WNYDUG Presentations

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Presentation Ideas

The following ideas have been thrown out (some with volunteers to present them!) for presentations in 2011. They are presented in no particular order, but please add to the bottom of the list moving forward. Just put your name next to one that you'd like to present or co-present, regardless of who added it, and proceed to the schedule if you have enough material set to do it. The idea here is to collaborate and remember: BE BOLD and edit this page! It's more than allowed, it's encouraged.

Presentations

General

Why Drupal Sucks
When Good Drupal Goes Bad: The Pitfalls
Designing for Drupal… or backing into designs from Drupal's strengths
Top module rundown

Features and Distributions

LEARNING (Presentations) OR COLLABORATIVE BUILDING - What is a local Drupal community destined to become?
Perhaps local efforts would best be put towards building shareable drupal features & distributions. We could determine the needed functionality as a group -- then assign individual group members specific features/functionality to R&D (identifying modules & building features for their assigned functions). That way we are not just sharing ideas @ meetings, but rather building usable code. This would be a much more powerful/ efficient use of our collaboration efforts. It would be perpetual and exponential collaboration vs. the flat/ one-time collaboration that we are conducting right now (since we currently present & share ideas, but they are not stored in a permanent encyclopedia style database to be added to later). Building a database of ideas & concepts could be valuable (if someone spends the time to organize them & chooses to read back through them later), but building real-world tools with those ideas & concepts is a much better use of our time. If the functionality currently exists then why would we continue to spend time talking about it rather than applying it into a real-world example(in a shareable format)?

Proposed WNYDUG Drupal Features/ Distributions

Drupal Site for Mobile Devices
NY-Specific GEO site
NY State Tax Integration for Ubercart and Drupal Commerce (why has this not been done yet...?)

Training Customers

Client content management: train them on Drupal, or teach Drupal new tricks?
Drupal Training & Management Resources to give to Customers (+ Simplified Admin Menu Links/ Shortcuts for Customers)

Drupal 7

Getting entrepreneurial with D7

Development/ Building Sites

Experience producing a site as a complete Droob
Staging sites and database backup & sync best practices
Drush Love: Getting the most out of the command line
Windows Platform Installer for Acquia Drupal: The Best Way to Run Drupal on IIS (not Apache!) if absolutely need to, and the completely stupid stuff you have to do to make it work

Multi-site / Distributing Content Across Multiple Sites

Multisite in D6 and D7
Sync content & features across multiple sites using Features & Feeds (& Pubsubhubbub soon)

Theming

Theming Strategies: The CSS Is Not Enough
Mobile Themes: unified platform across all types of mobile devices

Mobile

Drupal as a backend for mobile devices using Services module / mobile sites
Geo-specific mobile sites

CRM

Intro to CiviCRM

SEO

SEO and content strategy
Automating keyword extraction & meta-tag creation

Schedule

Wait... you want to present one of these great ideas? AWESOME! Throw yourself on the schedule!

Mar

Presentation 1: Highly Themed Sites and WYSIWYG editors
Presenter(s): Jon Daggar
Synopsis: How to balance concerns between: a high degree of design customization, Drupal standardization, and still making it editable for the user. Particular focus on making sure the site doesn't look bad the first time the client edits it. (Delayed due to Buickalope illness)
Presentation 2: DrupalCamp WNY? Yes, DrupalCamp WNY.
Presenter(s): Group
Synopsis: Oh, yeah. It's happening. What? Why? and How? will be covered. Proposals for different methods will be discussed.

Apr

Presentation 1:
Presenter(s): Jon Daggar
Synopsis: How to balance concerns between: a high degree of design customization, Drupal standardization, and still making it editable for the user. Particular focus on making sure the site doesn't look bad the first time the client edits it.
Presentation 2:
Presenter(s):
Synopsis: