DrupalSouth 2023: See you in Wellington!


I am delighted to finally share that I will be presenting at DrupalSouth 2023 in Wellington! I have known for a while and haven’t been able to share it. This week the speakers for the event have been published, and I can finally share the news!

The presentation is “Getting the most out of your CI/CD experience”, and I’m representing PreviousNext. I’m grateful for the opportunity to try and improve my communication skills.

I will be presenting to achieve the following objectives:

  • Showing what CI/CD is and why we do it.
  • Looking at convenient ways to optimise pipelines.
  • Sharing a maturity model for CI/CD.

While in the area, I will also hang out with my friends and competitors in the Drupal & Drupal hosting space. I love all of them, and I do consider them all friends. Even if we do compete, it’s not a barrier to friendship for me. It will be a pleasure to hang out with them again.

In the time that I have to myself, I’ve made some plans. To say I’m looking forward to this trip isn’t saying enough. My health has been through a roller-coaster in the past few months, and I am looking forward to this trip. To me, it will be a victory march to be there, walking and presenting for this conference.

I’ve been working towards this trip since my infection culminated December, needing to ensure I was healthy enough to travel for this event as it was supposed to happen back in 2020. My recovery has been a necessarily slow process, and I will share more about it in the future. The plans for DrupalSouth 2020 in Wellington never fruition because of the global pandemic. As it were, I couldn’t have attended back then, but that bottleneck is no more.

I will be sure to share experiences and activities here, but I don’t intend to spoil any of that just yet.