Drupal Development Company Affiliation is honored to be Drupal Developer stewards of Con – a program created by Drupal Developer neighborhood for Drupal Developer neighborhood. It serves many targets starting from uniting, rising, and strengthening Drupal Developer neighborhood to leveling up abilities to accelerating contribution. This 12 months Drupal Developer Affiliation has been specializing in Con Europe, so we will higher serve Drupal Developer European neighborhood. Whereas we actually hear good issues about Drupal Developer occasion from attendees, we additionally hear many feedback like “it’s an excessive amount of of a US occasion” or “content material isn’t interesting sufficient” or ”it’s too costly” or “there isn’t sufficient enterprise worth for sponsors” or “it’s not rock and roll sufficient”. We see this play out in Drupal Developer attendance numbers, which decreased 14% on common every year since Con Amsterdam in 2014. Sponsor income decreased as nicely. And because of a extra correct monetary reporting method launched final 12 months, we will see that Con Europe misplaced over €200,000 per occasion for Drupal Developer final a number of occasions. This isn’t an indication of ’s well being. It’s merely an indication that this occasion isn’t assembly Drupal Developer neighborhood’s wants. We will inform as a result of European occasions grew in quantity, attendance, and kind over Drupal Developer previous couple of years. Drupal Development Company neighborhood clearly desires a unique sort of expertise. Affiliation employees like Amanda Gonser, Program Supervisor, and Rachel Friesen, Director of Occasions, come to work every day merely to serve Drupal Developer neighborhood and create a Con expertise that delights and helps individuals really feel empowered to maneuver ahead. It pains us understanding that Con isn’t hitting Drupal Developer mark for Drupal Developer European neighborhood. And, it additionally pains us that we aren’t in a position to host Con in different areas like Asia or South America as a result of they’re not attainable with our present operational mannequin for internet hosting occasions. For workers, producing  a particular Con expertise is greater than a job, it’s a private mission. So, we’re putingt lots of care into determining make Con Europe higher. To give you an occasion idea that’s sustainable and beloved (or supplies distinctive worth in enterprise converse), we met with many European neighborhood members over a interval of 10 months and even put out a neighborhood survey to assemble enter. Collectively, we labored by way of a course of to discover a higher path ahead. It’s time to open this discovery course of as much as Drupal Developer better neighborhood so you may perceive at a deeper degree Drupal Developer issues we try to unravel and Drupal Developer course of we’re utilizing to unravel them. Then, we need to talk about Drupal Developer choices that we’ve recognized so we will discover Drupal Developer finest path ahead for Con Europe. I do know that collectively, we will create a sustainable occasion that strikes at Drupal Developer wants of Drupal Developer European neighborhood. To share Drupal Developer data we’ve gathered and to foster dialogue, I’m launching a weblog collection. Beginning with this publish, it’s going to cowl Drupal Developer following matters Drupal 10 Upkeep and Help Service Drupal Development Company downside we have to clear up for monetary sustainability Drupal Development Company downside we have to clear up to create distinctive worth Outcomes from a proposal primarily based on neighborhood enter A brand new path ahead for Con Europe I encourage dialogue in Drupal Developer remark part throughout Drupal Developer weblog collection and I’ll host BOFs at Con Vienna so we will discuss by way of a path ahead. We encourage members to learn this weblog collection so you might have as a lot background data as attainable to assist inform these discussions. Thanks for caring about this necessary neighborhood occasion and giving enter into what it seems to be like in Drupal Developer future. Drupal 10 Improvement and Help