drupalcon

DrupalCon Chicago: A Roadmap for Drupal 8

Paul Venuti's picture

While Dries' keynote touched on a number of topics -- from the scalability of Drupal to individual shout-outs to the top 30 core contributors -- the bulk of the talk focused on the roadmap for Drupal 8. Here's a quick rundown of what we can look forward to in the next release of Drupal:

  • Drupal to any device, particularly mobile ones. If you look at the prevalence of net-connected computing devices in 2011, desktops are a minor, stagnant sector, whereas mobile devices -- anything from a smartphone, to a laptop, to a TV -- are more numerous, and their numbers are increasing.

Drupalcon Szeged: What I'm Missing

Tom Lee's picture

Well, I'm not in Hungary, and it's a drag. Drupalcon has begun! It looks pretty exciting, but at EchoDitto I think we're collectively keeping our fingers cross for Drupalcon DC.

Still, I'm doing my best to review the stuff coming out of Szeged. So far it's just a few sets of slides, but I'm optimistic that we'll get some podcasts or maybe even Qik streaming before too long. Inspired by Alex's list, here are the sessions I'm bummed to be missing — not that I could have physically attended them all, of course. But these are the ones that look particularly interesting to me: