First day is done. Met some cool folks from Bryght and EZSystems.

A very good sessin on coding for Drupal and another on enterprise-level issues. We’ve made some good contacts with folks who could help us get Wig3 out the door faster. One of the Bryght guys was sure that they could help us make a common install of the product that could be mass deployed very rapidly.

Bobby also got some leads about using Oracle with Drupal — there are people working on it, but Oracle has some nasty gotchas.

What’s really interesting is that the whole process is very open. In many cases, we’re hearing plans from the development team and they are actively soliciting feedback. For instance, during a session on themeing, I told them that we have namespace collision problems when using our CSS in conjunction with the drupal default. Everyone went ‘oh yeah, that is a problem; we should fix that.’

Vancouver is cool, too, and we actually had 3 straight days of sun.