The annual European DrupalCon is coming to the U.K. on August 22-26, 2011. The venue for the event is Fairfield Halls in Croydon just south of London. If you're anywhere close, this will be the place to find out the latest happenings in the Drupal community. Come join us!

We'll have one Drupal Commerce session on the official schedule, a panel discussion titled Developing with Drupal Commerce. Several long time contributors to the project will be joining me to discuss what it takes to use Drupal Commerce on European projects of various sizes and complexities and how to best write code to add features or integrate with external services. I'm excited to lead the discussion and will take the opportunity to introduce each aspect of the modules and code that we talk about.

If you're looking for more in depth information on Drupal Commerce, join Commerce Guys for a full day of Drupal Commerce training on August 22, 2011. We'll be covering every aspect of the core modules in addition to introducing new functionality meant to improve the site builder experience around creating product displays and customizable Add to Cart forms.

Finally, expect to see a full schedule of "Birds of a Feather" (BoF) sessions that couldn't fit into the official conference program. With five times as many sessions proposed as were accepted to the conference schedule, it was inevitable that many Drupal Commerce proposals would be left out. BoF sessions provide a chance for interested attendees to still gather and discuss a topic of interest in a specially designated area of the conference venue.

We hope to see many of you there!