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

I just posted the announcement for the Drupalcon Schwag Swap. I have been talking about it with people for quite some time but nows its official. I want to meet people from all over the world at Drupalcon D.C and come home with stickers/buttons/shirt from their communities. I think its absolutely awesome how large and diverse the Drupal community has become. Lets meetup and swap!   Here is the description, theBoF session is listed here.  ------------

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.

Due to the hard work of many people Drupalcon Boston was a great success but just like how the Drupal community doesn't stop once a new version is released neither does Drupalcon. Drupalcon Europe is announced and will be held in Szeged, Hungary. Gábor Hojtsy and Kristof Van Tomme provided a solid proposal and put together an awesome team of professionals whom combined will create yet another amazing Drupalcon!

The entire Drupalcon gang hanging out for a big group photo.

I liked this shirt.. super geeky ;)

Closing ceremony at the Boston Drupalcon 2008.

The day after Boston DrupalCon 2008 a nice, and big, code sprint was held. People from all over the world came together to collaborate for a full day of working on modules, themes, and Drupal core. Its amazing to watch the community get together!