Another Drupalcon has come and gone but our work is not over. A dedicated team is actively at work on Drupalcon Paris and another team is being formed to put on Drupalcon 2010. Drupalcon is built by and is for the community. They are what you want them to be. Help us shape the future of Drupalcon by taking a few minutes to answer the questions in the Drupalcon Survey.

Today I began a discussion on the future of Drupalcon. I have copied the text here so that you don't have to click over immediately. The conversation, however, is taking place on the original piece so please click over to comment.

Drupalcon has grown from a small conference for a few folks to a much larger conference with hundreds and, possibly, thousands of attendees. The benefits of a bigger conference is that we reach out to a larger audience and introduce more people to Drupal and to its development. A larger conference, however, takes more time to plan and prepare for. In order to give conference organizers the time they need the Drupal Association has decided on the following deadlines

Do you want to a Drupalcamp in your town? How about having a nice Drupal meetup group?
If you have been curious what it takes to run a Drupalcamp, Code sprint, Drupal Jam, or Meetup come join us at Drupalcon D.C March 4th to 7th. Currently there are 3 sessions proposed for the conference that are designed specifically for current and future Drupalcamp and meetup organizers.

Drupalcon North America has been announced and will be held in Washington D.C from August 4th to the 7th, 2009. Ticket prices have been announced as well as the ticketing scheme. Frequent Drupalcon goers probably noticed something new at Drupalcon Szeged, a tiered pricing scheme. In Szeged we started ticket prices out at 80 Euros and incrementally raised them to 250 Euros on the day of. In Szeged this was based on timeframe. Tickets purchased in June were priced at 80 Euro, a month later prices raised to 125 euros and so on until the day of the conference.

In D.C we did something similar but based this time it is based on actual ticket sales.

Over a month ago I applied to be on the board of the Drupal association. Since being introduced to Drupal by the good folks at Openflows, while I was working at MNN, I have become heavily involved in the community. I have always been a big fan of OSS but watching the Drupal community interact is absolutely amazing. The more I watch(ed) the interaction the more I want(ed) to be involved.