drupalcon

Drupalcon is wrapping up today with a code sprint hosted at MIT's Stata Center. At least 100 drupal developers are all gathered in this beautiful building right now.

My goal for the day was to submit one patch back to the Drupal project. The ways of collaboration in Drupal are designed to keep the project quality high. The effort required to download the code, change something, test it isn't new. However, the extra steps of creating a patch, explaining what the patch does, submitting the patch to the issue queue, receiving feedback from other developers, changing my patch, uploading it again, etc, etc is new.

So, as of 4pm, I was finally able to submit not just 1, but 4 patches back to the Drupal project. Surpassing my goal is pretty exciting, but contributing back to a project that's given me so much is even more exciting. If you don't know about Drupal, check it out at http://drupal.org.

Day 3 of Drupalcon just wrapped up. I'd definitely have to say that I enjoyed today the most. I'm not sure if it was the sessions, just knowing more people, sleeping in this morning (soooo nice), but I just really enjoyed today.

I've learned a few lessons while I've been here at Drupalcon. The first lesson is that I need to blog more, a LOT more. I don't really blog because I don't have a lot of extra time and I honestly don't think much of what I do. I help a lot of open source projects because I enjoy it, not for the glory. However, now that I've launched my own company based upon consulting in the open source world, I definitely need to start telling the world more about what I do.  read more »

I'll be in Boston this week for Drupalcon. If you're at Drupalcon and would like to meet up, feel free to contact me. I'll also be attending the jQuery BoF session on Wednesday night!