Here are the slides from my yesterdays DrupalCon session: The Drupal Process.

There was a lot of very interesting discussion about the topic after the session and there will be more talk about project management, scrum and available tools in multiple BoF sessions. Be sure to participate if you are here in Copenhagen!

Out of 240 proposed sessions only 80 sessions made it to DrupalCon Copenhagen. We took part in four different session proposals and were lucky enough to get two of them accepted. With so many top notch technical sessions at DrupalCon we decided to focus on our other core competence in our session proposals: Managing projects and Drupal business. This focus means our sessions will be interesting to much wider variety of different people, not only developers.

Some of you might already have noticed that we quietly published our new training offerings a few days ago. Mearra has been doing a lot of private training all year and we have been getting requests for public workshops from companies who want to send only 1-2 people for a workshop. Based on customer feedback we will also start offering public non-technical Drupal workshops!

Mearra is looking for new Drupal developers to Helsinki, Turku and Valmiera. You should have previous experience in web development, experience in Drupal is also beneficial. Mearra is a training organization and we will teach you everything you need to know about Drupal, agile development, quality assurance and hosting.

Mearra is a proud sponsor of DrupalCamp Helsinki and we are also responsible for most arrangements to make the camp happen. We have booked the best possible venue in the heart of Helsinki for this event: Old studenthouse better know as "Vanha ylioppilastalo" in Finnish. Over 200 participants are expected for this event making it one of the largest digital media events in Helsinki this spring. Dates for the event are Thursday 27th of May and Friday 28th of May 2010.

Next intensive three day introduction to Drupal workshop will be held at our Helsinki office 15.-17.3.2010. Price for the workshop is 1200EUR + VAT including all training materials, breakfast, lunch and afternoon coffee. For more information and reservations email training at mearra.com.

• Workshop description
• General information about our workshops

Mearra now has a new office in Helsinki area. We have just moved in Technopolis building just next to Helsinki-Vantaa airport. This location is ideal for us with international airport only 700 meters away, excellent connections and much more bearable traffic than in way too congested central Helsinki. We had to do actually move some walls in order to get our brand new penthouse office in order, but final result looks very very good.

Do you know how to work your way around CCK, Views and Panels? Is creating themes or coding modules what you consider entertainment? Do you get kicks out of designing optimized server environments for high performance web sites?

Mearra is looking to hire full and part time Drupal superstars. We are currently hiring to Helsinki, Turku and Riga. We offer a chance to work with team of dedicated Drupal professionals and to keep on learning new stuff every single day. Our clients vary from very large international corporations to small local businesses so your work will not definitely get boring. We also dedicate 20% of every employees time to working on Drupal community projects, so you can actually get paid working on your own projects.

Mearra got started after some serious frustrations on finding competent Drupal professionals for projects. Some Drupal projects have been getting very big and many large enterprise clients have been asking for more and more complex large solutions. Large complex sites require not only several months to implement, but also many really competent experienced Drupal designers in all phases of a project. It's not uncommon to have a team of 6-10 people working on a large Drupal project for 6 months.

Finally, the result of over 6 months of hard work! Mearra started officially 1.1.2010 and we are currently already working on full steam. Mearra is your full service Drupal consultant with offerings all the way from concept design and requirements definition to managed hosting and site administration.