DrupalCon 2008, Szeged report

Stéphane Corlosquet (scor), Myself, Alan Burke, Stella Power, John Morahan are enjoying Drupalcon... it's really brilliant- I just wanted to start this thread so we can give fresh reports on what presentations we're seeing, and enjoying for those who could not make it.

Ireland's well represented - with Stella and Stephane giving presentations! (Stella is presenting tomorrow on jQuery and Stephane is presenting on the Semantic web). It's great to see the contributions of our user group!

Today I saw a great presentation on "Building the Drupal Community" with lots of great advice about planning, developing and growing local Drupal communities.

One thing I notice is that most people are much further along in their local communities- with smaller regional meet-ups and larger country-wide DrupalCamps.. Though Ireland did have a DrupalCamp last year, and there are of course the consistent Drupal Meet ups planned and organised by the Galway contingent- as well as the Adobe User Group in Dublin planning more meet-ups in Dublin...
FYI: http://barcamp.org/DrupalCamp+Ireland

So- I think we're building a critical mass here in Ireland now, and more people becoming involved developing local Drupal groups. That's great for you folks in Dublin and Galway! But in Sligo, my situation is different. My goal is to go back to Sligo, and give demonstrations and workshops to particular usergroups (e.g., students, small businesses, artists, anyone else)- I'm interested in contacting the Sligo County Enterprise board for the connections. I think in Sligo... I'm looking at a situation of attracting users to Drupal, rather than gathering existing users.

I don't know what it's like for you guys in your local area?

Anyway- hoping the others will have a chance to write about what they're excited about. It's really an active busy conference. If we're not in sessions, we're talking with other developers, designers, end users- and there's always something on.