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The next North American Drupalcon is Drupalcon Boston 2008, coming up March 3rd to March 6th, in Boston. The new combined Raincity team will be attending, although I'll leave it up to later posts to talk about that.

I was asked by the chairs of the site building track to submit a proposal. After a little bit of thinking about what kind of hand waving I might do, I decided to submit my first proposal on Mapping Business Requirements to Drupal Modules - the Gap Fit Process. This is essentially the very first part of any consulting engagement that we go through with clients. What are the requirements, and what modules, themes, and custom code can help match these requirements? I hope to make this a much more transparent process, and share best practices not only on what modules get chosen, but why they get chosen, and teach people how to do better module picking. 'Better' in this case meaning community supported and good quality code.

The second session I've submitted so far is a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session -- RDF and the Semantic Web in Drupal. The infamous Arto has been doing great stuff here, and when I made a post about my rediscovered love for RDF, I got several people contacting me mentioning that they were also doing a bunch of semantic work with Drupal. So, let's figure out where the intersection of Drupal and the Semantic Web is.

Interested in these topics? Sign up at the Drupalcon Boston site and vote for my sessions!