Saturday, October 22, 2011
Breakfast: organic nonfat yogurt with super granola and organic applesauce. Muni then BART to Berkeley. BADcamp 2011. It's the largest BADcamp ever—1,500 participants. Modern Web Typography in Drupal (Scott Reynen, Ken Woodworth, Garret Voorhees), Beyond WYSIWYG + Comments: Web Engagement is the New CMS (Jay Batson). Lunch with Leslie K, Jason, Stefan, Eric D, Carl U, John K, Jonathan P at Raleigh's. Using Panels To Make A Smarter Page (Sean Lange), Best Practices for Development and Deployment (Joshua Koenig, Matt Cheney), Drupal 7 Takes Portland State University to School (Jennifer Hols), Modern Theming: Beyond Preprocessing and .tpls (Tim Cosgrove). The BADcamp keynote took place in the late evening—unusual for these kinds of events. It was in Zellerbach Hall. Free nachos, flatbread/pizzas, and made-to-order tacos. $5 bottles of beer (!), $3 cups of soda. The bar ran out of beer. Live DJs. I found it quite pleasant but was disappointed by the price of the beer. I happened to be standing near Dmitri Gaskin and chatted briefly with him and others to whom he was talking. Danese Cooper from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave a brief history of open-source. Jeff Robbins from Lullabot encouraged us to think beyond the desktop computer and how to build Drupal apps that provide data to lamps, refrigerators, and other kinds of devices. Josh Koenig interviewed Dries Buytaert.