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The 1st ever Drupal Camp in India was organized at DAIICT, Gandhinagar from 8-9th August ‘08. A week before the Drupal Camp there were bomb blasts in Surat and the whole state continued to be in high alert. This still didn’t dampen the spirits of the Drupallers and the camp did attract good number of companies and students from across India. I was really looking forward for this camp as was excited at the prospect of meeting fellow Drupallers. I met some really cool people who have varied experience right from coding to the business aspects of Drupal. I was really impressed by couple of presentations, one from Mr.Roshan Shah from Gloscon who has loads of experience handling Drupal based projects and other from Dipen who I guess has nose dived completely into Drupal code.

After attending the event and speaking to students and the resident Drupallers, I felt that there is lot of enthusiasm around Drupal, but the Drupal community is really scattered in India. We need to have more of such events frequently to connect and share knowledge with other Drupallers. I guess the best way to get started is to have small Drupal time slots in the general Open source events and bar camps to bring this community together and then have dedicated Drupal events frequently.