Posted by winston on June 19, 2010 at 12:57am
Want to see a Drupal topic covered at DrupalCampNYC8? Although we have many great session proposals already, we'd love for you to tell us what Drupal topic you want covered.
Anything in Drupal stump you? Something interesting you heard about Drupal you're just wishing someone would cover?
Let us know by posting a comment on this thread!
UPDATE
Sessions proposals are now closed and the schedule is posted. However, you can still use this thread to post ideas that someone else may pick up to run a birds of a feather session.
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D7 highlights
How will Drupal 7.x differ from Drupal 6.x - what are the major architectural differences?
What are some of the major user-interface differences?
What do people who have been involved in developing 7.x or testing for usability think are the likely big benefits of 7.x?
Also useful - anything known re migrating from 6.x to 7.x?
Session format: Panel Discussion
Audience: Pretty much anyone who expects to either start developing a Drupal site in the next year, also people who are maintaining drupal 6.x sites who expect that they will be migrating to 7.x. A session like this might be particularly appealing to people working in companies/organizations that are considering Drupal as candidate for managing large/complex sites.
Level: Ideally novice to expert. But possibly better if this were conducted as back-to-back one hour sessions with a first part that would touch on topics in ways that are meaningful to both new-to-drupal folk with the follow-on session looking at topics that would mostly appeal to people who have considerable experience working w/6.x or other background in computer architecture/design.
Comment:
Form API, Queue API, DB changes
Great idea for a panel. From developer perspective I'm willing to speak on the FAPI and DB changes and also talk about the new Queue API. Need some other folks to talk about fields, UI, upgrading ...
The Drupal Organization
An overview of the DO - what it is, what it does, how it's organized.
Why it's important for anyone who is spending time working with Drupal, or is contemplating spending time working with Drupal to know about the DO.
What are some of the larger DO initiatives - what are good ways for people to follow what's going on re various DO initiatives.
Session format: Panel discussion
Audience: New-to-drupal to advanced. New-to-drupal people would benefit from an overview. People with substantial drupal experience/active involvement in the DO would almost certainly be interested in getting the perspectives various panelists have on various initiatives.
Comment: Drupal is a large community, with many opportunities for involvement in technical and organizational projects. By necessity, a lot of communication is electronic. I think it's always a plus when people have an opportunity to listen-to/meet people in person. My impression is that the DO does an awful lot of important work that may not be readily noticed. A good DO panel would represent a way of getting that word out. It's also potentially both an opportunity to kind of 'thank' those involved for the work that they're doing and a way of getting people involved in DO activities.
Do you mean Drupal Association?
If so, good idea.
Did mean Drupal Association
I guess it's clear that this lad could use a very basic intro to the Drupal Association.
I'd like to hear Drupal
I'd like to hear Drupal Commerce presentation; and it's even better if we can compare Drupal Commerce against Ubercart.
Drush
-Intro to Drush
-Intermediate / Advanced Drush
Drush
I'd be up for doing an intro to Drush. @robbiethegeek could perhaps be persuaded to do a more advanced part of this?
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Hi Tom, If you'd like to do a
Hi Tom,
If you'd like to do a joint Drush presentation, I'd be happy to participate. I've presented Drush to the dev teams at 2 shops I worked with before.
Or better yet... maybe I should propose a session on random terminal and productivity hacks. I have a whole bunch of them and I'm sure every other developer does too, I could solicit suggestions and run through them all.
Ben
+1 if your doing this...
+1 if your doing this... would love a session on terminal and productivity hacks.
Hi duckx, I am indeed doing
Hi duckx, I am indeed doing the session, it's on Sunday at 12:20 I believe, last I checked. See you there!
jQuery
jQuery and Drupal Behaviors
Basic beginner site building
Where does one begin? I do see several beginner oriented topics. I created pages, stories, blocks, blogs, forums, etc., individually. I've been looking at views. Should one just go to views to create the previous items? I learn ways to accomplish things and then later discover something else. Drupal keeps moving forward and improving. What are the tools and techniques one should use today?
Can there be a Drupal only focus? I've seen and heard other such discussions but they always get compounded with PHP, CCK, CCS, Javascript...... Are there differences for Windows users?
I apologize if this is too similar to other suggestions but I do not know how many other beginners there are and if they provide input.
Thanks very helpful
I've started a comprehensive discussion on a more formal intro track (or pre-training) here - http://groups.drupal.org/node/76548
But even if we have something more formal there would still be a need for more intro sessions.
How about sessions on...
Taxonomy (when to use it, when not to)
Basic media handling (images, etc.)
Using Wysiwyg and alternatives
The power of nodereferences
Basic intro to CCK
Panels (there isn't a topic on panels module yet!). Surely someone can volunteer to teach new folks about Panels module!
Hoping other camp attendees will jump in and propose more intro sessions.
@winderama, I wouldn't worry too much though. Especially on Sunday the current thinking is we'll have at least some "unconference" session planning. If you are not familiar with this it means more on the fly session proposal planning where folks like yourself can suggest sessions they want to see on the spot and hopefully someone steps up to do that.
In any case keep those suggestions for intro session coming. The more specific the better so the more experienced folks know what people want to see!
image & media handling & WYSIWYG definitely
Best practices for images and user-contributed images/media would be one I'd be interested in, and the same for WYSIWYG which can certainly get confusing.
I've seen some sessions of how to build a basic gallery and that sort of thing but when/why to use one way or another would also be valuable.
Jean Gazis
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Aegir + Project Management (and/or open atrium)
I'd really love to see Aegir installation from start to finish. I have my own VPS server, but I think it would be really convenient to watch someone walk through the process step by step. Perhaps they can even touch on how they've managed to use all drupal projects to handle their business (freelance or not) -- I'm thinking open atrium, aegir, drush, etc.
Most importantly, though, Aegir is what I want to see. :)
Aegir
@wildfeed - you interested in presenting on this? Or on rounding up a few different people to propose a session?
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I am, as always, very hungry
I am, as always, very hungry to see some technical breaking down of how to properly implement a really good mobile version of a site in Drupal. I know there are a couple of different modules that work in conjunction with a series of other modules out there, and even some themes that address this. But I am interested to see and hear what some best practices are, and which approaches are the best way to tackle building such sites.
Philosophies of build stage deploy
I would love to hear people talk about some philosophies and strategies around a dev to production workflow, storing drupal in svn.
SimpleTest
I would like to learn more about Simple Test in Drupal and how to write my own tests.
Zen 2.0
Could any of our awesome themers here talk about the newly released theme Zen 2.0? what's the difference between 1 and 2.0. Upgrade path? Maybe a BOF since the deadline is already passed. http://drupal.org/project/zen
Adaptive Themes/Genesis or Fusion: Which, why, when?
BoF for people who are familiar with Adaptive Themes/Genesis and/or Fusion , or who are considering using either for projects, with a particular emphasis on likely development roadmaps for either of these two offerings.
Best case would include developers who have used both of these, and people who focus largely on site-graphic-design (presumably, but not necessarily people who develop drupal themes.
Goal is to get a "bit picture" feeling that would be helpful for anyone undertaking a large-scale or small drupal project to get a feeling for how to determine whether either of these would be a good fit for that project.
I was going to submit a BoF
I was going to submit a BoF with Jacob Redding to talk about Drupal.org redesign, as a precursor to our session at Drupalcon Copenhagen: http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/future-drupalorg
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3 BoF ideas: Things I'm working on, or are stumping me.
"Issue Tracking" communication, especially within volunteer organizations.
I've cobbled together a few modules (CCK+rules+workflow) to present user friendly contact forms, which are tracked internally as cases/tickets. The idea is to:
..allow for transparency and/or teamwork in handling incoming mail.
..lower the email-fu level required of people who may not be black-belts.
..reduce back and forth by using structured forms.
All while not using a million modules, abusing taxonomy, or making updating a nightmare.
LDAP for single sign on: When is it justified? What are some caveats?
Machine_readable_names_for_beginners: Best practice for creating machine readable names and fields to avoid collisions, confusion, & stupidity.