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Measures against spam

alex_b — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:34:32 +0000

As you might have noticed, in recent weeks comment spam got out of control. Unfortunately on a scale that didn't allow us to review comments or user accounts on a case by case bases.

Due to the fact that this site revolves around a March 2009 event, I allowed myself to bulk unpublish comments posted after May 1st, 2009 and block users who created an account after March 10th, 2009.

DrupalCon DC Website Revamped to Feature Session Videos

Ian Ward — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:31:01 +0000

Wondering what happened at DrupalCon DC? Or what you might have missed? Now the video of almost every session from the conference is embedded into this site and available to watch at no charge. The website is now an archive of the conference, so if you missed a session, missed the whole conference, or didn't even know what Drupal was until last week, you can still learn from the knowledge shared at DrupalCon.

This is great for anyone like me who couldn't go to all the sessions I wanted to at the conference. On Wednesday morning when I arrived at the Convention Center for the first full day of DrupalCon, I opened up the program booklet and noticed a huge problem. How would I split myself between Building APIs the Rock and What's New in Web Development? They were both slotted to run simultaneously at 9:00 that morning. I talked with several other people who had the same problem with sessions throughout the week. And this wasn't even the worst DrupalCon conundrum... For me, DrupalCon was in the same city as Development Seed's headquarters and it was easy for me to be there. What about all those people who couldn't even make it to the conference?

Videos! Nearly all of the DrupalCon DC sessions were recorded and were online before many attendees returned home. Now that DrupalCon's over (until Paris, that is), we wanted this website to serve as a timeless resource for everyone in the community. We just finished reworking the DrupalCon DC website to make it easy to find all of the videos.

You can browse over 100 sessions by topic, or start with the original schedule and find the video you want that way. Thanks again to the team who worked on recording all of these sessions and getting them online so quickly! It should make this site an incredible resource for the community for a long time to come.

DrupalCon DC By the Numbers: Community, Profit, and Sustainability

bonniebogle — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:45:23 +0000

The number crunching from DrupalCon DC is done, and we wanted to share the results.

1,422 people came to DrupalCon DC.
130 people presented 109 sessions.
That doesn’t include the people who led the 100 birds of a feather sessions that we know about (and we know we don’t know about all of the ones that took place).
9 people helped record the 109 sessions, and they’re all online now.
75+ people volunteered their early mornings, weekends, and conference time to register people at DrupalCon, stuff those green bags we all got, monitor IRC and twitter to make sure questions were answered and issues were dealt with, point people to where they wanted to go, and generally make sure DrupalCon DC rocked. Thank you : )
55 shops, companies, and organizations sponsored DrupalCon.
91 individuals sponsored DrupalCon as well.

100s of blog posts were written and 10,000s (and maybe more) of messages were tweeted that helped us all learn from each other and let people follow along from home.

The Money

Revenue was more than a half million dollars at $542,350.

Our expenses came in at $356,569.31.

The Drupal community made a profit of $185,780.69 from DrupalCon DC.

A Closer Look at Where the Money Came From

Ticket sales for DrupalCon DC brought in $230,750.

Sponsorships of DrupalCon DC brought in $311,700.

91 Individual sponsors raised $9,100.
23 Bronze sponsors raised $57,500.
17 Silver sponsors raised $85,000.
10 Gold sponsors raised $100,000.

4 Platinum sponsors raised $60,000.

How We Spent It

All DrupalCon DC Session Videos are Now Online

bonniebogle — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:03:46 +0000

Videos of all the sessions that were recorded at DrupalCon DC – all 102 of them – are now available to watch online. So if you missed a few sessions you wanted to see or couldn’t make the conference, take a day this weekend to sit back with a big cup of coffee to watch some amazing Drupal presentations.

You can access the videos in several ways. You can browse the session descriptions on the DrupalCon site and find links to videos in the comments, you can review the list of sessions on Drupal.org and in Archive.org, or you can check out the Wall of Videos that Aaron Winborn created. We’re also working on integrating the videos into the DrupalCon DC website, so stay tuned for more on that.

We want to say a huge thank you to Ron Mulero and the entire video crew for the amazing work they did in recording more than 100 sessions and making them all available online just five days after the conference. Here’s how fast they moved:

76 sessions were online within 24 hours of when they were presented
83 sessions were online within 48 hours of when they were presented

102 sessions were online within 5 days of the conference

Curious as to just how they did it? Ron explains the plan behind the video recordings here and gives more details on how it worked here.

There were a few sessions that were not recorded. We know a lot of you were doing your own video recordings, so if anyone captured any of these sessions – or any of the BoFs – please post links to the videos in the comments so we can add them to the archives.

Going Live: Content Scheduling with Slot Machine by Marco Carbone (video recording corrupted)
Acquia Update: Supporting Customers and More by Dries Buytaert, Jay Batson, and Tom Erickson
Using Intelligent Web Services for Semantic Drupal Sites by Frank Febrarro and Tom Tague
Optimizing Your LAMP Stack for Drupal by Eric Mandel
Boosting Our Raw Capacity to Provide Drupal Training by Sean Effel, Allie Micka, Lee Hunter, and Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
Advanced Search with Lucene by Chris Pliakas
Project Flow and Tracker by Victor Kane
Multilingual Panel by Jose Reyero and Gabor Hojsty

Rich Text, Poor Text: Content Editing Options in Drupal by Dan Kurtz

Almost All Session Videos from DrupalCon DC Now Online

bonniebogle — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:14:07 +0000

So far 90 sessions that were recorded at DrupalCon DC are online and ready to watch. You can watch them at archive.org, and you can find them in the comments of each session the DrupalCon website. We’ll also be tweaking the DrupalCon site to make the videos more accessible in the coming week.

How is it possible that 90 sessions were recorded, edited, and uploaded in just six days? The credit goes entirely to the video crew, headed by Ron Mulero, who worked very quickly to produce high quality videos and get them online. Ron, a member of DC Drupal community who recently transplanted to Boston, coordinated the entire effort, including devising a plan for how to get almost 100 sessions recorded and online in a just a few days, recruiting videographers from local universities and from the Drupal community, supplying equipment and instructions on how to convert and upload the videos, working at DrupalCon to convert and upload the videos, and coordinating it all. We’d like to say a HUGE thank you to Ron for his amazing work on this. Ron posted his plan here if you’re interested in knowing how he organized this.

We’d also like to thank the individuals who recorded the videos: Alan Doucette, David Lanier, Chris Rowe, Robert Nelson Vance, March Espedido, Marc Tan, and (UPDATED) Prameya Bhandari. You all did a fantastic job – thank you.

In all, 93 out of the 106 sessions presented at DrupalCon were recorded by this crew. We know that many people were shooting sessions with personal video cameras – if you have a recording of any of the sessions not recorded by the video team or of any of the BoFs, please pass us the links! We’d love to share these with the community.

Another big thank you to Ron and to the entire video team. Check out the videos of the sessions you missed, or the ones you want to see again.

Take a Short Survey and Help Us Improve Future DrupalCons

bonniebogle — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:34:09 +0000

Even though Drupalcon DC ended just a few days ago, work on the next one – coming to Paris in September ’09 – has already begun. We want your feedback on DrupalCon DC so the organizers of future conferences can make them better. Please take five minutes to answer this short survey and let us know what you want from DrupalCons and how we can make them better.

Take the survey.

Even if you didn’t attend DrupalCon DC, please consider taking the survey. DrupalCon is a community event, and we’d like to get feedback on it from the entire community.

Thank you!

To the Volunteers of DrupalCon

chrischris — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:50:34 +0000

To all the volunteers at DrupalCon: Thank you! The conference could not have moved smoothly without you. Across 12 volunteer shifts (spanning the entire conference and a little more), over 75 of you woke up early to:

swag 1,400+ bags
set up the conference center with signs and tables
register 1,400+ people
answer countless questions ranging from conference passes, session topics, to Drupal howtos and network troubleshooting
give an amazing zoo tour

You are why this community rules. We can't thank you enough. I hope you like the shirts. If you aren't from DC, come back any time. If you are from DC, we're psyched to see you where we always see you.

Lots of BoFs Happening Today

bonniebogle — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:44:31 +0000

There are a ton of birds of a feather sessions happening today on some really interesting topics.

If you don't want to squint to make out that image, there's a list below of all these BoFs going on. For times and locations, check out the BoF board by the registration table. If you'd like to organize a BoF, there's still room on the schedule for sessions today and tomorrow, so head over to the board and set one up!

Thursday's Decree: The Big DrupalCon Bar Crawl

mortendk — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:00:13 +0000

Hey all! So tonight is gonna be a looong and good night to hang out in Drupal land. There’s a lot going on, so I’m going to just list them. Here’s a quick list of all the office gatherings that have come together. (Click here to see the big map of everything :)

Designers & Themers Happy Hour 7pm – 8 pm
Come mix with fellow hot designers and awesome themers at Tasca, a friendly Spanish restaurant near Chinatown. This will be a great chance to meet each other in a design-oriented event. 722 7th Street.

Loving Paris?
For everyone excited about next DrupalCon in Paris, we will have a party at “Brasserie Beck,” the French/Belgian brasserie at 1101 K Street. Goes from 6:30 pm onward. You can win a bottle of champagne!

Ethiopian Uberdinner
This event has gotten big and you can only talk to so many people over dinner, so we’re going to split up depending on your Ubercart experience.

For conversations about using Ubercart, join us at Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant, 2434 18th St NW in the Adams Morgan of D.C.

For conversations about developing Ubercart, join us at Lalibela, 1415 14th St. NW.

Chapter Three Party
Party at Asylum in Adams Morgan, hosted by Chapter Three. Great food (including vegan options!) and good people to hang out with in a really cool neighborhood of D.C. 2471 18th St. NW

Phase2 & Blackmesh Party
Come to Clyde’s of Gallery Place in the heart of Washington’s Chinatown district and the revitalized area of Penn Quarter. It’s less than 2 blocks away from the convention center—just walk down 7th street and it’s in the Gallery Place Atrium.

We’ll be in the grand Victorian style Piedmont Room upstairs. Look for signs. We’ll have beer and drink specials and snacks. Hope to see you there! 707 7th Street, NW

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That’s an awesome list! Yet again tonight, plan to use the mighty Twitter to keep up with where things are happening. I’ll retweet the changes as we go on through the night. Follow me: @mortendk

Have a good one \m/

- the King of Denmark

Now Showing On a Monitor Near You... DrupalCon DC 2009, the Motion Pictures!

Ronald Mulero — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:32:05 +0000

Alan Doucette (Trellon Room), Chris Rowe (CommonPlaces Room), David Lanier (Keynotes and Torvald’s Room), Robert Nelson Vance (OpenCalais Room), March Espedido (Trellon and CommonPlaces Room), Marc Tan (Aquia Room), and I are all busy recording, converting, and uploading almost all the DrupalCon DC 2009 sessions. Our goal is simple: 93 DrupalCon videos formatted, online, linked, and tweeted by late Friday night. And we’re well on our way – 23 videos and counting…

You can grab the latest videos by
1. following my twitter account
2. Looking for a “Video” comment in the session of interest
3. Keeping an eye on http://drupal.org/node/385952
4. Searching archive.org for: DrupalCon DC 2009

So turn off your screensavers, dim the lights, grab you favorite beverage, and fire-up your video player. The DrupalCon DC 2009
sessions that you just couldn’t make it to are – or will soon be – only a few clicks away.