Session Proposals

Publishing and Consuming Linked Data with Drupal

scor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:31:36 +0000

In this session you will learn how to turn Drupal into a Linked Data provider by exposing the content of your site in RDF and, reversely, we will look at the options to take advantage of the growing amount of Linked Data available on the Semantic Web which you can easily reuse on your site.

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Speaker bio:

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.

Views modular and pluggable theming

ralf57 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:11:35 +0000

This session will show you how an efficient theming of the views' output can be achieved even when many developers are involved into the same task.
Typical scenarios are corporate's large sites or public institutions portals.
You will learn:

The benefits of the modular approach
How to apply all this to the views' list type
How this technique can be extended to other types of views to fit all your needs

This talk will cover Views 2

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Speaker bio:

Donato Rotunno (aka ralf57) is a senior web designer for a vibrant consulting company based in Rome. He takes care of building usability and accessibility compliant web applications, with special regard to WCAG 1/2 guidelines. He is currently leading the design team within the development of the new portal (Drupal based, of course) for an important public institution.

Bare Naked (Open Source) Design

leisa — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:42:09 +0000

Finding a way for a strong design and user experience culture to develop in open source software communities could be one of the more critical challenges for open source projects to address if they are to remain sustainable or, better still, go close to meeting their incredible & exciting potential.

Since around August last year I've been working with the Mark Boulton Design & the Drupal open source community to make some pretty fundamental changes to the design and user experience firstly of the Drupal.org website and now to the user interface for the upcoming release of Drupal 7.

Speaker bio:

Leisa Reichelt is a design researcher and user experience designer who worked with Mark Boulton Design on the D7UX project. She blogs at www.disambiguity.com

Paris, Paris (Texas) or Paris Hilton? Placemaker to the Rescue!

andrewl — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:38:14 +0000

The good news? All of your content contains location data.
The bad news? It's almost certainly unstructured, hidden away in free-form text.

Speaker bio:

Andrew Larcombe is a partner in NetDojo LLP and specializes in geospatial consulting and development. He built his first geo-mashup in 1993 with a teletext receiver and a copy of AutoRoute, by 2000 was producing javascript-powered web maps and has been developing and consulting on Drupal sites for 2.5 years. Along the way he's written everything from spatial indexing libraries to desktop applications to CMS frameworks in C++, Perl, PHP and Ruby. Andrew holds a BA and MA from the University of London and is currently Vice-Chair of the BCS Geospatial SG.

Co presenters:

didlix

All youre (x)html(5) are belong to us!

mortendk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:10:43 +0000

Drupal comes with a lot(!) of predefined markup & css.
Modules are adding styles and markup to the themes and so themers have limited control over whats going on inside the theme - that works well for some themers - others not so much.. or to put in other words:

"WTF does all this bib markup do in my bib site - aaargh for bib sake, Gimme lean mean mother bib 'ing markup"

The Mothership is a theme thats build in the opposite way normal drupal practice: clean out "useless" markup & remove classes that clutters op what should be beautiful source.

Speaker bio:

mortendk is a markup loving design geek straight outta copenhagen who loves all finer things in life: Drupal, Rock n Roll, bulldogs, CSS, the GF, XHTML, beer tasting, metal \m/, & nerdy stuff (miniature painting!) and fiddling with themes Runs a one man theming army shop: geek Röyale Been involved with the D. since 4.7 - and still loves it, even that he whines abit about the lack of designers in the D.

Drupal multisite - a practical case.

sebasto — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:12:12 +0000

The power of drupal multi-site and what it can bring to your company.

In this session, I'll present a muti-site installation of drupal currently in production. This installation includes 15 sites for theme parks, all of them for the same client.

I will explain how it was done, why drupal was a very good solution, and what it did bring to our client through practical examples.

Speaker bio:

Coming from the world of science (genetics), I discovered drupal a few years ago and fell in love with it. I started in the drupal world as an associate in a little but multinational company with commercial entities in the US and France, and developpers in china (WorldZhulu). At the begining of this year, I funded my own company: Koriolis, entirely dedicated to building web sites with drupal...

Solr Search - Way beyond the basics

robertDouglass — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:48:26 +0000

Solr Search has made its debut and has won many hearts and sites, including Drupal.org. People click with glee upon seeing faceted search. Content recommendation drives your traffic through the roof. But there's much more power under the hood waiting to be harnessed, and this session will show you how.

You'll see how easy it is to customize your searches, leverage facets, and build your site's navigation right on top of the search engine.

Speaker bio:

Robert is Senior Drupal Advisor at Acquia. His Drupal adventure started in 2003. Along the way he co-authored the first book published about Drupal, was technical editor of Pro Drupal Development, became the maintainer of numerous modules, and organized Drupal’s “Google Summer of Code” involvement. Robert loves classical music and open source software dearly, and looks to each as a source for motivation and optimism.

Co presenters:

pwolanin

Image module in core it's almost real!

quicksketch — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:50:01 +0000

The simplest things can be so hard. Drupal core has never had a way to upload an image and then output a thumbnail it. Of course there are dozens of solutions for making thumbnails in the contributed modules repository, but it will be a huge benifit to new users to have this handling out of the box. The time is at hand for making Drupal's core, default installation come with kick-ass image manipulation abilities. Come see what we've got and we're headed in Drupal 7.

Speaker bio:

Nate Haug is a Lullabot. He's spent extensive efforts in improving the user interface and image handling abilities of Drupal. He maintains FileField and ImageField, as well as several other media-based modules.

Drupal-based templates: design, deployment, support, usability

pescetti — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:32:58 +0000

Template websites are "distributions" of Drupal targeted at different organizations having common needs: for example, local branches of student organizations, or Universities that want to promote a Master Course through an online dissemination platform. In these cases, more than a plain Drupal, it is better to rely on a standardized template including Drupal, a set of preconfigured modules, an easily customizable theme and extra services.

Youth Agora vzw, a Brussels-based organization, will present its experience in creating Drupal website templates.

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Speaker bio:

Andrea Pescetti, Antonio De Marco, Christof Devriendt and Peter Vanhee founded Youth Agora vzw, a Brussels-based organization specialized in innovating youth information through Drupal-based website templates. Projects by Youth Agora power hundreds of sites in Europe and all custom modules of general interest are contributed back to the community. See http://www.youthagora.org for more.

Co presenters:

antoniodemarco

cdevrien

pvhee

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.

Speaker bio:

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.

Drupal Ingredients for your Website Dish, or Modules You Should Use on Every Site

coltrane — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:11:48 +0000

With thousands of community contributed modules on drupal.org you have a wealth of features available to use, but how do you know which ones are right for your site? We'll be giving a brief overview of the modules which are just so handy you'll probably want to use them on most of the sites you build. We'll talk about modules that fit into recipes for certain website "flavors", such as community and social networking, media, and commerce.

You can view the session slides at http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcv55663_82d9m66bdz

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Speaker bio:

Brad (beeradb) Bowman began working in backend systems development at Aten Design Group in 2003, while still in college. Today, Brad handles implementation and customization of backend systems at every stage of Aten projects. Ben (coltrane) Jeavons is a senior developer at pingVision, a consultancy providing interactive design and development services for all media, specializing in Drupal. Greg (greggles) Knaddison is a partner at Growing Venture Solutions a full service website consultancy based in Denver and New York.

Co presenters:

greggles

beeradb

Coder Module: Easily Port Modules to Drupal 7

stella — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:19:52 +0000

Drupal has a number of coding standards that all contributed Drupal modules and themes should be using. Instead of each developer coding in their own preferred style, they are asked to write all code according to the standards outlined in the document. This ensures that all of Drupal's code is written to a consistent standard, making it easier to understand and modify. Drupal also provides its own set of API functions, and as the drop is always moving, a large number of these API functions can change between major releases of Drupal.

Speaker bio:

Stella Power starting using Drupal over 3 years ago. Since then she has contributed the FAQ and Avatar Selection modules, and is maintainer of the popular Lightbox2 and Code Review modules. She operates Annertech Ltd and now works for CivicActions, one of our DrupalCon sponsors. She is also a keen photographer and ceramic artist.

Co presenters:

douggreen

solotandem

Kraftwerk: How to make real Drupal Patches

caroltron — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:06:46 +0000

Do you love Drupal?
And like to code all day?
Do you have holes in your shirt arms?
Do you like to make things?

Matt Butcher and I will be demonstrating how to make a Drupal "patch" for all our long sleeve shirts. If you spend more than a couple of hours working hard each day on Drupal, we know you've got holes in your elbows.

Come join us and learn how to make "patches" ;) and other Drupal crafts as well.

I suppose we could show how to make a "real" Drupal patch also.

Speaker bio:

Colleen Carroll is Lead of Development Services at Palantir.net and is the maintainer of the Austin theme. Colleen has been a long time crafter and wants to share her artistic endeavors with everyone. She also loves fashion and will probably be taking day trips to go shopping. Matt Butcher is not just an author and a programmer. He's crafty, too. He enjoys long walks on the beach, bending wire to his will, and sewing pieces of felt together. He likes kittens, too.

Co presenters:

mbutcher

Brico dépôt - how to create websites for 105 department stores

killes — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:59:37 +0000

Brico dépôt is a well known chain of DIY stores in France.

Among their requirements were:

Handle all of the over 100 depots.
Import of the product data from SAP every 24 hours
Content update every 24 hours
about 1200 catalog pages + other categories to handle
about 20.000 products and articles in each store. Possibility of variation in prices and availability.
DIY layout for website managers.

Topics will be

Import data from 3rd party application.

Speaker bio:

See http://drupal.org/user/227

Co presenters:

juergen.p

Automate your site maintenance troubles away with the Aegir hosting system.

adrian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:10:50 +0000

This session will illustrate the use of the Aegir hosting system to simplify the life of developers and administrators, by automating a lot of the common tasks involved in deploying sites.

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Speaker bio:

For more than six years now (really, he’s user 1337 on Drupal.org), Adrian has been working with Drupal and is one of the few people who can say that they were at the very first DrupalCon (Antwerp, 2005). During this time, he’s contributed major code enhancements to the project, including the PHPTemplate template engine and Drupal Forms API. And he’s the man for managing massive Drupal deployments. Adrian is the father of Aegir, a set of contributed modules that solves this very problem by providing a simple Drupal based hosting frontend for networks of sites.

Drupal for Media

dahacouk — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:34:56 +0000

There are so many Drupal Media Projects, Tasks and Initiatives going on. Should we be getting together in the flesh too?

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

jbi

Transforming The Economist Online using Drupal, open-source and Scrum

ebaumes — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:49:11 +0000

The Economist was founded in 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress”. In 2008 Economist.com undertook the mission to move from a traditional online magazine publishing model and build the 'foremost destination online for analysing and debating the global agenda, drawing on the intelligence of journalists, readers and guests'.

Speaker bio:

Eric Baumes is Chief Technology Officer for Economist.com. He has more than 15 years of experience in developing, marketing and managing electronic publications and services. He has previously served as Technology Director and Marketing Manager for the Economist Intelligence Unit and as a Product Manager for the electronic publishing division of Oxford University Press.

Co presenters:

davidstrauss

rob purdie

stewsnooze

weitzman

Staging Drupal: Managing your project in multiple environments

ebeyrent — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:46:42 +0000

Abstract:
Building complex web applications, especially in a team environment, requires more than just code and geeks; it also requires strategy. Drupal shops need to understand how to manage the platform in multiple environments and in all phases of the application lifecycle.

Agenda:

Drupal development strategy
Multiple environments
- sandboxes, staging area, production
Managing Drupal with Subversion
- Repositories, branches, tags, externals, template files, etc

Speaker bio:

Erich has 12 years experience in web technologies, specializing in open-source solutions and application integration. He is currently the Vice President of Engineering at CommonPlaces e-Solutions, LLC, and led the team that built Greenopolis.com, an environmentally-themed social networking and education site. Erich also led the team that built Twolia.com, a social networking and e-commerce platform for independent female artists that mimics Facebook, Etsy.com, MySpace, and YouTube. Erich is the author of the Permissions API module, and maintains the Drupal 6 version of the Signup Restrict By Role module. Erich lives in New Hampshire with his wife, two sons, and two weimaraners.

Co presenters:

miche

cpliakas

Open Atrium; Building a product with Drupal and the Power of Decentralized Features

jmiccolis — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:50:41 +0000

Open Atrium is an opensource team intranet built using Drupal core, contributed modules and some custom 'glue' modules. I'll share the evolution of Atrium's development and talk about what lessons we've learned in developing this product using Drupal. How we identified needs and managed development of critical modules like notifications and casetracker, and when and why we began to develop new modules like spaces and features. Additionally I'll talk about the decentralized features model that has emerged from to Atrium development.

Speaker bio:

Jeff is a senior developer at Development Seed. He’s an experienced Drupal developer with more than 50 websites under his belt, and he’s co-created several innovative Drupal modules such as Context, Spaces and Features.

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

Basics of making a mobile website with Drupal

twom — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:59:06 +0000

Going mobile is gaining importance and increasing numbers of users are accessing your website through their mobile devices. Still little amount of sites are prepared for this behaviour and offer non-optimal experiences.

With a few simple steps this experience can be optimized, and this is where this session will be about! How to go mobile with your existing Drupal installation, or design your Drupal site specifically for mobile.

The session will guide you through the basics of making a mobile website, the tools, pitfalls, etc...

Speaker bio:

Tom is software architect at the open source company Siruna. After having worked as a project and research coordinator at the Interdisciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technology with a focus on interactive television, recommender systems and mobile user experience, Tom joined Siruna. He has been working on the open source parts and integration with Drupal.

Simple CCK - a simplified User Interface for CCK

zserno — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:15:38 +0000

This talk is going to present a module that we developed to make it possible for end-users to work with CCK.

Basically it's a UI module on top of CCK built to improve it's usability.
A tool you can give your customers to build their own content types - without previous Drupal knowledge - in minutes.
A way to build new content types with custom fields in an easy, drag and drop way.

In the session we are going to show:

How it works.
Some existing and potential use cases.

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Speaker bio:

Ernő Zsemlye is working as a Drupal developer at Pronovix since 2007. He presented before at the Prague Drupal conference and the Budapest and Vienna Drupal User Group meetups. He was actively taking part in organizing Drupalcon Szeged 2008 as a volunteer. This year he graduated from University of Szeged as a program designer mathematician.

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.

Speaker bio:

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

From Vancouver to Vladivostok via I18N and Views: Migrating osce.org to Drupal

valic — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:57:17 +0000

The OSCE is in the process of migrating its website from an in-house CMS to Drupal.

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Speaker bio:

Velimir Alic is a Website Architect at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). He has more than 18 years of experience in software development and managing software development projects in international and non-governmental organizations. Velimir currently manages the relaunch of the OSCE’s public website, migrating it to Drupal from an in-house content management system.

Performance and High Availability best practices

bjaspan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:21:20 +0000

Note: the description of this session needs to be updated.

How reliable is your web site? If one server at your hosting provider goes down, will it take your site with it? How quickly and confidently can you restore from backups? You DO have backups, right?

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.

Co presenters:

nnewton

davidstrauss

Amazon

killes

Damien Tournoud