This morning we (I’m sharing a room with Larry Garfield, remember?) took the tram at the Sant Marti de l’Erm stop, which is 5 minutes walking from our hotel, grabbed breakfast on our way there, took the T2 tram and got off at Fontsanta - Fátjo (which is only 2 stops further). Total tram travelling time: 35 minutes, of which 15 minutes of waiting for the tram. Hurray!
When we arrived, there was a very short line (5 people or so). You get a bag with the official logo and on the inside you can find a DrupalCon sticker, a MySQL 6 reference card, a weird-yet-cool key fob from CivicActions with the imprint “Changing the World One Node at a Time” and of course a DrupalCon t-shirt and lanyard .
Next we moved on to the “laptop room”, where everybody would do geeky Drupal or non-Drupal stuff on their laptops. It kind of also was the Meet & Greet room. Larry pointed me to Earl Miles (merlinofchaos) when he walked by, so him I’ve met too already.
At about 10:35, the welcome message began. Bert Boerland gave an introductory talk, during which the mic already started to have problems. Then it was Dries who gave a short overview of the evolution of DrupalCons (the first being held for 26 people), or rather the explosive growth. And finally Robert Garrigos, the main organizer of the event finished off. See the first attached picture.