Submitted sessions for Drupal

CMS: Drupal

Friday - 10:15am - Friday - 11:15am

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Drupal project leader, Dries Buytaert discusses the present and future of Drupal.

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CMS: Drupal

Thursday - 11:30am - Thursday - 12:30pm

Description:

Boris Mann and Jeff Robbins introduce you to the wonderful world of Drupal. We'll talk about what makes Drupal unique, look at some sites that have been built with Drupal, and talk about Drupal concepts, lingo, and vernacular. We'll answer questions and talk a lot with our hands.

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CMS: Drupal

not scheduled

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SpikeSource works with open source projects and with commercial open source vendors to deliver "packaged" open source solutions to resellers and end customers. SpikeSource works with the Drupal project by integrating Drupal on the SpikeIgnite Platform and delivering the product through its global network of channel partners.

We will discuss the SpikeSource automated test infrastructure, the SpikeIgnite process, and the update and management of open source through a utility called SpikeNet. We will also present a case study of a deployment of SpikeIgnited Drupal.

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CMS: Drupal

Friday - 3:00pm - Friday - 4:00pm

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14 grad students + 5 faculty members + 7 projects + 1 person who understands Drupal, PHP, MySQL, and CSS = Success?

This presentation will outline the process students in the Masters in Interactive Journalism at UNR's Reynolds School of Journalism and Advanced Media Research went through to create custom Drupal modules for their hybrid community/journalism site OurTahoe.org. The process starts with design documents > paper prototypes > workflow mockups > functional prototype > beta. This cohort was made up of reporters, video editors, graphic designers, and photographers. Most knew little to no HTML when they started and haven't learned much HTML since.

This is basically the antifried (as in Jason Fried from 37 Signals) approach to development. It's not rapid. It is iterative and it puts most of the work back on the people who came up with the idea for the project.

Jason has presented his ideas about how useless a traditional design process is at several conferences. I found Jason's "get real" approach to development only works if everyone developing is a seasoned developer speaking the same language and the people you're working for have at least a basic understand of the technology used... which is rarely the case. Jason's response has been, don't do those projects.

This presentation is for the rest of us who don't have the option of turning away work.

My experience working with designers (and most recently journalists), is that they are much happier with the end result and fewer time consuming changes need to be made to "finish" the project when we use more traditional development process. Yes it is ugly and yes they will complain, but the information covered in this presentation will help you avoid some of that, handle the rest, and give you the documentation you need to convince the non-developer of the advantages of using this type of process in your work or incorporating it into your curriculum.

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CMS: Drupal

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The idea is to give Drupal "newbies" a basic idea of what to look for when auditing their Drupal Web Applications and the open source tools that can be used to do so.

This is just a basic presentation intended to target new Drupal developers/users. This is not intended to be a web application hacking or advance web application security session.

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CMS: Drupal

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How do you build a site on a limited budget? It is easy to let a simple site get out of hand and before you know it you've spent too much time on it. And every extra hour spent is time you could be working on another project. So how do you keep this from happening?

This session will cover ideas and techniques to help you efficiently build simple sites. Topics will include leveraging existing modules, using generic theme templates and knowing when and where to write code.

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CMS: Drupal

Friday - 1:45pm - Friday - 2:45pm

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Drupal, along with several contributed modules, lets us build a high quality wiki in Drupal. In fact, Drupal wikis outperform traditional wikis in some ways when you take advantage of custom content types.

In this session I would like to present what we have achieved in recent months and demonstrate how to combine the available modules to bring wiki functionality to your Drupal site: wikilinks, improved revision handling, different input formats and more.

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CMS: Drupal

Friday - 9:00am - Friday - 10:00am

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Have a great new module you want to show off? Know some tips and tricks that you'd like to share with the community? Want to read from your epic poem, "Druplicon's Progress?"

Then the Drupal Lightning Talks are for you!

What is a Lightning Talk?

A lightning talk is a 5 minute (or less) presentation on a topic you'd like to share with the community. The Perl community has been holding lightning talks for years, and the PHP community has started following suit.

Lightning talks tend to be direct, to the point, and light on the details. They're appetizers to pique our interests, not full course meals.

With a strict time limit of 5 minutes, we should be able to hold 11 talks during this one hour session. If the demand his high enough, we'll expand the session to 2 hours, and hold 20 talks.

How do I sign up?

Comment on this session with a title like: "LT: My great module...". Give a brief description your presentation (a good opportunity to practice your brevity). Make sure your contact tab is turned on (as we'll be contacting you to confirm your talk before DrupalCon).

What should I present?

Any subject is great - as long as you're interested in it. Lightning talks are a great opportunity to point the spot light on a topic that might not require a session of it's own.

If you're still struggling for ideas, here's a list of suggestions from the Perl community, and here is a more detailed write up on Giving Lightning Talks.

We look forward to seeing your talk!

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CMS: Drupal

Friday - 11:30am - Friday - 12:30pm

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Need to customize an existing form for a site? Hoping to do some form manipulation magic in your module? Baffled by hook_forms? Drupal's Form API provides a powerful set of tools for manipulating and processing HTML forms, but mastering it takes more than tinkering.

This session will feature a guided tour of the Form API workflow, notes about the various hooks your code can use to inject custom behaviors, and explanations of some of the little-understood features the API offers. A Q&A session with Drupal's Form API gurus will round out the presentation.

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CMS: Drupal

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A discussion of experiences and learnings in adopting open source and specifically drupal to the next generation collaboration needs of enterprises.

Discussion will cover lessons learned, discussion of process, mistakes and models in relation to the 2 year long project for DoD in its use of drupal an other open technologies as part of developing web style open architectures for the enterprise

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