See you in Boston!

DrupalCon Boston is only one week away! Are you excited yet? I am, and so are 799 other people. We've filled the conference center and sold out the conference at 800 people. Yikes! I won't be able to shake hands with more than a third of you. :-)

I have a fairly light schedule this time around, at least on the presenter side.

The first is, of course, the Drupal Association session. Being on the Board now, it's kinda expected for me to be there. We're working out exactly how that session will work, but if you're interested in the managerial side of Drupal itself stop by to see what the DA is up to. You may learn of ways you can help out the Association and the Drupal community. Remember, ask not what Drupal can do for you, but what you can do for Drupal. (Hey, it is Massachusetts, right?)

I will also be participating in the "The Future of Fields" session, which is a follow-up to the Data Architecture Design Sprint held at Palantir.net earlier this month. Expect lots of discussion about where Drupal needs to go and how to get there. If you plan to attend this session (and you do, right?), make sure you read the various writeups and summaries from the Groups site for background. It will save time if everyone is on the same page.

Time permitting, I had also planned to run two BoF sessions; one on the new database layer (A lot has changed since Barcelona, and it now rocks even walkah's socks) and one on the legal side of Drupal. As the Association's Legal Officer for the Drupal Project, I want to sit down and discuss some edge cases in our licensing that have been raised in recent months. We are trying to get a representative from the Software Freedom Law Center to attend as well, but I haven't had that confirmed yet. Of course, I'm not entirely sure what the situation is with BoF sessions this time around so we'll see what happens. Watch for more information at the door.

Otherwise, I expect to be running around between what looks like a terrific line up of sessions. As usual, I am really annoyed that there seems to always be two talks opposite each other that I want to go to. :-) I suppose that's the sign of a successful session line up.

Watch this space for news from Boston, probably well after the fact knowing me.