DrupalConParis2009 - community

Organic Groups and Views: Building Better Community Sites

billfitzgerald — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:08:29 +0000

Organic Groups and Views are two of the more popular modules on available on Drupal.org; however, they often go under-utilized, as people are unfamiliar with the range of options both modules provide.

In this session, we will cover how to use Organic Groups within your site, and how to use Views to display content within your groups. The content in this session will focus on what can be done using the administrative interfaces of both modules; in other words, all config, and no code.

Speaker bio:

Bill Fitzgerald has been active in the Drupal community since 2005. He is the author of Using Drupal in Education (from Packt). He is a founding partner of FunnyMonkey, a development shop located in Portland, OR, US.

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.

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

Build A Community Site - No Coding Required

MatthewS — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:21:14 +0000

In November of last year, my wife and I launched TraumaAdoption.org as a way to support the foster care and adoptive community--particularly those who have adopted or foster kids from tough circumstances. We decided to build the site in Drupal using Core, Contributed Modules, and a Contributed Theme. It took less than two weeks in our spare time.

This session will cover, from soup to nuts, creation of a modest community site using only Drupal Core, Contributed Modules, and a Contributed Theme. We'll look at:

Speaker bio:

Matthew Saunders is the Senior Web Producer at pingVision, a consultancy providing interactive design and development services for all media, specializing in Drupal. He manages client relations in the development process translating and interpreting client needs. In his spare time he acts as the community manager for TraumaAdoption.org and is a host on the TechSoup Emerging Technology forums.