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It's that time of year again. Time to pack your bags, find your passport, and head off to immerse yourself in Drupal for several days. That's right, DrupalCon Paris is just around the corner!

Seven Palantiri will be attending this year, all staying on the beautiful Ile Saint Louis. It's a small island in the middle of the river where Palantir will be tucked into a spacious apartment for a week. You know where the party room is now. (OK, the coding room. Same thing.) Neighbors welcome!

And of course, as always Palantir will be quite talkative. Here's a rundown of the Palantir track:

Palantir has just launched the new Web site for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts! Ponies for everyone! Just kidding - about the ponies, not Sam Fox.

Along with design partner Studio Blue, we have created a site that brings together Sam Fox's Graduate and Undergraduate Schools of Art and Architecture into one pleasing online experience. It was built in Drupal 6 and features snazzy new modules, such as Views Date Range, Flashy, and Views Cycle, all of which Palantir developed specifically for the project. They have now been flung out into the Drupal community for all to enjoy.

Come back soon to peep our case study, but in the meantime, you can view our Sam Fox presentation at DrupalCon DC here.

DrupalCon DC is begins tomorrow! Palantir is out in full force this year, with no less than ten members of the team on hand. Try and find us around the conference (we're the ones with baseball shirts; go team!) for a free Drupal API reference card or Zen theming reference card. For all that coding on the plane home after the conference. (Admit it, you know you'll be doing it.)

And while you're at it, participate in the Palantir DrupalCon Geeky Code Contest to win a signed copy of Learning Drupal 6 Module Development! See below for details.

Hard to believe. I have been going to DrupalCON since the Vancouver summit in 2006. Back then, I was doing fact-finding research for a large company, where I was the only Drupal convert.

Quite a bit has changed in the Drupal universe since then. The site I was showing off in Vancouver (toting a prototype on my laptop and cornering Boris Mann for advice) was built in Drupal 4.6. I remember going to a small session (there may have been 16 people there), where Earl Miles was explaining the first Views release. In one work session, I did a card-sorting exercise with Dries, Earl and Nedjo Rogers, which resulted in the clustered administration menus we have now (the 'User management' group is my fault).

But enough of the past. Next week, we all gather again in Washington D.C. (where I was born), in a group 10 times larger than the one in Vancouver. And for the first time, I will be attending the North American DrupalCON as a member of Palantir. As a result, I get to take a little break this time, after presenting at the last 4 DrupalCONs, I will be spending my time collaborating with and learning from my colleagues at Palantir and in the entire Drupal community.

To that end, here are the Palantir events that I am looking forward to: