All Drupal developers should plan to make their way to the west coast of Canada for the event to kick off your year: the Open Source CMS Summit and DrupalCon. As the event page says, this will be a developer-centric event focused on collaborating together on future directions and everyone's favourite topic -- APIs!

There will likely be some time for relaxing as well, with skiing being excellent that time of year on Vancouver's coastal mountains or even up at Whistler, for some of the best mountains in the world.

Chad Phillips and Angie Byron are the two main Drupal organizers, with Boris Mann and Roland Tanglao doing the Vancouver local organizing and helping with the summit as a whole. Please join the Drupal conference mailing list and/or check out the wiki to add your own ideas to make this a great gathering of Drupalites. Oh, and of course, flip the switch in your user profile to get listed on the attendees page.

Next up: FOSDEM 2006 in Brussels -- please step up if you'd like to help organize Drupal's presence there.