In the last couple of weeks we received a lot of positive feedback on the usefulness of our consolidated registration system. People found it really easy that they didn't have to go contact receptionists to see in what hotels rooms were still available. On July 24th we are closing our accommodation service, so if you want to have us organize a hotel for you, you should register for the conference the coming week! You will still be able to see the hotel listing online, but you will have to organize everything yourself.

Drupalcon Szeged is again pulling a very international public. So far we have registered attendees from 35 countries. Hungary has a narrow lead with 43 participants, but is closely followed by the US with 40 and Germany with 35 registered participants. Next in line are Great-Britain, The Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden with 28, 20, 18 and 15 participants respectively (these statistics do not include people who didn't fill in their bio). There are 6 weeks left until the conference so there is still time to put a banner on your blog and get more people in your country to attend Drupalcon.

In the previous weeks we had great pre-conference workshops in Prague, Vienna and Szeged. On Thursday 17th there will be a workshop in Timisoara, a neighbour city of Szeged just across the border in Romania. The IT incubator there is helping us to create some buzz amongst their members and their students. They will be one of the organizations on the nearsourcing exhibition at Drupalcon.

If you are a company from Western-Europe or North-America looking for partner companies in Central Europe to outsource work to, or if you are a company from Central Europe in search for some additional contracts you should not miss out on the nearsourcing exhibition.

If you are working with Drupal then there are still three more exhibitions and a lot of other really good reasons why you should become a sponsor. It's a unique opportunity to contribute back and get visibility in the community. Acquia was the first company to sign up for a Platinum package, Sun for a Gold. Check out our packages to see how you can also get some serious value this August.

Ps. you also have some time still to suggest sessions: http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/propose