Proposed Sessions
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Will Code for Coffee: How to Volunteer Randall Goya, Lanny Trager, Tom Sherlock When your family, friends, church, synagogue etc. find out you know how to build web sites, the first thing they ask is "Can you help us?" Often the answer is "Yes, but you cannot afford to pay me... |
Intermediate | Business & end users |
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Drupal Project Management Strategies Matthew Dorman Discover a strategy for ensuring successful outcomes of Drupal projects of any size. “We don't have to manage our Drupal projects differently; Drupal allows us to manage them in different and more... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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How to Recruit and Retain Top Talent in the Drupal Community Glenn Hilton The last few years have consistently seen 10%+- global unemployment as much of world is mired in an economic recession. However, the demand for top Drupal talent remains strong. In this session,... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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How to Land and Keep a Job at a Drupal Shop Glenn Hilton In this session we’ll explore some of the things you can do to catch the attention of that Drupal web agency you’re hoping to work for. We’ll examine ways you can set yourself up so HR managers... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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Project Manager's Workshop All there is to know about being a successful Project Manager - the Drupal way 1) Discover the best tools of the trade that will save you tonnes of time, make your team efficient and... |
Intermediate | Business & end users |
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Caching/Varnish for Decision-Makers and Architects Tim Loudon High performance and scalability are complex topics--even for experts: we can't change that. But we can take a holistic look at our websites and our systems to gain a better understanding of the... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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Integrating Social Media: the Modules and the Big Picture Marissa Martinez Social media. Your clients expect it but may or may not really understand how to leverage it to help their business, This session will review some of the available Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 social... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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Drupal 7 Higher Education Case Study Alex Dergachev In this session, I'll talk about an admissions portal we're building for a large Canadian university. Requirements have included an intuitive application process for applicants and a flexible form... |
Intermediate | Business & end users |
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Automating OpenScholar (A One Stop Solution for your school) Nikhil Dubbaka This session will be a walk-through on what is OpenScholar (http://openscholar.harvard.edu/) and how it is used at schools. |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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Drupal, the Cloud and Collaboration: the Rise of the Distributed Agency Ed McLaughlin Mao said, "There is great disorder under heaven and the situation is excellent." Indeed, Chairman! In the disorder of the current world economy, the situation is excellent for the Distributed... |
Intermediate | Business & end users |
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Content Strategy & Drupal: A Match Made in (Taxonomy) Heaven Natalya Minkovsky What does content strategy mean for the Drupal community? Working with a content strategist can help make the development process smoother and prevent last-minute surprises and frustrations. (“Why... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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Going Cowboy: Beyond Agile and Waterfall Seth Brown Typically large organizations like Lullabot approach projects with either an Agile or Waterfall approach, but both have drawbacks and pitfalls. In addition, both require quite a bit of project... |
Beginner | Business & end users |
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Overcoming the Departmental Site Challenge: How to Unify a University's Web Platform with Drupal 7 Glenn Hilton Abstract: Best practices for using Drupal at your EDU, and an in-depth case study on how Drupal 7 is being used to manage over 190 department sites and 35,000 students at... |
Beginner | Case study |
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Building a Great Local Development Environment Charles Novick Learn how to download and configure the best open source applications to create a full featured Drupal development environment. After following the instructions in this session you will have a... |
Intermediate | Development |
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Controlling URL-itis Helps SEO AND Site Performance Matthew Dorman Drupal is a powerful tool for creating and distributing your content. Out of the box, it will deliver this content via numerous unique URLs, add in Views, Panels, and other auto-generating URL-... |
Intermediate | Development |
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Simple DevOps Using Jenkins Robert Ristroph This presentation will cover a simple setup of a Jenkins (it can even run on your laptop), and a set of scripts will be demonstrated that enable the following workflow: * Run Drupal Cron... |
Beginner | Development |
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Custom OpenCalais Tagging Zvi Epner I've written a custom OpenCalais module for a client that simply send out the body text, retrives suggested tags and integrates into a custom ActiveTags term ref combo field. I think the... |
Intermediate | Development |
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Hello, Drupal? Building Drupal sites that make and receive phone calls Leo Burd As part of this session, you will learn about VoIP Drupal (http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal),... |
Beginner | Development |
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Revitalizing Drupal Projects with SimpleTest Sean Dague Look at any long standing software site, Drupal.org, being no exception, and you'll find abandoned projects everywhere. As time goes on, this becomes a veritible junkyard of code. Junkyards can be... |
Intermediate | Development |
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When There's Not a Module for That: Building a Contrib-worthy Drupal 7 Module benjamin melançon Drupal is a powerful and modular system— indeed, much of Drupal's power is in its modules, dynamos of pluggable functionality that can build on Drupal's base system and other modules. This session... |
Intermediate | Development |