If you want a sneak preview on the proposed changes to content creation, and perhaps get involved in the discussion, see http://drupal.org/node/1510532.  There is even a demo site to try some of this out.

Keynote - Luke Wroblewski

http://denver2012.drupal.org/keynote/luke-wroblewski

Day 3 began with a very dynamic speech by Luke Wroblewski.  He made the point very clearly, just how important development for mobiles is.  Although I didn't attend the (not directly related) session that followed on mobile theming ("Creating Responsive and Mobile-First Drupal Themes"), it is probably is worth checking out:

This is the feedback on Day 1 of the sessions I attended at DrupalCon Denver this year...with links to the video presentations:

Dries' keynote speech

http://denver2012.drupal.org/keynote/dries-buytaert

Of course, this is definitely worth watching. Major announcements are:

In days gone by, providing custom fonts on a Drupal website was somewhat problematic.  Now, in Drupal 7, things are much easier due to the rather intimidatingly named @font-your-face module.  This is very easy to set up and apply to CSS elements on your site, and integrates with a good number of external font libraries like the one provided by Google, or upload your own fonts.

There are a number of modules designed encourage and reward activity on a Drupal website.  One that looks interesting is Simple Contest.  What this does is give some kind of a reward to the winning user (or node) who meets the conditions met for the particular contest.  For example, there may be a contest (which is defined by create a node of a contest-supporting content type) which runs for 3 weeks, and the winner is the user who created the most content, rated the most content, created the most comments, etc.  Or the winner might be