Six Drupal developers met for three days in Feburary 2008 to work on and re-design Drupal's core data architecture. We began with an overly broad list of topics and goals and spoke in very general terms about "Drupal's overall mission" and similarly vague concepts. By the end of the design sprint, we devised a tangible vision for Drupal's future and an understandable method for getting there. In more concrete terms, we talked about moving CCK fields in core and how local data fields (e.g. votes, comments, whatever) can be attached to remote data objects. Our notes and discussions are available at http://groups.drupal.org/data-architecture-design-sprint. Please read at least everything starting from our Day 1 notes before telling us how stupid we are. :-) Thanks, Barry