Decision Maker

Since February 2008, the community has been hard at work on Drupal 7, which is rapidly nearing completion (or possibly already complete ;)). This revolutionary new release sports literally hundreds of improvements, and Angela Byron, the Drupal 7 co-maintainer, will lead you through the most important ones and how they'll impact your future site building endeavors.

Can watching “Star Trek” help make you a better businessperson? Find out in this multimedia presentation, which focuses on some of the lessons I’ve learned about running a Drupal-oriented Web development business using examples from science fiction.

In this session you will learn about common security website holes, how hackers use them and what you can do as site developer/maintainer to prevent security breeches. Following topics will be discussed:

• Explanation of top 10 security holes categories by OWASP
• Types of attack: it is not just your Drupal site that can be compromised. You will learn about the weak spots in your providers’ web server and beyond
• How to use Drupal in a secure way
• Using permission system properly to secure your applications

With all the new html5 buzz, and the talk about the future of flash, its time to make some order out of the chaos.
In this session we will talk about the benefits of using the flash platform.
whether you want to build an eye-caching wizard, a sophisticated mapping applet or to build a customized media players, the option of using flash cannot be ignored.

• how to decide when to prefer the use of flash over the use of javascript.
• Show you some real world examples of leveraging Flash and Flex to build a great user experience in Drupal.

With the incredible success of Ubuntu around the world, the LoCo project helps groups of Ubuntu fans and enthusiasts to work together in regional teams to help advocate, promote, translate, develop and otherwise improve Ubuntu.

This session focuses on how the Ubuntu Community makes use of Drupal everywhere: From ubuntu.com through most Local Community sites worldwide and to the Ubuntu Marketing site SpreadUbuntu, we use Drupal to spread the message of Open Source Freedom. And we want to share this know-how with everyone!

Working with Drupal brings the power of its community to work for you. But it also involves you in that community in ways that you might not expect. We'll cover some of the hidden costs of bringing Drupal into your organization, plus the resources you will need in order to keep your project sustainable.

This will feature lively panel discussion covering best practices for Drupal contributions maintainers and the rights and responsibilities of Drupal users.

Topics that we will cover:

* What are the rights and responsibilities of Open-Source developers?