Drupalcon in San Francisco was awesome but definitely bewildering. Picture three thousand geeks with at least two wireless devices each.
I don't know if it's a side effect of getting old, but I kinda hate crowds, so my strategy was to focus on attending the BOFs because they are small, interactive, and not recorded (basically the opposite of the scheduled sessions).
The highlights
- Making great progress on the Association subsite with Andrew Berry, Carl Wiedemann, Damien Tournoud and the Linnovate guys (and releasing it not long after!)
- The offsite geeking out at the ChX Coders Lounge and the Commerce Guys coworking space, Parisoma
- Recording a Drupal Voices podcast on the Redesign with Lullabot's Kent Bye
- Meeting a good number of the Drupal.org Redesign volunteers
- Finally meeting James Wilson, Ariane Khachatourians, Matt Cheney and a bunch of others (would take me ages to namecheck everyone!)
- The food of San Francisco cannot be ignored. The Japanese food with Bluespark Labs crew was amazing.
- UPDATE: How could I forget?! I scored a 4 on Certified to Rock and got a cute reversable Druplicon hat (pics to come).
Looking forward to Drupal Design Camp Boston in June and Drupalcon Copenhagen in August!
leaving comments on drupal based blogs
Hi there
I would be terrified amongst all you clever geeks! Fortunately I have a fantastic web designer who makes it all work for me. I only have one problem and that is that I don't like my complicated comment system so I entered "food blogs that use drupal" and you came up on the first page. So sorry if I am abusing you, but I really want to have a comment system that's easy to use and yours look like it is. Are you happy with the drupal comment application? You don't seem to have the spaces for name, email and website. Is there a reason for this?
Hope you don't mind me asking. I'd really appreciate an answer.
Thanks
Crystal
( www.acookonthefunnyside.com )