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DrupalCamp Paris 4

OriPekelman — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:38:15 +0000

During the first day of the first DrupalCon in Paris, DrupalCampParis4 will be held : an event open for all, conference participants as well as anyone who would like to show up (but do register... we have to know how many people come)! Alongside, Frederic Marand, an expert trainer will hold a Views 2 for coders 4 hours hands-on training workshop.

The Camp

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Community Driven Community drivin'

The State of Drupal

dries — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:07:29 +0000

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Drupal 7 Status Update and Next Steps

webchick — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:39:26 +0000

This talk will provide an overview of the state of Drupal 7 and what our next steps as a community will be in order to see this fantastic new release come to fruition. Topics will include things such as:

* Overview of Drupal 7 development cycle.
* Shout-outs to the core development team.
* New and exciting features to look forward to for end users, designers, and developers.
* Advice for those who wish to start porting their modules and themes.
* What's left to do before release, and how you (yes, you!) can help.

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Angela "webchick" Byron is the Drupal 7 core maintainer, a Lullabot, co-author of the O'Reilly book Using Drupal, and recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open 2008 Source Award for Best Contributor. She got her start as a Google Summer of Code student in 2005 and since then has completely immersed herself in the Drupal community.

45 Modules in 45 Minutes - the Best Modules You're Not Using

ultimike — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:57:15 +0000

Most Drupal developers are more than familiar with the top 25 Drupal modules in terms of usage (Views, CCK, ImageCache, etc...) But what about the other few thousand modules? Don't have enough hours in the day to sift through them? Take this opportunity to get a vetted list and practical rundowns of each.

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Mike Anello is a partner in DrupalEasy.com and has been developing Drupal sites for over 3 years. He specializes in Drupal training, theme integration, project management, and custom module development.

Using Ubercart: Just the Basics

Uberchic — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:45:27 +0000

A starting point for new Ubercart users and a how-to overview of specific feature use cases.

Will cover installation, basic configuration, and a generalized look at common use cases using the current stable release: Ubercart 2.0 for Drupal 6. Will include a step by step walk-through of creating a product. Will cover briefly some of the versatility and potential of Ubercart.

Recommended for new users.

Speaker bio:

Jes Whitman, Uberchic, has been a part-time employee of Prima LLC, Ubercart's birthplace, in numerous non-drupal roles since 2006, and a full time employee since March 2009. She has been a constant behind the scenes supporter and cheerleader of Ubercart, including joining the uberteam for DrupalconSzeged in Hungary and DrupalconDC. Jes helps market Ubercart to Drupallers and those unfamiliar with Drupal.

Co presenters:

Andy

Taxonomy Everywhere: D7 Core Overhaul and the Expanding Contrib Universe

Benjamin Melançon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:01:00 +0000

Long a selling point for Drupal, robust categorization and tagging of content is receiving a long overdue overhaul in Drupal 7. Meanwhile, contributed modules continue to be added and improved that leverage taxonomy for displaying, searching, filtering, sorting, and recommending content– and for connecting your site to other sites and classification methods.

Ironically, the plethora of contributed taxonomy modules are as poorly organized and hard to keep track of as any set of Drupal projects. We'll help you make sense of it all.

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* More bios coming<br /> * Benjamin Melançon does Drupal development with Agaric, which builds powerful web sites for people who do things. Sharing code, ideas, and helping connect everyone and everything goes well with his personal goals of the economic justice, genuine liberty, and collective organizing for all sorts of progress.

Co presenters:

bangpound

chach

mh86

Xano

Rules: How to leverage rule-based automation on your sites!

fago — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:06:44 +0000

The session demonstrates how to use the module to easily solve real-world problems by implementing some common use-cases. Thus attendees should get a good picture how to leverage rule-based automation for faster and more flexible site building!

The session starts with a basic introduction to the Rules Module and some related modules providing useful integration. Afterwards it's shown how these tools can be used to implement common use-cases, probably covering:

ul>

Custom Login Redirects

A publishing workflow

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Wolfgang Ziegler is part time student and drupal developer since 2005. He is studying "Information & Knowledge Management" and "Computational Intelligence" at the Vienna University of Technology. Currently he is working on his master thesis, which deals with the Rules modules.

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klausi

Drupal for Media + Edipresse Success Story

pjduvivier — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:05:32 +0000

JP Ingold will give short introduction of the business case of Drupal for the media industry and publisher.

In recent years media related organisations have expressed strong interest in Drupal. This session aims to encourage more media organisations switch to Drupal. From pure player to dead tree press, not forgetting Radio and TV more and more media are choosing Drupal, Why?

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Pierre Jean Duvivier, 35 years old, is responsible for the Webfactory in the Department of Digital & Business Development of Edipresse Switzerland. He leads 12 people in charge of production, maintenance and traffic of the Edipresse websites. He and his team just migrated more than 23 webistes in about 18 months, with a majority of them based on Drupal.

Co presenters:

jbi

Social + Media: What We Need Next

chrisheuer — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:38:24 +0000

The Media Revolution launched with NCSA Mosaic has been underway for 16 years and I have been a front line advocate for the web and social computing throughout. I believe that "the great restructuring" underway requires us to think more holistically about how to think about how people and organizations are using Drupal. We need to bring a new perspective to Drupal development in order that it can serve the greatest good. I also believe the answer really is "42" so perhaps I am living in a bit of fantasy.

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Chris Heuer launched his first interactive agency, Guru Communications, out of South Beach, Florida in 1994. He has since helped numerous start-ups with go-to market strategies, product design, web site development, online marketing campaigns, e-commerce and what is now widely referred to as Social Media. Chris formed Social Media Club in March, 2006 to educate professionals on the greater significance of what it means to be social and how media production/consumption has changed. To this end, Social Media Club has local groups around the world promoting media literacy, encouraging the sharing of lessons learned, promoting industry standards and discussing questions of ethics. More recently, Chris launched a new kind of ad-hoc consultancy appropriately called AdHocnium. Together with a senior team of "Creative Catalysts" from around the world, AdhHocnium developes innovative growth strategies for global client that leverages emerging technology and social media.

The state of RDF in Drupal 7

scor — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:18:10 +0000

Over the years, there has been multiple attempts to integrate RDF and Drupal with many contributed modules like Relationship, Semantic Search or FOAF. None of them has proven to be sustainable and popular until 2007, when the RDF API came out for Drupal 6, followed by many other RDF modules for Drupal 6.

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Stéphane is currently working towards a Master's degree in Semantic Web at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland. He is particularly interested in bringing Semantic Web technologies into Drupal and is leading the effort to integrate RDF in the next version of Drupal core. He also maintains several RDF modules. In addition, he has been in charge of IT and web development of Eco Innovation since February 2006. He has also been a web developer for the French company Iciformation since 2003.

Co presenters:

Benjamin Melançon

#multiversedomination

OriPekelman — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:47:23 +0000

We will be joined by the wonderful CommerceGuys and a bunch of other great people doing UbertCart for a breathtaking voyage into UberCart in the big ligue.

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Currently chief software architect for AF83 a young and vibrant company based in Paris with offices in San-Francisco and Lisbon specialized in community centric web sites Live web applications and mobile applications. In France, one of the promoters and organizers of Barcamps and other community activites, including the french DrupalCamps helping to drive the Drupal Community in France organizing regular events like monthly drupal meetups, Code Sprints, Drupal + Drinks and now the Paris 2009 Drupal Con, in charge of key accounts sponsorship. Formerly IT strategist for aSmallWorld.net an exclusive social networking site, Chief of R&D at Internet Patrol specialized in strategic information retrieval on the Internet for the luxury industry and CTO of Omikron Delta LTD specialized in Technical computing software.

Co presenters:

Damien Tournoud

mikejoconnor

Foreign Affairs case study

gdemet — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:18:41 +0000

Foreign Affairs is the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan member organization dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of ideas. Since its inception in 1922, articles and essays published in Foreign Affairs have helped shape political debate and policy on some of the most important issues of the day. Authors who have written for the journal have included influential intellectuals and political leaders ranging from W.E.B. DuBois to Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton.

This session will explore how the new Foreign Affairs Web site, which was developed by Palantir.net and launched in March 2009, showcases Drupal’s wide variety of capabilities. In addition to leveraging existing modules, the site features a significant amount of new functionality developed for the site and contributed back to the Drupal community.

Speaker bio:

George DeMet is the founder and co-owner of Chicago-based Web development firm <a href="http://www.palantir.net/">Palantir.net</a>, Inc. Working in collaboration with a variety of creative partners, he has managed the development of visually and functionally sophisticated Drupal sites for a variety of high-profile corporate, educational, and institutional clients.

Co presenters:

mbutcher

agentrickard

More than search: Apache Solr changes the way you build sites

pwolanin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:40:23 +0000

The search tool can become the central interface though which visitors find information on your site - supplanting the need for extensive hand-crafted site sections and navigation menus and improving the user experience by letting them quickly find what they are looking for following a pattern that is natural to them. Unfortunately, a SQL database is not optimized to provide these sorts of features, so solutions built totally within the PHP/SQL framework have difficulty performing well for large sites or for multi-sites search. Indexing the data from site content with Apache Solr allows you to offload the computational effort and optimization to a separate server. We will show how Drupal integrates with Solr and how a search integrating content from both groups.drupal.or and drupal.org could look.

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Last year Peter joined Acquia as a senior engineer after being a Senior Scientist at a bio-tech company. Peter spent a large fraction of his non-working waking hours in the last couple years re-working Drupal core and maintaining contributed modules.

Functional Interactive Design

Laura Scott — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:04:49 +0000

Ever walk up to a door and pull on the handle, only to discover the door is push-only? Do you really know how to operate your clock-radio? Doors may be pretty, clocks may look cool, but when we have to actually use them, the measure of their design changes.

Same with websites. A website may be pretty at first blush, but can you find what you're looking for? Can you do what you want to do? Can you even figure out what you're supposed to do?

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Laura Scott is President and Creative Director of pingVision, an interactive design and development company founded in 2005, based in Boulder, Colorado. Laura has been designing websites since 1995, working in video, film, television, and multimedia. Since 2004 she has been working with Drupal almost exclusively for web development. Laura has presented on design and technology at BlogHer 2006, OSCMS 2007 and DrupalCon Boston 2008.

Semantic Web fundamentals

DanBrickley — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:24:48 +0000

The World Wide Web is the most successful linked information system that has ever existed. Hidden away in the original 1989 CERN memo proposing the Web are several ideas that are only now reaching fruition via W3C's RDF technology stack. This talk will show in practice how the full 1989 vision for the Web is being realised using RDF-based technologies (RDF/RDFa, SKOS, SPARQL, FOAF, OWL), and how the two concepts of information linking, and information layering are all you really need to understand a powerful suite of tools and standards for Web-based data sharing.

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Dan Brickley is best known for his work on Web standards in the W3C community, where he helped create the Semantic Web project and many of its defining technologies. He currently divides his time between "future of TV" research at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, advisory work for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, and nonprofit activities around the 'Friend of a Friend' project.

Faceted search means more sales - e-commerce with Ubercart and Apache Solr

mikejoconnor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:18:22 +0000

Ubercart is Drupal’s leading e-commerce solution. Combining its power and flexibility with the best of Drupal’s 1000s of modules and your e-commerce solution can achieve greatness.

Problem: Your site visitors don’t always know they’re about to become your customers. They might not know exactly what they are looking for.

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Mike is a Commerce Guy. He spends his days helping clients push the limits of e-commerce with Drupal.

Keep your code safe - Tips from the security team

heine — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:48:14 +0000

This session is aimed at the typical Drupal developer.

The session starts with a short overview of the most common security issues, their consequences and how you can use the Drupal API to prevent them. The second half of the talk is devoted to string handling as the most prevalent vulnerability, Cross site scripting (XSS), happens when you get it wrong. You should leave the session with a clear understanding of when to use filter_xss, check_plain, check_url & check_markup.

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Heine Deelstra has been a member of the Drupal security team since 2006 and is its current Technical Lead. Other presenters may be added.

Using Drupal for Media Asset / Content Management, Semantic Syndication / Promotion and Commerce

dahacouk — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:57:29 +0000

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The distribution options for digital media creators (musicians, filmmakers, photographers and artists in general) are bewildering: Songbird, MySpace, Facebook, iTunes, YouTube, Napster, etc, etc...

Wouldn't if be great if we could upload our content and write descriptions and lyrics to one place - a place that we controlled and owned - and then these files and associated metadata got spread out to all the distribution points that we wanted, automatically?

Speaker bio:

* Daniel Harris (dahacouk), Kendra Initiative. Runs (1999 to present) Kendra Initiative - open media marketplace and interoperability research project. * Stéphane Corlosquet (scor), Digital Enterprise Research Institute. Stéphane has been a Drupal user and contributor since 2006. He is the maintainer of RDF CCK, Neologism and Evoc. * Darren Mothersele (darrenlondon), Darren Mothersele. Founding member of digital music distribution company Uploader. A user of Drupal since 2003 and full time Drupal developer since 2007.

Co presenters:

Darren

scor