The day started pretty early. They moved the main keynote to the morning this year. It was good hearing Dries speak on the future of the web and what potential role Drupal will play, especially with Drupal 8’s expanded focus on services/api’s. I then attended a session entitled “Don’t Let Crappy Content Ruin Your New Site” https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/dont-let-crappy-content-ruin-your-new-site — I thought the presenter did a great job and summarizing the issues we see in web design especially when having dozens of content contributors who’s goals, skills and desires are very disparate. I spent the remainder of the late morning and afternoon in smaller BoF sessions focusing mainly around front end development. Learned about tools for automated front end testing and was in an interesting discussion about the future of the major drupal themes. Its interesting to see the different personalities and opinions coming together in an attempt to streamline their processes and increase producitiy, it feels familiar to what I’m trying to push for at Stony. I got a chance to sit in on a pantheon presentation and will be meeting with them at 1:45 tomorrow to discuss some of their platforms advantages. I also sat and spoke with some of my Acquia contacts/friends and got answers to a few questions that have been bugging me. I have a meeting with Chris Hartigan at 9am Thursday. Made some more progress on setting up the North Eastern Higher Ed summit with Nancy @ Yale. Also got to speak with her and one of her technical guys Vincent during dinner.  I really like their approach and look forward to their session on Thursday. This has definitely been a rewarding conference thus far.