While Scott was coordinating the Denver Drupal meetup's annual Drupalgames, Jason was on the opposite side of the globe visiting the Hong Kong Drupal user group.

October's Denver Drupal meetup was focused on "DevOps," with a presentation by Ned McClain from Applied Trust. Ned had given a similar presentation at the Boulder meetup last month, and kindly agreed to make the trek to Denver for those of us who missed the first one. Ned started by talking about changing approaches to development, quickly explaining the difference between the traditional "waterfall" approach with bigger release cycles, and the "agile" approach with smaller release cycles.

September's Denver Drupal meetup was packed, not only with attendees, but also with information as all of the night's presentations were "lightning talks" - 5 minute presentations followed by a maximum of 2 questions. We started the night with the usual round of introductions along with the (mildly horrifying) question of, "What would you use, if you couldn't use Drupal?" The answers covered a broad range of existing open source CMS products, but my favorite response was from Jordan, who said, "I'd stop building sites and go teach hang gliding.... [pause]...

At current growth rates, mobile will be the most common way to use the web as early as 2013. Already, 1 in 5 mobile users don't own a computer. They access the web entirely on mobile devices, mostly phones. Mobile means a big change to how we use the web, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg. We’re just starting to realize a fully-networked world, where the web is accessed from any device.