Accepted sessions

Session Experience level Track
3 Tools you should know - Quickstart, Drush and Git
David Stagowski

You can make your Drupal/PHP development life a lot easier by becoming familiar with these 3 tools:

1) Quickstart - A Drupal/PHP Development Environment in a VirtualBox virtual machine....

Beginner
Baby Got Backend: Content Administrators are Users, Too!
Jeff Eaton

Content administrators are the forgotten users of the internet.

The user experience field focuses on delivering usable, compelling experiences for end users — but doesn't always consider...

Beginner
Building a social hub with Drupal ( or Building a site on top of another site without actually building a site)
Arp Laszlo

Catalyst.nmc.org was designed as a social hub and aggregator for the HP Catalyst project, spearheaded by HP's Office of Global Social Innovation, the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the...

Beginner
Content Management Tools: The Workbench Suite
bec white

The Workbench suite provides a set of ready-to-go content management tools for Drupal 7. This session will discuss the intent and scope of these tools, and provide a tour introducing use cases and...

Beginner
Create a content addition and edit space (d6) for your users: a total newbies guide
Mark Beatty

A total newbie shows one way to create an easy to use content addition and editing space for users in Drupal 6. Using standard modules only such as WYSIWYG, Image Picker, Login Destination, and...

Beginner
DIFFERENT FROM YESTERDAY: All about Taxonomy Access Control
Jess Myrbo

Different from yesterday

Yesterday I went through the nitpicky details of access control in Drupal (...

Intermediate
Digging into Views internals to rewrite the Calendar module
Karen Stevenson

I am in the process of doing a total rewrite of the D7 calendar module to simplify the code and take better advantage of Views handlers and plugins. Since Calendar is basically nothing but some...

Advanced
Drupal as an Application Framework?
Clint Thayer

Presentation / Discussion on design, and implementation of Drupal as a robust web based data application framework. In the right use case, can Drupal replace Ruby On Rails, Zend Framework, and...

Intermediate
Drupal Hosting - why does it have to be so confusing?
Steve Hanson

Buying hosting for Drupal involves a number of choices. This session will talk about

Hosting Plans -- shared, VPS, dedicated, and cloud

So how much RAM DO I need...

Beginner
Drupal in the Mainstream: How Does Passion Scale?
George DeMet

In the last couple of years, Drupal has exploded in popularity from a niche platform to the software that powers some of the biggest and most important sites in the world. Much of that success has...

Beginner
Drupal render and theme
Benjamin Doherty

This session is an explanation for coders—which includes theme developers—of Drupal's render and theme functionality. This topic includes theme wrappers, attached resources, pre-rendering and...

Advanced
drupal.wisc.edu? Let's go live!
Doug Worsham

In this session we'll debut the shiny-new (and still under construction) http://drupal.wisc.edu and talk about what's next for...

Beginner
Easy Peasy Photo Galleries
John Vieth

Learn an easy peasy way to add snazzy photo galleries to any type of node/page using standard, tried-and-true Drupal features like custom content type, image field, theming/CSS, and the awesome...

Beginner
Enterprise Drupal Strategies (Keynote)

Adopting a new technology platform requires change. If you’re a large organization with lots of different stakeholders, the impact of that change can magnify quickly. For large, multifaced...

Beginner
Ew! I have to create a Drupal theme
Ishmael Sanchez

Themes allow you to change the look and feel of your Drupal site. - Drupal.org

And while that's nice and neat building a Drupal theme isn't always that straightforward. You...

Intermediate
Hello Drupal! - The short course
Steve Hanson

This will be a very short version of the Hello Drupal! training that was done on Thursday. You will get a quick introduction to Drupal, and have a chance to do some simple Drupal content...

Beginner
Hollywood Storytelling and the Drupal Development Process
George DeMet

Finding the best way to approach Drupal site development can be a daunting task. Not only do projects vary widely in size, scope, and team composition, but there are also several different...

Beginner
Intro to Harvard's OpenScholar
John Thomson

Harvard's OpenScholar is a Drupal-Based platform that offers one click creation and easy customization of personalized websites:...

Intermediate Education
Intro to Views and CCK for Drupal 7
Clint Thayer, Doug Worsham

Dive in and discover the power of custom content types and views in Drupal!

In this hands-on introductory session we'll get you started creating your own content types and displaying them...

Beginner
Lessons from launching a D7 site for a national radio show
lisa bu, Laura Zimmerman

Working with Gorton Studios, Wisconsin Public Radio relaunched the website of To the Best of Our Knowledge (http://TTBOOK.org) on June 27...

Beginner
Location Based Nodes, Gmap, GoogleMaps API: An Introduction
Sara Nagreen

Every wish you could create historical maps of information? How about when you create a page, you can add location information to it, and then a pin appears on your very own Google map?

...

Beginner
Multimedia and Video Discussion
Benson Gardner

If you have knowledge about, or are interested in, video and multimedia in Drupal, come attend this discussion session to help increase everyone's level of knowledge.

The "presenter" here...

Beginner
Node access control modules (and how you can replace most of them with TAC)
Jess Myrbo

Drupal's node access system is powerful and flexible under the hood, but most site builders need node access control modules to harness it. Unfortunately, node access modules tend not to play...

Intermediate
Panels and Panels Everywhere
Nate Millin

A beginning look at how you can use Panels and Panels Everywhere Modules to create complex page layouts without using Blocks or custom PHP code.

Will also look at Stylizer to format your...

Intermediate
RDFa and Microdata in Drupal
Aaron Couch

The promise of the semantic web has hovered on the horizon since Tim Berners Lee coined the term in 2001.

Ten...

Intermediate
Real World Deployment
Jonathan Yankovich, Blake Hall

Real world Deployment and managing dev -> staging -> production

Intermediate
Using Custom Dynamic Display Blocks for Staff Directory and Bio Pages
Rich Path

In this session, I'll demonstrate the process of using the dynamic display block module to create a customized gallery of images and text. The UW-Madison Institute for Clinical...

Intermediate
Version Control 101
Blake Hall

Why should we care about version control?

How can I capture database configuration changes in code?

What is this git thing everyone is talking about?

This session will be an...

Beginner
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