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Drupal 7

Drupal for Change: building an open framework for activists

Campbell Vertesi 17 August 2010
Type:  BOF session

Non-profit and activist organizations are some of the biggest adopters of Drupal. The integration with CiviCRMand the plethora of tools available for Drupal 6 offer a lot of potential for the platform. We are leading a re-write of the Drupal Activism module, geared towards Drupal 7 - and a lot more openness. Let's talk about what activist organizations really need, what systems they use, and how we can make Drupal 7 the best platform out there for non-profits of all stripes.

We are planning the next generation of Activism functionality for Drupal 7, integrating CiviCRM with functionality that many non-profits could really use. Letters to legislators, online petitions, "tell a friend" campaigns, and more. We are building this as an open framework, that anyone can extend to add more functionality, different CRM systems, and other advanced features.

Additional Presenters:  Michael Haggerty Kyle Cunningham John Snow Michael Priest

Drupal and the semantic web

Kristof Van Tomme 2 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Want to find out why all the geeks are so excited about that four letter word (RDFa) that's now supposed to be in Drupal 7 core?

As of Drupal 7 we'll have RDFa markup in core, in this session I will:

  • explain what the implications are of this and why this matters
  • give a short introduction to the Semantic web, RDF, RDFa and SPARQL in human language
  • give a short overview of the RDF modules that are available in contrib
  • talk about some of the potential use cases of all these magical technologies

Slides for a former incarnation of this presentation are up at:
http://www.slideshare.net/kvantomme/semantic-web-and-drupal-an-introduction