Good times at FrOSCon 2007

Update: Session videos are available!

This last weekend we held a Drupal track as part of FrOSCon 2007. It was a great success.

The two day event celebrated its second year by getting bigger, better, more interesting, and by having a lot more Drupal. We had a lecture room that saw 20-50 people in attendance for the 12 lectures. Upstairs we had a developers' room which was a bit out of the way and badly advertised (something that we can do better next year), so fewer people were there to participate in Drupal hacking.

Lots of great presentations were given by familiar names such as Gábor Hojtsy, Gerhard Killesreiter, Károly Négyesi, Konstantin Käfer and myself. Others made their Drupalcon debut: Olav Schettler, Marco Rademacher, Balázs Dianiska, and Jutta Horstmann.

For fans of open source software, this was a great conference to attend. Many Linux/BSD projects had booths, as well as numerous Linux/Unix user groups, software foundations, programming languages and CMS projects.

The facilities provided by the Fachhochschule Rhein-Sieg were very nice; Internet connectivity was always good and the whole conference was very well run. The FrOSCon team, including David Roetzel, Lars Ehrhardt, Volker Lingens, Waldemar Brodkorb, Andreas Kupfer, Maria Stohn, Ralf Boeckhorst, and many others, was stunning. Everything just worked. They had legions of friendly helpers always available to assist, and no need was left unmet. Thank you FrOSCon team!

The Drupal Association also played a big role in this conference first by sponsoring the conference, and by sponsoring the speakers as well. Thanks also to Development Seed and Lullabot for providing additional sponsorship.

There are plenty of pictures to be seen, and if you take the time to look you'll see that the conference is first-rate, and I highly recommend attending next year.