It's that time of year again. We're headed to Washington DC for the first DrupalCon in 2009, and this time, we're a platinum sponsor of the event. Running from March 4 through March 7, DrupalCon DC is sold out and anticipating something in the nature of 1,350 attendees. We're thrilled to be involved with the biggest DrupalCon yet!

Besides setting up out table on the convention floor, our own Chris Pliakas will be presenting a session on his Search Lucene API, an interface for modules to index and search content using a Lucene backend. Search Lucene API integrates the Zend Framework's Zend_Search_Lucene component to provide a native PHP implementation of the Apache Lucene project. He will be joined in his presentation by fellow CommonPlacers Erich Beyrent and Mike Machnik. You can see their full agenda here on the DrupalCon site.