I was very proud to participate in the official DrupalCon Pre-Conference Training again this year. I decided to repeat my Intro to Drupal Theming class, especially since drupal 7 was such new territory. Our class size was limited to 20 students, which sold out in advance of the conference.

Much has been written in the past couple weeks about the recent DrupalCon SF, the vast majority of it overwhelmingly positive. By most accounts, it was a successful event, with the overwhelming majority of attendees leaving satisfied. Granted, the accounts I read come from sites whose posts are aggregated via Drupal Planet - an admitedly very pro-Drupal crowd.

Ryan Price and Mike Anello from DrupalEasy will be at DrupalCon San Francisco this April with a (hopefully) full agenda.

Workshop: Intro to Theme Development

DrupalEasy is proud to announce that we've been selected to present one of the official pre-conference workshops for DrupalCon SF on Sunday, April 18. We'll be teaching our beginner-level Intro to Theme Development workshop. In this course you'll learn the anatomy of a theme, basic XHTML/CSS/PHP, and basic template modifications. By the end of the day, you should be able to take a static HTML theme and turn it into a Drupal theme. The cost for the workshop is $350 and you can sign up on the official DrupalCon SF site.

The Drupal community in Florida has been steadily gaining momentum this year, and if the next week or so are any indication, there are no signs of slowing down.

Starting with our hugely successful DrupalCamp back in February (attended by over 100 people) to meetups in various cities since then, Florida Drupalers are starting to really get a sense of how vibrant our local Drupal community actually is.

The next week has no less than three Drupal-related events in the Sunshine State:

After a decompression-Sunday with some friends in the DC area, I made my way back to sunny Florida today ready to start taking advantage of some of my new-found Drupal knowledge. Once I dug out of my piled-up mail and dirty laundry, I decided to summarize the rest of the 'Con. So, here goes...

I've been at the business-end of the DrupalCon firehose for 3 full days now, so I thought it would be a good time to share some of the cool stuff I've learned. As you've no doubt heard by now, this DrupalCon is over 50% larger than last year's event - with 1400 people and 6-tracks of sessions. It's been a chore not to get overwhelmed with all the options.

Here's a quick summary of some of the sessions I attended:

If you didn't get a chance to check out our live coverage of Dries' Keynote, you can also see about 100 pics I snapped during the session.

Dave A Ingram also brought the youngest Drupaller - just 3 weeks old! He is dave.ingram on drupal.org, and he comes from Gainesville, FL

In the most recent DrupalEasy Podcast we talked about a few sessions we're looking forward to at DrupalCon DC. Here are my picks and a few reasons why I'm interested.

We'll be live blogging Dries Buytaert's "State of Drupal" keynote at the 2009 DrupalCon in Washington, DC. If you're not able to be in DC, you'll want to check out our live coverage on Wednesday, March 4 at 10:15AM ET.

Check out our live coverage!