DrupalCamp7 Session Ideas

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

I'm happy to present on mapping with Drupal, introduction to module development, introduction to views 2, and using subversion - if people are interested in any of these.

I would love to see sessions on the chaos tools suite, aegir, features, services, and developing for mobile platforms.

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.

I started a further discussion about this OVER HERE!

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

If someone can demo a more advanced site building using panels 3 I'll be thrilled!

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

I'd be happy to do a session on Apache Solr, Memcache, or Akamai integration, if there's any interest.

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.

I can lead a session on CTools ajax and modal development. This is more relevant now that the basics of the CTools ajax handling has made it into Drupal 7 core.

for Performance Tuning and Advanced Track - Developing for Drupal

for Performance Tuning and Advanced Track - Developing for Drupal

I'm not volunteering for this and it isn't my idea, but thought I'd post it here because the King of Denmark says we have to do it ;)

http://morten.dk/blog/cvs-haiku

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?

Here's some ideas I have:

I could speak a bit on the previously-mentioned: "A discussion of content staging and deployment. What are people doing?"
Specifically, I'm thinking I could lead a tour through the majority of some of the current trends in terms of this, although it's always shifting: features, strongarm, deploy module, perhaps with a little SVN branching / tagging theory thrown in? (And perhaps Roger or Jacine could talk about Patterns, since I know that it's another solution to this sort of problem?)

I've been meaning to actually put together a proper presentation on Services / AMFPHP / SWFAddress for a year now, so I suppose a hard deadline would be as good of a push for it as any.

I'd also be willing to talk a bit more about some performance enhancements, such as front-end performance upgrades, CDN usage, reverse proxy caching (even in conjunction with a CDN.) I could also talk just a bit about using alternative web servers like nginx, although there are others far more advanced than me in this regard.

Would there be interest in a session on SimpleTest and specifically continuous integration? We've started using SimpleTest on D6 in a CI environment, and it looks like some other big Drupal projects (like the Economist) have already been doing this for awhile. (A Hudson install is part of Chapter Three's Project Pantheon.)

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 presented at DCParis on 960 with Todd from Four Kitchens, and will be doing a revised presentation at Drupalcamp montreal this coming weekend on further 960 topics and my Omega theme, and would love to be able to do so again in NYC after touching up my new outline before/after Montreal.

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.

I love working with a 960 layout ... so i can give a session on that;

however, it will be interesting to see that everyone wants / is inspired to on the day of.

Things that peak my interest are

• maps
• features
• drush google wave

I'd like to present a tutorial on understanding/writing the PHP and some basic Drupal functions you need to get started doing Drupal development. It would be geared at people with little or no coding background.

Also, I'd be happy to present "How to Change Everything and Hack Nothing" which is intermediate level (it was a hit at Drupaldelphia: http://www.drupaldelphia.com/sessions/how-change-everything-and-hack-not... )

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.

Since this DrupalCampNYC-7 I think we should kidnap Angie(aka webchick) and make her tell us all about the new stuff in Drupal-7 which shouldn't be to far off(I hope) by then.

be talking about PHP 5.3 and Drupal compatibility issues? IT seems that all the modules that I used on a localhost running php 5.3 generated the "pass-by-reference" warning, so there really is a heavy patching going on with those modules just to get rid of the "&"

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 :) .

CVS is so 1995; SVN is so 2005. Would some experts in distributed version control systems like to show off some tricks of what their DVCS of choice can do?

I'll volunteer to show off some bzr tricks (although I'm not a black belt yet,) and I know we have a lot of git-heads in the group. Anyone want to represent Mercurial or any other systems?

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!

At Drupaldelphia I presented a talk called Solving (almost) All of Your Problems With CCK and Views.

The talk is an intro to CCK and views but introduces some intermediate concepts like node references, arguments and relationships. It was received well at Drupaldelphia and I'd say it is ideal for someone that has used Drupal but hasn't really gotten into CCK and Views.

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?

I would be interested in a follow up to the hands-on drupal intro.

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.

I can talk about Mobile stuff...
- Panels and mobile devices
- Mobile Tools, device detection, redirection, theme switching and mobile roles
- Mobile theming
- WURFL and Browscapp
- Using Osmobi.com (our new baby) to help you in making your mobile view
- ..

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'd like to see as much as possible about Drush personally..

Am also looking also to see the advantages and disadvantages of what projects are available for setting up mobile-friendly versions of sites (siruna, osmobi, etc)..

In general, I will try to be a part of as many theming oriented panels/discussions as possible, even though Drush is making me a little too excited.

looking forward to helping Winston out with Installfest, and anything I can give a hand with the Intro Track Planning Discussion which you can read more about over here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/27100