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Accepted sessions

Announcing DrupalcampNYC10 Sessions!

Following are the accepted sessions for the December 10th Drupalcamp, which is being held at John Jay College in Manhattan.

Session tracks for this camp are:

Development
Site building
Presentation
Business & end users
Sysadmin & performance

Session	Experience level	Track
Guided Conversation - Jacine Luisi Jacine Luisi Continuing the conversation from her community spotlight	Intermediate	Presentation
The 4 things I learned at DrupalCons that utterly changed the way I build Drupal sites Alexander Ross In the past five years I have attended 4 DrupalCons and from each one I taken away exactly one life-altering concept/tool/idea that has made that conference worth the price of admission. Common to...	Beginner	Site Building
Mapping with Drupal Thomas Turnbull Custom geographical maps are a popular way to represent data on the web. More and more users are comfortable using a web mapping interface thanks mostly to the work of Google Maps. But users also...	Intermediate	Site Building
The Power of Views: Learning to use an essential Drupal Module This presentation will introduce the Views module, one of the most powerful contributed modules for Drupal. Views allows the selective displaying and filtering of content and is a must learn...	Intermediate	Site Building
Mastering Panels and Page Manager: Powerful Tools for Displaying Content Ted Bowman The Panels and Page Manager modules work together to create one of the most powerful content display systems for Drupal. Learn to create complex...	Intermediate	Site Building
How to Build a Mobile Site with Drupal Harris Rashid The trend towards a "mobile first" use of the web is showing no signs of slowing down. It's no longer enough to have websites that are functional on mobile. They must work well and feel natural on...	Beginner	Site Building
Don't Get Lost in Translation: Multilingual Site Building with Drupal 7 Suzanne Kennedy Multilingual site building with Drupal can be challenging. Depending on the type of site you’re building, the list of modules you’ll need and the configuration settings you’ll choose will vary...	Intermediate	Site Building
Node 101: The ABC's of Drupal Forest Mars This hour long prolegomenon will cover everything you've always wanted to know about Drupal (but were too afraid to ask.) From preprocess to hooks, from wysiwig to workflow, this will be a...	Beginner	Site Building
Speed dating (or What can you do with Drupal - NYC Edition) Now that you have been through the Drupal 101 session let's show you some examples of what has been done with Drupal in the NYC area.	Beginner	Site Building
Community Spotlight - Site Building Thomas Turnbull Dreaming in Drupal: How to think like a developer to build without code. Drupal has been around for over ten years and there are over 9,000 modules. As overwhelming as this list is, it...	Intermediate	Site Building
Drupal + NYC + Businesses = Awesome Alexander Ross, Frank Carey Drupal + NYC + Business = Awesome	Beginner	Site Building
Guided Conversation - Thomas Turnbull Thomas Turnbull Guided Conversation - Thomas Turnbull	Intermediate	Site Building
High Performance Hosting Sam Kottler This session will cover a variety of techniques and systems to create a high-performance web hosting environment tailored to Drupal. We will cover tuning Apache and MySQL, as well as adding...	Intermediate	Sysadmin & performance
Better Local QA Testing with Vagrant and Puppet Steven Merrill Many issues can arise from developers not testing with the proper versions of software on their local machines, but the average Drupal hosting stack is growing in complexity, with many sites...	Advanced	Sysadmin & performance
What is Pantheon, and why should I use it? Joshua Koenig, Matt Cheney, Kelly Bell Good development practices start with good development environments - dev, stage, live; drush, Git, automated backups - Pantheon has it all, supporting both Drupal 6 and 7, and makes it easy to...	Intermediate	Sysadmin & performance
Caching Demystified Aaron Welch Caching systems are a crucial tool for scaling any application and increasing performance. They are something every Drupal site utilizes on some level, and while they are a critical component of...	Intermediate	Sysadmin & performance
Automated Configuration Management Using Chef Nathan Goulding In this session we'll give a brief introduction to Opscode's Chef and its implications for automating the installation and configuration of full-featured, high-performance Drupal deployments. We...	Advanced	Sysadmin & performance
Why the bleep is my site so slow? (aka Demystifying Drupal Performance Tuning) Steve Rude Every person reaches this point with their site development for new sites:	Intermediate	Sysadmin & performance
Community Spotlight - Sysadmin & Performance Steven Merrill Let's Be Upfront About Performance The speed with which your website loads for your visitors is very important. Studies show that a small slow-down in responsiveness can cause a large...	Intermediate	Sysadmin & performance
Guided Conversation - Steven Merrill Steven Merrill Steven continuing his talk.	Intermediate	Sysadmin & performance