Call for Presenters

Posted by andremolnar on October 3, 2011 at 8:32pm

Update: please post new session proposals to the http://2011.drupalcamptoronto.org site

Drupalcamp Toronto 2011 is happening on November 12th and 13th at the George Brown College campus.

The website will be up soon, but we're putting a call out for presenters now.

If past camps are any indication we typically have four or so different tacks at these events. The tracks are usually: Business, Advanced Development, Site Building and Design/Theming.

If you're passionate about Drupal and any of these topics and want to share that passion with the Southern Ontario and Greater Toronto Area community that attends these camps we want to hear from you.

For the time being, post your interest to this discussion and we will get in touch when the site is up.

Even if you're not interested in speaking, maybe you know someone who is. We'd love to hear about them too.

Comments

Proposal: Optimizing the Administration interface in Drupal 7

Posted by afoster on October 3, 2011 at 8:56pm

D7's admin interface is a dramatic improvement over D6, but when a content administrator that is new to Drupal is placed in front of the drupal admin area they get quite confused. There's always a learning curve to managing a site, but as Drupal site builders we can smooth things out a little.

I was thinking about preparing a presentation about what can be done to make Drupal 7 as easy to use as possible for content administrators and other non-developer users. Lots of potential stuff to talk about - Views in Admin Area, Media Management, Instructions, WYSIWYG (and if anyone's found the holy grail getting images in the WYSIWYG in a simple, yet imagecached way - please do let me know). It also may be useful to talk about the work bench module (but that might increase the scope a little too much) ... Finally there's building the site with the features module so you don't have to do all this work from scratch each time.

I'd be happy to present alone

Posted by Everett Zufelt on October 3, 2011 at 9:24pm

I'd be happy to present alone or on a panel on one, or more, of the following:

Drupal 8 HTML5 Initiative
Fields in Drupal Core
Accessibility and Drupal

Accessibility Consultant & Web Developer - Zufelt.ca
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Drupal Performance and Scalability Panel

Posted by kbahey on October 5, 2011 at 10:43pm

If someone wants to co-moderate a panel about performance and scalability, please comment below with your additions.

I think that the format would be big topic headings and Q&A between audience and panelists.

Drupal performance tuning, development, customization and consulting: 2bits.com, Inc..
Personal blog: Baheyeldin.com.

I'd love to do a panel

Posted by emarchak on October 6, 2011 at 12:38am

I'd love to do a panel discussion on using GIT and SVGs for collaborative design, using a design collective that uses it in their work flow.

I'd also like to host Acquia's Hello Drupal! training for beginners. It might be nice to pair it with the camp to help introduce people into the community. I did it at Word11 with great success.

Great topics above! I can

Posted by Yoshi on October 6, 2011 at 1:32am

Great topics above! I can speak to Agile and Scrum at Myplanet if that would be of interest to people.

I'd be up for a presentation

Posted by deviantintegral on October 7, 2011 at 1:50pm

I'd be up for a presentation showing how to use Drupal to build a web application for mobile devices. Instead of the usual Services + native app approach, I'd show building an app that would work in any modern mobile (or desktop) browser.

I could also do a presentation about release management, detailing the lifecycle of code from development to production.

Extending Drupal

Posted by millwardesque on October 7, 2011 at 4:32pm

I'd be happy to give a presentation on extending Drupal by defining new hooks / APIs, and how to open your module to customization using CTools' plugin framework.

Beta testers

Posted by andremolnar on October 12, 2011 at 1:22am

Shhhhhh.... ;)

A quiet soft launch of http://2011.drupalcamptoronto.org is up in beta right now. If you would like to beta test by submitting your proposals on the site feel free. If people want to vote for submitted proposals - also go for it.

andre

The site looks awsome!

Posted by afoster on October 12, 2011 at 3:14am

Hey Andre and all those who put the site together you did a great job! Many Kudos.

I had less to do with it than you can imagine :)

Posted by andremolnar on October 12, 2011 at 3:33am

All the thanks go out to Erin emarchak who whipped up most of the theming last week and Arvin arvinsingla who sprinted with Erin on Friday during #awesomeday. I did some testing this evening with Arvin, but once again Arvin was doing most heavy lifting.

Also thanks to Erik Von Stackelberg for the design concept, layout and assets for the theme.

Also, a big thanks to all the people that worked on the site last year (okay I helped there), since 90% of the backend config was ported from the previous site.

andre

It's a lower case von :P

Posted by Yoshi on October 12, 2011 at 3:39am

It's a lower case von :P