Decision Maker

When Rasmus Frey was 7 years old, his parents took him to the largest buffet in the world, at the CircusCircus Hotel in Las Vegas. Confronted with the overwhelming abundance of the table, Mr. Frey was confused. This session is about what happens when you try to serve everything at once: You go to bed hungry.

Drupal’s taxonomy system helps you to organize content on your website. This robust categorization system is one thing that sets Drupal apart from other CMSs and in combination with taxonomy-enhancing modules the system gets even more powerful.
During the development cycle for Drupal 7, the system received a big overhaul. Besides important API improvements, taxonomy term fields have been introduced. These fields open up many new possibilities and change the way of using the taxonomy system.

What I have seen for now from Drupal 7 is, that everything will be better, faster, easier and more logical and user-friendly.
Unfortunately, for the time being, I cannot use Drupal 7 in productive environments because it is not stable (surely after this conference).
For that reason I will describe my adventures with Drupal 6.

Are you familiar with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer and the integrated Web Applications Gallery? These Microsoft offers made it easy to install and configure Drupal on Windows. But when building, optimizing and deploying Drupal on Windows and IIS it was still difficult. Come see the beta of a brand new product from Microsoft that covers the entire workflow, from pulling down the latest build of Drupal for Windows all the way to deploying it to a hosted environment, all in one place.

The ever increasing consumption of digital media in our wireless and always connected world should be good news for the libraries. The interest in and availability of books, film, music and games has never been bigger. But the libraries are stuck with: old systems on proprietary platforms, new requirements implemented slowly, data and function lock in, information silos, an increasing need to integrate incompatible systems for each new data format and supplier and finally a plethora of strange user interfaces far from common internet standards.

Brightcove is the leading online video platform and enables large
enterprises, media companies, and small businesses to quickly publish
their video content to the the web.

We run our public sites on Drupal multisite instances: our corporate
website, support site, developer site, and our blog. We translate
everything from English into 4 languages: German, French, Spanish, and
Japanese.

This talk will cover

• an overview of our system based on Drupal
• our specialized localization process
• development of custom modules, such as Google CSE Advanced module and

It’s not the big that eat the small; it’s the fast that eat the slow. Partnering with a small shop or freelancer can give your organization the flexibility and speed it needs to succeed, however it can be difficult to find skilled, dependable contractors. In this session, Steve Kessler of Denver DataMan gives away all their best secrets about how to cultivate and nourish fruitful relationships with small shops and freelancers from both a client and vendor perspective.