It's been a week since
DrupalCon Boston 2008. I started this post a week ago, but have been fighting a cold all week and am only now having the extra energy outside of work hours to write up this little summary.

The event was the largest in Drupal history (so far). We were honored to take part as Platinum Sponsors, but the event was a collaborative effort of so many companies and individuals, it was truly a community event.

Highlights:

Today in Boston at DrupalCon we're presenting a case study on the development of Drupal-powered PopSci.com.

We'll be talking about what modules we used, the custom modules we developed (and why we developed them), import challenges and things we did to help the site scale well.

If you're at DrupalCon, hope you can make it! If not, watch Drupal.org. We'll be posting a written case study when the dust settles next week.

This coming week nearly the entire pingVision family will be at DrupalCon Boston 2008. Some of us have been at previous events, doing presentations and otherwise just getting involved (not to mention taking in the scenery). This time we're coming as Platinum Sponsors and presenters.

First, the new faces:

Al Steffen joined us about a year ago, but never had the opportunity to travel to any of the Drupal events outside of the greater Denver area. In fact, I just learned today, he hasn't even seen a proper ocean. Some may know Al online as Zarabadoo, the handle he uses on IRC and Drupal.org. He's the man behind the nicely semantic Hunchbaque theme (ugly on the outside, beautiful on the inside).

Wednesday. February 13th. 6:30pm - 8:30pm (though the reality is that we usually run later than that). We'll be meeting in our new conference room, so this time we'll have a bit more elbow room. (No more sardine sessions with standing room only for late-comers.)

As usual, we'll go around the room to get a collective sense of what people want to talk about. Tentatively we're planning on doing a little overview on Panels 2, the exciting new module by Earl Miles that created such a buzz in Barcelona, and some code talk on upgrading modules from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 (which is being officially released any day now today!).

No doubt we'll also buzz a bit about DrupalCon Boston 2008 happening in just 3 weeks. (3 weeks!)

Location(s)

In a meeting this morning, one of the things we discussed is what kind of swag we might want to have for DrupalCon Barcelona next month. Stickers, of course. Caps? T-shirts? Electric fans? Play dough? Al suggested a cape ... and in the time we were laughing about it, he doodled up the idea. What do you think? What would be great swag in Barcelona?