DrupalCampPDX Presentation Ideas

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DrupalCampPDX will be held Saturday May 10th 2008.

If you're interested in presenting a topic or would like to suggest a topic then make a note on this page.

I'd like to offer the following advice to anyone who's hesitant to sign up to lead a session: You know more than you think. Ask yourself what presentation would you have liked to have seen six months ago. We're going to have a wide range of people attending and the odds are very good that you know more about at least one subject than the rest of us do.

You're encouraged to team up with other people. Having two people present works really well. If you're doing a demo one person can "drive" while the other describes what's going on and when you hit the inevitable snag you've got someone to keep talking while you get it straightened out.

Ideas

Unclaimed ideas for presentations:
If you would like to speak on one of these, move it to the next section and append your name as speaker.

• Case Study: Non-Developer - as an example, the great presentation Brian gave in February (Level 1)
• Case Study: Developer - examining more of the inner workings and opp's with Drupal (Level 2?)
• Theming(?) (Level 3)
• Module Building (Level 2)
• Module Buidling (Level 3 - perhaps CCK?)
• Into to JQuery
• CiviCRM??
• Writing Dries a letter with the 10 things we'd most like to see improved in Drupal
• Getting help: The best sources of documentation and assistance, from IRC to video tutorials, from drupal.org to Drupal communities. How to determine if a module is worthwhile.

Presentations with Presenters

These are the list of topics with someone who's volunteered to present:
Please add your name if you would like to be on a panel with the people below.

• Drupal 101 Introduction (Subtitle: "If Lovin' Drupal is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right!") -- Ben Kaplan
• Drupal and Politics: How Drupal can help your campaign, whether it be for city council or U.S. Senate - Jenni Simonis (30 minutes)
• SEO for Drupal sites - Brian Gonzales, danobrienmuzyka (45 minutes)
• Views 2 in Drupal 6.x - drewish
• How to Build a Drupal Site That Stinks (Subtitle: "Ben Kaplan's Top 10 Drupal Mistakes") -- Ben Kaplan (60 minutes)
• The challenges of Drupal in business- Dan Mendell CEO of neutralSpace
• The Garden of Eden-Dan Mendell CEO of neutralSpace
  For the business community Drupal offers lots of low hanging fruit from the point of view of quick functionality and deep feature set modules.
  Unfortunately picking this fruit is not always easy and can typically open Pandora's box, and puff out of the garden and back into the real world of open
  source. Dan will discuss his initial expectations of using Drupal as a prototyping platform, in the garden of Eden, and contrast that to what actually
  was accomplished utilizing limited resources.
• Top 20 Modules (Level 2) - roger
• Drupal for nonprofits (resources & special needs) - roger (Jenni Simonis is willing to help on this)
  -- maybe this should be merged with next one (community building)?
  (listing some of the specific nonprofit resources could be a lightning talk).
• Drupal for community building: grassroots activism and community groups - barry and Jenni Simonis (30 minutes)
• Drupal - Does it Scale? (performance and scalability) - Matt Westgate
• Build a site in an hour (demonstrate how you can rapidly add functionality) - Matt Westgate
• From Mockup To Go: Architecting Drupal Sites (showcasing high-profile sites and looking under the hood) - Matt Westgate
• Relating Content: Faking the Object-Oriented Paradigm with Content Types, Taxonomy and CCK - Philippe Blanc and David Price
• AJAX+Widgets+Drupal - Philippe Blanc and David Price
• Building a highly configurable but hardened Drupal site (emphasis on Panels 2) - Michael Prasuhn
• Drupal deployment/management solutions - Michael Prasuhn
• CCK (Level 2) - Roger Leigh (just because someone had to do it - please help me!)
• Workflows - from simple to complex (45 min) - Michael Shaver

Lightning talks or presentations

We'll aim for 5 in a half-hour, or with enough interest 10 in an hour, 5-6 minutes maximum for each.

• You could be next!

Lightning demonstrations

No slides, just interaction with Drupal and Drupal sites (e.g. a demo of a remarkable Drupal page or a nifty Drupal trick). We'll aim for 4 in a half-hour, or with enough interest 8 in an hour, 6 minutes hard maximum (you will be gonged) for each.

• MySQL Proxy - Replicating and Scaling Drupal From the Database - Matt Westgate
• Deploying Multiple Sites With a Single Drupal Install - Matt Westgate
• Enable and prefer OpenID on your Drupal site - Nate Angell (nato@drupal.org)
• Software Spotlight: NaviCat MySQL Admin Tool - a visual approach to MySQL - Brian Gonzales
• JS Widget Demos - David Price
• You could be next!