--- title: "Joeri Poesen on DrupalCon Paris & the French Drupal scene" url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/joeri-poesen-on-drupalcon-paris-the-french-drupal-scene" type: episode date: 2009-11-12 updated: 2014-04-09 --- # Joeri Poesen on DrupalCon Paris & the French Drupal scene # Joeri Poesen on DrupalCon Paris & the French Drupal scene *Podcast episode player* Joeri Poesen of [AF83](http://www.af83.com/) was one of the organizers of DrupalCon Paris, and talks about the process of organizing the conference in coordination with the French Drupal Association. Joeri talks about the French Drupal community and some of the sites being launched in France by AF83 and some of the other French Drupal companies. He mentions that some of AF83's contributions include a lot of the core work that [Damien Tournoud](http://drupal.org/user/22211) (aka "DamZ") has been doing, as well as some of the latest Ãœbercart work that has been going on. Back in October Ryan Szrama announced the [Ubercore Initiative,](https://ryanszrama.com/blog/10-22-2009/ubercart-20-and-ubercore-initiative) which is a combination of Ubercart, Drupal 7 and the influence of #Smallcore, and tagged with [D7UC.](http://d7uc.org) Damien has also been involved with this effort as one of the [editors](http://d7uc.org/about/people) and AF83 is also one of the sponsoring companies for the effort due to some of the e-commerce work that they're involved with. Joeri also talks about the importance of multi-lingual functionality and the [i18n](http://drupal.org/project/i18n) suite of modules. [Download Audio](https://www.lullabot.com/audio/download/648/DrupalVoices071.mp3)