Several Drupal developers are meeting February 4-6, 2008 in Chicago to work on and re-design Drupal's core data architecture. Topics will include data APIs, object modeling, fields in core, and an overlapping swirl of related ideas. Our goal is to have a design proposal for presentation at DrupalCon Boston 2008. Over in our meetup planning group (http://groups.drupal.org/data-architecture-design-sprint), we welcome input on what we should try to cover and will blog there during the meetup to keep everyone informed on our progress. Note that we are only seven people meeting for three days; we need to stay very focused on a limited set of goals if we want to accomplish anything. Thanks, Barry