Drupal Developer Days Dublin - Day 5

Drupal Developer Days Dublin continues! Day 5 of the event saw even more people arriving and the start of the event "proper", with 2 workshops and our new "Job Speed Dating" event.

The day kicked off with the Community Tools Workshop, and then followed in the afternoon by the "Upgrading Your Modules to Drupal 8" workshop, which was actually so popular we had to move it to a larger room!

However, the main highlight of the day for me was the introduction of a new event at Drupal Dev Days - "Job Speed Dating". It's not your normal job fair type affair. Instead each of the companies looking to recruit, gave a 2 minute pitch from the stage and then prospective candidates chose which companies they want to chat with and took a time slot from each. They were then given 5-10 minutes to have a chat and exchange details. Employers can then follow up with the most interesting candidates later if they wish to talk further. Overall, it seemed to go quite smoothly with a number of sponsors taking part, including Annertech! Here's hoping some fruitful conversations were had!

T-shirts also went on sale today, with a variety of colours doing the rounds, depending on whether you're a sponsor, volunteer or attendee. Be sure to get yours tomorrow if you haven't already, they're selling quickly!

Drupal Dev Days begins in earnest tomorrow, with our first day of sessions. I can't wait!