| Saturday Feb 26th 2005 |
| The state and future of Drupal (13:30h - 14:00h) |
A brief introduction to Drupal. The talk will focus on Drupal's past, its current state and its future.
Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and PhD student at the University of Ghent |
| Module development (14:00h - 14:30h) |
Join us as we build a Drupal module from scratch. We will first poll the audience for module proposals and then start coding together. The final part of the presentation will highlight key steps in interacting with Drupal.org, the key spot for publicizing our new module.
Moshe Weitzman, Drupal consultant |
| Theme development (14:30h - 15:00h) |
No Drupal site is complete without a fitting theme to show it in. This talk will discuss Drupal's flexible theme system which puts control in the hands of the designer. We'll take a look at the PHPTemplate engine and study a real-life PHPTemplate theme, Bluebeach, used on Drupal.org itself. We'll show that Drupal is perfectly suited for modern techniques such as tableless layouts and semantic XHTML, and see how to solve some common issues in them.
Steven Wittens, Drupal developer and engineering student at KUL |
| Metadata-driven workflow ( 15:00h - 15:30h) |
Workflow management is essential to a content management system. Flexible workflows can be customized to fit the varied needs of the Drupal community. The workflow module in Drupal integrates with different content types using metadata-driven behavior. Drupal's open callback framework provides the backdrop for the inter-module notification necessary for workflow to be useful.
John VanDyk, Systems analyst and Assistant Professor at Iowa State University |
| The content construction kit (15:30h - 16:00h) |
Drupal's existing node system can be used to organize structured information of any type, but programming is required to achieve this. After surveying the ways in which other content management frameworks address this problem, we will explore an architecture for allowing administrators to define arbitrary new content types without any programming knowledge. We also examine how this architecture could bring about customized search interfaces, simpler generation of content listings, and a sleeker code base.
Jonathan Chaffer, Software developer for Structure Interactive |
| Multimedia in Drupal (16:00h - 16:30h) |
Images, audio and video clips are taking an increasingly prominent role on the internet - from personal photos to artist communities to "podcasts". We will begin by taking a look at the options for media handling that are currently available for Drupal, followed by a look into options for the future.
James Walker, Drupal consultant and Bryght guy |
| Drupal as an e-commerce platform (16:30h - 17:00h) |
Drupal can be a storefront, an auction site, or a subscription management system. These configurations and more are possible with Drupal's e-commerce module. Learn from the module's author how to create stores that are easy to maintain. Case studies will be used to introduce the potential of this important module.
Matt Westgate, System support specialist at Iowa State University |
| 100% availability, scalability and security with Drupal (17:00h - 17:30h) |
David will be talking about how to ensure 100% availability, handle scalability to millions of users, and ensure the security of a mission-critical Drupal setup. In fact, we will mostly be talking about how Drupal is flexible enough to allow for known, well documented methods in network and system administration to be applied to it in order to reach the goals mentioned with (nearly) no modifications.
David 'Kat' Monosov, Business development , ICT consultant, IP engineer |
| Drupal as a contact relationship management platform (17:30h - 18:00h) |
Finding out who is logging into your campaign or non-profit website, subscribing to your email lists, and donating to your cause is essential. Drupal is increasingly able to fulfill these needs without going to third party software. Take a tour of the new CRM module with one of the module's architects.
Neil Drumm, Lead developer at CivicSpace Labs |
| Sunday Feb 27th 2005 |
