Back from DrupalCon San Francisco

I just got back from DrupalCon San Francisco, which was a blast! I went to only two formal sessions, presented 1 "BOF" (informal) session, was a panelist for two panel sessions, and spent the rest of the time coding, reviewing patches, and meeting all the folks I already knew on-line from my work on the Drupal open-source project.

Highlights:

• Being recognized at the first keynote address as being currently the #7 contributor of software patches (by number, not quality/importance) to the in-development version 7 of Drupal.
• Meeting the other top contributors to Drupal in person, finally!
• Getting Doug Green officially back on as co-maintainer of the core Search module -- being the sole maintainer of a neglected part of Drupal core is a lonely job.
• Showing people how easy it is to create a Drupal patch at my early morning BOF on Wednesday, and having 20 people or so show up at that hour to learn about it.
• Mentoring several new (and hopefully continuing) contributors to Drupal at code sprints and in the "Coder Lounge".
• Programming until midnight in the Coder Lounge, and then seeing all the progress others had continued to make in the wee hours of the morning when I got up.
• Seeing 4 or 5 rooms jammed full of people contributing to Drupal at the post-conference sprint.
• Having Andy Laken come up to me the day after our panel on freelancing with Drupal and tell me it inspired him to keep going and get his business in order (he took the photo above)

I'm now looking forward to the DrupalCon Chicago in March of 2011, and maybe DrupalCon Copenhagen this August! Thanks to all the organizers!!