So, by the time most people read this blog post, the Raincity Studios crew will be winging their way towards Boston from Vancouver. We've got lots of first time Drupalcon attendees, and I'm really excited at introducing everyone to the team.

Adrian is the South African Drupal core contributor we all know and love. We didn't manage to have him visit us in Canada first, so we'll have to make do with spending some quality time together in Boston. He's pumped up on Hostmaster juice.

Audrey is a long time member of the local Vancouver PHP Users Group community and has been on database import / export duty on all of our major projects. We've been relying on her so heavily that she hasn't had time to contribute an extended user theme module that lets users pick themes for their blogs, as well as some book review stuff that will probably extend the Userpoints module.

Djun has been diving into the RDF stuff I blogged about recently, and pouring out some CoCKTaiL goodness.

Katherine just finished her first user group presentation on jQuery as well as having committed her first contribute module, Quicktabs.

Steve doesn't quite know whether he's a designer or a developer, and along the way he's an awesome themer as well. Oh, right, and then his most recent post on the command line goodness that is drush, and how to run it locally with MAMP. There was something about iPhones as well.

Robert Scales, Raincity Studios CEO, will of course be along to do the majority of the business heavy lifting, as well as talk about some of our current experiences opening an office and trying to kickstart a Drupal ecosystem in Shanghai. Then it's off to SXSW for him and the other half of the RCS team.

Along with the RCS team, we've got other Vancouver Drupal folks along like Ariane K from Raised Eyebrow and Scott and Ianiv from the NowPublic team (the rest of whom are congregating from all over the world).

Coming along from China is newly-elected Drupal Association Board Member Jacob Redding. It's been great to chat with him here in Vancouver about everything from training to worldwide event coordination at the grass roots level.

Lastly, a special special awesome thanks to Corinn: she organized our butts from here to Boston and even managed to sweet talk the hotel to run daily shuttle service back and forth to the conference center. There look to be over 30 rooms booked at the Courtyard Marriot. w00t! After hours party time...er...I mean, serious coding!...at the Marriot.

Well, that's about it. No sleep 'til Boston, and my cab to the airport picks me up in about 20 minutes. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!