DrupalCampNYC8

Hi! I'll be visiting NYC from Boston for the DrupalCamp in July, and was wondering if anyone has an extra bed or couch I could crash on, or recommendations for an inexpensive place to stay?

I'd be happy to barter some Drupal training or development time for lodging as well.

Thanks in advance!
Ben Buckman
email ben at benbuck dot net
Freelance Drupal Developer, http://newleafdigital.com

Where does one begin? I do see several beginner oriented topics. I created pages, stories, blocks, blogs, forums, etc., individually. I've been looking at views. Should one just go to views to create the previous items? I learn ways to accomplish things and then later discover something else. Drupal keeps moving forward and improving. What are the tools and techniques one should use today?

Can there be a Drupal only focus? I've seen and heard other such discussions but they always get compounded with PHP, CCK, CCS, Javascript...... Are there differences for Windows users?

Description

I just gave this presentation at Design for Drupal in Boston - it was scheduled for an hour and the conversations lasted an extra 90 minutes - so if there are people who want to use Drupal in K-12 schools, this will be hot Hot HOT!!!

This is a one hour session talking about the state of e-commerce in Drupal and what people can expect.

We'll be looking at:

• Brief summary of online commerce on D6
• Ubercart, past and present.
• Future of ecommerce on D7:
• What's going on with Ubercart development
• The new Commerce module: what's the status, how does it differ from Ubercart, which should you use and when.

As Drupal becomes more popular for media and other content rich sites, the need for fast-loading, highly maintainable and flexible themes becomes paramount. Let's discuss what modules and methods we use to obtain this in our themes. Focus on CSS and other front-end code techniques as well as template.php goodness to keep themes lean. I'll come with my toolbox and hope that you'll do the same!

Session time: one hour.

About the Presenters:

# Brief description (1 paragraph)
Want to control access to some nodes in some way? Then ya need some access on ya nodes.

# Agenda (bulleted list preferred)

• Introduction
• Out of the box (user permissions)
• Contrib modules
• Module Development, aka how contrib does it
• Node type modules and hook_access
• Using grants
• Rewrite SQL
• Drupal 7 Changes

# About the Presenter (optional, but helpful to attendees and camp organizers)

DrupalcampNYC8 session proposal deadline has been extended to June 25th!

Want to lead a session, but didn't get a chance to submit it yet - there's still time! Submit your session proposal at...

http://groups.drupal.org/nyc/drupalcampnyc8sessions

Have something you want to learn that you are hoping that someone will do at DrupalCampNYC8? Make your suggestion by commenting on this thread...

http://groups.drupal.org/node/76048

Thanks for all who have submitted session proposals so far. There are some truly rocking proposals!

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More and more modules are including rules support and in my opinion will soon be as common and relied upon as views is now.

In order to show the power of this relatively new module, as well as going over general interface and functionality we will create a simple workflow interface using rules

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