DrupalCampNYC8

Overview
Many publishers and media companies have shifted their Websites to Drupal. This DrupalCampNYC8 session explores why this is the case by examining current and future trends. We will present several case studies and host an open discussion about workflow tools, popular contributed modules, mobile publishing, and techniques for monetizing content, all of which are helping publishers rethink their businesses. From workflow management, multiplatform publishing, and subscription payments, to video integration, social media integration, and user generated content, this session will focus on how publishers and media companies are using Drupal to invite wider audience participation and ultimately improving their bottom line.

Duration: 1 hour

One hour, ten mini-sessions, any topic...as long as it's five minutes long. Pitch your crazy new module, complain about the state of documentation, show how you built your lizard selling site using Drupal, talk about the 5 best modules for organizing profile pictures, dazzle us with strategies for getting work done while taking care of five small dogs and a baby, demonstrate your awesome Jquery menus, show newbies how to review a patch, brag about how you got your users to navigate 70 different content types. As long as it's 5 minutes long, it's fair game.

Want to see a Drupal topic covered at DrupalCampNYC8? Although we have many great session proposals already, we'd love for you to tell us what Drupal topic you want covered.

Anything in Drupal stump you? Something interesting you heard about Drupal you're just wishing someone would cover?

Let us know by posting a comment on this thread!

UPDATE

Sessions proposals are now closed and the schedule is posted. However, you can still use this thread to post ideas that someone else may pick up to run a birds of a feather session.

Description

Views was originally targeted toward site builders to allow them to create lists of users and content without having to know any SQL or php, but it has grown to become an awesome tool for module developers creating custom or contrib modules. In this session we will cover how module developers can leverage the views module in the following ways.

Agenda

• Easily views enable your module's tables using the table wizard module. Complete with relationships and sorts.

Duration: 1 hour

Brief description: How do you create a site that can handle millions of page views per day without crumbling under the load? Caching won't solve all your site problems, but it has to be part of your strategy. In this session we'll cover Drupal's internal caching mechanisms, what Memcache can do for you, the types of scenarios that Varnish can cover, and the whys and wherefores of Edge Caching. We'll discuss the differences between building a static site that can handle thousands of page requests per second, and what it means to your performance when you start adding authenticated users and node edits.

In this presentation I'll discuss (possibly with co-presenters) the process of going from an independent contractor to a Drupal development shop, and specifically some of the problems I/we have gone through in building Zivtech from 1 to 13 people over the past 2.5 years.

Duration: 1 hour

Brief description: How are users going to find your content? Search is one of the biggest issues facing site builders and it's one of the hardest problems to solve. With features such as field weighting, faceted searching, and hit highlighting, in addition to enterprise-level full-text searching, Solr provides a leading alternative to Drupal's built-in search. In this session we'll focus on how to use Solr to provide an incredible search experience to your users with minimal pain.

Agenda

Duration: 1 hr

There are now loads of different ways to do mapping and deal with geographic data in Drupal. One of the most interesting new(ish) approaches is the OpenLayers module (http://drupal.org/project/openlayers). It integrates the open source OpenLayers javascript library (http://openlayers.org) with views, CCK, and all the other Drupal goodness that we know and love. The thing that got me excited about OpenLayers is how easy it is to customize and extend. It integrates with MapBox (http://mapbox.com) - a service being developed by DevSeed (that recently won a $74,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to further this work). Why is this all so exciting? Come along to the session and learn how to set this up in Drupal and discuss the potential applications.

Duration: 1 hour

WordPress gets some very important things right, and their hold on this market is proof. There are 11.4 million active installations of WordPress software, compared to only hundreds of thousands of Drupal installations. We need to get our act together, raise our standards, and lower the barrier to entry.

Come join me in talking about what this community needs to do to ensure its survival. What should we really be focusing on in Drupal Core for D8? What should you do with your own modules to prevent our CMS from being abandoned in favor of something else?