I had a great time at DrupalCampNYC6 today! I got in on sessions about mobile Drupal sites, the Token module, Drupal and the Semantic Web, and mapping and geocoding in Drupal.

It’s fun to get together with fellow geek open source developers and share experiences about our favorite content management system. It’s also excellent to start putting faces and real people with folks I’ve only interacted with digitally. Too bad we can’t make it to DrupalCon DC.

Many thanks to the event sponsors, all the session presenters, and Eric at OpenFlows and all the other volunteers who organized the event.

[EDIT 3/2: Check out the write-up in today's NY Times!]

The Drupal content management platform is a favorite tool of ours here at Dtek. The Drupal community continues to grow, and Drupal is powering more and more web sites out there. A few sites of particular interest to me personally have caught my eye recently:

• President Obama’s Official Stimulus and Economic Recovery web site (and write-up by Drupal project lead, Dries Buytaert)
• Human Rights Watch (and write-up by Drupal project lead, Dries Buytaert)
• World Food Programme (and write-up by Drupal project lead, Dries Buytaert)
• Mother Jones (and write-up by Drupal project lead, Dries Buytaert)
• Google’s Measurement Lab (and write-up by Drupal project lead, Dries Buytaert)
• Al Jazeera Creative Commons repository of video footage from the recent Gaza violence (and write-up by Drupal rockstar Robert Douglass)
• bobdylan.com
• And last but not least, Rhys and my alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis

We built a web site for the Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifier project (VUHID; pronounced “view-hid”) a year and a half ago. Since then, Global Patient Identifiers, Inc (GPII) was formed as a parent company for VUHID.

Working with Bad Feather, we created a new identity and logo for GPII, updated the VUHID logo for visual consistency, and reworked the web site to be the combined home for both GPII and VUHID. See the new GPII identity, and the latest on the VUHID project, at gpii.info.

Through VUHID, GPII hopes to improve healthcare through a slew of benefits to all the related stakeholders, while taking privacy concerns very seriously.

Keep up the good work, GPII!