 I'm JP Stacey. I'm a freelancer with my own company and I've been working in Drupal for about 10 years. I'm here because Drupal Camp London has been consistently the best value for money of any of the council conferences that I've ever been to. I've been involved in Drupal from the days of five and it was a conscious decision last year that I really wanted to get much more involved in Drupal 8. To that end I've been doing a lot of work with things like the mentored sprints and a lot of work in the issue queues. A lot of work on documentation because documentation is a really good way of getting into this stuff because you're learning by doing. As part of that I've been writing a set of blog posts on the Drupal 8 APIs, going through the APIs as they're currently documented and trying to do worked examples. I've had a lot of feedback from people who are following my work examples and writing them out themselves. They're spotting all the bugs, which is great, which is really good. As I've been working more and more with Drupal 8 I've come to realise what a step-changer is. Both as a challenge but also the extra opportunities for a developer. Just the clean away in which you can write code in Drupal 8 and the way it just seems to make a lot more sense. A lot more sense to people who aren't using Drupal and that's really moving more and more towards Drupal 8. As of a month or so ago I started working with a client on a project which has got entirely Drupal 8, several Drupal 8 sites. All in one project and one of those is going to be a Drupal commerce site so we're looking at Drupal 8 commerce. The buffs are a great way of having conversations which aren't always the kind of conversations you can have in sessions. Very specifically at every conference or camp I go to if there isn't a buff about freelancers and freelancing then I try and sneak one in. Luckily there is one later today but freelancers just by nature tend to be happy working alone. That pushes people towards freelancing but at the same time that can be quite lonely and you don't feel like you've got a support network. The Drupal community, it really is a community, they've always got your back. Coming to something like this you meet all these people that sometimes you only know their name online or whatever or you've only spoken to them online chat or something. To be able to meet them here and talk to them and swap ideas. It's a great way of being able to detach as a freelancer and work independently but then come together and share knowledge and share skills. It's the best of both worlds really, that's what the informal tracks at a Drupal camp provide.