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DrupalCon, We Have a Problem

As a community that has experienced rapid growth in a very short time, we’ve very quickly gone from conferences that consisted of a couple dozen people getting together for a few beers to international events that attract thousands of people from around the world. As DrupalCons have grown, not only have their audiences become more diverse, but their reasons for attending have changed as well.

If you are like me, you probably weren't planning to show up at DrupalCon before Dries' keynote.

Here's a reason you might want to set your alarm clock early if you are attending DrupalCon Copenhagen.

We have managed at the last minute to get Scott MacVicar from Facebook to come to Copenhagen to talk about the HIPHPOP PHP compiler.

The DrupalCon North American Regional Organizing Group is looking for input from the Drupal community to help pick the location for DrupalCon North America in 2012 and beyond.

To do so, we’ve put together a brief “straw poll” intended to gauge community interest in various cities that have either expressed a desire to host a North American DrupalCon and/or been suggested as potential good locations by our event management company. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, and community members are welcomed to suggest alternative options.

You can make your voice heard by going to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/drupalconstrawpoll now!

The poll takes less than five minutes to complete, and we’ll be accepting responses until 11:59pm PDT on August 4.

I've found some time to investigate some drupal.org server logs and found that while everything is generally working, there are some strange things happening.

Every full hour our access stats go up by almost 150%. I looked at the IPs that produce a lot of hits over the day, but they weren't responsible for these spikes. The spike is produced by a lot of different Drupal sites that request our update data when the hour strikes.