First day back in the office after SFDC2010 and boy are my arms tired. At the moment I'm still on information overflow and trying to catch up with my workload while processing all this new input and debriefing with the rest of the team. I'm going to have a tough balancing act maintaining my current sites and trying to put to use all these shiny new features, and some reading to do on my new twitter friends' feeds. The most relevant takeaway for me was one of the earliest sessions at the conference, The Heart of Open Atrium: Context, PURL and Spaces, given by Development Seed's Young Hahn about some of the modules and tools they developed for Open Atrium.I've got some exciting new projects in the pipeline in which I'll be able to take advantage of these three eponymous modules. One client would like two sites in one, a perfect candidate for Context and PURL. I'll be exploring multiple user registration forms, content type segregation, user permission delegation, and cross-site content delivery.

Another client has a more complex implementation in mind - a sort of reimplementation of Facebook + Twitter + YouTube + Google Apps... If all goes according to plan, it will be one of the first sites in which the site administrator (read: the client) has the ability to create new Contexts. And they'll need to extend Organic Groups in much the same way as Open Atrium. This project has some serious potential, and I'm excited to start hammering away once the contract is worked out. 

From my perspective, the sessions were a little developer thin this year compared to DCDC2009. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that for the past year, much of the community development efforts have been dedicated to the non-sexy work of critical bug squashing instead of forging ahead with new core features and contrib modules and Drupal 8 development. Regardless, Drupalcon again served to re-inspire my energies. I had fun meeting and watching other Drupal folks, and it the ad-hoc Salesforce session was especially helpful to discuss, organize, and hopefully rally interest for further development and a stable release.