Wrote this on the post announcing the merit-based DrupalCon Chicago scholarship winners:
With 4,000 attendees
We can do scholarships for 100 people. We can certainly do better than twenty-one.
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Title of session: When There's Not a Module for That: Building a Drupal 7 Module Track: Code Experience: Intermediate