Now Accepting Proposals for Core Conversations

Proposals are now open for the Core Conversations track. We'll be accepting proposals through 21 January.

The Core Conversations track is an evolution of the "Developers Summit" from previous DrupalCons. Rather than a pre-conference day it is a separate, side-track for more focused, future-looking proposals for Drupal Core, Drupal.org, and Drupal Documentation.

Core Conversations will be held in a separate, smaller room from the main tracks, and will be heavily discussion oriented. Each session should begin with either one 30 minute or two 15 minute presentations on how to improve some aspect of Core, Drupal.org, or Documentation followed by 30 minutes of discussion. The goal is to give advanced, engaged developers a sort of "conference within a conference" to focus on the highly thorny issues that can only be properly addressed in person.

For each proposal, we ask for a clear statement of the problem and a description of the proposed solution. That will help the reviewing team (Dries Buytaert, Larry Garfield, and Moshe Weitzman) to figure out what sessions we can include and how to pair them up. We will be announcing the selected sessions around the start of February in order to give presenters just over a month to prepare.

Are Core Coversations for me?

The target audience who would get the most out of a Core Conversations session are those actively engaged in pushing Drupal forward:

• People actively engaged in developing and furthering Drupal core.
• People actively engaged in developing and furthering the Drupal.org infrastructure so that it can better support the rapidly growing Drupal community.
• People actively engaged in developing and furthering Drupal documentation.
• People with specific proposals for how to improve some aspect of Drupal core, the Drupal.org infrastructure, or documentation.

If you are new to Drupal, work mostly in contrib space, or simply want to learn more about Drupal and Drupal development then you will get far more out of the regular sessions, particularly in the Coder, Themer, and Site Building tracks.