It's Sunday, and DrupalCon Barcelona ended yesterday.

It was the biggest DrupalCon ever, boasting a registration list of over 420 people and it seems likely that most all of them attended, and I know at least one person who intended to attend but was mistakenly not registered (and for whatever reason didn't just donate 50 euros and attend. I'm pretty sure they could have accommodated that).

Anyhow, I'm pretty tired because sleep has been fairly scarce -- my estimate is that since last Monday morning I probably have a total of about 24 hours of sleep, and that's primarily because I overslept last night by about 2 hours when the alarm did not go off.

Since I'm tired, I expect my writing here to be awful, and/or overly terse. Here are my thoughts:

  • All of my presentations went well -- Panels 2 twice, D6 theming once. The theming presentation was the first presentation I've done to use slides which means I gasp prepared. In the Panels 2 sessions, people gasped aloud when they saw the cool stuff it can do with forms, and I think I have a lot of people thinking about the possibilities. This is good, because my excitement over what Panels 2 can potentially do with a good group of plugin authors giving it good stuff is nigh unto unlimited.
  • The theming presentation went especially well. At the end of the presentation I called for designers to help us make Drupal's HTML & CSS the best it can be. I called for a style guide to be written and a set of CSS classes to be designed. Both of these things will seriously ease the designer's role in Drupal theming.
  • LOLTheme. I CAN HAZ DIV.
  • Tapas. Mmm tapas.
  • Catering left a lot to be desired unfortunately. Luckily there was a mall a couple blocks away with a food court and it had decently good food.
  • I am working as a permanent member of the association to put into place a theming contest. I think it's good that we waited (I started this whole process almost a year ago) because I think Drupal 6 will be better for creating themes (pure CSS themes are possible) but I do think we need to get this done.
  • Kieran led a Happy Birthday song that left me red-faced yesterday. That was one of the best birthday greetings I've ever received.
  • But Kristoff topped it because I had Belgian chocolate with my coffee and really that's about 15 minutes of pure bliss after lunch.
  • If there was a single person at the convention who didn't think Charlotte was the Cutest Baby Ever, they kept it to themselves. And most people were quite happy to come play with the baby and got big smiles out of her.
  • walkah has cute kids.
  • A crepe with belgian chocolate and a scoop of gelatto on top -- now that's a happy dessert.
  • I had a nice, small scale talk about Views 2, and a couple of companies offered resources to help. Later, I will start posting a todo list on the Views developer's group and will give people tasks.
  • While the Drupal 6 release isn't as flash as the Drupal 5 release (you can't top Garland + the admin redesign), I think this will be a very good one.

I'm hungry, so I'll wrap this up. Possibly more later.

awesome to see you as

awesome to see you as always, earl! thanks for the compliment on the kids, but to be fair you've only met half of the cute overload ;)

awesome to meet sprout - she is indeed *very* cute!

she is beyond cute

she is beyond cute :DDDD
I've never seen chx get soo excited about anything like he did over sprout lol

I attended your panels

I attended your panels presentation and was one of those excited persons. Things you can do with forms and the potential use of context in panels adds incredible features to Drupal. Dries' goal to eliminate the developer becomes more realistic with panels, views and cck. Great stuff!
But in one aspect I disagree. I had food in a pasta restaurant in the mall near the conference, which was really awfull compared to the food at the conference ;)

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