Beginner

I want to talk about what we are doing with design and drupal, where we are going and how we can do it in small groups of focused themers :) here in the Big Apple

Duration: 1 hour or less

Brief description:
Drupal 7 is right around the corner and you need to be prepared. In this session we'll take a look at the new features of Drupal 7 and how that are going to make your life easier. We will walk through the new installation process and explore Drupal 7 from a newcomer's perspective but also compare and contrast it with Drupal 6 and the former contributed module that made it into core.

Agenda

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Description
In this presentation I will dissect a moderately complex Drupal module from beginning to end. I will discuss not only what hooks and functions are used but also the design considerations behind them. I will also talk about basic through intermediate functions and hooks that you are almost necessarily going to need for building modules, as well as a few that will just make your life easier!

About the speaker

Brian Gupta has 14+ years experience in the IT space in a variety of roles, including: network engineering, system administration, storage administration, High availability deployments, IT management. Currently Brian is passionate about open source projects and mobile technology. (Especially where the two meet: e.g. Android)

Brian founded Brandorr Group LLC, an operations consulting company that is also an Amazon Web Services partner: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/solution-providers/brandorr/

Drupal demos (25 mins)

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So I have this thing called Drupal installed... now what? How do I post to my blog? I'm not a PHP/HTML/CSS guru (yet), I just want to learn how to use this contraption. What are blocks anyway and what am I supposed to do with them?

The earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. Join Ben Finklea, founder of Volacci and author of Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization and Bryan House, Senior Marketing Director, Acquia as they provide a practical walk through showing you which modules to install, which settings to use, and dozens of the most closely guarded “tricks of the trade” to get your web site optimized, higher in the search engines,
and more profitable.

Takeaways include:

Taking concise, actionable steps that increase traffic to your Website

Are you ready for Web 3.0? Disruptive collaborative technologies are converging so that your users will dictate how (or if) they interact with your site, and we’ll discuss the early edge of this wave and how Firefox addons (and Chrome/etc in the future) are already showing the way…

We’ll explore a variety of cool Firefox tools and tips, focusing on various addons, with an emphasis on items useful with/for Drupal.

Tools like Firebug and Webdeveloper, as well as more general items like AdBlock, Greasemonkey, and many others will all be discussed in the context of Drupal in particular.

Duration: 1 hour

This session was inspired by Jen Simmons CSS3: The future is Now (http://boston2010.design4drupal.org/sessions/css3-future-now) session at d4d.

The format of this session will be some slides (w/demos) and a show case of Drupal modules already implementing some HTML5 features.

The HTML5 topics I plan on covering are: Canvas, Video, Audio, Web Db, Workers Threads, Web Sockets, File API.

Duration: 1 hour

Just getting people over the hurdle of getting Drush setup and the basics of why you should
1.) What is Drush?
2.) Why is Drush?
3.) Where is Drush?
4.) How to Drush?

This session is going to be tag teamed by Robert (robbiethegeek) Holmes and Thomas (tom_o_t) Turnbull.

About Tom, charming gentleman with the funny accent that is awesome and knows lots of stuff :)
@thomasturnbull

About Robbie, boisterous and passionate gent with a funny accent that is ok (if I do say so myself) and knows a little.

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!!!