I’m fortunate enough that my company will be sending me to Drupalcon 2010 this year. I couldn’t make last year’s Drupalcon in DC for various reasons, but I’m going to make up for it this year. I think the hardest part about going to one of these conventions, especially one that is as robust as Drupalcon, is that there are so many sessions and things to do that you really wish you could clone yourself. To start, there are a number of major players (people that are highly influential in the Drupal community) that will be attending and there is a lot of networking to do, not to mention the information packed sessions.
Drupalcon 2010 San Francisco
One session I’m really looking forward to is “How Drupal Works: An Architects Overview” by, Jeff Eaton. I met Jeff about six months ago during a training session Lullabot had provided for the group of people I work with and I’m hoping to hear a lot more about Drupal during this session. Even though I’m not a back-end developer, I’m still very curious to see an overall view of how Drupal works behind the scenes.
Another really important session I want to see is “Drupal 7: What you need to know.” Drupal 6 has been around for about 2 years now and the latest version of Drupal is coming out later this year. Not everyone is going to be making the transition from 6 to 7 right away but I still think I’ll be dabbling in Drupal 7 right away. After all, it is the future of the CMS. This session is being run by Angie Byron (Web Chick) who I believe has worked with Google and is a major core contributor to Drupal.
With all of that said, that’s just a brief snippet of some of the events I’m looking forward to. There are a number of others that involve Drupal theming and using certain modules that I haven’t mentioned, but I’ll be sure to detail them on twitter and blog about them once the conference is over.
