Drupalcon San Francisco

Recently I had the opportunity to attend Drupalcon San Francisco.



See me? I'm there in the back! Look Closer! There were over 3000 of us at Drupalcon this year, including for a few who got managed to sneak by that big volcano! Even those that didn't make it over rallied together and had there own local Drupalcons all over Europe.

DrupalCon was a really great experience. It really reminded me of attending one of our fabulous EclipseCons. Absolutely everyone was super excited for Drupal, Open Source, and even Eclipse! I met a ton of people who were all using Eclipse for their Drupal Development. I even managed to give away a bunch of Eclipse Install stickers!

Here at the Eclipse Foundation we use Drupal for Eclipse Marketplace, Eclipse Live and the EPP Packaging Site. We chose Drupal when we launched Live because of the community that was swelling. It turns out we bet on the right horse. Drupal 7 when it releases promises to be the best ever, and from my point of view they'll meet that goal and then some.

Viva Open Source! I highly recommend checking out Dries Buytaert's (Drupal's Founder) Keynote - State of Drupal, as well as Tim O'Reilly talking about Open Source in the Cloud Era. If you've got time to spare all the sessions are available to watch on archive.org. I'm sure you'll learn something!

So now that the Eclipse has started drinking the Drupal Kool-aid, lets see if we can get them to chug some of our Eclipse Soda!