Decision Maker

OpenPublish is a packaged distribution of Drupal, tailored to the needs of online publishers. First released about a year ago, it has quickly gained momentum. It already has hundreds of active installations, thousands of downloads, professional support from Phase2, Acquia and their partners, 9 minor releases and two major releases and that's just the beginning. It is the obvious choice for news publishers who want to get a head-start on Drupal.

It's a CONTENT Management System... so why do we (and our clients) so often ignore the content until the last second? Learn to read the signs early and get more sites launched on time by managing the content and not just the code.

In 2009 the TV channel "Kinderkanal" (KI.KA) launched its community "mein!KI.KA" based on Drupal (http://www.mein-kika.de). KI.KA is the German children's channel of the public television channels of ARD and ZDF. It provides one of the largest and most successful Internet service sites for children in all of Germany.

In this presentation, the project leaders Jutta Horstmann and Tobias Freudenreich will talk about their experiences in building a successful and safe community for children and the lessons learned.

Web font, @font-face is a CSS standard to deliver the fonts real-time like images to web pages. It is gaining popularity and is supported by all major Browsers. Designers can use fonts that are located in remote server just like referencing images or video assets. It solves the problem that we must have the fonts reside on the local computer and we can use remotely located Unicode fonts that contains large collections characters and can be updated regularly and accessed by remote users instantly. SEO will be improved by implement the text in real fonts vs. images because the search engine can index/understand the actual text use in a regular fashion like h1, h2 and .headline etc.

We have developed a module to enable the content with web fonts and the module also comes with a WYSIWYG editor with web fonts which can be selected by individual Drupal publisher. Users can design their site with renown fonts for branding, SEO and help vision impaired (fonts can be read by vision aid devices)

We will talk about the Web Font API used in our module so developers can integrate the Web Fonts to their modules and content.

We will explain the fundamental language specific problems of full text searching using Apache Solr, present some real life multilingual examples from Switzerland and demonstrate the corresponding features of Apache Solr Multilingual.