The third edition of DrupalJam will take place on October 31st 2008 in Breda, The Netherlands. This free, cozy, fuzzy event keeps growing and its format keeps getting better and better.

Dutch is one of the official languages in Belgium and the official language in The Netherlands. Though the Dutch speaking Drupal Community could have been strictly separated into a community in Belgium and one in The Netherlands, we’re really one big happy family…

... and DrupalJam is the important event that brings us all together, several times a year.

A little over a month ago a cool Drupal project brought me to Kuala Lumpur. I set out to organize a DrupalCamp while I was there but the Malaysian Drupal community was not really showing any signs of life.

Najibx, the single Drupal developer that did actually respond, agreed we would downscale it to a Drupal track at BarcampMalaysia.

Here’s one of the better excuses to head to France in a couple of weeks: DrupalCampParis 3.

If you were there last time, you know you don’t want to miss it for the world.

Drupal 6 : Créez des sites web de qualité professionnelle, a translation of David Mercer’s Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 was presented at the Paris Drupal Meetup last night.

The Paris Drupal meetup yesterday was a hit again, with twice the expected number of people showing up. Even a couple of tourists like Bonnie Bogle, Eric Gundersen and Kevin Walsh dropped by.

No such thing as a ‘local community’ anymore. Interesting.

Don’t forget to drop by the Paris Drupal Meetup tonight, if you’re in the neighbourhood.

Drupal + Beer @ Le Hall 1900 (64, Rue Rambuteau) starting 19:30.

See you there!

FrOSCon2008 is coming up next week. Robert arranged for a hacker room again, and we’ll be teaming up for a day of free Drupal training. If you’re in the neighborhood, come find the Drupal hacker room and join us.

Haven’t decided yet whether or not you’ll head over to Hungary for the upcoming Drupalcon in Szeged ?

In two weeks over 500 people will come together in for this fall’s most important event in the Drupal community. We checked out low cost carriers and calculated that from Brussels you can already attend Drupalcon including participation fee, travel and accommodation expenses (at one of the hostels) from 450 EUR!

When I started probing the Malaysian Drupal community a while back about the viability of organizing a DrupalCamp in Kuala Lumpur in July, many people were enthusiastic but not so many were able to find the time or energy to pitch in.

I still felt like going ahead – the challenge of remotely getting an event up and running was just too much fun to let go.

BarCampMalaysia is coming up real soon now, with little under 3 weeks to go. The two-day event will take place on July 26 and 27 in Kuala Lumpur, capital of one of the technologically most rapidly evolving regions in the world.