State of Drupal in Romania!

Gabriel Ungureanu

CEO @ AG Prime, Cluj-Napoca www.ag-prime.com

Drupal developer for 9+ yearshttps://www.drupal.org/u/gabrielu

Drupal module developer and Drupal 8 Sprinter

Co-Founder of Drupal Romania Association

Open source enthusiastic

AG Prime

✤ Was started in 2008,

✤ Among the first Drupal Agencies in Romania,

✤ Delivers solutions in multi-continent, multi-culture environments (America, Europe, Australia),

✤ Multiple supported modules in Drupal community, Multiple patches to contributed modules.

Drupal Romania Community

Facts about the local community

✤ Drupal Romania Association since 2010,

✤ Drupal Camps in Timisoara, Bucharest, Arad, Cluj-Napoca, Targu Mures,

✤ Drupal Global Training Days in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Bacau, Targu Mures,

✤ Drupal Meetups in Cluj-Napoca, Bucharest, Targu Mures,

✤ Drupal 8 Code Sprints at DrupalCamps and Independently organised,

✤ Drupal Release Party in most major cities.

Drupal Romania Business

Facts

✤ Most of the Drupal Agencies in Romania are producing for Western European market,

✤ Sales focuses on technical persons, not marketing departments or decision makers,

✤ Very little penetration on the local web market,

✤ Growing technical community,

✤ Growing number of suppliers.

Drupal is good for?

✤ CMS

✤ Intranet

✤ Customer portals

✤ Custom integrations

✤ E-Commerce

✤ Newspaper / Publishing platforms

Drupal strengths

✤ Modular system, easy to extend and plug-in third-party systems,

✤ Secure platform, dedicated security team,

✤ Fastest growing enterprise software, SLA release cycles,

✤ High performance, easily integrating with Apache SOLR, Varnish, Redis, Memcached, MySQL Master / Slave replication,

✤ Strong community, over 100 000 active developers worldwide.

Drupal Romanian Agencies

Currently 14 national / international Drupal suppliers

Source: https://www.drupal.org/drupal-services/all/all/Romania

Drupal Distributions

Drupal Distributions

✤ Over 1000 available distros.

Drupal for Products, un-explored?

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