Submitted sessions

Dries Buytaert: The State of Drupal

Dries — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:48:55 -0800

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

The Boris and Jeff Show: An Introduction to Drupal

jjeff — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:59:23 -0800

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.

SpikeSource and Drupal: Packaged Open Source Solutions

psalazar — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:18:51 -0800

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.

Developer Eye for the Design Guy/Girl

kreynen — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:29:14 -0800

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

Utilizing Open Source Tools To Audit Drupal Sites

cybermalandro — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:29:57 -0800

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.

Efficient Site Building

rz — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:59:47 -0800

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.

Drupal - the next generation wiki

julian — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:48:43 -0800

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.

Drupal Lightning Talks

mfredrickson — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:02:42 -0800

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!

FormAPI Inside Out

eaton — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:58:09 -0800

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.

Real World Enterpise drupal for collaboration

ilabra — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:18:27 -0800

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