I’m always astounded when I read about a lot of the Drupallers talking about the various cons, be they Drupal cons or something in the same vein for some other product. A lot of people — I hesitate to say most because I don’t really have that much observational data, but certainly many — have the opinion that these get togethers are a place to be productive and actually accomplish work.

It’s weird, because I usually feel exactly the opposite. I’m there to be social; to interact with others, to learn from them, and to get the most out of time spent with other people.

A year ago, I began the long odyssey of creating Assign Blame, a multi-user blog where I had editorial control over published content, but I didn’t intend to be the primary creator of content. This was a great idea, of course, except for the fact that nobody else wanted to be the primary creator of content either and as such, the site has languished since November; nearly six months, now, it’s sat, waiting. I haven’t bothered with it much, lately, because it’s still running under 4.6. Still, despite the site languishing, creating the proper tools to make that site work and contributing them back to Views has, in fact, been one of my driving desires.