After I had a great time at #d4d (Design 4 Drupal - Boston) I thought I'd post a quick note on the current sessions I'm proposing for Drupalcon Paris.

I plan to try to get to Paris no matter what, but I was told that if I wanted to get the company to send me, I had to get a session approved, so I'm off and working on a couple great topics, and how I can really make them into valuable sessions for a wide variety of users.

My first submission was on the 960gs theme (ninesixty) for Drupal. I've had the pleasure of using the photoshop grid overlays created by @nathansmith for quite some time in my designs, but never used the real underlying power of the CSS behind it. I'm an idiot, I know. After getting to see @nathansmith and @toddross in their combined presentation on 960 at Design 4 Drupal - Boston, I was very excited to get back to the drawning board on some 960gs ideas and implementations.

The second submission I have put in is for the current Taxonomy module I'm working on, called Taxonomy Rockstar. The module is still very incomplete, but came about after a project here at CommonPlaces where I was faced with what should have been a very simple task in rendering a slick taxonomy browser. I found that it would have taken 5 or more DEV release modules to come close to building out 60-75% of the functionality that I needed. So for this project, a 300 or so line custom module was done. At some point that module really broke from where I want Taxonomy Rockstar to go, but it gave me a great example of how to really leverage taxonomy to do anything you can imagine.

With all that in mind, I'm working on detailed descriptions and ideas of what I will cover in each session. To read more about the sessions, and to vote them up if you are already registered for Drupalcon Paris, please visit the following links!

• 960 theming overview

• Taxonomy Rockstar - Bending Taxonomy to your needs

Please vote for them, and help send me to Paris!!!