DrupalCon Chicago Prep

I never did get around to writing anything about the Webchick Drupal 7 Tour after the Lullabots came through DC a few weeks ago, but at this point, DrupalCon looms much larger on everyone's mind.

I couldn't be more excited. Even though I worked for four years at an event management company, and handled on-site IT for several technology conferences during that time, I've never actually attended a conference. I started working with Drupal just a few months before San Francisco, so it was too late to make arrangements to go by the time I really got into the project, and I couldn't afford a trip to Europe for Copenhagen. But, I have spent the past year attending the Drupal meetups here in town and occasional training events (like the Webchick tour), and from everything I've seen, next week is going to be a big hotel full of 3000 people that I'd really like to hang out with. They say, "Come for the code, stay for the community," and it's true: the Drupal community is so much friendlier and more welcoming than that of any other open source project I've dealt with.

I think I'm just about ready to head to Chicago for the week. I definitely wanted to make time to get a module in contrib before DrupalCon, and I managed to post two. I know what sessions I want to attend. I figured out how to get to my airport here, and to the hotel in Chicago. This weekend, I'm going to knock out a good chunk of a freelancing project I've been working on so that I don't have to worry too much about that. The only thing I'm concerned about right now is striking a balance between the scheduled sessions, and the BOFs, code sprints, and other ad hoc goings-on that I don't want to miss out on. It's shaping up to be a pretty incredible week.

And now that it's nearly 1 AM, I should really get to bed and stock up on sleep, because I sure won't be getting any in Chicago.