DrupalCon thoughts (and Functional Interaction Design slides)

Last week was something of a whirlwind for me, flying into Paris on Monday morning, barely recovering from jet lag by Tuesday when DrupalCon Paris 2009 started, and racing through the week.

Ah the memories ... trying to sleep in United coach and landing in Paris red-eyed and disoriented ... fighting Snow Leopard technical problems ... windows blowing open, dousing me in hot coffee ...

The group photo (outside and then inside)....

...and before I knew it, I was back on the plane Saturday morning heading back to Colorado. In between was full-on Drupal. (My Paris sightseeing was limited to the walk every day between the hotel and the venue, and the 2 or 3 evening excursions for dinner.)

For me, everything built up towards Friday, when I had two presentations — one on Functional Interaction Design and one on "Agile" is not "Cowboy" spelled backwards (on estimating techniques and project management experiences. I greatly appreciated the folks who turned up for both.

The latter session was rather last-minute on my part, after Kate, who was going to lead the session, had to stay behind at the last minute to attend to business matters, but we ended up having a great discussion. (Because of the ad hoc nature of my presentation, I don't have any slides worthy of sharing.)

The design session was drawn largely off of a presentation I made at DrupalCamp Colorado this summer. Again, I'm thankful for those who came, especially since it was at 9am — awfully early for people surrounded by Paris nightlife. I was bummed, though, because I had to miss other great sessions that hour, including our own Al Steffen's presentation on Drupal theming techniques.

In fact, I feel I missed much of the conference. I tallied up my mistakes so I don't do it again!

Everything was videotaped. Videos should be posted soon, I understand. I will update this post with a link to the videos of my sessions when they're posted.

Meanwhile here are the slides for:

Functional Interaction Design

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