DrupalCon Portland includes a community sprint Friday that is probably the most organised DrupalCon sprint ever. The sprints cover three different groups of contributors and span four rooms! Isn't that amazing?
Well, for core developers there is never enough core development opportunities, so we top this off with a whole lot more sprinting possibilities for those who arrive early and/or leave late and are already well entrenched or want to get involved in a core initiative. We have 5 (five!) extra sprint days in total, 3 before and 2 after DrupalCon, so counting the DrupalCon sprint day, that is 6 days of sprinting. There is a great number of people who signed up, topics include Views, Configuration management, Mobile, Multilingual, Twig, Web services, Plugins, Field API, etc. Its a real all-encompassing sprint for core developers.
We already have some great sponsors who made it possible to provide the sprint space nearby the DrupalCon venue, but we would love to be able to have drinks and snacks for sprinters to let them focus on making Drupal 8 the best release ever. Therefore we are looking to have more sponsors to help cover additional costs.
See http://groups.drupal.org/node/281033 for more information and sponsorship contact details! Thanks to sprinters and sponsors for making a dent with Drupal 8!