 I think I'm about to start now, if we can get the last of the people in. Actually, do you know what I want to have you to go on? Because this is about community, right? So if I can get people from the back to move up a little bit, because I was kind of speaking to the people all the way in the back, and that's kind of shitty. So we're really not going to get people up here. So I'm going to let that, as what I heard just before, I came in and was told that this room would be really very cold. So I was told I should not tell you that I actually needed your body heat. But I am anyways, just to make sure that we're on the same page. That helps out that the last one of you all up in the front, all up in the front. Yes, you're not allowed to sit down there and hide anymore. That's how it is. No, sir, up here. I want to have you there. All right, welcome to this little talk about Drupal and the Drupal community, which I hope you know about. This is I, 20 years ago. This is just to make sure that whatever I say is how serious I am. This is my whole name, Morten Birch, I had a journalism. Nobody outside of Denmark, Sweden and Norway is able to pronounce this. So if you're taking in the short versions, that's Morten Birch. But if you can see here, it's very easy to make this mistake. So when people were games like one to one, I encouraged this much. This is one of the reasons. I'm trying to be a nice guy. I do have kind of reputation of being a scared girl for development. I don't know why. Apparently something about markup and stuff. But that's actually a thing we're not going to talk about today. I run a very small little shop in Copenhagen called Geek Royale, which I have a little bit of stickers with me this time. Not so many teachers, but we have a bookstore where you can buy all kinds of Drupal goodness and look sharp. But first of all, just a fair warning, I always saw that one had commented in my session that I was swearing a lot and yes, I am. So if you're afraid of hearing me dropping a bunch of stuff, you better leave the room now because it's about the Drupal community and we'll do stuff just to make sure that that's clear. So nobody, if you get offended, you ask for it. I do bring a certain amount of like, we call it bike and love. That's kind of how we heart people from where I'm from. But enough about me, this is actually about the whole ballad of Drupal and how Drupal came around. And one of the first thing I heard about Drupal was this, that all CMS sucks, the Drupal sucks less than all of the others. And that's kind of a thing that I've seen in Drupal communities very much, a way we develop stuff. It's not like we are doing the best CMS ever in the world, because we know a CMS is kind of shit. But what we want to try to do is build something that's just a little bit better than all of the others. That does not suck as much. And this whole thing around Drupal is actually, if you go all the way back to when we started that back in 2010, that it actually starts out with a spelling error. That's always a good way to start it, right? So, Dries is trying, he's building the system called Drupal. And Drupal in Flemish means village. But when he registered the domain, he made this like spelling error. So now it's called Drupal, which would be a good name for CMS system, Drupal, everybody can understand that it's easy to spell. Instead, he choose the Flemish word for it, Drupal. So that's why we have a CMS system that nobody can pronounce outside of Netherlands and Belgium. That's always a good way to start one. And as we've seen, already from the start back in 2000, Drupal's always been very design-orientated. It's with high focus of the visual elements of it, especially the first couple of versions of the site, was really good. This is from 2000 in October. It got a major design upgrade like four months later. And then about a half a year later, in January of 2001, we have the very first release of Drupal because Drupal went from just being a website dropped, went from just being a website to actually be a system because it could kind of do all of these things. And that's another very interesting thing here, is how quickly the first couple of versions came out. As we can see, there's like only three months between each one of them. And one of the first thing that I saw here was actually that this comment, it was friendly but small community. That's kind of one of the things we still have. I don't think we're small anymore. I mean, when you have 3,300 people coming to a conference all over the world, I don't think that small is the same name. It is still kind of friendly, which I think is pretty good. And so what happens this year also is the very first issue that came in, note eight. If you don't know that, I'll come back to it later. It's another one of these things. We can see how Drupal is kind of its own little culture. It's kind of the next couple of years we get Spotify, Firefox, Drupal, or to get a new release in 2004. We get the security team born. We have Google Summer of Code, so we come in. And so we got JCon ever into Drupal way back. And at this point, JCon was not like the big domino board. It adds a more or less, not crass, but it was a peak that could be felt in the JCon community that suddenly, Drupal were actually using it. A couple of years later, we get a whole release out of Drupal.org, kind of, very much looked like a nerd project. So now it's been a little bit of work into it. We finally killed CVS and got Git, which means changed a lot of the projects. Yay, it brings just some of that. How many people actually used CVS? Did you like it? This is the first time in a session where people's not screaming, I hate it, I hate it. Ah, I hate it, kind of the way. Anyways, we actually ended up in 2011, got to the seven released. We have an office in here in Portland. Have like, Google has hired people. What the fuck? And there, I can't feel sleep in Symphony. We have changed, one of the funny thing in Google is that we had this coffee invented here, kind of way. Apparently we have not sleep in Symphony through the back door. Actually one of the only issues I've seen with O'Neil, is like seven or eight comments on an issue queue that was changing the fundamental of our Drupal font. That's pretty impressive. We actually kind of also fixed the logo from this kind of thing which was just a front to actually a real, like, work model or logo. So we began to do a little bit more professional over this, which is both good and bad. The inner nerd in me is kind of missing the old times, but I kind of look like, I can get to look kind of decent. But I think what 10 year old Spam today has been, there's kind of this thing that's, what is that keeps people coming back? And this is kind of what I'm, people talk about cards and cams. I would rather call it the gathering. Or it was gathering just sounds fucking cool instead of meeting and gathering and kind of feel it like people are writing in but solves the shit, right? No? A little bit, come on, gathering. That sounds like a gathering. You're going to a Drupal meeting. Anyways, this is the first Drupal font in Antwerp way, way back in 2004. This is the only image that's from there. But they, it's kind of fun as I just find this name. This is Mosho still here. K-Ball, John, Robert up here. Had trees. The thing is, if you suddenly look at a Drupal font picture, you can always find trees. Just look up at the top of the image. That's how you find it. They made a plan back then, total world domination. We're still missing out on this, but that's kind of like, that's the big plan. Then DrupalCon actually came to Portland. It was not real DrupalCon at this point, it was only Oscar, but back in 2005. They went to Amsterdam and that was when the Drupal community learned the hard way that you do not on a Sunday have a big panel discussion with 10 Drupal using developers. Because it's very hard to have that kind of conversation. A little bit later, trees and a lot of other people went up to Vancouver. Well, there are 100 attendees at this point. That's kind of a normal total gathering of it. That's kind of big. I myself entered the Drupal world in 2006 in Brussels, which I still consider this as being the very first DrupalCon because it was not a part of other conferences. This is also where I owned the nickname the King of Denmark. And the story for that involves an Irish man, French schoolgirls, and a huge amount of alcohol. The details of that can be told later on at a bar. But that was how I got my name. Another thing I saw here was actually this. This is a common 3AM at a bar in Brussels. That I am so tired of the silence telling us what that Drupal looks like shit. And I wonder why. For the first time in my life, I kept my mouth shut because I was in a room full of developers and I am a designer. I don't like things that look like crap. Google looks like crap, but developers, when they see a website that they've developed, they don't think about how it looks. They think about the code. So when you say it looks like crap, they don't understand it. They think you're mean to the pretty little code. That's not what we are. But that made me kind of starting another thing that's slowly built up. Kind of an affront in their awareness that takes a little bit of time because Google developers are very dear to their project, like everywhere else. So six months later, we're going to Yahoo. That was back when Yahoo was actually something. So that was very exciting. We actually sold out a conference that sold out. We were freaking out 400 people. Yes, ooh. We went to Barcelona then a year later. And one of the things that happened there really saw us as being a part of this whole Google thing was Jeff Beaton at that point just wrote the form API that we all love and maybe hate a little bit. The very first version of it apparently sucked ass. So Jeff goes up at his first presentation in front of 400 people and gave a heartfelt apology for it that he had wasted people's time. And I was a little bit battered by that, like, wait a minute. You have used three or 400 hours of your life to get this stuff to work. And now you're saying you're sorry to us? I mean, that's an interesting thing because if you look at a lot of other open source communities, there's a lot of my code is better than your code kind of way of thinking. This is more of the, hey guys, I kind of tried to write this. I'm sorry it sucks ass, but the next version will be very, very good. Isn't it? If we begin to look at how when Google 5 came off, that was the best thing ever for about 25 minutes and then we begin to bitch and moan about it. Drupal 6, the same thing happened. Drupal 7, when finally views came out and we could actually use it for something, we begin to bitch and moan again. And now I'm just waiting for Drupal 8 because that will be the best thing ever. Because Drupal 6 is a piece of shit and Drupal 7 is kind of okay right now until Drupal 8 comes out right. It's kind of a way that's just, it's okay to, we don't, kind of seem like other communities have this idea of my code is better than yours. We're kind of, my code is the worst piece of shit. No, my code is the worst piece of shit. But let me come over here and believe this. It's another way of thinking that I think keeps us kind of humble. So we're going to Boston and at this point we're suddenly 850 attendees. That was also where a lot of us figured out that there was this contributor with the name of Dimitri, none really knew who we were. I came in to see a session about JavaScript. It was a 12-year-old boy. When you suddenly have 12-year-olds telling you how JavaScript actually works, you get humble, very humble and begin to think about what did I do with my life. But still we gave room to this dude and he's kind of pretty goddamn awesome. In second, and in second is, this is in Europe, in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe, Central Europe. It's a town that's the fuck away from everything. We have to go for three hours in trains to get to this city. It's university is very beautiful, very pretty. We were still 500 people showing up. That was where we learned that when Google people go out to have a drink, we will empty out bars. The first night at Google from, we emptied out three bars and by emptying out, I mean, we are out of beer, we are out of alcohol. When you do that, you begin to figure out, holy shit, you need an amount of volume of people to be able to do that. So six months later, suddenly we're in DC and we are actually 1400 people. I've never been in a room before with 1400 nerds and it did not smell as bad as you thought. It was actually kind of decent. But still we're 1400 people. It is now when it's actually begin to be a problem to be able to do a shot of people like everyone photo we saw today. It's completely impossible. Still, I'm still pretty sure it reaches the tallest, by the way, but it's still completely impossible. In DC, by the way, another thing happens. So I started back in 2006, trying to be all silent about the front end and at this point, suddenly we have had enough. Front end developers in one room that was pissed the fuck off by Drupal. Literally, we had to close the door and not let anybody out before these about 100 people stopped yelling at each other in anger over Drupal. That was when we figured out that, hey, Drupal, we're open source, so we scratch our own nits. That was when we, for the first time, took over a whole bathroom just for front end sessions because nobody listens to us. So we scratch our own nits. In 2009, as in Paris, it even kept up this way. Because in Paris, apparently we had a designer versus developer discussion on Twitter. That does not go well, by the way, that was fun, but it does not go well. We did make people, again, calm the fuck down by getting it. Well, actually, there was this conference where a semantic views model came out. Yes, there was actually a dude, I was bitchy and moaning about it as usual. And there was a developer in the room like, so your problem is this. Gave me 24 hours. He came back the next day like, is this what you need? I'm like, oh, so she just asked politely about it and made it as a quest for a developer. They will do it. That's how it works. Sweet. A little bit later, we are actually now in San Francisco, three years ago. We had 3,000 attendees. That freaked me out, by the way. Standing in the room with 3,000 attendees, that's pretty extreme. That was also where I heard, afterwards the conference, that we had the second highest amount of little ids in the room. iPhone, iPads, iPod, all of these things. Connecting ids at the same time with the second highest number. And I asked, of course, who have the record? Oh, well that was two weeks ago when Steve Jobs presented the iPad. Okay, made it. So we have bunch of happy, free, open source geeks who are gathering around this. Got to kill Drupal. And we apparently packed at that higher number the same thing when Steve Jobs kind of presented that iPad. Holy shit. Afterwards, we went to my city, Copenhagen, which is still, this is my favorite picture, by the way, of our Drupal community. This is how 1200 Geek looks like. We actually ended up doing a beer by, in the beer community, a famous brewer, the Autumn Souls. I actually just found one case of them that I emptied out of my whole office. I don't know how it tastes now, but I'm pretty sure it's good. I still think this was the best Drupal con ever in 2010 in Europe. Six months later, we are now in Chicago, and this is when we begin to think about Drupal, a kind of cult of Drupal, that we have now Portland years, Portland people getting married at a Drupal con. Another thing that also happened here was, if we were going to define what a hangover really is. So we have the sweetest developer. He got very, very drunk. Fable, Fabso. And he were at the bar, and he had issues with the bar. More or less the wording where I want to fight the maintainer of Vanish, and I want to punch him in the face. Okay, Fabso. The thing is that Josh, who is the maintainer of the module, was standing about two to three feet from him. No one would think, okay, here we have men to men who like about to fight. What will happen? Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum. The next morning, Fabo wakes up and figuring out he is now the co-maintenor of Vanish module. That's how you do it. So they're kind of like, okay, you can do a better job, have fun. Go to the issue queue. We then went to London, or the Croydon, actually. So London is pretty big. Croydon is, I think the in is called the shite suburb. That's the right word. It's about an hour out of London. That's where they actually burned down this city the week before. It's the goddamn truth. They put the motherfucker down. And we rolled in with a triple con. It was a riot. I need to do material. We went to Denver. The first time I actually met another developer's mom. She sits right there. I behaves. In Munich, we went to, so the European Congress is also kind of taking off. The main reason I have these pictures is just, it kind of gives me an idea of how big we are, how many people we have who was caring about the stuff by having 1800 people shoot a lot. We went to Sydney this year. By the way, that thing out there, that is real boredom. We had sunshine on us for four days. I have a coat spent outside with sun shining on us and nobody got burned or anything. We're important now with only 300 people. If you look at this beautiful scale, it's kind of, I mean, some people say, oh, we've stagnated a little bit. And I stagnated, what the fuck are you guys talking about? We have over 3,000 people at a triple con. This kind of shows that we have some kind of volume. Actually, the thing is that the triple camps is beginning to have these sizes of triple cons. I went to Stockholm. There were 300 attendees two months ago. We did Front and United, which is an only front and developer conference. When we did the headcount, how many developers are here? There was five guys that kind of slowly put their hand over here. We kind of developed and we just want to see what this was about. So we're kind of going to a volume that begins to be a little bit bigger than anything that we're thinking about ourselves. And this is kind of where I'm going to think about the cult of Google and why is it that we've become this big group. And I think it's kind of like the very first time you come into Google, that first time that you meet Google and think, okay, hi, Google, let me see what this is. Then you meet this. This is all the decent systems. This is triple. This is how triple goes. And you get hammered down. It's not like a wall that you walk to and then get hit by. It's kind of the walls driven directly through you and you then smash down by. But the thing is that people go, hey, you need help. Let me help you with that. It's kind of a little bit extreme that anybody who have a problem, like I think I have an issue with that. There's always some dude or girl like, hey, I know that. Let me help you. It's kind of like a base thing. I think the amount of people we have here, this is, by the way, Drupal leg. He sent me this picture when he put my logo on his leg and I thought, what, and it's a metal leg, Drupal leg. We even have songs. Can we hear it? So when this song came out the first time, we saw comments about this that this made Drupal look unprofessional. And in my mind, I was like, have you ever been in a Drupal event? I mean, this is kind of as deep into our culture as we get. It might be dumb, it might be stupid, but it's kind of fun. In Sweden, they actually have a band called The Kitten Killers. They play Swedish hard rock and kill kittens. That's what they do. We had, when we had Drupal 7, we had 280 release parties. 280 release parties for Drupal 7 release. I mean, god damn. We also have all of these kind of shared memories of people. This is two developers that is covered, so we don't know who they are. And that is actually $20. We're guessing this was the bribe that was made to get some of the front end killed into the back end. We're not really sure, but it happened. That's how it's the thing that goes. This is from Drupal. Drupal is a website that pretty much aggregates all of the events that happened. I know, this is, by the way, for your Americans. This is Europe, that other country, on the other side of the continent. This is the amount of events back in March. Star Wars took a screenshot of it for camp. I was speaking just to give an idea of how much goes on. Right now, this weekend in the States, it's not that much because you kind of have this event. It doesn't create anything to see how many events after it's going on each week. This is not for six months. This is an upcoming week. And the goal is kind of the same thing all around, that we want to have the best system. But the thing is, one thing is that the code is complicated, but when we talk about humanity, it's, I mean, try all this complication with people instead. People, I mean, we have about 22,000 modules, almost the same amount of themes. There's one, by the way, one theme that doesn't suck. I will tell you later. What? I will not tell you. It's something with a ship and your mother. We have 631 distributions, but here's the really, really cool thing. We have almost 20 of these. How do we even say this now? I mean, I'm just a little dain. I don't even know how to count to that number. 26,000 developers, holy crap. That's the amount of people who can contribute to the code. This is the code mix, by the way, from this week. This is the amount of comments that we had. This is the amount of users. And again, it's a little bit hard to understand this number because this is almost a million users. That's the size of Copenhagen. That's the, I mean, how many people live in Portland? One? A million people. 4.6? 1.6, okay, so if we remove the suburbs because the suburbs sucks, then we have a million, right? That's the amount of users we have on our website. God damn. And this is kind of where, when I talk with other people from other communities, they're all like, hey, I'm using no cares and just so cool, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yeah, that's all good dude. That's the flavor of the day. This, it was back from to the GoogleCon in Chicago. This is Microsoft that tells us that they saw if IE6. How many of here goes around when IE6 was developed and we used to do stuff with it? A couple that was fun? Did we ever think that Microsoft would ever excuse that to anybody? No, they don't make excuses. Apparently they do to the Google community. That shows me a certain amount of good old school faction power, nothing else. We actually power 3% of the interwebs, which is a pretty good number when you begin to count off the amount of sites. That would call for a pro-fist. I don't know what the female version of a pro-fist is. Every time I try to figure out the word, it sounds so wrong and so dirty. So I will not even try. What, a what, a pro-fist? The French American lady said it should be a pro-fist. Oh, it shouldn't. And lady fingers also sound very wrong, right? Okay, so let's go for a high five instead. I'll do this. Yes, I got one down there. Thank you. What we actually created, we've created this monster. And by monster, I mean this. We have developers. They like stuff that works. We have designers. They like stuff that looks good. Not to forget this piece of people, the devops, which are slowly sneaking into our community. I don't know how they came in, but they are here. What happened? I mean, cash, cash, cash, cash, cash, talk. Jesus Christ, buy some more hardware and get it on with. We have a lot to get. You have UX people who even have the suits. I am in a suit just to make them kind of feel at home in the Cuba community today. And of course we have these, the open source hippies. Yes, they are all around. We have suits and hippies who can actually communicate with each other. Who have thought that? Ever. Actually, you see, I've learned by being on the TA port that we make kind of, now it looks official, right? The thing is that when I do to look at that at once, I'm like, how many people are we? What is it that we do? Can we actually live together? Maybe not, but can we live without each other? No, there's no way around it. This is actually what powers our community. The diversity of the community. And we kind of all want to have this ownership of the project and we get into these kind of, you know, I want this so bad, you know, anchor of driven development. We all know about that, right? You have an issue and just goes, fuck this shit. The thing that I've made it work so good is actually we hog it out. It's like, okay, let's figure it out. Let me just go over in this corner and scream a little bit, but then come back and hog it out because we have a community. Having a community this size is not easy. We dream about making it better all the time to talk about it. But it's actually, this is kind of where we go way beyond the code. We're talking about a shared responsibility. Kind of the thing that, hey, I know I'm, as you know, I know you're that, let's figure this stuff out, let's hog it out. As we in this book called Out of Community by Juno Bacon, he talks about the importance of the community and that it's not kind of the crusade we want to have. It's to get people unified into one and make them too much together. Being from a biking background, I kind of know that. That was how we took on England, France and the States. Well, we're just one little nation with a couple of hundred thousand people at that point. But we're unified and we keep theirs. That is why we are the oldest nation in the world and have the oldest flag in the world. That's the Danish, by the way. The Swedes would probably say something else and they are, as always, wrong, wrong, wrong. Just to make sure that's clear. And I cannot see any Swedes in here, so that's even better. They look spatial. That's how it is. So if we have a million users and we have all of these things, you know, how do we decide on these things and how do we do it? This is where the evilness of the people association comes in. Isn't this, this is how the Drupal Association is kind of in public knowledge, this is the Drupal Association. They are watching over us and they're doing dumb things because we don't even know who they are. Or, let me quote another developer I know that says, dude, I'll give Drupal a handjob. Actually, the whole course, dude, I will give Drupal a handjob in the bathroom at any time. But this is kind of a little bit showdown. But I won't give traded dollars to the Drupal Association. Well, I can get that because the Drupal Association is not here to help with the code. They're not here to make that point. They are here to help us organize all this shit. By the way, I am saying hello to the Drupal Association board and I am allowed to talk crap about them because I am one of them. Somebody gave me, I was not sure there was a thumb or another finger here. God, can I get some help to get out of here? I need three big men. The point is that the association has nothing to do with the code just to make sure people know this. This is kind of an idea people have. It's something to do with the code. Fuck, no, we won't charge that shit. You don't think we have enough problems already? We don't need an issue crew for this shit. The DA is basically here to make the machine work and the Drupal. Now, this getting exciting, this is actually the Drupal Association board. This is how they look. I was trying to figure out who they actually were before I entered the board. You will see there's a Canadian who sneaked in here. But we have, see again, Dries is always in the back, always glaring over us, always keeping an eye out. This is me, by the way, round and happy, round and happy. This is the board and this is the people who make a lot of changes and discussions with the community. That's kind of what we do. We also have a lot of this stuff. So actually, if you go down to the bookstore or to the registration, you will actually see the staff that we have hired. We even have a booth this time at this Drupal Con. So if you go into the store and go all the way down where the lunch is, then you will actually find the Drupal Association. And we don't buy it or I do, but that's a whole other thing. We have a new ED, Holly. Holly is so, actually the thing is the amount of the staff that we have that are women is kind of for me as a man fighting me a little bit because I'm a fragile little man flower. So when I hear that we're talking about the gender diversity, we're pretty much the Drupal Association is run by ladies. The women took over. We lost men. I'm sorry. And my little fragile man flower, of course, have a hard time with this because it's actually working. That's the first part of the activity of 17% women at this conference. That's pretty good. Here's the really good thing. It's 19% of them was presenting. So this whole man, the ladies not talking, they don't want to do fuck that shit. They're taking over and that is a good thing. So here's actually what the association really do. This kind of boring, right? What the association do or the boring shit. What you do is kicking ass. That's how it should be. The words here used to be on the server. We make sure that the Drupal.org website is up and running as I'm keeping the lights on. No, keep the fire burning. Again, back to the wording. Gathering sounds cool. Reading sounds boring. Keeping the power on the website with that is boring. Keeping the fire burning. Some metal in that and I like that. By the way, legal stuff. If somebody talks with the GPO, we, that's what the DA do, take care of that stuff. And when you want a Drupal, when you come over 1,000 users, it begins to be a little bit hard to do that. I did it for Drupal Comp. They can trust 100 users. That is about 1,200 hours of work besides of your normal day work. And by the way, getting a dollar at the same time. That means you're not getting sleep for a year. It is too big for us to do it ourselves just by the community. By the way, the DA is loaded, almost loaded all rather than this. We do have some money that we want to give and some good projects so we can expand Drupal because apparently having a 3,300 conference is not big enough for us. We want more, more, more, more. Code spending. You would think that a code spend do not cost anything or it's easy to arrange. Well, it do because we need power, we need room, we need all of that stuff. That's another thing that the DA is helping out with and planning, planning all of this stuff figure out which way to not push the project but help push the awareness of Drupal. When we're gonna go out having a Drupal 8 launch, when we kind of try doing that with Drupal 7, we had 280 parties. That was kind of a thing that just happened. But besides that, there's no real combined effort. That is what the Drupal Association comes in. Also, it's not just one company who takes control. It's kind of all of us or rather none of us. I do know that in 2012, the Drupal Association did have issues. I've learned now by being political correct. I used to say they were complete fuck-ups. That's not the right word. The right word is growing pains. That's the right word for it. So, yeah, I ran for the board too. How about with these growing pains? Because what I really wanted to see was something like this. I mean, I wanna see the Drupal Association. I wanna see the Drupal Project rock hot because, well, I'm a metalhead so everything that rocks is good for me. Everything that flames, salts, gases, and men in leather chaps. Kind of oiled up. Which, by the way, is not gay. Just to make sure we all know that that has nothing to do with men towards men who look at each other and kind of air hump and almost nothing. No, it is not gay. It's metal, okay? The thing is that you kinda go, okay, how come that Drupal Association had started back in 2007? It takes six years to kind of begin to work towards one dude said to me yesterday at the bar, it used to be we didn't even know what goes on at these meetings. Then Holly began to write these small plug posts and this meeting we had last week, there was actually live treatment about it. By the way, I'm sorry to all of you Americans that I might have insulted you by comparing the age of my backyard to your country. It kind of slipped out. And this started between the states and Europe, you know, that other country. But why do things take so much time? There was a reason for that. And if we look all the way back to how Drupal works, the very first issue, note eight. What is note eight? Let users cancel their accounts. This is in December 2001. Keep that in mind, 2001. Yeah, holy crap, I can do that. So, most goes in a day later and goes hey, okay, I will see, look at this, I have signed this issue to myself. He do that. Well, a month later, it is progress. And most, he gives up. He just, and this is a year later, he now gives up. I cannot do this anymore. We know, anybody else, it should be possible to delete a user account. Shouldn't it? Yeah, it should, but you know, it then, remember the year 2001, we're now in 2009. But finally now, it's ready to be passed in. So when people bitch over the DA, not being creative enough to react, get back to this, you crew people, and show us some progress. Because actually, this is the amount of time it took. December 17, 2001. January the fifth, 2011. That was the point, the time when this was actually. Took 10 years to get in this small, tiny issue in. 10 years. So here we get like three more months to get stuff done to the DA, and we will be pretty happy. The whole thing is like, you know, this slogan that came up, you know, you come for the code, and you stay for the community. And that's, I mean, I'm not in drooping because of the beauty of the code. I'm a front-end developer. Do you think this is fun for me? Fuck no, I hate drooping for the passion. But sometimes every time I decide now it's enough, screw this shitty code. I will now take my stuff and I will write an epic CMS that is good for me, fuck. And then suddenly, I begin to realize in my little head, I have a million users on this. I have 25,000, 26,000 developers working in this. I have a conference to go to each entity twice a year with about 3,000 other nerds who loves this system as much as I do. They probably hate it as much as I do. I'm pretty sure there's more than one dev who wanna talk with Jeff Eason again about form API and why it's not doing what it should do because if he said sorry once, he should just say sorry all of the time. The thing is that what we're trying to do with the association thing is actually creating this machine that can work or as the same developer who told me about it, he wanna give Google a handjob, was that if it sounds boring, the DA should do it. If it's fun, we should do it. That's kind of the way. This is what the DA is there for, make this shit work. And now comes the quick one. Do you know how you get 100 points in karma? Membership of the Drupal Association. How many of you actually remember? I'm speaking to the choir. You didn't raise your hand, young man. It is easy. See this? Become a member. I know you had to go to, how is it? Do not all. Then write association in front of it because it's easy because we put it that way. Yeah, we need to. Actually the thing when I began to look at this, I read it my slides a couple of days ago, I'm going to look at this stuff and I was going and all this stuff about Google association, yada yada yada, yada fiat, all of that really puzzled me back at us. When it comes to it, we have new people coming in and they're like how can I go up with this stuff? Well, code sprints is kind of the way of how to become a part of this tribe. Well, you go in and you participate in code sprints because then sometimes you will see this. This was Jen Lampton after bad camp this year. So we have a bunch of us who are front end devs who have been fighting and fighting and fighting to change the theme layer. And actually there's little, do anybody know how much time I have left? 10 minutes? Okay, good. I will actually tell this story. This tells you a lot about how the Google, how the Google called the Google Axel work. So it's the first day of bad camp and bad camp is down in San Francisco. I flew over because Axel wanted to work on this Google trick thing. And the first day I have a presentation that's called the angry themeer where I pretty much have put in all my hatred to the theme layer and tried to put solutions into it, blah, blah, blah. So I'm sitting down at the hotel and eating breakfast and Trees comes over and I ask you can I join in? Of course you can, Trees. I now have Trees for about 30 minutes. I will now hammer the dude down and make him understand how important it is that we change the front end system. And I go, I stop eating and I just begin to talk to him. 30 minutes, like, gug, gug, gug, gug, gug, gug, gug, gug. Goes on about the involvement in the front end of us and all our problems and how we can track a little bit more, yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda. I'm feeling a little bit sorry for Trees because I mean I'm pretty much talking over his breakfast and cooking and it just goes on and on and on. And he has the keynote when I asked him. And he just says, then listen to me as Trees does which I'm still kind of shocked about. He should know me by now, but I mean, just listen and talk, don't listen. Not and smile is the system I've heard from other people. When Morten begins to talk a little bit to us, not and smile, mm-hmm. It works. Anyways, we come to the conference and Trees does his session, yadda, yadda, yadda. I walk over to my own place where I have my session. I'd like to be in the room first. And then John Olping comes over and runs into me and goes, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I come back, like why, it's just Drees, no? And he goes blah, blah, blah, Drupal 7, blah, blah, blah, Drupal 8, contribute yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda, no. Community blah, blah, blah, fun. Isn't that, you know, how it is? And we all feel good about it. It's kind of like my session, blah, blah, blah, Diff, kill, kill, kill. Hatred, I hate you all, I love you all, yadda, yadda, yadda. Little bit of crying, Diff must die. That's kind of how I do it. Like, you have heard it multiple times. I come back into the room Then he commits trick to call. That is why Jen Lampton, who's been the lady who pushed us again, ladies are taking over. She had cracked the whip over us to get this stuff done. Me and Jen, I will not say we cried, but we were pretty close. I had an angry theme session with a smile all the way up to here. But I am angry. It was very, very strange to do. So later that night, I get a hold of trees and go, and I do what the fuck. Why didn't you tell me something? I mean, I pretty much, you're almost attached to a breakfast. He says, without even cracking a smile, if I've done that, it wouldn't have been a surprise. God fucking damn it, trees. I've used six years of my life to this shit. I've been hunting county fellows, gathering frontend people all around. And he just goes, no, it wouldn't have been a surprise. Thank you. That's apparently how it works here. And it's been there. It's, that man is evil. By the way, we have a code sprint because we does not have complete all of Trigin. So on Friday, if you have frontend death or know how to provide real code, we actually need to have real developers on this. Not just us to waste your bone CSS stuff. You need to come in and help us out. And I can see three of them standing right down there. And they will gather in the code sprint on Friday. It's not an option. That is, by the way, how you get new people in. You don't ask them politely. You take them by the name and say, you, sir, or you, little lady, come and help out. No, so the thing is that in Trouble, we don't have any rocks to us. We are all just bodies. And by that, I mean, we had, we did a camp couple years in Copenhagen, filled with a lot of people. Afterwards, it was those of us who dipped the camp, who spoke at the camp, who amazed all of that, that took all the chairs down. That's kind of how it is. It's this thing that kind of keeps us humble. I mean, if you look, if you look at the star status that dudes like do, you should have. I mean, to me, it's pretty normal. I don't, I mean, it's, that rock star thing is not a thing to me. And I kind of find that, I don't know that I have an ego this size of a small country, but even I like that. You should not laugh at that. So I said, just one little thing here before I end up. So this is three years ago, this one daughter, this was three months ago. And you know what, she ran my campaign. That was how you guys got to vote on me. I used to live in Kielton. I have no more left. I learned something about American campaigns. You know, you kiss the children, you use them with somebody. Now, so I actually just want to say thank you for that support because that was great for me and really, really helpful. And maybe that's why I cannot figure out how just to walk away from this community because of the people. And that's kind of the, I mean, in my mind, the driving force here. And that's where, no matter how much we have affected, now the business will take over all of the evil companies. Well, if all of the evil companies takes over, and all of us who is here for all the other people, we walk away from the project, then the project has no value anymore, then no code gets developed. On the other hand, as a developer, I really like to work on projects where you can actually eat food afterwards. That thing, I don't eat just my own dog food, my own clothes. It's kind of, kind of hard to eat that. So it's kind of nice time to get paid. And it seems like I got one, one company said, well, we see this sponsorship of the Drupalcon kind of like our Drupaltex. We just make sure it'll work. We make sure that all these steps can go on with the thing. So it's kind of, it's not a match made in heaven. It's maybe made in hell, but it works out pretty good. And that is maybe, that is kind of the reason why I had the balls to leave, because I can't really, how do you say it? I kind of need you guys. Isn't that how you say it? Oh, can we get that? Exactly, I can't quit. It's like a fucking drug. It's every time you've been a little bit away from the Drupalcon, it's like, crap, I'd like to do this work, but I'm not going to Drupalcon. Two months before, fuck this shit, let me get a session, let me go, because it's kind of this outlet of a shit ton of love in the room and a shit ton of these people who hate the same thing I hate. CMS systems, I love the same thing I love CMS systems. So that is unfortunately how we are bound to this Drupalcon, and I am sorry for those of you I've talked to coming into Drupal, that you cannot leave it again. The first drop of code was free. The next one you take in the issue queue, that's how it is. Thank you, and if you would like to actually evaluate this session, you can do it at this fine short address portland2033drupal.org schedule. See, one of the things we should do in the DAS is actually work on things like that to make sure that that's a little bit easier. But that's a whole other thing, we'll take that next time. So with that, thank you for coming, and questions, I like my station. People never have questions to them. All right, well, I'm pretty sure I know why, because I'm a genius, that must be the reason. I mean, so much man in such a little body, right? I mean, at some level it must work out good, so there's just no question that you're all fulfilled in your needs for coming here. That's what I do, fulfill your needs. That sounded wrong. Yes, I'm a body, I'm not. Anyways, oh, Jen. It's getting scary. So I had a question. Yeah. You're talking a lot about community and community building and reasons why we should stay involved and the way that the community is evolving over time. What do you think is the next step for the community? Like you mentioned, the numbers in Europe are going up from like 1,000 to 2,000, and in the US they seem to be going up from, you know, 2,500 to 3,000. What's next year going to look like, do you think? Well, the kind of the funny thing is we're all part of the community, so giving like a number, I don't see, just saying on a GoogleCon level, it's not the number that's important, it's the quality, but by going up in numbers you're also into attract other people. Right now we have very much been developers and we now have a bunch of funding developers. I even heard rumors of the project managers doing the same trick we did back in GoogleCon in DC, getting pissed off and taking over a bathroom. The big difference from these four years is like, four years ago we pretty much took it by force. Nobody dared to fuck with us because we wanted to fight. This year it was done first on Trader and then you ping one on the Google Association and then they go, oh yeah, let us just find your protector and a small room you can go into and I'll be fine with that. So that's kind of the big difference. I guess that where I hope to see the community is one thing is growing and numbers are also growing and one of the very fun things for me has been to see it grow on an international scale. So it's not only Europe and the US that grows that way where we are, have been. It's going to be fun to see China and so forth, so forth that way around. Yeah, yeah, another question. What is the DA doing to help grow those numbers in those international regions? Are you guys promoting sponsorships? So I was one of them who was really against having more than one Google con or more than two Google clubs actually. I was kind of like, screw that shit. What we're doing now is we're going to have three Google clubs here. We have one in Europe, one in the States and then we're going to have the floater Google con. That's kind of floater grounds and help out in areas where they have some kind of expertise or have kind of a club of cams but need that extra boost. That's kind of where the DA want to go and help out with putting in the con. The real thing we also want to do is actually helping out the local communities to build the cams instead. So because if we roll in as a Google association just come and say, well hello China we will now show you how to build a conference. That's not how it's done. I mean the success of Google is based in the community. So what we actually want to do is make sure that the community in these regions built it up. That's why we have the grants. That's why we want to make sure it's going to be the success of Google is so much based on the community and the people. We had a talk at last association meeting where we had this. So what was the most important thing that you have experienced doing being in Google and Google association and each of the board members, it was always something around community, community, community and a little bit down it's also exciting to see what is the people always. And that's kind of the thing that we want to push forward and help out. So when we go to the Middle East we can just roll in the, you know the Drupalcon and the Big Drop and go, this is how you do it. That's not how you go with the community. Everybody will be kind of pissed off. Find the right people in that region make them build it up and go that way and help out with that. Another thing that we want to do is as you know in Europe we had a front in the United States and we had a front in conference and it's beginning to be a little bit too big for us just to do so having a Google association and trying to help out and sound the logistic like somewhere to pay the bills so we don't use like credit card every time because that's getting kind of scary. When your PayPal account suddenly gets closed and all kinds of fun stuff and you and a chick dude owe each other about $20,000 $20,000 for conference. That's kind of scary because we don't want to have to do an association. And if there's any Americans who want to help out actually pushing front in the United States it is a thing we want to do. We might just have to push it down. So did that help our channel? All right, any more questions? Cool. See, here's the last thing I've learned. I have a feel good video as the last thing. This is from Drupalcamp in Manchester. I actually came to the run in Manchester three years ago and got a sense of the community power as a piece of software and something that I want to contribute to and I want to encourage other people as well to get involved with it back and just come to events like this. Drupalcamp's sort of like a nice mix of different things and Drupalcamp coming with your input. I do think because it's easy to use it's free when you want to go to the website. Drupalcamp for me just nice and out of the office but there's been a lot of interest in that I don't think it's going to be something that we're going to observe to think of it as a perfect tool for allowing people to have some ideas and create some ideas and survive. It's a really good framework and I think it's really intelligent but you've got the prize in there in the year 2000 for what is essentially a piece of software. I think this is one of the both opportunities to new people to come in. Drupalcamp is basically about developing something that's bigger than your community. It's such a strong community. I always feel like this is something I'm protecting. We're really doing sort of how the university itself is involved and giving us this grid and Drupalcamp for us is being brilliant in partnership. We also like to sign all the sponsors that are RITs, attendance stands and in Drupalcamp Northwest has been outstanding and very well organized, great venue. And yes, it was sponsored by the Drupal Association by the way, so we are using money to make the class feel good. We are not just taking them. Thank you for coming. It's been great fun.