In 2005, the FOSDEM conference in Belgium spawned the very successful Drupalcon-Antwerp. This year, many key developers are planning on attending the FOSDEM 2006 event, and there are discussions about having a generalized relationship API round table discussion to galvanize our efforts to bring this important aspect of Drupal development under control.
I'm posting this just to get the discussion going.
Who can attend? Who can help organize? Who is specifically interested in the relationships API?
All Drupal developers should plan to make their way to the west coast of Canada for the event to kick off your year: the Open Source CMS Summit and DrupalCon. As the event page says, this will be a developer-centric event focused on collaborating together on future directions and everyone's favourite topic -- APIs!
There will likely be some time for relaxing as well, with skiing being excellent that time of year on Vancouver's coastal mountains or even up at Whistler, for some of the best mountains in the world.
Chad Phillips and Angie Byron are the two main Drupal organizers, with Boris Mann and Roland Tanglao doing the Vancouver local organizing and helping with the summit as a whole. Please join the Drupal conference mailing list and/or check out the wiki to add your own ideas to make this a great gathering of Drupalites. Oh, and of course, flip the switch in your user profile to get listed on the attendees page.
Check out my DrupalCon AMS 2005 Opening video (18MB MPEG4 file) over on Now Public. My thanks again to Bèr, Bert, and Dries for organizing it and for the Drupalers who participated! I love events like these!