Great Wide Open Conference a Great Success

I had the pleasure this past week of attending the Great Wide Open conference in Atlanta.   Many thanks to Todd Lewis and the folks at IT-oLogy for inviting me to serve as a volunteer at the conference.    I met a number of really talented and in some cases world-renowned developers.   

I spent most of my time at the registration desk, but found time to get away and see several sessions.  Of course I was most interested in those related to Drupal.  In particular, I was thrilled to hear Jason Smith of MediaCurrent talk about the massive project to replace Weather.com with a Drupal site.   I expect that site to be something really special and something the Drupal community can be proud of.  

I also had the chance to hear Steve Burge of OS Training talking about how to train your staff to adopt Open Source.  He has some great stories to share.  Steve is also sponsoring and will be presenting a session at Drupalcamp South Carolina which will be April 19 in Columbia. 

This was the first Great Wide Open conference and we had over 600 attendees.  Whether you measure it by the numbers or by the quality of the content, GWO was a great success.