Good work takes time!?! Finally, I finished my review of the DrupalCamp:
About three weeks ago I have been to the DrupalCamp in Cologne. This was my first Drupal-Community meeting (without taking into account all those local user group meetings) and I really enjoyed getting to know some Drupal people in real life. Apart from that I also took part in several interesting sessions, which I'm going to review here:
Saturday:
11:00 Automated Content Enrichment and Autonomous Cross Content Communication
_ben from Zeit Online spoke about his vision of Drupal content (i.e. nodes) being able to learn from each other and from other content in the web. His idea is that every time a node is viewed it starts looking for similar content inside the same Drupal website but also tries to find related content on Wikipedia, Flickr, Last.fm and what have you. Some of this functionality could be accomplished by using Open Calais, which I already use in this blog. Open Calais is a webservice which you send your content to and get appropriate tags back. Unfortunately they don't support German content, yet.
However, the idea of semantic blog networks and automated content enrichment both sound like really interesting ideas to me. This session was a really good and visionary start into what Drupal might be able to accomplish in the future.
See ben's blog for a very detailed description of his vision.
- 12:00 Fields in Core
Talking about future Drupal goodies (especially the more technical part of it) one has to mention the upcoming Version 7 of Drupal. Core Developers have started planning, coding and testing a Field API for Drupal 7. Using this API it will be possible to attach fields to every Drupal content you could imagine, including nodes of course (as you know it from CCK), but also users (thus reinventing the profile module) and comments etc. Attending this session was huge fun because you were able to experience some long-time Drupal developers and get to know about their most recent work.
Edit: While I was writing this blog post this feature got commited to Drupal 7. Yeah!
Recent comments
19 weeks 4 days ago
34 weeks 16 hours ago
1 year 34 weeks ago
1 year 44 weeks ago