Summary: A conversation from DrupalCon Asia DrupalCon Mumbai 2016 with members of Acquia's Pune, India office: Prassad Shirgaonkar, Prassad Gogate, Prafful Nagwani, and Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire in which we touch on Drupal and community in India, the history of the DrupalCon Prenote, Drupal's multilingual strengths, the Drupal Campus Ambassador Program in India, and more! jam: We are at the Contribution Sprint day of DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai, wrapping up a great few days for me. Prafful Nagwani, how was your DrupalCon? Prafful Nagwani: This is my third DrupalCon and this was fantastic. Even more so because this is happening in India, in our own backyard, it has been really, really great the way it’s been organized. The sessions, everyone coming in, meeting each other and stuff, it’s been fantastic. jam: So I would like to point out ... really a huge thank you to the Drupal Association and everyone involved in the organization because it was incredibly smooth and I’ve been to cons in Europe and America that were nowhere near as well-organized so: fantastic. Thank you Drupal Association. Prafful Nagwani: Thank you. jam: Prasad? Prasad Shirgaonkar: Yes. jam: How was your DrupalCon? Prasad Shirgaonkar: It was a dream come true for me. I first did a DrupalCon in London in--I think it was 2011 or 12--and I’ve seen you doing the Prenote. I had met Jacob [Singh] and Dries with whom I work now. From that time, I wanted to do a Prenote with you and I wanted to have that done in India and it happened. jam: Wow, that’s cool! So we did a Prenote in London called ... so there’s a Dickens’ story called A Christmas Carol and we did a parody of A Christmas Carol and we had the Ghost of DrupalCon Past and the Ghost of DrupalCon Present and the Ghost of DrupalCon Future and it was hilarious and we got chx, the contributor C-H-X to be the Ghost of DrupalCon Past and he was hilarious ... and the whole thing actually ...Prenote I’m so glad you were there! We never talked about this. So Prasad and I organized the Prenote which is a DrupalCon tradition now where it’s an opening introduction sort of a welcome to DrupalCon before Dries’ Driesnote. Prasad and I, as well as Adam Juran and Campbell Vertesi and Parth Gohil and Ashwini Kumar; we wrote it as a team together. We were very concerned frankly about making sure it would be funny in India, right? So Prasad and the Indian team hooked us up with great jokes and concepts and I think we rode the line really well of ... frankly, I don’t know everything that’s going to be offensive in India, right? Prasad Shirgaonkar: Absolutely, absolutely. jam: So we were really concerned.We wanted to be funny maybe even edgy, right, but not upset people. So how did you feel when we did tongue twisters with an India accent? Prasad Gogate: Absolutely that was amazing. I think everybody enjoyed that and people probably were not expecting that. So it was really a surprise for them which was obviously a good surprise. Overall, I think DrupalCon in India has been an awesome experience here now. I think it is a dream come true for the entire India community because – and most important is I think the India community has started getting recognized and it’s growing. That’s why – I think that is more important. jam: So we didn’t quite managed to do this yet. Please introduce yourself to everyone. Prasad Gogate: I am Prasad Gogate. I work from Pune for Acquia. Prasad Shirgaonkar: I’m Prasad Shirgaonkar. I work for Acquia from Pune from my home. jam: So you’re Prasad zero, right? Prasad Shirgaonkar: Yes. jam: You’re Prasad one? Prasad Gogate: Yes. jam: Okay. Prafful Nagwani: Hi. I am Prafful Nagwani and I work for Acquia from Pune office. I have been in Drupal since - eight years now since Drupal 6. Yes. jam: How did you discover Drupal? Prafful Nagwani: It happened...
