27 April 8.30AM - 5PM @ Plug-In, Blk71 Ayer Rajah Crescent

Our Code Sprint partner NodeSquirrel - provider of easy to set up offsite cloud backup for your Drupal sites - is supporting our Code/Documentation sprint at DrupalCamp Singapore 2013 with a 50% permanent discount code for their backup service to those who take part in the sprint and contribute to the Drupal project.

Shyamala Rajaram from Umnity Solutions kicks off the camp with a walk through the key features of Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative. Syamala is passionate about harnessing Open Source technologies for building enterprise solutions that are practical and effective. Specializing in Drupal - an Open Source Platform for Content Management and high interactive and intuitive Community web Portals. She has been an active participant in the online Drupal Community and have made contributions to the enhancements, usage and adoption of Drupal. I have contributed as a member of the QA team, for the Drupal redesign initiative in 2010.

John Albin Wilkins, Lead for the Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative is hosting the sprint, where PHP developers, drupal end users, copywriters and other camp attendees are welcome to take part. John has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he developed his first Web site in 1994. John has extensive HTML, PHP, Perl and JavaScript knowledge and is the maintainer of the popular Zen theme for Drupal. John has worked on projects for Palantir clients such as the University of Chicago Law School, the Herron School of Art and Design at Indiana Unversity-Purdue University, and Washington University in St. Louis.

More resources:

• Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative Blog intro
• How you can contribute to Drupal
• Mobile 8 Initiative page

The sprint is conducted adjacent to the two seminar rooms, and you're welcome to drop in at any time during the DrupalCamp.

Head over to register for your reward from NodeSquirrel now, and then stop by the sprint to register attendance.

See the agenda for session timings

• 10 awesome tools every developer should be using (George Ziady )
• Beyond the Beginner - Path Ways to Advanced Drupal Levels & Businesses (Maung Maung )
• Business case for using Node.js with Drupal (Shashank )
• Design patterns in Drupal 7 (Amarnath Ravikumar )
• Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative (Shyamala Rajaram )
• Drupal Performance - What to do when page and block cache are not options (Jordan L (j0rd on drupal.org) and Amit Karpe )
• Expanding and customizing your e-commerce web site (Sven Berg Ryen and Pratomo Ardianto )
• In Control With Drupal (Joseph Chin )
• Large Scale Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 Upgrade Case Study (Brent Deverman )
• Magic Begins with Context + Delta + Omega Theme (fusionx1 )
• My Agile Story -- How We Transformed Our Company Using Agile Principles (Rahul Dewan )
• Quick 'n easy deployment with Drush for happier developers and better quality (Tine Sorensen ) and  Creating Distro with Drush Make and Installation Profile (Jonathan Himbing )
• Re-inventing Content Creation & Layout (David Peterson )
• Responsive Theming using Zurb's Foundation (Suryanto Rachmat )

Look forward to presentations from international and local Drupal experts at this year's DrupalCamp Singapore. 27 April will be a day with many opportunities for sharing and learning.

Suryanto Rachmat from Drupal User Group in Indonesia will show us how to do Responsive Theming using Zurb's Foundation.

Shyamala Rajaram from Unimity Solutions in Chennai will give us the complete overview of the Drupal 8 Mobile Initiative. Together with John Albin, she will run a Drupal 8 contribution and Drupal documentation sprint.

David Peterson from our Gold sponsor Acquia will share about Re-inventing Content Creation & Layout.

Rahul Dewan from Srijan Technologies, New Delhi, will give us his Agile Story -- How We Transformed Our Company Using Agile Principles.

And... we have Amarnath Ravikumar, who will present about "Design patterns in Drupal 7". Graduate from National University of Singapore from 2011, with 4 year's Drupal experience who has by far received the most votes - and that's even after we remove the extra vote from one of his friends who voted twice ;)

If you are still sitting on the fence, register now and join us for DrupalCamp Singapore 2013!

Stay tuned for more announcements the next few days. We will announce the complete program on Sunday.

Let us know which sessions you want to see at DrupalCamp. After you register or log on, you can head to the agenda page to vote. You can vote for as many sessions as you want (and remember to include a vote for yourself if you've submitted a session).

Log in, then see the agenda. You can vote by clicking the links in the rightmost column.

DrupalCamp Singapore is the best place to explore Drupal and meet other Drupal developers. We will have two parallel tracks from 9AM to 5PM, featuring keynote and up to 12 high-quality, well prepared sessions by Drupal experts from the region.

DrupalCamp Singapore is 27th April at Plug-in @ Blk 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent (new venue).

• Register to participate
• Submit your session

And yes, you're most welcome to propose multiple sessions. There will be community voting among participants, from 1st April. Get your session in before the deadline!