Beginner

Varnish is a reverse proxy cache. It accelerate your web site by caching responses from your web server and thereby offloading Drupal. Varnish is a modern solution outperforming its competing products by as much as twenty times. That is the reason for its increasing popularity as web accelerator.

Audience

This session is for anyone who is not afraid to manage Linux servers, but who has not yet looked into Varnish.

What you will learn

In this session you will learn:

• What Varnish is.
• When to use Varnish.

Will cover products configuration, catalog, shipping, payment systems, and basic store creation. A full walk through.

If there's something you really want to have more information on, or have been struggling with, please comment, and I will try to make sure it is one of the points I address in the presentation.

This session will focus on opening your mind to the point of view of your clients. Whether you are working for a non-profit, a corporation, or your mom... we will cover some tricks that will help you understand what they want even if they can't explain it to you in Drupalspeak.

Ultimately, the aim of this session is to help you build skills that will enable you to understand your client's desires. Your clients get the Drupal site that they want. Your save time and energy (and money and aggravation) while you build it. This leaves both you and your client happy.

In this session we would like to share our experience and talk about 15 contributed modules (pros, cons, needed tweaks, interaction with each other, ...) that helped us build the community part of the french news website www.lefigaro.fr.

Here is the list of modules we will be talking about.
- Messaging
- Private Message
- Notifications
- Activity
- Facebook Status
- Profile Privacy
- Profile Complete Percent
- Content Profile
- Avatar Selection
- User Relationship
- User Workflow
- Flags
- Organic Groups
- Weblinks
- Shorten

Almost all clients who approach your agency about a project want to know up front what the total cost will be. They hand you some loose notes and expect a fixed number of hours or price. To many this presents an impossible task. What is often forgotten is that an exact estimate isn't expected. What you need to produce is one that is accurate enough to close the sale. In this session you'll learn a method for producing early estimates to support your sales process.

You might have heard about a little laptop called Xo? One Laptop Per Child Australia would like to provide an overview on how they are using Drupal and Civi-CRM for online communications and managing laptop deployments. This talk aims to provide an introduction to how you can utilize Drupal and Civi-CRM for management of non for profit projects.

Over the past two years the Drupal user base has grown to include large corporations. This talk presents experiences learnt from various projects introducing Drupal and Open Source Technologies into corporations with pre-existing environments. This discussion will be aimed at:

Christian Edwertz (business developer) and Odd Råberg (web editor) at the daily newspaper Värmlands Folkblad (VF) will tell you why they moved their on-line edition - VF.se - from the .NET based EPiServer to the Drupal based NodeStream. You will also see NodeStream demonstrated; and how seamless it can be integrated with a third-party editorial system.

Why VF.se chose NodeStream/Drupal

Drupal7 is coming sooner than we know it, and its pretty awesome (whos surpriced?) This session will be a gentle walkthrough of the new things that any themer needs to know

Ugly be gone

• • what happend to all the pretty themes
• New themes both front & back

logic welcome to drupal

• ...oooh gasp, so the css naming will make sence
• blocks, variables & names that make even more sence - wow!
• what changed?

tiplphiphs Rules and new awesome stuff

• what where and why did somebody changed that?

Drupal.org is undergoing a massive change. It's our home and playground. It's also a public face of Drupal. In this session, some of the team discuss:

• Why Drupal.org needed a redesign
• How the Drupal.org redesign project is also a redevelopment, and the technical challenges we face
• What project management strategies worked, and what didn't, and what we're learning along the way
• Why the Drupal Association had to hire people
• Overview of our contributors

One thing is certain, this is not your typical open source project.