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DrupalCamp Colorado - The Closing Session/My Wrap UP

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Greggles led up the closing statements at Drupalcamp CO just about a week ago. I took a little video of the session (included at the bottom of my post) but a few things jumped out at me.

426 attendees at Drupalcamp CO this year and 108 people signed up in the last week. Drupalcon Barcelona (the first Drupalcon I attended) had about 450 people. In other words, in just a few short years this camp has gone from being a loose gathering of a dozen or so individuals to an event the size of Drupalcon itself 4 years ago. 24% of attendees identified themselves as female. 75% as male. 1% as other. The camp is growing up with Drupal and becoming a full blown conference in its own right.

This time round I attended the opening plenery, 10 sessions, ran one BOF on Project Management Tools and Techniques, attended the BOF on Drupalcon Colorado, attended an employment BOF, and went to the closing session. I also met This happened in an incredibly densely packed two days. The sessions, by and large, were good. Some were much better than just good. I took a few photos as I found moments to take a snap here and there. If you want to see an aggregate of all my posts from the camp, I filed them under the tag dcco2011. That is the same hash tag folks used on flickr, twitter, and youtube as well.

Some observations - the classrooms either felt too small or too large. The "Aten" room was probably the best of all the rooms because it had a plethora of electricity build right into the desks. However, the classroom it was beside was small and cramped. The desks almost seemed like for kids. The large hall was awesome - where the opening and closing sessions took place. I was pleased with the layout for the sponsors, my employer having been one of them. Pretty much to register, you had to walk by all the sponsors. This led to quite a bit of conversations - great because we're hiring themers and developers right now.

At one point we hit the critical mass for the bus factor for Drupal core developers. What an amazing statistic for a camp!

The food was awesome even though the camp was a little short on the first day - this was a symptom of having over 100 registrations in the last week before the camp started.

The camp this year was fabulous. The overall quality really felt like a little Drupalcon and less like a camp. It seems every year the camp gets better and better. I'm proud of our community in Colorado - and I'm looking forward to us hosting an amazing Drupalcon in a mere 274 days.

*shameless plug* If you want to volunteer for next year's con- please pop over to the groups.do announcement and add your name to the signup sheet. Hopefully I will see some of you at the end of the summer in London. Please feel free to seek me out and chat.

This, is now, a wrap on my 2011 Drupalcamp Colorado posts. I hope they were interesting and helpful. Leave comments as you would like (or don't) and thanks for taking the time to read my posts. If you make it to the end of the video below - you might get a glimpse of the Drupalcamp Colorado Yeti attacking Greggles mercilessly. This is only the second time he has emerged from the deep dark recesses of Colorado - the first having happened in Chicago. Who knows, perhaps he'll make it to London and perhaps to the Denver Convention Center.


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