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Lullabot's Drupal Voices Podcast to Cover DrupalCon Chicago

Blog by Kent ByeFebruary 28, 2011 - 2:44am

DrupalCon Chicago is just around the corner, and I plan on roaming the hallways again conducting Drupal Voices podcast interviews with the movers and shakers and rising stars of the Drupal World.

Last year, I conducted 23 hours worth of interviews with 80 people over the course of five days at DrupalCon San Francisco. These were all edited and slowly released over the six months that followed. They're all still available to download either via the Drupal Voices iTunes feed, RSS feed or the All Lullabot Podcasts RSS feed.

Hopefully the Drupal Voices interviews in the past have helped to provide a snapshot of major news and announcements, hot modules and emerging trends in the Drupal World, as well as to feature the passions and personalities of some of the most active members the Drupal community.

In Chicago, I'll be on the hunt, looking for interviews with DrupalCon speakers, Drupal site builders and more. I'll be looking to capture news about new and updated Drupal 7 modules and distributions, Drupal 8 development plans, and the passions and interests of the Drupal community.

  • Do you have any specific topic suggestions for me to cover?
  • Do you have suggestions for people that I should try to interview?

Leave a comment down below, find me on Twitter at @kentbye, or track me down in the hallways of The Drupal Tower in Chicago.

Kent Bye doing Drupal Voices Interviews
(Photo Credit: Jen Lampton)

Comments

Dipen (not verified) on February 28, 2011 - 8:30am

Things I would like to hear about.

1> Drupal 8 Development Priorities, what to expect and the focus.
2> Continuous Integration with drupal.
3> Development Workflows ( drush make, install profiles, features and the tweaks/problems teams face )
4> Some performance related podcasts would be good too.
5> Best practices for teams, development workflows is something I am very interested to listen about.
6> Also Aegir related stuff (road map etc) would be nice

Have a great time at drupalcon.

Cheers

Matt Farina (not verified) on February 28, 2011 - 4:11pm

Front End Performance

Front End Performance has been overlooked a lot in the Drupal community. Some of our sites are big and slow to load (for people not on a super high speed connection or not in a modern browser). This is the first DrupalCon I'm aware of with multiple speakers on the topic.

A couple potential people to talk to are Dan Mouyard and Theresa Summa.

kim-day (not verified) on February 28, 2011 - 10:41am

drupal in higher ed environments

Hey Kent -- Thanks for the great podcast. I always learn a lot from listening.

Perhaps you could interview someone like Bryan Ollendyke at PSU for an update on how drupal is being used in higher education. I'm particularly interested in how drupal is gaining users in a grassroots way as opposed to being adopted by the ITS dept and deployed top-down.

dboulet (not verified) on February 28, 2011 - 10:51am

That's great Kent, I always

That's great Kent, I always enjoy the Drupal Voices podcasts.

lisarex (not verified) on February 28, 2011 - 12:55pm

Great for the busy (or lazy)

That's awesome. I enjoyed last year's podcasts. Drupal Voices is great for learning more about the wider Drupal community, especially if you're busy or just a bit lazy ;)

Mightybytes, Inc. (not verified) on March 18, 2011 - 4:04pm

DrupalCon Chicago

Hey Kent, my name is Steve. I work for Mightybytes, Inc. We are a digital design and development company in Chicago. Most of our crew attended DrupalCon, and we compiled a list of our favorite take-aways from the conference: http://bit.ly/DrupalConChicago. What were some of your favorite take-aways?