As a first start of the Drupal Community tour in China we headed to Chengdu on February 25. In addition to the support of the Drupal official foundation, the local community provide us a strong support; providing us a place to hold the meeting, all the necessary equipments as well as pushing on the advertisement. We particulary want to thanks HyperGlide (Harley) who help us from the preparation until the day of the meeting, as well as during the whole event.

We let the community choose the topics (once again thanks HyperGlide) in order to propose them relevant presenations (you can see the discussion thread here.

The main topics of the meetups ranged from Drupal 7 core to the use of Git and Drupal 7 theming. As a show starter we were still tweaking our presentations and the necessary steps of the organization. We are confident that through this experience the community and ourselves are growing.

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