We're going to lock Adrian in a room with John VanDyk and see what happens. Some sort of fusion reaction, or at least sparks, I suspect.
I'm primarily interested in things like metadata, workflow engines, publish and subscribe, how much work it is to write a technical book, Drupal in education, and, of course, the upcoming Content Construction Kit for Drupal, which I'll be happy to demonstrate for you. Combined with the forms API being written by Adrian Rossouw, it oughta rock.
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I have high hopes for John's publish and subscribe modules. They allow any two Drupal sites to easily pass content back and forth in a very rich way. Specifically, while RSS is the lowest common denominator for passing basic content back and forth, publish and subscribe works at a much richer level between sites that support it. All content gets inserted directly into the database, rather than as a second-class feed item. Today, this only works on Drupal sites. I'd like to experiment with making these Drupal modules a kind of XML-RPC API so that different services can have content flow into sites. It's the closest I've seen to a Drupal web services API.