Yesterday was a big day for Drupal Community in Chongqing, China, due they celebrate their first DrupalCamp.

The Drupal community in China in general in just growing and growing and Chongqing community organise this DrupalCamp in 50 days. Their speakers came from Beijing, Shanghai and other major Chinese cities.

One outstanding fact was the support of Chongqing medical university and more specifically, their Clinical Medicine program. The Clinical Medicine program is using Drupal to improve the information system and doing research to connect with Open Hardware, which is quite impressive.

Regarding numbers, the event had about 120+ attendees; this is not an official statistic, it's only my appreciation.

I had the honour of being the Keynote in this event, in my session, I talk about why “Investing in the community is good business“, you can review the slides here.

Also, I have the opportunity to talk about Drupal Console project. I lead this session with Jungle who by the way, he is the maintainer for the Chinese translation of Drupal Console and the leader and co-organizer of this Drupalcamp.

Based on some comments, I could say this Drupal Camp set a precedent in Drupal Chinese community. Following events over China will try to imitate their level of organisation and try to be more official, which means in Chinese culture perhaps more political. But, maybe that is what is necessary to increase the participation of China in the Drupal international community.

Well done, Chongqing.

Walking

	Distance (steps)
Chongqing (today)	15,209
Previously	825.352
Total	840.561