This morning there were some issues with drupal.org which caused, among other things, the home page to be blank, the forum listing claiming that there were no forums and, perhaps most confusingly, multiple e-mails to be sent to you if you have submitted an issue to the issue queue. These bugs seem to stem from the use of the memcache module which improves the performance of drupal.org. So, this is not symptomatic of a problem with Drupal core.
The exams and courses are focused on good architecture, maintainability as well as contributing the community and rapid application development with contribution modules like views and cck.
There is now a store stock fully with products specific to Drupal. DrupalWarehouse.com
Currently there is 50+ items fully customizable in stock including beer & coffee mugs, shirts, buttons, stickers, bags, aprons, postcards, stamps, and more. There are plain Drupalicon items and custom designs with loads more designs and items added all the time.
There is also Drupalcon Szeged 2008 merchandise for the upcoming conference and some items from past conferences to show your spirit.
This Wednesday we opened the registration for Drupalcon Szeged 2008 and some of the early birds are already in! If you sign up before the end of June you will be able to buy your ticket at the extra discounted price of 80 EUR. From July the price will increase to 120 EUR, from August on to 160 EUR and just before and during the conference it will be 200 EUR to attend. We also help you get a hotel room and buy shuttle bus tickets until July 24, so if you'd like to go the easy way, make sure to register by then.
A week ago we published the sponsor packages. We received positive feedback from several companies and we already sold our first platinum package! As you might have noticed we only have 3 gold and 4 platinum packages available this Drupalcon. So if you want to get the exclusive benefits of these packages and get your company's name on one of our BoF or session rooms, contact us as soon as possible. To make the conference a huge success again, we will need your help: if you know a company that could be interested in sponsoring Drupalcon please get in touch!
We also opened session submission last week. If you have a topic that you would like to present this Drupalcon please fill in the form. Our track chairs will then evaluate your proposal and choose the sessions that will become part of the conference tracks. Session submission will be open until the last week of July. You can also submit BoF session proposals for our unconference program. This Drupalcon we are going to have 3 bigger rooms for larger BoFs (and an open space for smaller ones), so make sure to get the word out about your plans and spark interest in them sooner then later.
Drupalcon North America 2009, Drupalcon Europe 2009 as well as Drupalcon [place your idea here] are being planned right now. If you would like to have a Drupalcon in your town please let us know by submitting a formal proposal. If you have questions regarding the submission process feel free to contact the Drupal Association and someone will help you.