Drupalcamp Colorado 2009 has come and gone. The event garnered over 200 participants - at least half of which came from out of State. Over 40 sessions (if you include BOFs and the opening and closing sessions) occurred over the two days ranging from pure business to the highly technical. Ubercart was heavily presented with Ubercamp partnering with Drupalcamp. The camp was followed by a media sprint.

pingVision presented in quite a few sessions:

• Functional Interactive Design - Laura Scott

Traditionally, grant making has been practiced in an analog/paper-based manner. Grant forms are printed and the grantee applies for the grant by typing on the form. More recently, fill-able PDFs have allowed applicants to fill out forms on computer. However, filling out the form is only the very first part of the grant-making process.

Proprietary grant systems are expensive. They can be REALLY expensive and then have licensing fees. They price the small player right out of the market and tax the resources of the larger players leaving less money to distribute to grantees.

Less Money to distribute=Less Good in the target community.

Have a great idea that can lower technical barriers in Drupal? Want to help provide powerful tools for digital publication? Have a way to encourage people to improve their communities by supporting the free exchange of information and ideas?

Want a GRANT to make it happen?

Digital publishing can help people improve their communities by giving them tools to connect people and ideas.

Imagine you and a friend are driving down the highway. Both of you are going the exact same speed and you are headed to the same Mall. On the way, you decide you are going to go to Sears and your friend decides that she wants to go to Barnes and Nobel--still at the same Mall. Mysteriously your car drops from 65 miles an hour to 35 miles an hour but your friend, she is still going full speed ahead.