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+title: Looking forward to DrupalCamp London
+date: 2018-02-27
+excerpt: This weekend is DrupalCamp London 2018. I’ll be there along with a number of my Microserve colleagues.
+tags:
+    - drupal
+    - drupalcamp
+    - drupalcamp-london
+    - speaking
+---
+
+This weekend is [DrupalCamp London 2018][1]. I’ll be there along with a number
+of my [Microserve][2] colleagues.
+
+I look forward to DrupalCamp London every year, partly because it was the first
+DrupalCamp that I attended back in 2014. It was also the first DrupalCamp that I
+[gave a talk][3] at, when I presented a session about Git Flow having given only
+one user group talk before.
+
+I’ve presented sessions at every DrupalCamp London since (including two last
+year), and I’m lucky enough to be [speaking again this year][4] due to one of
+the originally announced speakers no longer being able to make it to the event.
+
+Here are some other sessions that I’m hoping to see (in no particular order):
+
+- Keynote by [Ryan Szrama][5] from [Commerce Guys][6]
+- [Drupal 8 Services And Dependency Injection](https://drupalcamp.london/session/drupal-8-services-and-dependency-injection)
+  by Phil Norton
+- [Growing developers with Drupal](https://drupalcamp.london/session/growing-developers-drupal)
+  by Fran Garcia-Linares (fjgarlin)
+- [How to make it easier for newcomers to get involved in Drupal](https://drupalcamp.london/session/how-make-it-easier-newcomers-get-involved-drupal)
+  by heather
+- [Let’s take the best route - Exploring Drupal 8 Routing System](https://drupalcamp.london/session/lets-take-best-route-exploring-drupal-8-routing-system)
+  by surbhi
+- [New recipe of Decoupling: Drupal 8, Symfony and Slim Framework](https://drupalcamp.london/session/new-recipe-decoupling-drupal-8-symfony-and-slim-framework)
+  by Jyoti Singh
+- [Plugin API by examples](https://drupalcamp.london/session/plugin-api-examples)
+  by Gabriele (gambry)
+- [Value of mentorship in the community](https://drupalcamp.london/session/value-mentorship-community)
+  by Hussain Abbas (hussainweb)
+- [Warden - Helping Drupal Agencies Sleep at Night](https://drupalcamp.london/session/warden-helping-drupal-agencies-sleep-night)
+  by Mike Davis
+
+Unfortunately there are some time slots where I’d like to see more than one of
+the talks (including when I’m going to be speaking). This regularly happens at
+conferences, but I’ll look forward to watching those on [YouTube][7] after the
+event.
+
+I’m also looking forward to catching up with former colleagues, spending some
+time in the "hallway track" and hopefully doing some sprinting too!
+
+## Finally
+
+For nostalgia, [here’s the blog post][0] that I wrote before I attended my first
+DrupalCamp London.
+
+See everyone this weekend!
+
+[0]: {{site.url}}/blog/2014/02/09/drupalcamp-london-2014
+[1]: https://drupalcamp.london
+[2]: {{site.companies.microserve.url}}
+[3]: {{site.url}}/talks/git-flow
+[4]: {{site.url}}/talks/deploying-drupal-fabric
+[5]: http://ryanszrama.com
+[6]: https://commerceguys.com
+[7]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaB96zszIP4Y3czs-ndiIA