Hello, one of the many improvements to this Drupalcon was the coordinated effort to capture sessions on video. The conference organizers purchased tapes for all the sessions in advance and kept a library of all 90 hours on MiniDV tapes.

The video recording team managed to capture all the sessions on video with some level of audio. They also managed to capture a separate audio channel on volunteer's laptops from the audio system. That audio is being uploaded to archive.org.

Drupalcon registration has now closed. Many people are asking if they can see the sessions by video, or if the sessions will be streamed live. Due to having 800 people on the community wireless, we don't believe we can stream 5-6 sessions simultaneously in a reliable way.

We are now requesting volunteers who can help video record sessions, and who can do video post production each night. If you are willing to learn and commit to helping one day or one night, please let me know.

In September 2007, we had approximate 430 registrations from Drupalcon Barcelona. For Drupalcon Boston we aimed to provide a conference facility that could accommodate anyone who wanted to attend. As recently as two weeks ago, we had anticipated that we would reach a total of 650. We are now over 700 registered attendees. Based on current projections, we will need to close registrations before Drupalcon starts next week.

For Drupalcon we've set an explicit goal of trying to raise the quality of the conference. But like all goals, you've got to adjust based on feedback.

We've already counted close to 40000 downloads in only three days!

For comparison: There were about 67000 downloads of all Drupal 5 releases combined in January 2008. There were about 60000 downloads of all Drupal 5 releases in January 2007 when Drupal 5 was released.

Drupalcon sponsorships are keeping us busy. As a result, we might not have done as good a job as we hoped informing you about the program guide printing deadline or the conference banner deadline. Take a look at our sponsor FAQ.

We've added a new sponsor logo page so you can see which of your logo's and print ads we have. If you are having problems, don't hesitate to contact us.

Drupal has seven principles, in case you didn't know. I've screwed up in the past and forgot to read them, or thought that my particular personal situation or business situation was an excuse to not follow those. When I've gotten enough distance from those mistakes, I've been able to look back and understand that the reason why the Drupal community didn't support a particular action I had taken, was because I had deviated from those principles.

We've started to see an increase in public discussion about the Drupal security team's activities lately. There's been some good threads on the developers mailing list, and this one is the latest.

This is to announce that Andy Kirkham (AjK) of the Drupal security team and myself will be attending FOSDEM from the 22nd to the 25th. Meet us at the Beer event or in the Drupal developer room.