Events

Drupalcon 2010 Trip Report

Drupalcon 2010 was held in San Francisco the week of April 19th. As the name implies, the focus of this conference was on the open-source Content Management System known as Drupal.

The conference was well run and the sessions I attended were of uniformly high quality. I've been to a few tech conferences such as Usenix, OSCon and eTech, but this was the most focused one I've ever attended. To get to hang out for 3 days, with 3000 people, all focused on Drupal, was fun, educational and motivating!

I attended a number of sessions, primarily focused on the Systems and Performance related tracks. A summary of my session and keynote notes (taken using Evernote) are presented below.

In summary, I received great value from Drupalcon2010 in San Francisco and am looking forward to attending Drupalcon2011 in Chicago next year! The things I learned will serve me well as my use of Drupal continues to increase, both in my professional and personal life.

My overall understanding of Drupal has increased and in particular, I'm looking forward to applying the performance techniques as needed. I'm also much better prepared for the imminent Drupal 7 release.

Session Notes

(NOTE: In some cases, notes from multiple related sessions are presented as a single topic below.)

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Open Source has seen a lot of adoption from the US government in the last year. David Cole, from the New Media Team at the White House, will introduce the DrupalCon Keynote by talking about the decision to move Whitehouse.gov to Drupal and their future plans to use Drupal and open source to foster citizen engagement. Other panelists will discuss their experiences working with Drupal and open source in government.

What questions do you have for this panel? http://goo.gl/mod/cZPS

Open Source in Government: A Panel Discussion
Panel:
David H. Cole, Executive Office of the President
Andrew Hoppin, CIO NY State Senate

Moderator: Michael Walsh, Forum One Communications

Open Source in Government: A Panel Discussion
Live broadcast time: 13:30 - 14:45 (GMT -7) Wednesday, 21 Apr 2010
Submit questions or vote: http://goo.gl/mod/cZPS
Live Video Stream: http://www.drupal.org.uk/news/drupalvolcon-uk-2010

Hi,

i bought a ticket for this years US Drupalcon in SF but can't make it there. If you'd like to get the ticket just contact me via http://drupal.org/user/87891/contact

Cheers,
McGo

Unfortunately for me I won't be able to attend DrupalCon this year.
But fortunately for you my ticket is available at the price of $100.

If you are interested please contact me:
http://drupal.org/user/18981/contact

Hey all,

We can't make it to DCSF this year, but have 4 tickets we would like to sell - any takers? ;)

Contact me (http://drupal.org/user/194818/contact).

Thanks, and enjoy ;)

-Asaph