FrOSCon

This is a BoF discussion that is planned for August 24, 2008 at 16:30 - 17:45 as a part of the FrOSCon conference in Sankt Augustin, Germany.

• What improvements have gone into Drupal search as a result of the Minnesota Search Sprint?
• ApacheSolr demonstration
• Xapian search and Drupal.org

Search is cool. Come talk about it.

UPDATE: Cancelled - I don't have time to prepare for this :(

This is a BoF discussion that is planned for August 24, 2008 at 15:15 - 16:30 as a part of the FrOSCon conference in Sankt Augustin, Germany.

This BoF discussion will focus on what semantic web tools are available to Drupal, including:

• The RDF framework: http://drupal.org/project/rdf
• The SPARQL module: http://drupal.org/project/sparql
• Neologism: http://code.google.com/p/neologism/

On August 23, at the FrOSCon conference in Sankt Augustin, Germany, Robert Douglass and Joeri Poesen will be offering free drupal training for anyone interested in getting started with Drupal. The topics to be covered are listed below. Bring your laptop with Wifi access because we'll be building some Drupal websites together!

10:00 - 11:15

Drupal basics

• What is Drupal and what kinds of sites can be built with it?
• Installing Drupal
• Five steps to a basic site

11:15 - 12:30

Drupal core features

• Making a publishing plan
• Organizing your site

For those who visited this year's FrOSCon, those who wanted but couldn't and anyone else interested in this event, have a look at the links page of the froscon wiki, where you find links to photos and blog posts about FrOSCon 2007.

Thanks to the people who organized and helped making FrOSCon a really cool event, those who did presentations and those who attended. Special thanks to Robert Douglass for making the Drupal track possible this year.

The video recordings of FrOSCon are available now.
Anyone interested, finds the BitTorrent links in the d.o handbook pages [1].
A streaming version of all twelfe videos is available on our website at erdfisch.de [2].

In cooperation with our freelancers Claudia Todt and Kai Thierfelder, who actually did all the hard work with filming and capturing, we managed to produce some nice videos. Thanks to them and all the other people involved, we had a great time heard many interesting things.

[1] http://drupal.org/node/172315
[2] http://froscon.erdfisch.de

If you're in Sankt Augustin on Friday and want to hang out, I suggest meeting here:

Restaurant Blumenhof, 19:00: http://tinyurl.com/2a3al8
Mendener Str. 48
53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany
+49 2241 27749

If you know you're coming please let me know via email or a comment on this event so that I can make sure our reservation is adequate at the restaurant. See you then!

How many SoC students are planning on being at FrOSCon? I know that Gábor and Balazs will be there. Who else can come?

I'll be presenting everyone's projects on Saturday (the 25th), and what I actually say or show will depend somewhat on you =) If you don't have a demo site online, please consider making one by then. If you provide me with materials to help present your work, I will use them. I will almost certainly stop short of installing and testing all 20 projects' code, simple due to time constraints, so your help in preparing materials and test/demo sites is needed.

The schedule of events for FrOSCon is now available.

You can now view the schedule for FrOSCon online. The Drupal track is divided into German language presentations on the first day and English language presentations on the second day. The Drupal coder's room will be available for Barcamp style impromtu presentations for both days. You can also pre-register online which makes you eligible to win prizes in the raffle. Pre-registration isn't mandatory to attend the conference, but is recommended.

You still have four days (until the end of June 30) to propose a talk for FrOSCon. Please feel free to be creative; these need not be dry academic lectures, but can be workshops, demonstrations of modules or sites, lightning talks, round-table discussions and so forth. See the FrOSCon group for more details and a list of proposals that have been submitted so far.