Curious

For any kind of Drupal website, it happens very often that existing modules get you 90% of the way but you still need some customizations to get things looking and working exactly the way you want. Not a brand new module, just some site-specific adaptations that get you to 100% of what you want.

http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/communitysocial-networking-website-to...
In Drupal community we see more and more « product » (like openatrium, openpublish) but nothing in the former « core business » of Drupal : community website and social networking website.
-Ning have drooped their free services but are still having some success with a promise of no-admin service ready to use in 30 seconds.

Theory part:
• What is the .mobi-TLD (Top Level Domain)? What is it good for? Why the extra TLD?
• How to get a 20-minute-overview with the ‚dotMobi Mobile Web Developer’s Guide‘.
• Brief excursion into the jungle of online-tools: http://ready.mobi, http://validator.w3.org/mobile/, http://deviceatlas.com, http://ta-da.mobi, http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ ...
• The developer community http://mobiforge.com (realised with Drupal).

Practical part:

The Page Syndication module has been used by a number of organizations like Hearst Media, the New England Patriots and Experian to distribute rich content to portals, fan sites and more. Learn how to use this Drupal module, in conjunction with Panels and CTools to create content that other sites can embed with a single line of JavaScript. Content can take the form of just about anything that can be put on a Panels pages, including polls, quizzes, forms or a calendar.

Drupal is leading the way by being the first major CMS to embrace the Semantic Web technologies such as RDF. Restricted to the academic world for many years, these technologies have matured with time up to the point of being used by new standards like Facebook’s Open Graph protocol and major companies like Google, Yahoo!, New York Times, BBC, etc. Over the years, there has been multiple attempts to integrate RDF and Drupal with many contributed modules like Relationship, Semantic Search or FOAF.

We are working on building Hybrid Cloud for research and development purpose. Our project goal is to realize managing not only Public Cloud but also Private Cloud by developing operations even easier. We are managing Amazon EC2, and our Private Cloud by making our own Cloud management tool by Drupal, which we call Virtual Infra Manager beyond Drupal as a Content Management System. --- Drupal as a fundamental of PaaS (Platform as a Service)

Drupal thrives when it is supported by robust communities of both Drupal users and developers. To ignite these communities we need to provide opportunities for people to learn about Drupal and how it can help them. To sustain these communities we need to provide support and opportunities for growth.

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

“The Drupal way”: a set of behaviours that make you a good community player and that lets you maximize your sites built/kittens killed ratio is one of those things that a lot of people only learn to appreciate the hard way. In this session you’ll play a game that teaches you some of these values, cause some messages will only stick if you've experienced them.

It’s generally accepted that serious games are way more effective tools for providing learning experiences that aim to change the behavior of a group of participants.