Latest News http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news en Measures against spam http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/measures-against-spam <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/measures-against-spam#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:34:32 +0000 alex_b 14148 at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org DrupalCon DC Website Revamped to Feature Session Videos http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/drupalcon-dc-website-revamped-feature-session-videos <p>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.</p> <div align="center"> <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/building-apis-rock"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3394/3437459361_64290f10dc.jpg" /></a></div> <p>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 <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/building-apis-rock">Building APIs the Rock</a> and <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/whats-new-web-development">What's New in Web Development</a>? 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?</p> <p><a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/sessions">Videos!</a> Nearly all of the DrupalCon DC sessions were recorded and were online before many attendees returned home. Now that DrupalCon's over (until <a href="http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/">Paris</a>, that is), we wanted this website to serve as a timeless resource for everyone in the community. We just finished reworking the <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org">DrupalCon DC website</a> to make it easy to find all of the videos.</p> <p>You can browse over 100 sessions by topic, or start with the <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/3774">original schedule</a> and find the video you want that way. Thanks again to the <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/almost-all-session-videos-drupalcon-dc-now-online">team who worked on recording all of these sessions and getting them online so quickly</a>! It should make this site an incredible resource for the community for a long time to come.</p> http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/drupalcon-dc-website-revamped-feature-session-videos#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:31:01 +0000 Ian Ward 4710 at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org DrupalCon DC By the Numbers: Community, Profit, and Sustainability http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/drupalcon-dc-numbers-community-profit-and-sustainability <p>The number crunching from DrupalCon DC is done, and we wanted to share the results.</p> <ul> <li><font size="5">1,422</font> people came to DrupalCon DC.</li> <li><font size="5">130</font> people presented <font size="5">109</font> sessions. </li> <li>That doesn&#8217;t include the people who led the <font size="5">100</font> birds of a feather sessions that we know about (and we know we don&#8217;t know about all of the ones that took place).</li> <li><font size="5">9</font> people helped record the 109 sessions, and they&#8217;re <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/all-drupalcon-dc-session-videos-are-now-online">all online now</a>.</li> <li><font size="5">75+</font> people volunteered their early mornings, weekends, and conference time to register people at DrupalCon, stuff those green bags we all got, monitor <span class="caps">IRC</span> 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 : ) </li> <li><font size="5">55</font> shops, companies, and organizations sponsored DrupalCon. </li> <li><font size="5">91</font> individuals sponsored DrupalCon as well. </li> </ul> <ul> <li><font size="5">100s</font> of blog posts were written and <font size="5">10,000s</font> (and maybe more) of messages were tweeted that helped us all learn from each other and let people follow along from home.</li> </ul> <h2>The Money</h2> <p><font size="5">Revenue</font> was more than a half million dollars at <font size="6">$542,350</font>.</p> <p>Our <font size="5">expenses</font> came in at <font size="6">$356,569.31</font>.</p> <p>The Drupal community made a <font size="5">profit</font> of <font size="6">$185,780.69</font> from DrupalCon DC. </p> <h2>A Closer Look at Where the Money Came From</h2> <p><strong>Ticket sales</strong> for DrupalCon DC brought in <font size="5">$230,750</font>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsorships</strong> of DrupalCon DC brought in <font size="5">$311,700</font>.</p> <ul> <li><font size="5">91</font> Individual sponsors raised <font size="5">$9,100</font>.</li> <li><font size="5">23</font> Bronze sponsors raised <font size="5">$57,500</font>.</li> <li><font size="5">17</font> Silver sponsors raised <font size="5">$85,000</font>.</li> <li><font size="5">10</font> Gold sponsors raised <font size="5">$100,000</font>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><font size="5">4</font> Platinum sponsors raised <font size="5">$60,000</font>.</li> </ul> </p> <h2>How We Spent It</h2> http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/drupalcon-dc-numbers-community-profit-and-sustainability#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:45:23 +0000 bonniebogle 4702 at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org All DrupalCon DC Session Videos are Now Online http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/all-drupalcon-dc-session-videos-are-now-online <p>Videos of all the sessions that were recorded at DrupalCon DC &#8211; all 102 of them &#8211; are now available to watch online. So if you missed a few sessions you wanted to see or couldn&#8217;t make the conference, take a day this weekend to sit back with a big cup of coffee to watch some amazing Drupal presentations. </p> <p>You can access the videos in several ways. You can browse the <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/schedule">session descriptions on the DrupalCon site</a> and find links to videos in the comments, you can review the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/385952">list of sessions on Drupal.org</a> and in <a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=drupalcon%20dc">Archive.org</a>, or you can check out the <a href="http://aaronwinborn.com/video-term/drupalcon-dc">Wall of Videos</a> that Aaron Winborn created. We&#8217;re also working on integrating the videos into the DrupalCon DC website, so stay tuned for more on that. </p> <p>We want to say a huge thank you to <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/user/15887">Ron Mulero</a> 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&#8217;s how fast they moved:</p> <ul> <li>76 sessions were online within 24 hours of when they were presented</li> <li>83 sessions were online within 48 hours of when they were presented</li> </ul> <ul> <li>102 sessions were online within 5 days of the conference</li> </ul> <p>Curious as to just how they did it? Ron <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/19537">explains the plan behind the video recordings here</a> and <a href="http://drupal.org/node/400250">gives more details on how it worked here</a>. </p> <p>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 &#8211; or any of the BoFs &#8211; please post links to the videos in the comments so we can add them to the archives. </p> <ul> <li>Going Live: Content Scheduling with Slot Machine by Marco Carbone (video recording corrupted)</li> <li>Acquia Update: Supporting Customers and More by Dries Buytaert, Jay Batson, and Tom Erickson</li> <li>Using Intelligent Web Services for Semantic Drupal Sites by Frank Febrarro and Tom Tague</li> <li>Optimizing Your <span class="caps">LAMP</span> Stack for Drupal by Eric Mandel</li> <li>Boosting Our Raw Capacity to Provide Drupal Training by Sean Effel, Allie Micka, Lee Hunter, and Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg </li> <li>Advanced Search with Lucene by Chris Pliakas</li> <li>Project Flow and Tracker by Victor Kane</li> <li>Multilingual Panel by Jose Reyero and Gabor Hojsty </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Rich Text, Poor Text: Content Editing Options in Drupal by Dan Kurtz</li> </ul> http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/all-drupalcon-dc-session-videos-are-now-online#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:03:46 +0000 bonniebogle 4700 at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org Almost All Session Videos from DrupalCon DC Now Online http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/almost-all-session-videos-drupalcon-dc-now-online <p>So far <strong>90 sessions that were recorded at DrupalCon DC are online and ready to watch</strong>. You can watch them at <a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=DrupalCon%20DC%202009">archive.org</a>, and you can find them in the <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/schedule">comments of each session the DrupalCon website</a>. We&#8217;ll also be tweaking the DrupalCon site to make the videos more accessible in the coming week.</p> <p>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 <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/user/ronald-mulero"><strong>Ron Mulero</strong></a>, 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&#8217;d like to say a <strong>HUGE</strong> thank you to Ron for his amazing work on this. Ron <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/19537">posted his plan here</a> if you&#8217;re interested in knowing how he organized this. </p> <p>We&#8217;d also like to thank the individuals who recorded the videos: <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/user/dragonwize">Alan Doucette</a>, <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/user/nadavoid">David Lanier</a>, Chris Rowe, Robert Nelson Vance, March Espedido, Marc Tan, and (<span class="caps">UPDATED</span>) <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/user/prameya">Prameya Bhandari</a>. You all did a fantastic job &#8211; thank you. </p> <p>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 &#8211; 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&#8217;d love to share these with the community. </p> <p>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.</p> http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/almost-all-session-videos-drupalcon-dc-now-online#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:14:07 +0000 bonniebogle 4688 at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org Take a Short Survey and Help Us Improve Future DrupalCons http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/take-short-survey-and-help-us-improve-future-drupalcons <p>Even though Drupalcon DC ended just a few days ago, work on the next one &#8211; <strong>coming to Paris in September &#8217;09</strong> &#8211; has already begun. We want your feedback on DrupalCon DC so the organizers of future conferences can make them better. Please take <strong>five minutes</strong> to answer <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=v4S9d_2fF7UEKJoEx5A2z3ZQ_3d_3d">this short survey</a> and let us know what you want from DrupalCons and how we can make them better. </p> <p><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=v4S9d_2fF7UEKJoEx5A2z3ZQ_3d_3d"><strong>Take the survey</strong>.</a></p> <p>Even if you didn&#8217;t attend DrupalCon DC, please consider taking the survey. DrupalCon is a community event, and we&#8217;d like to get feedback on it from the entire community. </p> <p>Thank you!</p> http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/take-short-survey-and-help-us-improve-future-drupalcons#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:34:09 +0000 bonniebogle 4686 at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org To the Volunteers of DrupalCon http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/volunteers-drupalcon <p>To all the volunteers at DrupalCon: Thank you! The conference could not have moved smoothly without you. Across <strong>12 volunteer shifts</strong> (spanning the entire conference and a little more), <strong>over 75 of you</strong> woke up early to:</p> <ul> <li>swag 1,400+ bags</li> <li>set up the conference center with signs and tables</li> <li>register 1,400+ people</li> <li>answer countless questions ranging from conference passes, session topics, to Drupal howtos and network troubleshooting</li> <li>give an amazing <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1483/t/3613/questionnaire.jsp?questionnaire_KEY=768">zoo</a> tour</li> </ul> <p>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 <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/washington-dc-drupalers">always see you</a>.</p> http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/volunteers-drupalcon#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:50:34 +0000 chrischris 4680 at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org Lots of BoFs Happening Today http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/lots-bofs-happening-today <p>There are a <strong>ton</strong> of birds of a feather sessions happening today on some really interesting topics.</p> <div align="center"> <img src="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/sites/default/files/photo.jpg" width="600" /> </div> <p>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!</p> http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/lots-bofs-happening-today#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:44:31 +0000 bonniebogle 4676 at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org Thursday's Decree: The Big DrupalCon Bar Crawl http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/thursdays-decree-big-drupalcon-bar-crawl <p>Hey all! So tonight is gonna be a looong and good night to hang out in Drupal land. There&#8217;s a lot going on, so I&#8217;m going to just list them. Here&#8217;s a quick list of all the office gatherings that have come together. <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=107213996895466788491.000462a6a9cd1e05b365a&amp;ll=43.004647,-95.712891&amp;spn=36.570939,90.703125&amp;z=4"> (Click here to see the big map of everything :)</a></p> <p><strong>Designers &amp; Themers Happy Hour 7pm &#8211; 8 pm</strong><br /> Come mix with fellow hot designers and awesome themers at <a href="http://www.latascausa.com/location1.cfm">Tasca</a>, a friendly Spanish restaurant near Chinatown. This will be a great chance to meet each other in a design-oriented event. 722 7th Street.</p> <p><strong>Loving Paris?</strong><br /> For everyone excited about next DrupalCon in Paris, we will have a party at &#8220;<a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/brasserie-beck-washington">Brasserie Beck</a>,&#8221; the French/Belgian brasserie at 1101 K Street. Goes from 6:30 pm onward. You can win a bottle of champagne!</p> <p><strong>Ethiopian Uberdinner</strong><br /> This event has gotten big and you can only talk to so many people over dinner, so we&#8217;re going to split up depending on your Ubercart experience. </p> <p>For conversations about using Ubercart, join us at <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/thursday-night-ethiopian-uberdinner">Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant</a>, 2434 18th St NW in the Adams Morgan of D.C.</p> <p>For conversations about developing Ubercart, join us at <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/lalibela-restaurant-washington">Lalibela</a>, 1415 14th St. NW.</p> <p><strong>Chapter Three Party</strong><br /> Party at Asylum in Adams Morgan, hosted by <a href="http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/matt_cheney/drupal_party_party_thursday_8pm">Chapter Three</a>. Great food (including vegan options!) and good people to hang out with in a really cool neighborhood of D.C. 2471 18th St. NW</p> <p><strong>Phase2 &amp; Blackmesh Party</strong><br /> Come to <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/best-stop-chinatown-bar-crawl-1-phase2blackmesh-party">Clyde’s of Gallery Place</a> 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.</p> <p>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</p> <p>&#8212;&#8212;-<br /> That&#8217;s an awesome list! Yet again tonight, plan to use the mighty Twitter to keep up with where things are happening. I&#8217;ll retweet the changes as we go on through the night. Follow me: @mortendk</p> <p>Have a good one \m/</p> <p>- the King of Denmark</p> http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/thursdays-decree-big-drupalcon-bar-crawl#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:00:13 +0000 mortendk 4664 at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org Now Showing On a Monitor Near You... DrupalCon DC 2009, the Motion Pictures! http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/now-showing-monitor-near-you-drupalcon-dc-2009-motion-pictures <p><a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/user/dragonwize">Alan Doucette</a> (Trellon Room), Chris Rowe (CommonPlaces Room), <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/user/nadavoid">David Lanier</a> (Keynotes and Torvald&#8217;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&#8217;re well on our way &#8211; 23 videos and counting&#8230;</p> <p>You can grab the latest videos by<br /> 1. following <a href="http://twitter.com/ronaldmulero">my twitter account</a><br /> 2. Looking for a &#8220;Video&#8221; comment in <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/schedule">the session of interest</a><br /> 3. Keeping an eye on <a href="http://drupal.org/node/385952" title="http://drupal.org/node/385952">http://drupal.org/node/385952</a><br /> 4. Searching <a href="http://www.archive.org">archive.org</a> for: DrupalCon DC 2009</p> <p>So turn off your screensavers, dim the lights, grab you favorite beverage, and fire-up your video player. The DrupalCon DC 2009<br /> sessions that you just couldn&#8217;t make it to are &#8211; or will soon be &#8211; only a few clicks away.</p> http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/now-showing-monitor-near-you-drupalcon-dc-2009-motion-pictures#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:32:05 +0000 Ronald Mulero 4648 at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org