Wicked Awesome Code Sprint

I'm at my first-ever code sprint at DrupalCon in Szeged, Hungary. It is awesome. The room is just buzzing with activity. I know that people have talked about this kind of thing before, and I know they always say it's awesome, but it really really is! We're all clustered into groups. I'm sitting with the documentation team and am working through the issue queue for the on-line handbooks. At this very moment (well actually not this very moment) I'm working on an update for the Node types page.

There are probably 20% of the conference participants attending the post-conference sprint. The best part is that there are absolutely all skill levels here. One of the biggest tasks for new contributors is sorting through the issue queue and making sure things have been assigned to the right team. At first it sounded overwhelming but with a few minutes of hands-on time people have installed IRC clients and are getting stuff done.

If you've never attended a code sprint before, I highly recommend it! In fact if you've got time next week you may want to join the fray this coming week in the Ubuntu Developer Week. IRC skillz will be useful, but there's some basic instructions on the Joining In page.

PS Angie also is working on her first-ever core patch commit (this is the first non-Dries commit for the Drupal 7 core). It's very exciting and there are a lot of cameras. And pizza and chocolate.