One of my two talks at DrupalCon (the one about article publication) is now available as an mp3; there was no video, though video probably isn’t terribly necessary for this one. The audio, and some others, is available here.

I’d call this Day 4, because to me it is, but DrupalCon was only really 3 days. The day has been quite relaxed; many folks have left, and many of the ones that are around are beyond my ability to find them. I think they’re doing various things at Moosecamp/Northern Voices which is a blogging conference/hacking get together, but I’m not sure what rooms things are going on in. I’ve gotten to see a couple of people here and there, at least, and I’m typing up these blog entries in relative silence sitting next to hunmonk who is very absorbed doing some kind of actual work.

The morning began with a very sudden alarm at 6:30, which was turned off in that very short span of time in which I was awake. Actual wakefulness didn’t occur until almost 9. I rushed through the morning preparation process and made it down to the con before my session was to start. (I didn’t actually oversleep; I had nothing scheduled for the 8:30 slot).

For the ten o’clock session, Adrian, John Van Dyke, JonBob and I had pencilled — or rather sharpied — in an ad hoc Views/CCK session, designed around the idea of getting community ideas to fix a few issues, ensure the direction we’re going is the right one, and to get the community excited about where we’re going.

Day two started bright and early, and included the phenomenon that I once again made it in on time. This time I braved the cold and a very light sprinkle that didn’t qualify as rain and frankly didn’t even qualify as mist — in fact it really only qualified as a mildly chilly wetness — and headed down to the Tim Horton’s that I’d spotted the night before. It was actually a couple of blocks out of my way, on the other side of where the con met up, but it was not particularly far out of my way.

The first session involved poor Walker getting up and talking about the File API. He got up there and gave a great talk on why what we have is only quasi-functional, what some of the problems are and what needs to be done. It was very nicely done, inspirational, and of course received absolutely nothing resembling volunteers to actually help him do it. Walker is basically the File API Guy, even though it’s pretty clear he doesn’t actually want to be. It’s not a thankless task — people will thank him a lot — but I don’t think it’s going to be a particularly rewarding task.

I arrived last night. The trip was remarkably smooth--so smooth, in fact, that I'm not entirely sure that I’m not in an alternate dimension. International travel shouldn’t be that easy. Oh sure, I went to the wrong terminal at SFO, but the right terminal wasn’t even a long walk away, I was so completely early that even if the line through security had been as long as usual that I would’ve had plenty of time. As it was I was at the gate a full hour before boarding started. I wasn’t yet feeling up to doing any reading, so I played solitaire on my Hiptop, joked a bit with my sweetie via IM, and hung out.