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In October, I proposed an event called Practical Drupal for Small NGOs because I know some small NGOs that need a website, but they don't have enough budget to build one. These people usually have very interesting projects and do really good jobs. I thought it would be fun and practical to set up a regular Drupal event to help small NGOs build their websites.

Note we are not building websites *for* them. It's because I know a number of individuals and organisations who built websites for NGOs free of charge, but they worn out and completely abandoned those websites and stopped supporting. I didn't want to see that happen so I decided to ask NGOs to build and look after their sites by themselves, but we would do as much as we can to help them.

I attended the Drupalcamp UK which took place over this weekend (13th & 14th of June, 2009) at BBC office in Manchester. I was only able to be there for the first day, but I enjoyed it so much!
Since Tim Millwood has provided an overview of this event in his blog post, I'll just omit that and write about some of the sessions, including my own.

The Japanese community is representing Drupal at OpenSource World, which takes place in Tokyo in July.

This is exciting news especally for Japanese Drupallers, as there has previously been no active offline communities in Japan that could represent Drupal at such events.