WNYDUG Drupal 4/27/2013 mini-camp talks

Drupal 7 + using Nginx (in place of apache) advantages, config files, etc. (presentation or BoF)

Here's one I could deliver, based on what I'll be chatting about this week at the Niagara / Hamilton DUG.

I'm using the Relation module as a key part of a big project and I could speak as to what it is, why you'd use it over similar modules like EntityReference, show some often non-obvious Views integration for it and generally chat about the state of the "linking your entities together" contrib options. I'm thinking this would be an intermediate level thing but would be valuable for beginners who'll inevitably need to make a call on how to do references between stuff.

Here's another I could do in addition to / instead of the relations talk.

There are a few "make your own fieldable entities" modules with different use cases, like ECK and Entityform. I can discuss why you'd want to create your own entities (as opposed to new content types), why the differences between the modules are, do some demos of stuff…

I figure we're beginner/intermediary level on this one.

I get called on to do this all the time and it was popular at our last Drupalcamp. If your hosting is slow, your site will be slow. I can touch on Pantheon, Acquia, and DIY strategies as well as the tech each uses.

I would like to do a BoF to discuss people's views on the Drupal Issue Queue as a system of evolving Drupal. Does it work? Is it inclusive enough? Can it really lead to the breakthroughs and systematic strategy that Drupal needs to succeed over the long term?

This would be a very valuable input for a Drupalcon session that I'll be co-presenting in Portland. More info here: http://portland2013.drupal.org/session/ux-case-love-and-hate-issue-queue...

Sorry for the last minute posting - we've been down with one winter/spring plague after another over here - I hope its not too late!

I would love to present the work we have been doing on making more end-user friendly distribution of Drupal 7 by combining modules and theming. This would basically be a case study type of presentation - which would hopefully spark some ideas on how site developers could either implement the distribution themselves or apply concepts from it to upcoming projects.

A few months ago I would have said that Node Hierarchy was key to the distribution, but we've reached a point now where there are so many really awesome pieces, I'd hate to say that any individual one is most important. I will however, spend a fair amount of the time talking about how we have implemented Node Hierarchy, Entity Connect, and Workbench.

I'll also talk some about how the custom installer works - keeping things flexible and customizable, but again, simple.

I've been planning on presenting something, but haven't had the time yet to pull together ideas. I could still do so before the weekend, but you're right about theming. If someone wants to talk about front-end stuff please take the spot.

Hey guys, I don't think I'm going to be able to prepare TWO talks.

I'd like to drop "Project workflow and deployment (git and stuff) by Nick Garofalo". I can roll some of the more interesting technical parts into my "Drupal Hosting Performance by Nick Garofalo" talk.

Here's a link to my talk: https://speakerdeck.com/adamwhite/relation-talk

Not sure it's useful to post my slides (since it was mostly just background images). But if you want to take a closer look at these topics, I suggest:

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