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This session is reserved for short 5-minute lightning talks. If you want to give a talk or present your cool Drupal project, please register for a speaker slot at the registration desk in the lobby. To make this session run as smooth as possible, you won't be able to use your own laptop (to cut down on the time used to get from one speaker to the next). Bring your presentation on a USB stick or structure it in such a way that you only need a webbrowser to support your talk.

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Please note this session has been moved from the earlier time of 10:00-10:50.

Up until now, CRMs have been accessible through API modules, or partially integrated such as CiviCRM. Creating a Drupal CRM will be no easy task, so we're gathering to discuss how to proceed with this mammoth undertaking.

The CRM will be developed for Drupal 7 and, resources permitting, be backported to Drupal 6.

The key issues for discussion:

• Will DCRM use profile2 entities to represent contacts, and if so, what needs to be included?

Drupal now has a rapidly growing global community, and seasoned professionals find it difficult to keep up with everything that's going on - let alone the daunted newbies that are just joining.

I believed it was time to have a curated source of independent journalism about Drupal and its community - so I set up Drupalradar a month ago to do this.

Since then I've been approached by lots of people who are also interested in this, so I agreed to setup a BoF for us all to get together to discuss it.

You may want to attend this if....

Everyone's talking about the benefits of HTML5 for web apps but the specification also introduces an extra layer of semantic richness to our web documents. These additions aren't wishful thinking for some far-flung future: you can start using them today. That's because the design principles driving HTML5 are steeped in pragmatism. Find out how important good design principles are to any project, whether it's a website, a content management system, or the very language that underpins the World Wide Web.

Rasmus' talk will cover various performance-related topics with a focus on Drupal.

Rasmus Lerdorf is known for creating the PHP project in 1995 and he has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. Rasmus was most recently an infrastructure architect at Yahoo! for over 7 years before joining WePay in 2010. He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo. You can follow @rasmus on Twitter.

The last drupalcon GVS presented his Certified to Rock tool and before that there was some attempts to achieve the same goal.

I also tried to provide some scripts to help to the analysis.

In this BoF it would be great to talk about what aspects we should take in account, and tools that let automate such a process.