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Drupalcon has grown from a small conference for a few folks to a much larger conference with hundreds and, possibly, thousands of attendees. The benefits of a bigger conference is that we reach out to a larger audience and introduce more people to Drupal and to its development. A larger conference, however, takes more time to plan and prepare for. In order to give conference organizers the time they need the Drupal Association has decided on the following deadlines

I just posted the announcement for the Drupalcon Schwag Swap. I have been talking about it with people for quite some time but nows its official. I want to meet people from all over the world at Drupalcon D.C and come home with stickers/buttons/shirt from their communities. I think its absolutely awesome how large and diverse the Drupal community has become. Lets meetup and swap!   Here is the description, theBoF session is listed here.  ------------

Do you want to a Drupalcamp in your town? How about having a nice Drupal meetup group?
If you have been curious what it takes to run a Drupalcamp, Code sprint, Drupal Jam, or Meetup come join us at Drupalcon D.C March 4th to 7th. Currently there are 3 sessions proposed for the conference that are designed specifically for current and future Drupalcamp and meetup organizers.

Drupalcon North America has been announced and will be held in Washington D.C from August 4th to the 7th, 2009. Ticket prices have been announced as well as the ticketing scheme. Frequent Drupalcon goers probably noticed something new at Drupalcon Szeged, a tiered pricing scheme. In Szeged we started ticket prices out at 80 Euros and incrementally raised them to 250 Euros on the day of. In Szeged this was based on timeframe. Tickets purchased in June were priced at 80 Euro, a month later prices raised to 125 euros and so on until the day of the conference.

In D.C we did something similar but based this time it is based on actual ticket sales.

China Open officially started today. China Open is an initiative to help encourage the use of Open Source and collaboration methods with the developers in China. My good friend John is the man behind the scenes there and has really pulled off something quite impressive.

Yes its true I do speak a little Chinese and a lot of horrible Chinese. At our last Drupal meetup in Beijing I was stuck as the only presenter and I didn't have an interpreter handy so it was just me and a room full of Chinese Drupal folks just waiting for me to speak. Very intimidating but I think I managed to get my point across.

These videos only prove one thing. I need practice!

Ok so here's an odd one. Today I was writing a module that checks link module URLs for valid links (i.e. not 404s). In order to test that my module was working correctly I entered this as a URL

http://pinkypinkypinkybraincrainornot.com

It was random gibberish that my hand simply typed out.

I was fortunate enough to be in Shanghai for their Drupal user meetup. It was great to meet all of them and see the projects that they are working on. Shanghai has a good number of Drupal developers and some of them have worked on some really cool projects. For me the highlight of the entire meetup was when one of the guys introduced himself as "ian" and just in case you didn't know how to pronounce it, it is "Ian" of Deb-ian.

Yes! There are super Chinese geeks! I love this place!

Due to the hard work of many people Drupalcon Boston was a great success but just like how the Drupal community doesn't stop once a new version is released neither does Drupalcon. Drupalcon Europe is announced and will be held in Szeged, Hungary. Gábor Hojtsy and Kristof Van Tomme provided a solid proposal and put together an awesome team of professionals whom combined will create yet another amazing Drupalcon!