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John Griffin

14 June 2010
John Griffin
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United Kingdom
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I had my first taste of Drupal almost 3 years ago and have been drinking the kool-aid ever since; helping many organisations including the BBC, Amnesty International and many smaller NPFs to build community and publishing sites. Recently I've been exploring distributed social networking, and investigating how Drupal could enable us to start connecting our networks together to fight the silo and privacy problems we're seeing with Facebook and other proprietary social networks.

Find me and talk to me, I'm actually quite nice.

Connect Drupal.

Bèr Kessels 14 June 2010
Type:  Session in official program

A pragmatic approach to connect Drupal to the world of webservices. (without using the word Cloud).

Ever came across a Drupal-project, where data was not simply inserted into Drupal forms and printed as HTML-pages? Where you wanted to:

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  • Pull data into Drupal, that lives on a remote service? Such as data in, say, Facebook, or on a RESTfull NoSQL database.
  • Use statuses, information or authentication over the web? Such as XMPP statuses, XMLRPC information, OAuth.
  • Push data into remote services? For example when you use Drupal to manage the data in a remote service.
  • Running Hundreds of Sites - Scaling Drupal Horizontally

    Dave Hall 14 June 2010
    Type:  Not planned session

    Drupal is increasingly the CMS of choice for large projects. The popularity of the platform means that developers and businesses need robust tools to manage their deployments. Last year Dave Hall developed, deployed and managed almost 2100 production Drupal 6 sites. During the presentation Dave will share the knowledge he has developed about scaling Drupal horizontally.

    Drupal is increasingly the CMS of choice for large projects. The popularity of the platform means that developers and businesses need robust tools to manage their deployments.

    Managing a handful of production Drupal sites is pretty straight forward. When you start deploying or trying to manage hundreds or even thousands of sites, things get complicated very quickly. Dave Hall will explain how he has used Aegir and Drupal to deploy and manage thousands of production websites.

    Kaja Jacobsen

    12 June 2010
    Kaja Jacobsen
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    Forxnaltevir
    Denmark
    Language (Primary) Danish
    Language (Secondary) English
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    kaja_jacobsen
    790710
    kajajacobsen
    kajajacobsen

    Project manager, music profesional, web-enthusiast, Drupalista, City art planner and former politician.

    Sectors: Public sector, Music, Arts, Communication, experience economy.
    Specialties

    Project management, webdesign, web communication, digital strategies for musicians, music, production of music, cultural industries, experience economy, popular culture, city planning and city cultures.

    * Project manager and web communication at JazzDanmark
    * Owner at Forxnaltevir

    Past:

    * Online designer at BOCCA WIRED

    slantview

    11 June 2010
    Steve Rude
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    Slantview Meda
    Language (Primary) English
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    slantview
    73183
    slantview
    slantview

    Oliver Mardling

    11 June 2010
    Olly @ CMS Professionals
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    CMS Professionals
    United Kingdom
    Language (Primary) English
    Language (Secondary) Swahili
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    OllyWhatTalent
    172714
    OllyWhatTalent

    I’m the founder of WhatTalent.com - The Internet Hub for the Creative World

    My vision is to create a United Artists for the digital age; an online community that encompasses and encourages all forms of creativity: Music, Film, Art & Craft, Performance, Broadcast, Fashion, Design, Photography, Writing and New Media.

    Greg Harvey

    11 June 2010
    Greg @ CMS Professionals
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    CMS Professionals
    France
    Language (Primary) English
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    greg.harvey
    130383
    greg_harvey
    gregharvey

    Greg's interest in the Internet began while studying for a degree in Architecture (the buildings kind) in Hull, East Yorkshire, UK. After building websites for the university and study groups he began work as an architectural technician, but soon found building websites became more and more a focus of his work. This continued until one day building buildings vanished in to the background completely.

    Chris Haslam

    11 June 2010
    Chris Haslam
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    Ixis IT
    United Kingdom
    Language (Primary) English
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    chrisred
    19126
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    Director of Ixis IT

    Majority of my time split between sales & managing Drupal hosting for a range of large clients including the British Council, the Institute of Actuaries and Epilepsy UK.

    Interested in Drupal performance / HA / clustering / varnish / pressflow / glusterFS / optimisation etc

    Nathan Lisgo

    11 June 2010
    Nathan
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    Panoetic
    United Kingdom
    Language (Primary) English
    Language (Secondary) French
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    nlisgo
    796872
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    nlisgo

    Experience of creating database driven websites that spans 12 years.

    Main skills: PHP5, MySQL, Javascript (jQuery), XHTML, CSS, Flash and Actionscript2/3.

    4 years experience developing sites in Drupal.

    I also have experience with PHP frameworks (CodeIgniter/Symfony) and ORM script libraries (Doctrine).

    Matt Fielding

    11 June 2010
    Matt Fielding
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    Panoetic
    United Kingdom
    Language (Primary) English
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    MattFielding
    193561
    MattFielding
    MattFielding

    A graduate of Media Technology and Production from the University of Bradford in 2000, Matt initially worked as a senior designer and web developer, then went on to set up his own Film Production company. He then went on to head up a successful web company team for three years prior to founding Panoetic. Matt has been working with Drupal for over 4 years. His role within Panoetic is Creative Director with particular interests in IA and UX.