Wim Leers Freelance Drupal Developer

After 15.5 hours of travelling (1.5 hours on the train, 8.5 hours of flying, 20 minutes of bus, 30 minutes in the metro and the rest spent waiting or walking), I arrived at the Harrington Hotel l in Washington D.C. Immediately afterwards, I left for the pre-con registration, at which already about 400 people registered themselves.

Volunteering

The next day I got up at 6:08 AM since I couldn't sleep due to the heat in the hotel room and because I was volunteering at the DrupalCon registration booth. With about 10 volunteers, we registered about 800 people in 2 hours (registering consists of giving them their lanyard, personalized name card, swag bag and redirecting them to the t-shirt booth). It worked pretty efficiently :)

Thanks, Drupal community!

I'd like to thank Bonnie Bogle once more for her Herculean organizing efforts. And of course a thank you to all attendees whom all partially paid for my travel expenses and Drupalcon ticket (I won a scholarship). I hope you'll all benefit from my work in the end!

My session & bachelor thesis

For me personally, the most important event was my own session, Drupal CDN integration: easier, more flexible and faster!. It was so important to me because it allowed me to gather more feedback before I was going to start doing the actual work – the coding – of my bachelor thesis. So far it's only been about research and presenting (at FOSDEM and now at DrupalCon DC), so I know the field pretty well by now.

I've got so much exciting good news that I don't even know where to begin!

I was asked to review a Drupal book, was chosen to speak at FOSDEM, my bachelor thesis proposal will be published as part of a technical communications book, I turned 21 and was selected for a DrupalCon DC sponsorship! If only all of this happened while I wasn't in the middle of my exam period…