Session Proposals

Drupal for Good meet-up

José San Martin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:28:45 +0000

A meeting to discuss an share experiences on progressive, citizenish, good and socially conscious Drupal initiatives.

Across its history, Drupal has shown itself as an important ally for good initiatives - grassroots political campaigns, big big big public international organizations, efforts to preserve minority languages, government efforts, NGOs, community organizing, - well, name it.

Speaker bio:

I'm not the speaker, just the one who's calling the meeting! (anyway: José San Martin is Brazilian Drupal shop owner, linguist and a Drupal for Good'er. He will also be talking about "Drupal for minority languages and indigenous communities in Brazil")

Secure your Drupal installation with SSL

sanduhrs — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:04:22 +0000

Drupal is the perfect match when it comes to collaboration and communication in teams. As it is easy to setup and flexible to use, an intranet setup for companies or a setup for closed groups of people is easy to realize.

However, stealing your login credentials or your session from a public network is trivial, securing your confidential information a must.

Speaker bio:

Stefan is co-founder of and senior developer at erdfisch. In his four years of professional experience with Drupal, he realized several smaller and larger projects and is totally convinced of it's capabilities. He is interested in Open source at large, believing it is the future of information technology and in e-learning and data privacy in particular. Other presenters may be added.

Using Drupal for Events

smoothstr — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:52:12 +0000

We'll look at the structure of events and how Drupal can be used, it's strengths and weaknesses. We'll have a look at some recipes for using Drupal for your events, and the pitfalls, and we'll have a flythrough of modules that can help in events management.

If there are lots of people present who are already using Drupal for events, then we'll open discussion into the ways that people have used Drupal, what has worked for them, and what has not, and what we can do to move Drupal forward for use in events.

Speaker bio:

Jeff Veit has used Drupal for pre-registration systems and the on-the-day registration desk for conferences and exhibitions with thousands of attendees. He has developed for Drupal since 2004, building community and commercial sites, and has an alternative career as an event organizer.

Welcome to the Jungle! Basic Drupal Recipes and Best Practices for Beginners

c4rl — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:18:37 +0000

Congratulations! You've installed Drupal! Pretty cool, huh?

There's just one problem -- you've got a website to build, and you don't know where to begin.

Should you start putting in content? Maybe start with some modules -- hmm, which ones? Or, should you start tweaking the theme? How are you going to get the news page to work, anyway? Or events? Or downloads? Do you need taxonomy for that? Yikes!

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Speaker bio:

Carl Wiedemann is a Drupal developer in Denver, CO. He focuses on web strategy and SEO. He presented Best Practices at DrupalCamp Colorado in June 2009. He also ran the after party.

Multi Language Search

pips1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:23:03 +0000

Search becomes more important - the more content a site has. Multi language search poses its own set of use cases / requirements for search. The goal of this session is to map out use cases and discuss possible solutions.

Speaker bio:

Philipp works as a project manager at Liip, a Swiss web development company. A current Drupal project involves faceted search on a multi language site.

Co presenters:

robertDouglass

pwolanin

Training Drupal professionals: Towards an open Drupal training curriculum and certification

bohemicus — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:05:02 +0000

One of the issues clients who want to build on Drupal as a sustainable platform face is identifying qualified Drupal professionals or making sure their inhouse developers get up to speed with Drupal in a reliable fashion. At the moment, there are several Drupal companies that provide bespoke Drupal training but there isn't a unified training curriculum that could be easily replicated and adopted for in house training and against which people who haven't had the time to gain natural experience in the community could be assessed.

Speaker bio:

Dominik Lukes of Dyslexia Action is an academic, educator and web developer who's developed a number of websites in the education most recently http://training.dyslexiaaction.org.uk. He started and manages Drupal for Research and Academia on groups.drupal.org. Dominik also has extensive experience with VLEs and online portfolio management systems.

What's new in Panels 3

merlinofchaos — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:50:47 +0000

Panels 3 was an unexpected but necessary major overhaul of Panels 2. In fact, it should probably not really be called Panels, as it is just a tiny piece of it. Instead, Panels 3 is really a Page Manager and it gives you vast amounts of control over your site.

See how this works, how Panels is extended, and how this is really just the tip of a very large iceberg.

Speaker bio:

Earl Miles is well known within the community for his contributions to the Drupal projected, particularly Views, Panels and improvements to the theming system in Drupal 6.

Sharing Information, Services and Interactions in the Next Decade

nickvidal — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:48:52 +0000

Foreword

This is a session proposal for DrupalCon Paris 2009. In this session I hope to offer the Drupal community an overview of the work being developed at the UFRGS university. I intend to give a very technical session, so the text below will serve as a background for the session.

Introduction

Speaker bio:

I'm a researcher at UFRGS university and the author of ISS (Instant Syndicating Standards), a set of open standards that enable people to discover and syndicate information within their social network. ISS support on Drupal is being sponsored by the Knight Foundation under the Knight Drupal Initiative.

Automated Clustering of Freetagging Taxonomy Terms

russell — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:00:33 +0000

Launch event for a new suite of modules performing automated clustering of free-tagging taxonomy terms in a Drupal vocabulary.

The School of Everything Taxonomy Suite allows users to express interests and teaching subjects in a large free-tagging vocabulary, and offers new ways of finding matches between subjects. Configurable Normalised Co-occurrence Analysis of taxonomy is used to find related subjects, and thus get round the problem of ever diverging and fragmenting folksonomies.

Speaker bio:

Russell Blakeborough Lead Developer - School of Everything - www.schoolofeverything.com Drupal developer with special interest in taxonomy and multilingual development

Adventures in Drupal-Flavored Community Building

istos — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:20:10 +0000

Creating an online community website is a weird and wonderful process that calls for both technological and sociological tools and design patterns in order to provide a structure within which your community members can interact and your community can thrive.

We will look at:

What different types of communities can exist
How different communities call for different tools
Why it doesn't always make sense to throw in every single tool and the kitchen sink and let them figure it out

Speaker bio:

Ronald Ashri runs a web development company in Sicily, Italy and has been working with Drupal for the past four years - during that time all the websites handled by the company have been turned into Drupal websites. His particular interests lie in community websites and the variety of ways in which Drupal can be used to support online communities. Before moving to Sicily, Ronald was a research fellow at the University of Southampton working on agent-based systems, semantic web technologies, and issues of trust and reputation. He has authored and co-authored several papers and books on these subjects. Ronald holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton and a BSc in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Warwick.

How To: Install, Upgrade, Backup, & Migrate

Slurpee — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:29:16 +0000

Live demonstration of how to setup a Drupal site, upgrade to the newest version, backup the site, and migrate to a new server.

Experience the "Drupal Test Drive". If you are interested in a testing Drupal site to use during this presentation please comment below. We will configure your site prior to the presentation. This will enable you to get into the driver seat and go for a Drupal Test Drive. We will cover all of the basics to have you installed, securely up to date, backups running, and the ability to move your site from server to server.

Speaker bio:

owner at DrupalAdmin.net and posses extensive experience working at an ISP. Long history of dealing with critical open source systems 24/7. Currently traveling the world spreading the word of Drupal full time by taking care of Managed Drupal Services. Favorite hobbies include Drupal, organizing DrupalCampChicago.org, and managing the Chicago Drupal Meet Up Group (cdmug.org).

Intro to the Field API for Module Developers

bjaspan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:34:23 +0000

Drupal 7 includes the new Field API which provides "CCK functionality" in core. The Field API supports attaching custom data fields to nodes, users, remote data objects, and any other type of entity. This session introduces the Field API for module developers and shows how it differs from Drupal 6's "hook_nodeapi" approach.

Speaker bio:

Barry Jaspan has been a Drupal contributor and core developer for over three years. He developed the Schema API and is the team leader for Field API. He is a Principal Engineer at Acquia, Inc. and is an entrepreneurially-minded computer programmer with a strong focus on computer security and privacy. Prior to Acquia, Barry created interMute, the first commercial web annoyance blocker, and Spamnix, a spam-blocking product. Barry is a maniacal whitewater kayaker and rock climber and generally spends his time wherever rocks, water, and gravity meet.

Integrate your Issue Tracker into your Druapl website or application

didlix — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:36:34 +0000

The good news? All of your project information is held within your Issue Tracker of choice. The bad news? It is almost certainly inaccessible to your clients or too complicated for them to use.

In this session we will show you how the Issue Dojo module will let you integrate the popular Redmine project and scm tool into your website.

We will go over logging exceptions to Redmine, providing the customer with a issue logging form and how to use Views to pull information out of Redmine.

Once you can properly integrate with your Issue Tracker you can streamline work flow.

Speaker bio:

Rachel is a partner in NetDojo LLP and specalises in PHP and Frontend Web Development. At the age of 11 Rachel began programming her first applications using Delphi/Pascal. By 15 access to the Internet had drasticly geared her towards the web and she was coding php/MySQL web solutions. Rachel's career has been spent in web hosting systems administration, marketing and web development. She presently works on Zend Framework MVC php projects, Drupal and various other content management systems.

Co presenters:

andrewl

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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Speaker bio:

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.

Why Drupal Is Like Drupal Is

jjeff — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:07:50 +0000

This presentation is a reworking of the keynote Jeff gave at the Boston Design For Drupal Camp in June. This session gives a pragmatic, designer-centric look at Drupal, explaining its history and rise in popularity, with a look at some of the landmark websites along the way. Jeff talks about Drupal's benefits of use, and tries to justify its difficulties while sympathizing with new designers and site builders.

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Speaker bio:

Jeff Robbins is the CEO and co-founder of Lullabot. He is co-author of O'Reilly's first Drupal book, 'Using Drupal', hosts Lullabot's Drupal podcast, and manages the company's consulting practice, education events, and media products. Jeff has contributed numerous Drupal modules and themes and has been making web sites since 1993.

How to use the Light Side to bend Drupal your way?

Gábor Hojtsy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:14:44 +0000

Drupal is a lot of things to a lot of people. When setting up a website, you will likely use generic modules to build your pages. However, generic tools have generic forms and generic output. They are configurable to an extent but you might need more. A different form submission workflow, easier input methods, and so on.

Speaker bio:

Gábor Hojtsy develops Drupal modules since 2003, is the Drupal 6 core maintainer and code gardener at Acquia.

The Curse of Dreamweaver: Moving Clients from Static HTML to Drupal

CrookedNumber — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:07:18 +0000

Great! You've finally convinced your client or boss to move their old, clunky site over to Drupal.

But this might only be half the battle.

You might quickly find out that they are still stuck in the static-HTML mindset, what I like to call "the Curse of Dreamweaver." The symptoms include:

A tendency to micro-manage pages
Insistence on pixel-perfect renderings
Confusion about architecture vs. navigation
Pre-occupation with the homepage
And just general misunderstanding and misapprehensions about the database-driven website

Speaker bio:

David helps non-profits gets the most out of drupal. He helps with theming, module development, administration -- as well as more general web development concepts: architecture, navigation, web standards, maintainability, etc.

Case Study: labs.sonyericsson.com — how to build a global community portal without programming

Fabian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:35:28 +0000

Sony Ericsson's first Drupal site ever, labs.sonyericsson.com, was planned, designed and implemented in just 462 hours by a team of five from NodeOne.

Two things made this possible:

Very close collaboration between NodeOne's team and the customer.
The power of Drupal modules such as CCK, Views, Flag and other which make it possible to build a such complex site with almost no programming.

Building community websites used to be a time consuming expensive process. Thanks to Drupal that is no longer true. In this presentation we will show you how and why!

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Speaker bio:

Co-founder of NodeOne and the project manager of the labs.sonyericsson.com project. Fabian has four years experience of managing Drupal projects. A passionate Drupal evangelist, he regularly talks about Drupal to companies and organizations eager to learn how they can use Drupal as part of their web presence strategy. When not working, Fabian can be found on the golf course or the shores of scenic island Gotland. --- Presenting with Fabian is, Joakim Stai, member of the NodeOne team. Joakim was responsible for the Drupal architecture and implementation of labs.sonyericsson.com. Joakim is a former Google Summer of Code student and a contributor to Drupal core. He is a long-time Drupal aficionado with years of experience developing with Drupal and has a remarkable talent for turning ideas into working solutions. When not realizing our clients' Drupal dreams, Joakim is DJing and rocks the dance floors with a moving mix of disco and funk.

Co presenters:

ximo

Drupal.org best practices from 30 applications and 30Million page views per month

Amazon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:16:11 +0000

Drupal.org is much more than just a big Drupal site. It is the heart of the Drupal community and requires integration and support for as many as 30 different applications.

In this session we will review best practices from the one of the best Drupal showcase sites, Drupal.org. We will cover scalability and performance for a site approaching 30 Million page views a month.

We will also cover best practices for upgrading from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 and our plan for upgrading to Drupal 7.

Speaker bio:

The Drupal infrastructure team manages the Drupal.org infrastructure and applications for the Drupal community. Gerhard Killesreiter is the manager of the Drupal infrastructure team

Co presenters:

davidstrauss

Damien Tournoud

nnewton

Job Fair

Ineation — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:05:10 +0000

Due to the rapid growth of our preferred CMS, many Drupal companies are looking for new employees. Developers, designers, themers, whether you are a wise experienced ninja or a young crazy student you may find your next job here.

The job-fair will take place Thursday, the 3rd of September, at the Maison Internationale from 5pm to 8pm.

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Speaker bio:

Blogger, Trainer, Marketer

Faster & more flexible CDN integration — make Drupal twice as fast!

Wim Leers — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:04:19 +0000

UPDATE: this session was merged with Konstantin Käfer's Front End Performance - Making Drupal Lightning Fast session!

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Speaker bio:

Student at Hasselt University, freelance Drupal Developer and developer at Mollom and part of the Drupal community since December 2007. You may know me from my Drupal modules — most likely you know Hierarchical Select and AHAH Helper. I've written my bachelor thesis about improving Drupal's page loading performance.

Panel Discussion on the Knight Drupal Initiative

billfitzgerald — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:21:58 +0000

The Knight Drupal Initiative is a partnership between the Knight Foundation and the Drupal Community to provide funding for grant proposals that explore digital publishing to transform their respective communities.

At DrupalCon DC 2009, almost half a million USD were awarded to the following projects:

Speaker bio:

Speakers for this panel will include: Ken Rickard, Addison Berry, Dave Cohen, Bill Fitzgerald, Nick Vidal, Rob Loach, and Eric Gundersen

Continuous Integration and Drupal

joshk — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:40:44 +0000

Note: this description needs to be updated.

Austin Smith, David Strauss, Josh Koenig, Stewart Robinson and Moshe Weitzman present real-world lessons learned and practical how-to examples for creating a robust Continuous Integration environment for enterprise-level Drupal development.

Speaker bio:

Josh Koenig (josh_k) is a co-maintainer of groups.drupal.org, co-founder of the Drupal Dojo, and a founding partner and CTO at Chapter Three, where he has worked on projects with (among others) PBS, Intel, Stanford University and The Economist.

Co presenters:

davidstrauss

boombatower

Amazon

Embedding and Distributing Drupal Sites with Widgets

jtsnow — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:48:43 +0000

Widgets are portable chunks of code that allow your site to be placed on other websites. Learn strategies for creating embeddable widgets with Drupal. Topics for this session will include:

What is a widget?
Types of widgets and widget platforms
Modules that can assist with creating widgets
Viral distribution of widgets
Examples of widgets in action

Speaker bio:

John Snow has been engaged in web development for the last 10 years. He became involved in Drupal development last year through participation in Google Summer of Code 2008. John recently graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering and has since become a full-time developer at Trellon.

Is Drupal Full of Sexist Pigs?

LizaK — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:09:56 +0000

Update: this session is being withdrawn as of August 4th.

With less than four weeks before this international conference, I don't know:
_If this session will be chosen
_If it is chosen, what day it would be scheduled.

This leaves it impossible for me to schedule around the first week of school for my child. This is disappointing, but I am left having to make this choice.

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While we have some of the most kick ass women in the planet here in Drupal, we're also guilty of some some stupid sexist stuff, too.

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Speaker bio:

Moderator - Liza Kindred Lullabot's Business Director Katherine Druckman Webmistress, Linux Journal Angie "webchick" Byron Lullabot Ninja Drupal 7 Co-Maintainer Crystal Williams Vice President, Professional Services, WorkHabit Drupal event guru

Co presenters:

webchick