Greetings from Barcelona. I'm sitting above Las Ramblas in Barcelona, five stories up in a loft with a cross breeze coming off the Mediterranean. It’s a pretty nice place to sit and work, fortunately. Truthfully, I know I'll have to return to Barcelona some day to actually explore it when there's not something so distractingly exciting as a Drupal Conference, which starts in just five days. 

At DrupalCon Barcelona, which runs through next Saturday, there will be more than 80 presentations across four days. So yeah, I’m excited : ) 

I'm looking forward to many of the presentations, particularly a couple on Drupal and Facebook, as well as some geekier ones about  a new database API based on PDO in PHP 5 and CCK in 6.x and beyond.

We're putting the finishing touches on the presentations we'll give at DrupalCon, which are part of the sessions Multilingual Drupal, Aggregation and Drupal, and SMS and Drupal. 

Jose Reyero and Gabor Hojtsy will be presenting on Multilingual Drupal. They’ll talk about the many advances that have been made for Drupal 6, what's left to nail on the road map, and the current status of multilingual websites on Drupal 5 in combination with contributed modules.

For Aggregation and Drupal Aron Novak, Ken Rickard, and Alex Barth will discuss past issues with aggregation in Drupal and recent advancements in contributed modules. Aron will also talk about the new feedAPI in depth and about the opportunity to join forces around the feedAPI and what this could mean for the future of aggregation in Drupal.

Will White, along with Chad Philips and Jeff Miccolis, will present on SMS and Drupal. This presentation will focus on the SMS Framework, how it is constructed, and the contributed modules that you can use with it. Will is going to discuss some of the lessons learned during the creation of the API, as well as a bigger picture of how SMS and Drupal work well together. Chad and Jeff will share additional use cases of SMS and Drupal.

We'll record our presentations and post them to the blog next week, so if you’re not headed to Barcelona you can check them out there. And if you are going, see you soon! I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone and meeting the first time attendees. We’ll have a table set up at the conference, so stop by and say hello!