DrupalCon Barcelona 2007

• 84 unread client emails
• 22 of my closest friends
• 14+ days in Barcelona - 16 days en total, including travel
• 12+ hours of travel, each way
• 8 dozen roses sent to my wife
• 5 hours of sleep, per night
• 4 day company retreat
• 4 days of DrupalCon
• 3 high holiday services
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Zoey and I had the opportunity to co-present a session on information architecture and the Drupal development process at DrupalCon in Barcelona this past week. Ron helped us prepare conceptualize the presentation which we gave on Friday in the PickTeck room to a fairly large crowd. There were many good questions from the audience, and some conversations that continued throughout the day.

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Earlier today I, and a few others from CivicActions, attended a session at DrupalCon on building a Drupal Specific QA team. The presentation really focused on the existing resources for testing, simple test, selenium, etc...

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It was noted on the first day of Drupalcon that 93% of attendees are men. After talking with a couple of other women working with CivicActions, I decided it was worth setting up a Birds of a Feather session: The Other 7% - Women and Drupal. At lunch time today, about 12 of us met up and it was great to meet some women in the community whose names I see regularly online like karens,webchick, add1sun, Allie Micka. We took some time to introduce ourselves and discussed how to encourage more women to join the Drupal community.

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A number of CivicActioneers (my self included) have proposed sessions for the upcoming DrupalCon in Barcelona (September 19-22). Almost the entire team will be traveling to Spain a week early for our 3rd annual European Fall Retreat, so we'll have plenty of time to polish our sessions and get input from the team. Here is a quick look at the sessions we've proposed:

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