List of Sessions
Presenters will be presented with a FREE Beerfest ticket for Friday. Apparently the entire supply of tickets is now sold out for both days. We have a total of 80, many of which are already spoken for. Sign up now and present a session to guarantee yours. We will be selling any remaining tickets at their cost to us ($20)
Cheers!
Day 1 - Fri. Sept. 5, 2008
| When | Suite 604 Classroom 1 | Suite 604 Classroom 2 | Suite 301 Classroom A | Suite 301 Classroom B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30am | Welcome and Settling in Who: northStudio Desc: Lets all get settled in and have a coffee or other beverage. Orientation, tour of the location and possible Birds of a Feather discussion. Nice and easy way to start the day. | Reserved | ||
| 9:00am | Welcome and Settling in Cont'd | Reserved Cont'd | ||
| 9:30am | Welcome and Settling in Cont'd | Reserved Cont'd | ||
| 10:00am | Drupal SEO and Internet Marketing Who: Greg and Simon Desc: How to optimize and tailor your Drupal to really rock in the search engines. Things to avoid, things to do for sure, and general SEO tips. Marketing is the other half, how do you use viral techniques and social networks to promote your site? Learn how from northStudio's SEO and Marketing team. | jQuery and some nifty modules Who: TJ Desc: Things you can do with jQuery and Drupal. jQuery tips and explanations. Realtime CSS editor module, URLProxy module. Showcase of a site that designers will absolutely love. | Reserved Cont'd | Intro - Drupal Who: Shane |
| 10:30am | Drupal SEO and Internet Marketing Cont'd | jQuery and some nifty modules Cont'd | Reserved Cont'd | |
| 11:00am | Indispensible Modules Who: Rene Hache View Notes | Themer meet Developer Who: Amy and Shane V Desc: For designers AND developers. How can we all just get along? | Intro - CCK Who: Aysha Ozcetin | Search Desc: Share and discuss search related modules, including apachesolr, xapian, faceted search, views fast search, opensearch, coresearches |
| 11:30am | Indispensible Modules Cont'd | Themer meet Developer Cont'd | Intro - Views Who: SGraham Aysha | |
| 12:00pm | Lunch | |||
| 12:30pm | ||||
| 1:00pm | Drupal Functions for Beginners Who: Dale McGladdery Desc: A discussion about some really useful and cool drupal functions that you may not know about. Things like working with paths, nodes, taxonomy. Use these to make your themes more interactive and dynamic. | Ubercart - Installation and Setup Who: Ariel Desc: Right from the start, getting going with Ubercart and making it work for your store. Includes setting up products with attributes and a decent catalog/manufacturer taxonomy. | Intro - Workflow NG Who: Shane V Desc: A rule-based event driven action evaluation system! | Indispensible Modules (encore) Who: Rene Hache View Notes |
| 1:30pm | Drupal Functions for Beginners Cont'd | Ubercart - Installation and Setup Cont'd | Intro - NodeQueue | Identity and authentication Desc: openid, cardspace, facebook auth, oauth, services how do they all work, and what are they for ... |
| 2:00pm | Intro to Module Development Who: Nedjo Rogers | Intro - Ubercart | ||
| 2:30pm | Intro to Module Development Cont'd | |||
Beerfest 2008 | ||||
Day 2 - Sat. Sept. 6, 2008
| When | Suite 604 Classroom 1 | Suite 604 Classroom 2 | Suite 301 Classroom A | Suite 301 Classroom B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30am | Welcome and wakeup Who: northStudio Desc: Lets all collect ourselves, have some coffee, tylenol, etc.. And then figure out where we are going to go. | |||
| 9:00am | Welcome and wakeup Cont'd | |||
| 9:30am | Welcome and wakeup Cont'd | |||
| 10:00am | Views 2: slave to the beast Who: Rene Hache Desc: Learn about the crazy new Release Candidate for Views 2. All kinds of things have changed, new features and a very involved interface to manage it all. If anything will change your life in Drupal, this is it. | Mastering Local Development Environments, Wrangling with Drupals Issue and Patch Queue Who: Audrey Foo Desc: For beginner developers interested in setting up their local development environments. Getting involved in contributing to drupal by reviewing issues and patches, to help out and learn from the experts. | BOF | Customer Relations Who: Richard Desc: Getting contracts, moving from concept to reality, bridging the gap between customers desires and the site's scope. |
| 10:30am | Views 2: slave to the beast Cont'd | Mastering Local Development Environments, Wrangling with Drupals Issue and Patch Queue Cont'd | BOF Cont'd | |
| 11:00am | Views 2: mastering the beast Who: Rene Desc: Learn about the crazy new Release Candidate for Views 2. All kinds of things have changed, new features and a very involved interface to manage it all. If anything will change your life in Drupal, this is it. | Mastering Local Development Environments, Wrangling with Drupals Issue and Patch Queue Cont'd | BOF Cont'd | Intro - Imagecache |
| 11:30am | Views 2: mastering the beast Cont'd | Mastering Local Development Environments, Wrangling with Drupals Issue and Patch Queue Cont'd | BOF Cont'd | |
| 12:00pm | Lunch / BBQ | |||
| 12:30pm | ||||
| 1:00pm | ||||
| 1:30pm | BOF: Translation features of Drupal 6 Who: Dale McGladdery | Ubercart - Taking it farther Who: Ariel Desc: Taxes, custom table rates for shipping via workflows. Coupons, Faceted Search and other really nifty features. | BOF Cont'd | Intro - Webforms Who: Mike B. Desc: A brief introduction into the use of the webforms module. |
| 2:00pm | BOF: Translation features of Drupal 6 Cont'd | Ubercart - Taking it farther Cont'd | BOF Cont'd | |
| 2:30pm | Node Data Importation Who: Gord Christmas Desc: How to use some pretty simple code to perform one-time imports. Shows how to import taxonomy, CCK fields, as well as user accounts. | Taking logic out of your node template files (Part 1) Who: Rene Hache View Notes | BOF Cont'd | Intro - Pathauto Who: Simon Vreeswick |
| 3:00pm | Node Data Importation Cont'd | Taking logic out of your node template files (Part 1) Cont'd | BOF Cont'd | |
| 3:30pm | Drupal Coding: Q&A Who: Gord Christmas | Taking logic out of your node template files (Part 2) Who: Rene Hache View Notes | BOF Cont'd | |
| 4:00pm | Drupal Coding: Q&A Cont'd | Taking logic out of your node template files (Part 2) Cont'd | BOF Cont'd | |
| 4:30pm | BOF Cont'd | |||
