Something really big. Something possibly life changing. Or at least blog changing.

I’ve decided that this freelancing thing is silly. That there are bigger fish to catch, higher mountains, the works.

What’s not silly is starting a company. Which I did. It’s called Function.

Function is the company that works with open source development shops to make their project management better, to help train their project managers, support them in their growth cycles, and generally keep the wheels on. I don’t know where the road leads from here, but it seems to have Function written all over it.

From this point forward (and from a few weeks ago), msamye.com is now my personal blog about, oh, magical robot ponies and kitties and riding bikes and world travel and whatever else normal people put on their blogs.

Short version: msamye.com = silliness and other good stuff. createfunction.com = equal parts substance and style.

Come along for the ride.

1) Write on your badge. If you’re doing new cool things, put it on there! If you’re hiring, and I think a few people might be, put that on there too.
2) Perform the Ceremonial DeBadging as you’re leaving the venue. While it’s funny to be branded with this weird blue alien that stares at people, don’t let that out in public.
3) Look at the schedule, see what you want to go to.. and then spend the rest of the time in the Hallway track. That’s where you’ll learn the most, from meeting with people.
4) See if you can’t brush up on actual names instead of drupal.org usernames. I haven’t seen the badge designs yet, but usually, first names are on top and are most visible. (Crell is actually Larry, etc.)
5) Go with the flow. Drupal’s moving and changing, and this is one of the points in the year where we get to talk about where we’re going, where we’ve been, and what cool things we want to see happen.

Saturday was sessions all day, with highlights include: Josh Konig talking about Drupal in the Cloud, Sam Boyer talking about Panels, Damien Tournoud talking about Drupal 7, and Bill Fitzgerald talking about Views. An international rockstar DrupalCamp, clearly. (There were also great conversations over sushi, showing out of towners more of the beautiful city of Portland, and appreciating Portland’s great microbrews.)

Yeah, I gave a session on project management.

I’ve spent the last few days in San Francisco deeply buried in Drupal and the future of Ubercart, and am flying up to Vancouver this afternoon to work with the D7CX initiative. We’ll be posting more about that in conjunction with BadCamp and the Drupal 7 Contributed Module sprint this weekend.
In fact, in almost every region of the US and Canada, there’s a Drupal event going on. Drupal Events Calendar
No, I’m serious.

See you all in Vancouver!