Clients seem to come in sets. A couple months back, I had several clients who had hired cheap off-shore companies 12 time zones away whose developers were curiously unavailable by phone, email or carrier pigeon.
As you might know, we try to organize at least two big Drupal events a year: one in North America and one in Europe. The latest Drupal conference took place in Vancouver and attracted more than 150 people!
In part 2 of their "Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site," IBM developerWorks has posted a great tutorial on a