklum development of IT communities in Ukraine becomes a strategic direction. The spirit of community, knowledge sharing and better experience in IT – are the core company values. They are in line with DrupalCamp purpose and we are glad we are on the same page J.

Ciklum holds unique opportunities and resources to become a polygon fоr such communities development, offering help in attracting interesting speakers, including international ones, in logistics and financial support.

DrupalCamp will become second of 5 large-scale conferences, planned this year by Ciklum.

July the 18th - iPhoneDevCamp.
September the 18th —19th Agileee will be supported by Ciklum.
September the 26th - the first big gathering of Ruby on Rails specialists.
October the 24th - IT Jam 2009 will gather Ukrainian IT companies under one roof.