Vancouver
GETV interview
Steven Wittens and myself were briefly interviewed by Geek Entertainment TV, a video podcast covering Web 2.0 and Bubble 2.0. Media or communication skills were not required. Click the image to see the interview.
IOFilm interviews
Jeff Robbins and myself were interviewed by IOFilm at the Open Source CMS Summit in Vancouver. The video has been made available through Google Video:
Clearly, my hair was about the only body part not suffering from severe sleep deprivation.
There is also a second compilation of interviews. Interviewees include Roland Tanglao, Jarah Euston, Michael Myers, Robert Douglass, Kris Krug, Kieran Lal, Steven Wittens, Chris Johnson and James Blackwell.
American hotel rooms are all alike
This is what all American hotel rooms have in common.
Open Source CMS Summit 2006 photos
I just processed and uploaded a number of photos that I shot at the Open Source CMS Summit, MooseCamp and Northern Voice. Take a look at the photo gallery to get to know some of the faces behind Drupal.
Boris Mann, co-founder of Bryght and co-organizer of the Open Source CMS Summit, MooseCamp and Northern Voice.
Northern Voice 2006 conference
Met a bunch of interesting (non-Drupal) people at the Northern Voice conference. Here is a selection of them:
Robert Scoble, Microsoft employee, technical evangelist and blogger extraordinaire. We talked 'Drupal' with him which I'm sure he will be pitching to Bill Gates. ;-)
Tim Bray, Sun Microsystems employee, W3C member and co-inventor of XML. Tim made Sun Microsystems donate a Sun Fire V20z server to the Drupal project. I finally got to say "thank you" in person.
Matt Mullenweg, lead developer of WordPress and co-founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet. We talked about web technologies and open source development on more than one occasion this week. Really nice guy to hang out with!
Yoga for geeks
I attended my first-ever yoga class at the Open Source CMS Summit here in Vancouver. Sarah Pullman organized a "Yoga for Geeks" class. Sarah, a Drupal user herself, showed us some simple exercises that (admittedly somewhat to my surprise) turned out to reveal and relieve quite a bit of muscle tension amongst us Drupal developers. Highly recommended and a must-have session on future Drupal conferences.
Sarah Pullman and Robert Douglass cranking out Drupal code.
Vancouver night skiing
After day 2 of the Open Source CMS Summit, some of us went night skiing on Cypress Moutain, located only 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver (Canada). From the downhill runs, you have a spectacular view on the city.