I'm back from the Umbraco Benelux meetup, which this time took place in Amsterdam, Holland.
The conference room at Mirabeau was packed, all 35 spots available for this event was taken just 2 days after announcing them, so the organisers: Dirk De Grave, Richard Soeteman, Ruben Verborgh and Tim Geyssens have every reason to be very pleased with the event.
The meetup was in every sense a succes, and a sign of a very mature umbraco community in the Benelux area.
Presentations that day
- Richard Söeteman showing usecases on umbraco event handlers, blog post
- PeterD showed off compression for umbraco, a calendar module and Apache2 running umbraco with mod_aspnet blog post.
- Tim Geyssens showing an Iphone Template package blog post
- Dirk De Grave showing how to do protected files and folders with the umbraco media library,
- and myself talking about creating value by sharing (massively inspired by Tor Nørretranders speech at Reboot10, with the tagline "share your shit"), and showing off selected V4 features, slides
After the planned presentations, an open-space like session / showoff unfolded with demoes of new media uploaders, TinyMCE plugins, UmbImport package and macro picker datatype, and some good discussions on the challenges of handling community projects, and sharing code across the community.
Thanks to everybody for coming, thanks to Mirabeau for hosting it, and massive kudos to the organisers, you pulled off a great event, good speakers and good knowledge sharing. It is events like these that build great communities, and all it requires is a handfull of passionate people who wants to get together and share their knowledge.
Again, thank you all, I'm looking forward to the next Umbraco Community Meetup, where-ever it might be.
UPDATE: Martijn Maris has posted photos from the event on his blog and flickr