Jeff:
Frank, Irakli and I are arriving in Copenhagen on Monday for this fall’s European DrupalCon - which runs August 23rd - 27th. Phase2 is a bronze sponsor of the event. As always, we are looking forward to meeting as many people as we can, catching up with old friends and sharing in good Drupal spirit with the rest of the community.
Irakli:
Phase2 will be in Copenhagen! And we have selected a variety of topics that we would like to share our vision on. If you are planning to be at DrupalCon in Copenhagen, this August, check-out the list of proposed sessions and panels by Phase2 and please vote on the ones you might be interested to attend.
Mike:
With my voice still recovering from Drupalcon SF, I've been thinking a lot about what I learned. The most surprising and significant thing I learned is that the landscape of Drupal has changed in drastic ways since I first started using it 4 years ago. Even since Drupalcon DC last year, the community is different. Standing at our booth last year, a few people stopped by with curious interest. After a few minutes of small talk, most folks would mosey on to the next booth with the same ambivalent inquisitiveness in which they had found us. Not this year.
Jeff:
As the Drupal community and lots of newcomers all descend on San Francisco this week, I am making just one (maybe not so bold) prediction: This conference is the tipping point. Drupal is officially big. Why is this all happening now? It is likely a combination of many things: maturity of the product itself, size of the installed base, growth in community popularity and participation, lack of affordable alternatives for comparable web 2.0 functionality, etc. I actually prefer to view it more as the maturity of Drupal as a platform through which the Drupal technology community is pushing Drupal forward - potentially straight into enterprise software territory. Here is my "top ten style" list of the technology trends I see fueling this growth.
Tiffany:
We are thrilled to be a part of Drupalcon again this year. Phase2 staff will appear on nine panels, and we'll be giving a pre-conference training on OpenPublish. If you are there, please say hello - we are looking forward to seeing all our old friends and making new ones in the Drupal community.
Jeff:
Session voting for Drupalcon 2010 in San Francisco started today and I am very proud of the great entries that our team at Phase2 has prepared for the conference. In total our team proposed 13 sessions that cover 5 of the 6 categories and run the complete range from business topics to graphic design, architecture and code development. We would love your vote and chance to share what we have learned this past year.
Liz:
Last night was Tech Cocktail DC4, a networking event for technology enthusiasts and a place for a few startups to get a chance to demo. It was a full house at LeftBank in Adams Morgan, with plenty of socializing and demoing throughout the night. For me, it was a good chance to catch up with people and meet new people.
Jeff:
DrupalConDC 2009 is just around the corner and we are starting to think seriously about the topics the Phase2 Technology dev team have proposed. Here are the three sessions we are most eager to discuss with the community. Please give us a vote on the site (http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/sessions) if you think you would be interested in these topics.
Irakli:
Designing professional reports in Drupal is not trivial. At the same time, Durpal has one of the most advanced query builder tools (Views) that any CMS (open-source or not) has ever dreamed of. There’s clearly a gap.
Tiffany:
It’s official. The next Drupalcon will be in Washington, DC March 4-7 2009. The first 100 tickets will be sold for the bargain basement price of $125. We will post updates here and make sure to sign up for the twitter feed to find out first when tickets go on sale: twitter.com/drupalcon.
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