Hello world, as you might know, we're busy organizing DrupalCON Europe in Brussels (http://groups.drupal.org/drupalcon-brussels-2006). It will take place after OSCON Europe, O'Reilly's Open Source conference (http:// conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/). Please find attached a tentative schedule. We're going to organize a one-day GovCamp, a BarCamp-style conference about technology in governments. GovCamp is organized by Bart Van Herreweghe, who works for the Belgian prime minister. Brussels is the heart of the European Union and so there is always lots of government stuff happening here. This might be interesting for many of the CivicSpace users who use Drupal for political campaigns or for those who use Drupal within government institutions. If all goes well, we'll have two dedicated Drupal days on Friday and Saturday. Sunday might be a third DrupalCON day depending on the availability of the venue. If anything, there will be a BarCamp on Sunday organized by Peter Forret. BarCamp itself will like take place elsewhere in Brussels, so if we can't get hold of a venue for Sunday, we can always hang out at BarCamp. Johan Janssens, Joomla's lead developer, said he would be at BarCamp so chances are there will be a dedicated CMS track. A BarCamp could be really fun! :-) Note that we are still waiting for confirmation from the venue(s) and bear in mind that we might have to shuffle things around! Mixel Kiemen (http://drupal.org/user/46625 - info@mixel.be) is taking a lead in securing the DrupalCON venue. I'll be away from the keyboard the next couple days so make sure to CC Mixel if something comes up. We won't publicly promote OSCON/GovCamp/DrupalCON/BarCamp until the DrupalCON venues are confirmed but I figured a status update to the development mailing list was in order. Please don't book plane tickets yet. Hopefully, we get confirmation soon. More information is available at http://groups.drupal.org/drupalcon- brussels-2006. Thoughts or suggestions? -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/