Boise Code Camp and Tech Fest and Drupal fest

I'm sending 2 of my developers to the conference (John & Kirk). Hopefully we will be able to present on "CCK & Views" and "OA & Features". I will be in Mexico vacationing so I won't make it but they should be able to cover these good topics.

I see that Kirk and John have posted their sessions and they are already posted on the session page.

Thanks,

Clint

Hi,

I just submitted my Internationalization session to Boise Code Camp. Now I need to polish and rehears it a few times.

Antonio

The deadline is today which should make it midnight. At this moment, only 3 sessions are being displayed in the Drupal Track - Josh, John, and Kirk. Antonio and I both submitted a Drupal Session last night but those have not appeared. Chris wrote that he thought we needed nine but I am sure that is correct unless we were going to extend our track into Sunday. I will make a couple of phone calls later this morning and check. The sessions are 75 minutes in length with 15 minutes inbetween each session providing for 3 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon. We had a planning meeting yesterday and at that point we only had one session posted but we really didn't go into detail other than we still needed presenters and have had a cancellation or two. After I make those calls, I will add to this thread as to going forward and verifing that both Antonio's and my Drupal sessions are to be added to the session list.

Thanks to all.

Clint Tinsley
Boise Codecamp planning committee

I submitted my session late last night.

I have confirmed that we have 7 sessions submitted with one more submitted this morning. We can have 6 in the same room on the same day, sequentially, as a Drupal Track.

Need a decision, we can move one of the sessions to Sunday or we can have in a seperate room in Saturday which means it may conflict.

Thoughts? We will have some input as to the final order of the presentations in the track before the actual schedule is finalized.

Thanks,

Clint Tinsley

Here are the seven sessions. I reviewing this, we can only have 6 sessions in the track on Sunday and Saturday will be full, so we need to decide which of these will be offered on Sunday. Concensus, comment?

1. 10 Reasons Why Drupal (might) Kick Your CMS's A**

Chris Shattuck

If you're building a web site from scratch, God help you. In this day and age you have a multitude of options at your fingertips for web site frameworks, and standing out among these is a powerful beacon of goodness called Drupal, a technology that powers numerous high profile sites like the White House, NASA, BMG and The Grammy Awards. In this session I give you a somewhat biased - but still fair - overview of what often makes Drupal the best solution for web-based applications and sites. If you build web sites or are considering doing so, then Drupal will make your life richer and your employment options numerous.

Drupal,CMSes

1. Digging into Drupal 7

Joshua Brauer

WIth the release of Drupal 7 comes a host of new features and functionality for end-users, site-builders, developers and themers. We'll start with a brief overview of what Drupal is and delve into the changes with an eye towards what makes themers' and developers' processes simpler and more powerful.

php, html, jquery, drupal

1. Drupal - 101 - Installing & Configure Drupal 6

Clint Tinsley

Drupal 6 is the latest version of a very popular dynamic content management system (CMS) which can use MySql as the database backend. In this session, we will go through the basics of installing Drupal 6 on a LAMP (Linux Apache MySql PHP) using Fedora 12. The session will include creating the database and drupal user on MySql as well as setting the file permissions necessary for a succesfull installation of Drupal 6. After installing, we will go through the basic configuration steps for implementing a functional Drupal 6 including theme selections, modules, and user administration.

Linux Apache MySql PHP Drupal CMS

1. Drupal - CCK & Views

John Jemmett

In a generic web application we always need the following: * Database tables for our data * CRUD interfaces to the database tables * Queries to limit and retrieve our data from the database tables * Presentation and interface to our queries on the database tables Any coder who has built these know how tedious and cumbersome this process can be. We also recognize how repetitive this process is. How can we simplify this PAINFUL process? Let Drupal and its awesome modules lift the weight and relieve your pain. Welcome Drupal, Content Types, Nodes, Content Construction Kit (CCK), and Views

drupal

1. Drupal - Open Atrium Introduction & Building a simple OA Feature

Kirk Hingsberger

Does your organization need collaborative spaces for internal groups? If you had a central blog, calendar, task tracker, notebook, and shout box would your group be more effective? There is a push toward online collaboration for many companies. We are realizing the limitation of email as communication tool. It is too hard to separate out the wheat from the chaff. Welcome Open Atrium (OA) - OA is Drupal based installation that is preconfigured for groups based collaboration. We will demonstrate a Out the Box install of Open Atrium and show you the usefulness of its features. Well Open Atrium is nice, but how can I get my company specific Content Type as a Feature in OA? Well its easier than you think. If you have a basic understanding of Drupal, Content Types, CCK, and Views you can make your feature avaliable to OA and your collaboration audience. We will demonstrate how to create (A-Z) a feature for OA. We will show how this will facilitate good Development, Stage, and Production environments. With all this collaboration and cost savings can't you see the pure JOY in your bosses eyes?

drupal, open atrium, intranet, portal, collaboration,

1. Essential Modules for Most Drupal Installations

Michael Samuelson

The core Drupal installation, while providing a powerful framework for site building and custom code development, really starts to shine when you introduce some very important add on modules from the Drupal contributions repository. As a newcomer, finding those modules from among the 5000+ modules in the repository can be a challenge. This session seeks to jumpstart the attendee's awareness of the essential modules for most installations.

Drupal

1. Internationalization: Yes, Drupal can do that.

Antonio Tijerino

Drupal has built-in support for creating websites that can be localized for different languages. This built-in support comes on the form of the Locale module which allows text strings from Drupal to be translated. This presentation will show you how to configure a multi-language single-site Drupal 6 site as well as how to allow for content translations. Some of the items covered during this presentation are: * The role of the Locale Module * The i18N and L10N modules * Overview of the roles of these two modules * Approaches to building localized websites: * Building different websites for each language * One site that supports many languages * Supporting modules required

Drupal 6.x

Clint Tinsley

Thanks, Clint, this looks great!

The only suggestion I'd make is to bump "Essential Modules for Most Drupal Installations" up above "Drupal - Open Atrium Introduction & Building a simple OA Feature". Also, jrglasgow's presentation on setting learning basic web dev tools like FTP would fit good before all of these sessions, even thought it's not specifically Drupal.

Chris

I believe James is only going to be available on Saturday, and I like the idea of overflowing onto Sunday, rather than having concurrent sessions.

It seems like the following sessions should definitely be front-loaded in the track:
* 10 Reasons Why Drupal (might) Kick Your CMS's A**
* Drupal - 101 - Installing & Configure Drupal 6
* Essential Modules for Most Drupal Installations

After that, I'd say it could go in any order.