For over a year now, Peter and I have been working on re-developing our web based conference management codebase with Drupal. The opportunity to do this for a real conference with a real need arose when we were asked to join the technical committee for the 2010 Australian Computers in Education Conference.

I first registered the domain name for ACEC2010 on 12 December 2006 to put up a placeholder web page, and Creative Contingencies agreed to provide pro bono technical consulting to the conference in early 2008. We subsequently were engaged to develop the conference website in early 2009, but have continued to assist with a range of technical issues along the way.

The conference opens in a little over a week. The program chairs, Dr Donna Gronn and Dr Geoff Romeo have done an extraordinary job of sorting, sifting and arranging the program. The formal refereed call for papers opened in late February 2009, and the conference proceedings CDs have already arrived! Ready to be packed in to attendee satchels next week.

Visit the website at http://acec2010.info

It was a drupal filled week.  We set two new Drupal sites free into the world, and signed up to sponsor DrupalSouth.

DrupalSouth is happening in Wellington on the weekend of 23-24 January 2010. It promises to be New Zealand's largest gathering of Drupalppl with Australia and elsewhere due to the proximity of linux.conf.au taking place the week immediately before hand. The totally fabulous Angie Byron and Emma Jane Hogbin will be speaking, as will scores of other great Drupal professionals, and not-so professionals.  After attending Melbourne DrupalCamp earlier this year, I am really looking forward to participating and getting to know more of the local community. 

For the past 6 months or so, I've been working with a small team of people to put together Open Edge 2009, a one day forum to explore open education issues for Australian schools.  We've got a phenomenal list of contributors involved and I'm really looking forward to it.

 Tomorrow morning I'm doing a talk at the K12 Open Minds Conference in Indianapolis.

Grab a copy of the slides: OpenRoad.pdf, view the video - and follow these links to some of the references.