Session Type

Drupal for Non-profits, Small Businesses, and Schools will be a 30 minute presentation on how to use Drupal effectively and the most common challenges they will encounter, followed by a discussion involving participant's personal stories and experiences.

Agenda:
1. Why should non-profits, small businesses, and schools consider Drupal?
2. What makes a small environment special?
3. Usability challenges
4. Financial challenges
5. Using Drupal for common non-profit functions
- fundraising
- maps
- press organization
6. Maintenance of Drupal sites
7. The role of volunteers in Drupal

This session is intended to be a laid back discussion about the benefits and drawbacks of freelancing as a Drupaler. The main theme here is how the the individual actually represents a community, and clarifying the difference between working as a Drupaler in the freelance world and more 'generic' kinds of web-design related freelancing.

Topics include but are not limited to

• Pitching a project
• Legal paperwork & proposals
• Development vs. design & theming and time management
• How to deal with crazy people
• Q & A

Drupalcamp 8 NYC Session Proposal:

Duration: 1 hour

Brief description: This session will present architectural considerations for developing mobile applications with Drupal. It focuses on design patterns and platform integration.

Drupalcamp 8 NYC Session Proposal

This will be a more in-depth version of my MongoDB + Drupal talk/webcast from MongoNYC. Basically I'll be covering:

1. Overview of non-relational stores in Drupal
2. What's currently possible
3. Field store + JSON
4. What's next incl. the not-so-easy parts.

This session will cover from the basics to advanced usages of 960.gs, and tackle issues including how to start using it to simplify your site layouts and theme setup, how to quickly wireframe your site in a way that will truly represent your final product after design implementations, pushing theming & grid based layouts further with preprocess functionality in your theme layer.

This panel of Drupal experts will present short case studies on the most challenging, confusing or baffling bugs they've ever debugged, and share the strategies they used to investigate the problem, the root cause, and the solutions they ultimately reached. Learn from hours of debugging hard issues that stumped the panel.

Agenda

- Bugs that have stumped experienced Drupal developers.
- Techniques they used to find the causes of those bugs.

Goals

- Ideas for how to troubleshoot difficult bugs
- Knowledge of what kinds of bugs to look out for

This session provides a fun introduction for people who want to get started writing their first module or extending an existing one. The presentation is both conceptual and hands-on, and covers topics like Drupal's hook system and the Form API. By the end of the session, attendees should have resources and a foundation to start writing or extending Drupal modules!

Agenda

• What is a module?
• What is the hook system and how does it work?
• Overview and hands-on intro to the Form API
• Basic development troubleshooting techniques