IMG_1453 Breakfast on Saturday

On both days breakfast at the Drupal Camp Austin was provided by sponsors. From this scene you could hardly tell there were over 308 people at the camp, but perhaps most drupalistas weren't awake for the early, early hour of 9 a.m.

IMG_1456 Breakfast on Saturday

On both days breakfast at the Drupal Camp Austin was provided by sponsors. From this scene you could hardly tell there were over 308 people at the camp, but perhaps most drupalistas weren't awake at the early, early hour of 9 a.m.

IMG_1458 Todd Nienkirk's introductory speech

Before the Saturday keynote, organizer Todd Nienkirk made a few introductory comments. He asked people from out of Texas to raise their hands. It turned out that some visitors came from as far as Canada and Sweden.

IMG_1464 The audience at the keynote speech

The audience at Jeff Robbins' keynote speech on Saturday at 10 a.m. While most of these people are from Texas, some came from as far as Canada and Sweden, not to mention other US states.

IMG_1463 Jeff Robbins

Jeff Robbins, founder and CEO of Lullabot, pauses his keynotes speech for 2 seconds to smile for my picture. Click on the image to read more about his presentation "Whole Lotta Drupal", especially about Drupal clones of famous websites.

IMG_1468 Zack Meyer's theming presentation

Zack Meyer gives a presentation "How to Theme from Scratch". From what I remember, he may have showed how to create text styles, but not necessarily how to create layout for your theme - 2 columns, 3 columns, etc. Maybe I missed something.

P1100686 Ben Finklea's keynote

In his keynote "Building a successful and profitable Drupal business", Ben Finklea says he hopes to dissuade freelancers from becoming business owners. But for those who are still not daunted, he provided tips on how to do it.

P1100692 Pedigree of Drupal companies

This is the Pedigree of Man image, on which Ben Finklea starts superimposing names of Drupal companies according to a niche they occupy in the Drupal ecology. E.g. some companies are Site Builders -- see the bottom of the tree.

P1100695 Pedigree of Drupal companies, completed

Modeling it after Pedigree of Man, Ben Finklea draws a classification of Drupal companies by niche they occupy in the Drupal ecology. Acquia specializes in commercial support and hosting, Lullabot in Drupal training, Volacci in SEO, Duo Legal in attorneys

P1100696 Pedigree of Drupal companies in 2009 and 2010

Ben Finklea compares the latest Drupal pedigree tree with the one from last year that he showed at DrupalCampAustin 2009. As one can see, in just one year specialized Drupal companies have multiplied.

IMG_1477 Erik Summerfield's CTools presentation

Erik Summerfield from Phase2 Technology gives a presentation on CTools, focusing on plugins.

IMG_1482 Aaron Forsander's jQuery presentation

Aaron Forsander presents jQuery with easy-to-understand examples. "jQuery provides methods for moving around your web page. It's like a little dollar-shaped sports car. It's is like a dollar sign-shaped portal to your server. Think $targate".

IMG_1498 Chris Ruppel presentation on panels

Chris Ruppel gives a presentation "Blocks are Dead! Long Live Panels". I'm sure I'm not the only one who came out of this presentation stoked about panels.

P1100702 Ben Jeavons presentation on security

Ben Jeavons presents "Security Risks and Smart Configuration: Securing Your Drupal Site". He showed us several scenarios of common attacks, such as cross-site scripting, and ways to prevent them. Click on the image to read more.

P1100711 @greggles presentation on security for coders

A Drupal security for coders presentation by Greg Knaddison (@greggles). He lead the audience in an exercise of breaking into a Drupal site. It was a thought experiment only -- no real Drupal sites were hacked. :-) Click on the image to read more.

P1100731 A group of surprised women

Jessica Rouse (left) and other women seemed surprised when I took a snapshot of them. :-)

P1100732 Drupal newbies represent!

Yvonne Beever, Fito Kahn, an unidentified guy, and Helen Bergin from Austin's Drupal Newbies group. At least half of those people are actually no newbies -- they work with Drupal for a living.

P1100734 Drupal newbies represent!

Fito Kahn, Yvonne Beever, an unidentified guy, and Helen Bergin from Austin's Drupal Newbies group. At least half of those people are actually no newbies -- they work with Drupal for a living.

P1100738 Rob Ristroph's presentation on debugging

Rob Ristroph gives a presentation on debugging Drupal sites. He didn't spend that much time on Drupal-specific debugging techniques (though he covered watchdog() and xdebug), as much as on analytical approach to debugging. Click on the image to read more.

P1100750 Diana Dupuis on Mad Skillz

In her "Mad skillz for Drupal developers" bird-of-feather session Diana Dupuis is laughing her head off at the notion that any of us will ever have enough Drupal skillz to be hired as professional developers. Just kidding. She was helpful.

P1100752 Diana Dupuis on Mad Skillz

In her "Mad skillz for Drupal developers" bird-of-feather session Diana Dupuis makes a list of skills Drupal development companies look for in developers. Click on the image to read her list.