With somewhere between 850 and 900 people in attendance, the keynote room for Dries’ was quite full and very impressive.

At 1:00, in room 252A, we’ll be having a “Birds of a feather” meeting to discuss the future directions of the ApacheSolr module. I’ll be giving a short demonstration of what the module can currently do, and then we’ll talk about:

• Solr features that aren’t yet implemented
• How to expand the test coverage
• The relevance of search results and how to measure/improve them
• The state of ApacheSolr documentation
• ApacheSolr for Drupal 6
• Search and Drupal 7

It is time to get excited about the next Drupalcon. It will be hosted by Yahoo! on their Sunnyvale, CA campus, and will be a sub-conference of the wider OSCMS Summit. I'll be presenting a session on Drupal's search capabilities, including how to extend Drupal search and some of the alternatives that are to be found.

Don't go home too soon!

The fun is only starting at the Drupalcon. On the Saturday and Sunday right after, Lullabot is organizing first a seminar on High Performance and Scalability, and then a Drupal hack-a-thon. The hack-a-thon will be free of charge and open to the public.