Though it may sound like an odd type of camping, ritual Drupal Camp Colorado does not involve tents and the great outdoors. Rather, it took place inside at Denver Open Media July 26^th and 27^th. Drupal is an open source content management system and development framework that is used to make this website, my website, the Denver Open Media website, Popular Science, Sony My Play, and the all-important news source The Onion .

The camp brought together over 100 people from Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Albuquerque, New York and, virtually, from Boston and Poland. The conference was mainly for developers and site designers, but there were also end-users of Drupal who came to learn new skills and share their skills with others in the community. All of the sessions are led by people in the community, and the sessions were voted on by the people who attended.

Among the most popular sessions were two sessions on applying themes that were given over the Internet by a 12-year-old from Poland. I went to his first session, and he did a very good job. I also enjoyed presentations on different modules (add-on's) for Drupal and on ideas about site design.

I got to do a session that was an introduction to Drupal. It was wonderful as someone who is not a developer or an advanced web designer to be able to share my knowledge with those learning what I learned over the last year.

The event was a lot of fun, with people telling fun, often geeky, stories and just hanging out with other like-minded people.

You can go to the Drupal Camp Colorado website to find out more about the event or to find out about the already unfolding 2009 event. If you are a Drupal user interested in being part of things like this in the Denver/Boulder area, look at the Denver/Boulder Drupal User Group (DBUG).