The upcoming DrupalCon in San Francisco from April 19-21, 2010 will be my first. I'm thrilled to return to the West Coast as a Drupal developer, having fond memories of the Human Language Technologies 2002 conference in San Diego (as a computer scientist) and the Materials Research Society's Spring meetings in San Francisco in the mid-90's (as a physicist).

Meeting many collaborators on Drupal "in real life" (IRL) for the first time will mark quite an important career milestone for me. To make the most of this opportunity I plan to participate in the code sprints the day before and the day after the main conference day. So see you in SF April 18-22!