Open Source Developers' Conference

The OSDC 2006 is being held in Melbourne and invites papers on all open source topics. Please see this site: http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/cfp06.html

Presentations can be as short as 7 minutes, or even half day seminars and tutorials. Since there's no DrupalCon in Australia, this seems a good venue to talk about Drupal. I am interested in presenting a Drupal Tutorial and a case study about how Drupal was used by one of my clients. I would like to know if there are any other users/ developers who would be interested in presenting talks of their own or helping with the tutorial.

Here is a brief outline of what I intend to cover :

Tutorial

• Basic outline of Drupal concepts and terms
• Quick overview of install
• How to make an example site in Drupal
• A few demonstrated examples how various modules can be used to implement various features
• A brief overview of theming
• Drupal's Stability, scalability and some examples of successful large scale drupal implementations (e.g. KernelTrap, Drupal.org)
• Maybe a brief word about Drupal's future direction

The Case Study

My client operates a large directory listing of various small and medium sized businesses in Singapore. The site has around 8000 pages and was originally entirely done in static html. It is soon going to increase to 12,000 pages. I will be talking about why we moved to drupal, the time, effort and cost involved, challenges faced, how we did it and add something about the scalability of the system. This case study will talk about how the site became more web 2.0 and how it was better marketed using Drupal.

These ideas are only rough, so I would like any feedback you have.