DrupalCamp7 Session Ideas

I can do a session on Google Wave and Drupal, if there is enough interest in this topic.

I can talk about multisite and version control like we have it here at Sony.

I would love to see more about Aegir / Drush and advanced module & JQuery goodness.

RobbieTheGeek

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Things I'd love to see:
- A discussion of content staging and deployment. What are people doing?
- Saving time with Drush
- Ubercart intro
- Basic theming with 960
- memcache, APC and advanced server tuning
- Building tools for content administration (Views Bulk Operations, etc)

I'd be willing to present on:
- CCK
- Views2
- Drupal 7
- Rolling your first patch

The other thing people should start thinking about are topics for lightning talks.

Although it will make this thread long I'm thinking post each idea individually so others can respond to that one idea.

I'm totally not qualified to do this, but there are so many exciting things going on right now with theming it would be cool if an expert can overview them. Things like...

Studio base theme
Fusion base theme
skinr
semantic views project
grid base themes
etc.

I'm not an uber-dev or anything, but I did recently successfully set up XDebug debugging through Vim. I may even have something to use it on between now and the camp ;)

Maybe this could be a BOF to walk through some different debugging techniques

• print vs dsm type stuff
• outputting to a file + tail (still my fav)
• integrated debugging with XDebug+Vim or XDebug+Eclipse
• others??

I see Kipp on this thread who has an awesome tutorial posted for XDebug+Eclipse debugging on Vista. Maybe three or 4 presenters on this?

Every enterprise has a lot of databases and much demand for reporting those data. For example, Monthly sales, Individual purchases, and so on.
So, I am going to talk about
1) How to import your enterprise data into Drupal,
2) How to integrate the imported data with Views, CCK, Date, and so on.
maybe something else

Happy to lead a basic session on performance tuning:

Slow Query Log
Query Optimization
Adding Indexes to columns - what is this mysterious art?
Overview of various caching techniques. (APC, boost, memcached, etc)

Any requests for this list?

I am curious if there is interest in an advanced track to run simultaneously with the Intro Track?

I'm thinking we have a growing number of people out there who can install Drupal, themes, and modules, and customize the theme layer pretty well, but really want to take it to the next level. Maybe this is writing their own modules, or want to know how it all fits together so they can finally fix that bug that has been irking them in Module X, and submit a patch back.

What is a module?
Overview of most common hooks. (menu, block, access, etc)
Write a sample module.
What is a patch.
Attack the bug queue???

I'd definitely be interested in a concurrent advanced track.

for Performance Tuning and Advanced Track - Developing for Drupal

I would be interested in presenting a version of the session I presented and DrupalCamp Philadelphia: "How to Hire a Developer for a Drupal Project." That might draw a different sort of crowd, of course -- entrepreneurs, project managers, people from nonprofits, etc. Here's a link with my slides:
http://www.drupaldelphia.com/sessions/how-hire-developer-drupal-project

And I'd love to team up with an indie developer and someone from a Drupal firm and do this as a sort of panel discussion.

Here's my description from Drupaldelphia: Companies, startups, and nonprofits often decide on Drupal for a project, but they don't always have a clear idea about how to hire a company/developer with Drupal expertise. This session will answer questions about hiring a Drupal firm; it will provide tips on how to streamline the process, learn about Drupal (in order to communicate effectively with developers), and do everything possible in order to increase the chances that the project will go smoothly and achieve the desired results.

The session would cover these topics/questions, among others:

• How important is it to write detailed spec?
• What are the pros/cons of hiring a company that's interested in helping you work through functionality/user experience/design/Drupal, as opposed to a company whose main focus is Drupal?
• Should you have a design or wireframes before you embark on the process?
• Is it important to seek companies that are known in the Drupal community and contribute to Drupal?
• What are typical rates charged by independent developers, US-based development companies, and overseas options (i.e., oDesk)?
• What Drupal terms/knowledge can help to streamline the process?
• What can go wrong, and why?

I've been using the fabulous new Features module and would we happy to share my experiences. I'm by no means an expert on this, but since my current work projects will be using Features heavily, I'll have a lot more experience by the time the camp rolls around.

I'd like to do a session for people who are new to Drupal, and want to learn how to make things look they way they want them too. This session will be aimed especially at web designers who know CSS + web standards HTML already, but are not familiar with Drupal (or perhaps with any PHP/mySQL-based CMS). This session could also be good for developers who know Drupal, but haven't really figured out how to alter the default layout.

This will start with:
• where do I put my template's html? (uh, not in the body field)
• understanding the 3-part system: drupal core + modules; the theme; the content
• what CCK does + how to leverage the use of fields for your design
• how to get images into the content
• how to create your own theme by starting with a base theme
• where the CSS + theme images go
• what's a node + the single node display page
• views, views, views (what it does — NOT how to do it, that's another session)
• how to use blocks and regions to rock your design, and menus
• how to get rid of the river of news + make your own home page
• what you can do without writing any php or collaborating with a developer (a lot!)

NOT: not how to install drupal / modules / themes; not how to ftp; not how to write css

My plan is to talk about the big picture — how to think about designing for a Drupal site... what all the major pieces are... what things are called.... and where to find more resources to keep learning. I'll teach a few of the specifics of technology, but won't get into details on most things (ie: step-by-step how to configure X, Y & Z).

Giving this talk at Montreal this weekend. If it's a hit, I'd be glad to re-present it in NYC.

Followup: Montreal Talk went great, lots of kudos from people present who enjoyed it, so I'll polish it up a bit more and give it @ NYC.

Subject matter: Firefox addons both as Drupal developer/theming/security tools and also as the trends/changes (Web 3.0ish) to how you build sites, business models, and people will use your site and others. You'll go away from this session more knowledgeable and in control of both your browsing experience and site building in the future.

Seth Cohn mentioned above in a recent reply higher up on the page that we possibly put together an advanced theming panel, and Jacine & I have had brief mention of this through email, I think it's a great idea, and it would be welcome to bring others in on a panel as well. Possibly covering changes to theming, advanced concepts and solutions, or anything that can be beneficial to anyone needing a better grasp on accomplishing those "impossible" theming tasks.

I'm thinking my first "real" demo/presentation specifically on the Omega base theme at DrupalCamp Montreal this weekend will go over well. I still hope to possibly be able to discuss it in NYC as well before taking an improved upon version to Drupalcon SF next spring.

I would love to see a talk about creating installation profiles and I'd like to do a presentation along with Ghetto_Prodigy(Darryl) showing our poverty'sdemise.org Drupal site. More details to come later, but we are looking for ways to really give back to the Drupal community as we build our site/installation profile along with ending poverty :) .

Who wants to hear an intro to Ubercart presentation? I can go over basic setup and configuration, integration with other modules (views and cck, anyone?), product setup, reporting, and so on. If there's anything else you'd like to know more about, just let me know!

While looking at the Drupal Camp in Chicago, someone presented "Making it is as an Indpendent Drupal Consultant or Developer" I'm putting all my efforts into starting such a business and would find this extremely useful.

WOULD ANYONE BE PRESENTING SOMETHING LIKE THIS?

There's a misconception that Panels 3 is just about creating fancy layouts without needing to edit template files. And it does that. But it is really a wildly powerful template editor in and of itself, particularly in its support for system file (e.g., node and taxonomy) overrides and its integration with Ctools to support context-dependent content and overrides.

Could someone cover Amazon EC2, EBS hosting for Drupal? and Mercury, Vulcan?

If there is interest in a track on getting images into your Drupal site using Image module, Image Attach, ImageCache or IMCE discussing how they work and showing some techniques, I would be happy to present.

I was just wondering whether there is a schedule yet, or when one will be posted?

And sorry if this exists somewhere and I just haven't seen it...

Hi Allan,

This camp is going along the 'barcamp' unconference style, so the schedule is made at the event. It's the first thing that happens when we arrive at 10. It allows everyone attending a chance to influence the schedule, and hopefully to offer to present of facilitate a session. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp

This page is being used to start the process and get ideas flowing.

See you next weekend!

Hey Folks,

I've been running around Cambridge for a while now, but I have been watching the posts for the group. Looking forward to the camp. I've signed up for the volunteers mailing list...anyone needs anything let me know... FYI I'm about a 15 minute walk from Polytech, so I can offer storage to folks and easily work logistics as needed.

darryl