&gt;&gt; Related to that, how about Drupal as an application framework rather than CMS?<br>&gt;&gt; Is anyone but me silly enough to do that? :-)<br><br>Oddly enough, I proposed this for O&#39;Reilly OSCON but was turned down,
<br><br>I&#39;ll touch on this topic, twice.&nbsp; Once in &quot;Enterprise&quot; Drupal [1] and once in Using Drupal with External Data Sources [2].<br><br>I also put in a session for Drupal and the Future of News [3], which addresses Dries&#39; &quot;blogging v. journalism&quot; topic.
<br><br>+1 for &quot;Dating a Drupal developer&quot;.&nbsp; FWIW, I am coordinating the partner/wife/husband/friend meetup for those traveling with but not attending the con. [4]<br><br>- Ken Rickard<br>agentrickard<br><br>[1] 
<a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/422">http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/422</a><br>[2] <a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/58">http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/58</a><br>[3] <a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/423">
http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/423</a><br>[4] <a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/370">http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/370</a><br>