The Danish Drupal Community
The Danish Drupal Association (Drupal Danmark) was founded 3 years ago as a forum for local users and developers to talk about Drupal. Earlier this year the association became a legal entity with an elected board, bylaws, and VAT exemption.
The activities of the association center around the www.drupaldanmark.dk website and the #drupal-denmark IRC channel. We have a supportive community, which does a lot of work to help new users get to grips with Drupal, and help out with best practices, hosting recommendations, etc. Also, the website is used to plan most of our social and professional events. The Danish Drupal professionals make up a big part of the membership, but quite a number of new and casual users are members as well.
So far, the local community has organized 3 DrupalCamps, some DrupalDay events, and a lot of meetups. The DrupalCamps have taken place in Copenhagen, each time with more than 100 attendees and a strong showing of international Drupal developers. At each camp, we have made a big effort to reach out to new users and businesses.
DrupalDays and regular meetups are happening in both Copenhagen (the capitol city) and Aarhus (the second biggest city). The meetups range from purely social gatherings to meetings with technical presentations and DrupalCon debriefings. In addition to these events, members of the association have staged Drupal install parties at the IT University in Copenhagen.