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DrupalCamp Saturday Sessions

Here's the schedule of sessions, subject to impromptu change

Room:	215	200	202	204	205
11:00ish	Drupal CRM	Semantic Web	MultiSite	Intro Session	---
1:00-1:30					---
1:30-3:00	Jquery	Scalabilty	---	Intro Session	---
3:00-3:30					---
3:30-5:00	OPEN MEDIA project	---	Views CCK	MultiMedia	---
5:00-6:00	Automated Testing	Diff Patch Issue	CCK Widget	Feed API	---

DrupalCamp Sunday Sessions

Here's the schedule of sessions, subject to impromptu change

Room:	215	200	202	204	205
11:00ish					---
1:00-1:30					---
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3:00-3:30					---
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Saturday Septemer 13th
Name of Session	Reference Link(s)	Presenter(s)	Summary
Intro to Drupal: Total Immersion	Please follow these instructions before you come to DrupalCampNYC if you plan to attend this session!!	Peter Dowling (winstond), Sam Tresler (I got your back!)others??	4-6 hr introduction to Drupal, this session will give people new to Drupal an in-depth introduction to Drupal. Please follow these instructions before you come to DrupalCampNYC if you plan to attend this session!! You can also see the rough timeline we are hoping to follow. As with any Barcamp it is subject to change, but "that's the plan".
What is Free Software?	--	Eric Goldhagen	this will be a discussion of the history of Open Source/Free Software and how it relates to drupal and the drupal community
Drupal Multimedia	--	Aaron Winborn	This session will be an overview of the best practices and modules for incorporating multimedia into your Drupal site, including Images, Video, and Audio. The session will be similar to the panel presented at Boston Drupalcon 2008, although geared to Drupal 6.
Integrating Drupal with advocacy software	--	Charles Lenchner	Need to integrate a CRM or advocacy tool with your Drupal site? Explore the why, when and how. (I know Salsa; would welcome Civicrm, Convio, other users to share in the fun!)
Automated Testing in Drupal	--	Charlie Gordon	Drupal has its own automated testing framework! This session will both help developers learn how to write tests for their code, as well as help site administrators learn to create tests for their specific sites' configurations.
jQuery an intro to modules and themes level implementation	--	Nat Meysenburg	jQuery is the only piece of non-Drupal software distributed as part of core. There are many plugins available for jQuery that implement really interesting AJAX features for any site. This session will cover a (very) simple explanation of how jQuery works, a look at some modules that implement jQuery in Drupal, and how to add your own jQuery at the theme level.
The CCK Widget	--	Geoff Maxey	The CCK Widget is a powerful element of the CCK. This session would cover how a developer could implement a module that can utilize this powerful tool and create more versatile custom data fields and forms for the content within their site. This session would be friendly to those beginning to develop modules for Drupal w/ PHP/MySQL as well as to those whom are already experienced w/ module development for Drupal.
Open Media Project	OMP	OpenFlows??	Update on the progress on collaboration on the OMP and movement toward a unified Public Access TV DB structure in Drupal
Intro to Multisite	--	ixlr8	Creating and maintaining multiple websites with a single code base.
Drupal Scalability	--	ixlr8	What to do when your website outgrows itself. We will talk about load balancing, db server clustering, memcache, etc.
Using FeedAPI & the FeedAPI Element Mapper to make cool/kickass mashups	--	Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg	The combination of FeedAPI and the FeedAPI Element Mapper offers site builders a powerful tool for pulling in all sorts of data from third party sites. I'll show a couple of examples of how to use these two modules, creating an aggregated video site (similar to our Drupal Video Planet and a site that uses ical feeds to create an aggregated calendar.
Semantic Web support in Drupal	SWNYC	Marco Neumann	Use of RDF, SPARQL, Triple Stores etc in Drupal exploration
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Sunday Session Schedule -t/k-

Room:	215	200	202	204	205
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Sunday Septemer 14th
Sunday will consist mainly of code sprints (where developers work together to solve problems, create new code, test patches for existing drupal bugs, etc). There has also been requests for a sort of supervised study hall, where people and groups that have their own drupal run project can get together and work on their sites while being able to get the advice and assistance of experts
type of session (sprint or workgroup)	Name of Organization or part of drupal that will be the focus	Summary and details/goals of session
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BoF - Sam Tresler	Teaching Drupal & Drupal's requirements (php, mysql, unholy ceremonies)	See http://groups.drupal.org/node/14181
BoF		Led by Jay Datema, this will be a discussion of Drupal use in Libraries
Q and A	Acquia	Questions and Answers about the relationship between Acquia and Drupal, in the hot seat will be Kieran Lal
Workgroup	Radical Reference	cobbled together over the past 4 years, the Radical Reference site has suffered loss of data due to unmaintained modules, lived through the pain of 3 drupal upgrades (currently running 5.x), and in general is in need of refactoring. So, using the current site as a prototype, we will rebuild, refine and redesign. Any librarians, theme experts, designers or techies interested in helping, giving ideas or answering questions would be appreciated.
BoF - Drupal and Services	Our more Flash-heavy DrupalCon Boston presentation	As noted in the comments below, I won't have a lot of time to plan this session ahead, but I'd be glad to share information on how to use the Services (and to a lesser extent, SWFAddress) modules to build whole Flash sites with real HTML underneath, or how to send a view to an AJAX script through the magic of Drupal's Services module. We can also talk a bit about some example sites that make use of Services that I've built including my work on BobDylan.com and my personal demo site - http://www.stevenmerrilltenor.com/.





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Here's some ideas for session from a previous post. Many of these topics still need presenters....

* Video?
* Tools and Editors
* Documenation?
* SimpleTest (Charlie)
* Key Modules: CCK and Views, etc, and how to use them - ixlr8 - CCK and Views- Creating Dynamic Lists of Dynamic Content
* Migration from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6
* Intro to theming (tom_o_t - though I could also do advanced if necessary)
* Advanced theming
* 15 different ways to do something
* Workflow?
* More Drupal Awesomeness++ Biggie Size Edition
* How to make a Drupal start-up
* Open source and the Drupal community: What is open source? Eat our own dog food (I'm always up for discussing the history of and details of Free software, etc -- Eric)
* Advanced Views (Insert Views, etc)
* Drupal teams go head to head to build the best project for charity organizations. Winners get prizes?
* Build a Flickr clone
* Build a YouTube clone
* jQuery Crash Course!!!!!!
* Drupal in non-profits/politics - CiviCRM (If no one with more experience with it volunteers, I'll give it a shot MacRonin aka Paul - Or maybe merge with the "advocacy software" session in the top section)