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As some of you already know my time as project lead and trainer at af83 came to an end last December. Their Drupal team will continue to be lead by the more than capable Damien Tournoud (@damz), one of the most prolific core Drupal contributors out there.

During my time in Paris I had a blast co-organizing DrupalCon Paris, helping grow the French community and being part of the team that founded l'association Drupal France et Francophonie, the French Drupal Association.

It's made me realize that community work is what makes me get up in the morning: the connecting, the building, the learning. It's awesome to witness and a privilege to take part in.

For starters: I am blessed with the attention span of a goldfish. Long blog posts usually make me go “Meh, maybe later. #todo #read”, unless they have a really important subject. Like this one.

So what’s this all about?
A while back, after a heated debate on #drupal, twitter and FB, Liza blogged about the Drupalcon Paris design being sexist – a sentiment shared by a suprising number of men and women.

Drupalcon. Europe. September. 2009. Paris. That is all.

All semi-shameless self-promotion aside, you can follow the drupal.org redesign sprint in Paris step by step on my twitter stream.

After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, the proposal for DrupalConParis 2009 was cleared to be submitted to the Drupal Association.

It’s been a very interesting ride, starting from scratch and putting together a proposal for a conference that must not only satisfy but rock 1000+ of you Drupal folks out there.

The past couple of days have been a real eye opener in regards to the rules of social interaction on drupal.org. Let me recap the comments and mails I’ve received the past 48 hours and draw some conclusions:

Issue subscriptions
Do not ‘subscribe’ to an issue you find interesting, even though at present there seems to be no other way to track one, not even an RSS feed. It ticks off module maintainers because they get mail notifications for each ‘subscription’.

Unsolicited help
Do not try to help unless you’re absolutely certain of what you’re saying.