Feeling a wee bit out classed
Yeah, this was expected. After one day at DrupalCon DC, I'm feeling more than a little out of place.
See, I don't live and breath this stuff, but I can see its potential. I can't make it do everything it can. I'm really not even interested in getting to know the inner workings well enough to be able to make it sing.
What I am, though, is an evangelist. This technology--a solid open-source, easy to use, extensible and well-supported content management system--is just plain awesome. Working day to day with static sites, I've grown to appreciate CMS-based sites more and more. And Drupal has been the best CMS I've come across so far.
But at this conference I'm surrounded by the people who are building it. People who live and breath to bend it to their wills and make it do amazing things for their clients. They see the inner workings and potential of the system in a light and with a driving passion that I just can't seem to muster.
This is often the case, no matter the venue or topic. There are a good many things I have some amount of passion for... but very rarely does that passion sustain when the situation takes me away from the direct need to work with such things. Oh, it always returns when my hands are on the keyboard or the situation sparks an idea... but it's not a sustained drive to create or recreate like I see in the eyes of many of the convention attendees. (And convention, for that matter.)
We'll see how I feel after another few days of this. Right now, there are just a lot of thoughts mixing with a ton of information, percolating toward insight. I hope.
See, I don't live and breath this stuff, but I can see its potential. I can't make it do everything it can. I'm really not even interested in getting to know the inner workings well enough to be able to make it sing.
What I am, though, is an evangelist. This technology--a solid open-source, easy to use, extensible and well-supported content management system--is just plain awesome. Working day to day with static sites, I've grown to appreciate CMS-based sites more and more. And Drupal has been the best CMS I've come across so far.
But at this conference I'm surrounded by the people who are building it. People who live and breath to bend it to their wills and make it do amazing things for their clients. They see the inner workings and potential of the system in a light and with a driving passion that I just can't seem to muster.
This is often the case, no matter the venue or topic. There are a good many things I have some amount of passion for... but very rarely does that passion sustain when the situation takes me away from the direct need to work with such things. Oh, it always returns when my hands are on the keyboard or the situation sparks an idea... but it's not a sustained drive to create or recreate like I see in the eyes of many of the convention attendees. (And convention, for that matter.)
We'll see how I feel after another few days of this. Right now, there are just a lot of thoughts mixing with a ton of information, percolating toward insight. I hope.