Conference Season

Conference season is again upon us and this is the time of year I'm usually planning trips with brewing excitement. But, with the birth of my first child happening right in the middle of conference season I'm bowing out of all of them this spring. So, instead of writing about the conference I'll be attending here are some I would have attended if I wasn't already busy.

Drupalcon San Francisco

Drupal is in the process of drastically improving and on the verge of releasing Drupal 7. Drupalcon is the conference to learn from the best and network with the best. Since I build Drupal sites for a living this is a place to make some great friends, learn what's going on around the Drupal community, and have a lot of fun.

And, for those of us working on core Drupal it's a great time to sit down together, work out where we go next, and have most of the other core developers who we might want to pull into a quick conversation sitting near by.

Dynamic Church Conference

A lot if changing in the world of ChMS and a lot has been going on this year. APIs are part of the package for the first time this year. The Dynamic Church Conference is a place to dive into what's changed with the leading web based ChMS, Fellowship One.

Tek (PHP Conference)

It is so easy to become stagnant in my skills as a developer. Following the "Drupal Way" will often time leave me missing out on great patterns, ideas, and resources others are using. Staying in the Drupal community for my education in technology would leave me greatly lacking.

To keep learn from others I would have attended the Tek conference. It is fairly close to where I live and would provide a great opportunity to communicate with and learn from others who are not in the Drupal community.