Eli White (Editor-in-Chief of the Zend Developer Zone) recently attended this year's DrupalCon in Washington and has posted a summary of his experiences there.

I attended DrupalCon DC 2009 as a member of the press, in order to report on it (this blog post), but also so that I could get a general feel for the Drupal community & their own style/take on a conference. [...] I'm extremely impressed with the Drupal Community, and the conference blew me away.

He talks about positives - the low price of attendance and the audience that the conference appealed to - and some presentations that were made on topics like jQuery, what's new in web development, the morality of Drupal and online identities. Check out the full report for a more in-depth look.