Drupalcon Denver

Remember back in high school? There was the table where all the cool kids ate lunch. Depending on your high school, it could have been the football players and cheerleaders. Personally, I sat with the band geeks, the debate team and the national merit scholars. I wondered what it would be like to be invited to sit at the cool kids table.

As I write this, it has only been days since Steve Jobs announced his stepping down as CEO of Apple. (Understand that I am not an Apple fan boy. I use Ubuntu and Android. However, you can't deny Steve's impact on technology and culture.) In a recent interview, I heard Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs' original partner and co-founder of Apple, talk about one of Steve Jobs' leadership traits. I'm paraphrasing, but Woz said that Jobs could spend moments with an engineer and immediately tell if he or she would develop ground breaking products.

Whenever I attended a Drupalcon, I always appreciated the local organizing team from afar.  I heard the "thank you's" and the "how much work and dedication this team had to put all of this on".  It was never real for me... until I volunteered to be the local content coordinator for Drupalcon Denver.  Before I volunteered, these comments rolled off me like water.  After I volunteered, they scared me to death.  OK, here we go.

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts about volunteering to put on Drupalcon Denver 2012. I volunteered to be "in charge" of content for this convergence of 3,500 Drupalistas because I felt that, as a Drupal development shop, this was a good way to give back.  After all, we don't pay a cent to use this powerful development platform.  At the same time, I knew that I didn't know what I was getting into.  Scary, but exciting.  If anything, I hope that this series of blog posts will push more of the Drupal community to step up.