By Wombats

Well, Ubercamp is now a couple days over and my sunburned shoulders are starting to heal. It's a small price to pay for an awesome weekend on the Lake with my wife, co-workers, and new friends from Michigan, California, and Tennessee. We were blessed to have such wonderful company, weather, and food!

A quick recap is in order... (If you don't feel like clicking individual picture links, feel free to check out Tim's Ubercamp galleries.)

• We group tested/packaged up the 1.2 release.
• We spent Friday night in the dock getting used to the boat and to one another, chowing down on burgers and brats, and dance dancing our revolution.
• Saturday we taxied out of the marina and found a private cove perfect for tubing, swimming, chowing, and hacking in peace.
• Roundtable discussion over lunch (farm fresh chicken and sweet corn) and into the evening about where Ubercart is, where it's headed, and how we can more effectively enable and benefit from the community (and the Drupal community at large). Good notes here... action to follow.
• I kayaked into the sunset and didn't want to return or go home (ever).
• More informal learning and discussion time over an awesome steak dinner on Saturday and egg breakfasts on Sunday morning.
• Sunday we had some final tubing and WaveRunner play time as we brought the houseboat back to port and lamented the end of Ubercamp 1.0.

So, all in all it was a wonderful wonderful trip... We made some good movement on Ubercart, got some feedback from developers/users (and one potential user), and were able to hash out some of the details for moving forward into Drupal 6 and beyond. If I would change anything in the future, I'd remember to take pictures of the food and try to block out more time for the informal learning time. I think everyone has something to learn and to share, and I found these times to be very fruitful.

In case you can't tell by the pictures, you missed a crazy good time if you weren't there. We hope to see more people in the future, and we hope the events encourage/enable more people to dive into developing Ubercart sites and modules.

Special thanks go to Mike and Tim for providing the food and the WaveRunner and to Andy for letting us use and enjoy the houseboat for the weekend.