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My GSoC proposal for Index and Hierarchy API hasn't made it. However, work on those two modules has already started and the first few commits to Index have been made already. At this moment the modules are far from production use. There are a lot of paper scraps and napkins that have sacrificed their lives and now carry lots of sketches and mockups that, in time, will lead to the first stable versions of both modules.

Stay tuned! :)

Today I published my GSoC proposal: I want to bring Vocabulary Index to the next level. This includes integration with Views and Transliteration. Also, there will be new ways to display data and the possibility to use different template files for different indexes. In short: this baby could replace the Ubercart catalog, Drupal's Forum module and more!

If you want to see this happening, please review my proposal. Thanks!

With Dries' keynote kicking off DrupalCon DC yesterday Twitter now knows what it is to be slashdotted. #drupalcon has been the most popular tag since yesterday morning and Twitter's services were unavailable at some times during the day. Twitter's being used extensively to communicate between people at the Con. We use it when we're at our hotel, since they've blocked the IRC port. We use it at the Con to describe our deepest feelings about the sessions we just attended. We even used it during the opening keynote yesterday to display messages on the large screens set up there.

Just as they say on TV: "It's amazing, Mike!"

I can't remember doing much yesterday, but seemingly I have been too busy to write another blog entry, which I don't know is a good or a bad thing.

Summary: Drupal, Drupal and Drupal. Oh, wait, and Drupal.

At this moment we are still enjoying Dries' keynote about the history - and in a few moments also the future - of Drupal.

There are some great pictures of familiar faces within the community. A sleeping chx, Robert Douglass and Dries himself without the facial hair, our 12-year-old Drupal guru and kittens in danger.

After a 17-hour trip I finally reached Washington DC around 16:30 this afternoon for DrupalCon. I joined Bojhan, Wim, Nate and Brad at the convention center, where we picked up our swag.

After that we headed for RFD where we enjoyed a nice American meal: enough meat to feed a tribe of people for a month. We met some new people, exchanged business cards, ideas and drinks. Bojhan and I left with the excuse that we needed to prepare our presentations for this week, but actually we will be going to the Mac to get some more food first.

Stay tuned! Tomorrow day two of DC/DC!

Op 20 maart is er weer een DrupalJam! Deze keer reizen we af naar het schone Twente, waar de lucht nog schoon is en de seks nog.. ehh.. tsja.

Twente, it is! Om preciezer te zijn: de Universiteit van Twente. We gaan een hele dag socialisen, netwerken, eten, borrelen met tussendoor een boel interessante presentaties van medeDrupallers. Meer weten? Kijk op groups.drupal.org en zorg dat je erbij bent!

An hour ago I got an email from Bonnie Bogle, a member of the organisation committee that organises DrupalCon DC, telling me that I have been given a scholarship to attend the Con! Fellow Drupallers Bojhan Somers and Wim Leers have also been selected for a scholarship. Never, ever do I win something with contests and stuff, but this prize more than makes up for that. Yeah!