Announcing Drupalcon Szeged 2008

say that 10 times fast...

http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/

awesome

Well I took the corporate plunge.

Monday I start my new job as:

Director, Interactive Media
Global Digital Business Group
SONY BMG Music Entertainment

Say that 10 times fast...

For the last month my sole focus at Sony has been retheming the (formerly known as Musicbox) Myplay site. It is lovely. Doug did a really clean design and functionality is much simpler now. The last version was more of a music portal, where Myplay is a showcase for Sony artists. It's lovely. It's drupal. It's cross-browser compatible.

http://musicbox.sonybmg.com/

Kudos to our boss for the design, Jerad and Dave for the code, Merlin for the genius that is Panels 2, and Lullabot for the initial dev work and ongoing heavy lifting.

There were 800 people at drupalcon.
i mean
THERE WERE 800 PEOPLE AT DRUPALCON.
800

I kept thinking "who are all these people??!!"
I am thrilled to see this level of adoption and interest. The dynamic was really different with this many participants. That part was a mixed bag. Much harder to find/connect/re-connect/network/collborate with people when there are sooo many.

Post-mortem:

• The corporatization of Drupal has begun. I don't mean for that to sound like a bad thing. It's inevitable, with Acquia ramping up and all that will come with their new products (which i am very excited about). Guaranteed, supported, pre-built Drupal installs will remove the FUD factor in a huge way. Sign me up.
• Can't wait to start developing in Drupal 6 - the theme developer module makes me weep tears of joy.
• Having to work during drupalcon sucks. Next time less of that would be great.
• I want to go back to Boston and play tourist

It's that time of year again!

VD at sea

http://www.thinkinkless.com/happy_vd/vd2008.html

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happy V.D.
suz