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MongoDB - Humongous Drupal

chx 4 July 2010
Type:  Session in official program

MongoDB is a database made for websites. Drupal is the best tool to make websites. No wonder the two matches so well.

The session will talk about the deficiencies of the SQL databases we use and how MongoDB goes around some of them and how Drupal makes good use of them. While you might have heard some of this at a previous DrupalCon, there will be new stuff enough to make this one unique and interesting. MongoDB 1.6 will be out by the conference so you will hear about the latest and greatest. At DCSF I only gave a glimpse at how Drupal can now fully run without SQL, there will be a lot more done by DC CPH too.

Liberty without muskets

Laura Scott 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

"Give me liberty or give me closed source!"

What is open source? A religion? A Communist conspiracy? A childish fantasy? Nay!

Open source has been around for centuries … in science, in law, in farming. But now it has hit business and a revolution is happening. Liberty is on the rise — not because of changes in government, but rather because of changes in the commons.

From Industrial Aid to Self-made, A Story of Drupal, Africa and innovation

Joeri Poesen 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

A look at how Drupal is driving change in African organizations, how African Drupal developers are contributing to Drupal from their unique perspective, and how African Drupal communities are working together to get a pan-African Drupal community going.

Most people think of famine, war, disease, hopelessness and big bucketloads of sand when Africa is mentioned. That's a shame really because Africa is, in many respects, a continent on the move.

This talk will take us through a number of often cited problems which we really see as opportunities where Drupal can (and often already does) play a big remedying role: lack of formal education, illiteracy, unconnected rural regions, the Aid Industry Gone Wild (TM) and lack of transparency in governments and organizations. To name but a few.

Additional Presenters:  Reinier Battenberg

Should you build a Drupal product?

Boris Mann 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Basing your business on Drupal can be a scary thing. Should you build a Drupal product, or just use Drupal?

First, a base definition and discussion will be had about the differences between an install profile for internal / multi-site use and a full blown Drupal distribution, and the shades of grey in between.

Then we'll dive into the business reasons and opportunities around building a Drupal product.

  • Branding & marketing
  • "Drupal inside" - the benefits of building on Drupal
  • Product as loss leader
  • Hosting?
  • Revenue streams!

Drupal User Group

JB Ingold 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Drupal User Group / Drupal association worldwide / Local group or linguistic group / industries related group all of that should work together ? How can it help Drupal grow ?

-Drupal User Group
-Local group or linguistic group
-Industries related group
-Drupal association worldwide

Should we adopt a Drupal Code of Conduct (#DCOC) ?
How can can it works together ?
How can it help Drupal grow ?

This session is more a place holder to have a panel with representative of Drupal User Groups and DA to share experiences and see what works and doesn't works.

How did Drupal achieve World Domination? (And now what?)

Benjamin Melançon 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

From Dries' original typo registering the Dutch word for community, to the jump across the Atlantic, to camps on six continents, we'll look at how has Drupal spread throughout the world and try to pinpoint turning points in the development of the Drupal community.

From Dries' original typo trying to register the Dutch word for community,
... to the adoption of Drupal by kerneltrap.org
... to the jump across the Atlantic and some of the first and still prominent Drupal-based companies coming out of the Howard Dean presidential campaign,
... to the weekend from hell and Drupal.org finally moving to dedicated servers,
... to the camps now being held on six continents,
we'll look at how has Drupal spread throughout the world and try to pinpoint turning points in the development of the Drupal community.

Community ROI: how (& why) to get your development shop leveraging Drupal

Boris Mann 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

One of the advantages of the Drupal ecosystem is that there is a strong attitude of giving back and contributing. As Drupal gets more popular, many new shops aren't necessarily understanding how this can benefit them and their clients. How do we initiate them in the power of the Force rather than have them slip into the Dark Side?

The light side: being fully engaged in the community as part of your business strategy
The dark side: making money by deploying Drupal without ever participating in the community

I will be holding an open discussion on how & why to contribute to Drupal, both on a contrib basis as well as to Drupal core.

Here are some of the questions that will be explored:
* how do you schedule contributions?
* do you charge clients for contributions? should you?
* how do you promote your community ethos to clients?
* will doing community contributions lead to more work for you?

Theming the Enterprise

Jen Simmons 4 July 2010
Type:  Session in official program

How to theme 17 websites at the same time, using Skinr and strategy.

Last winter, when the recession hit my corner of the web world, I went and got myself one of those full-time jobs. Suddenly instead of designing, building and theming each site from beginning to end as a separate project, I found myself in a mosh-pit of 40 developers, developing dozens of sites at the same time. We've been moving a whole "enterprise level" corporation over to Drupal, rapidly theming without any visual designs (still waiting). Come hear about what I've learned, and the strategy I created for best reusing code and coordinating the efforts of the team.

Lesser-known Drupal 7

Damien Tournoud 4 July 2010
Type:  Session in official program

Off the postcard track, discover the less-known neighborhoods of Drupal 7: Queues and Jobs, Pluggeable caches, Extensible database drivers, Stream wrappers, Intelligent session handler, etc.

Have you already studied to your heart's content the touristy attractions of Drupal 7 (Entity API, Fields, AJAX framework, etc.)? Looking to see something unexpected in Drupal 7? You're in luck.

Visit with me the semi-secret neighborhoods of Drupal 7, only known by some natives.

  • Queues and Jobs: execute long-running jobs easily and reliably
  • Pluggeable caches: do you love Cache Router, but hope it was properly maintained?
  • Extensible database drivers: ever wanted to be able to alter the behavior of the database engine, to optimize your cluster?

The Open, Social Web in Real-time

James Walker 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

The social web continues to grow, and sites like Twitter and Facebook have (at times) shown the power of bringing the the conversation real-time. But we can do better! These networks should be open and federated!

In this session, we'll look at why depending on Twitter and Facebook (or similar) has serious drawbacks; the network should be open and federated! We'll look at OStatus (http://ostatus.org/), the completely open protocol that we've been working to develop and promote at StatusNet (http://status.net/) for real-time, federated public messaging and we'll see why it's interesting (and important) for Drupal.

This session is for open protocol geeks, freedom fighters and anyone who is just trying figure out what it all means.