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Drupal is only in the second place an open source software. In the first place it’s a collective of humans, more so than most other softwares. As a result we can recognize both in the code and the community patterns that are also present in biological systems and ecologies.

Aegir is a distributed provisioning system for Drupal that allows you to manage thousands of sites across as many concurrent instances of Drupal on as many servers as you need. It's built on Drupal itself, so that your user interface to the system becomes a 'meta-drupal' site, with nodes representing all of your hosted sites and all of the components of your hosting environment.

Whether you are new to Aegir (or Drupal!) or an experienced developer, you will get a very good idea of where we are in the development of this project and the latest new features we are giving to the community.

How do we handle 5 major Danish news sites, 250 online journalists, 5 million daily page views, 1 million news articles in the database and another 500 being added every day - all in one database?

In 2009 the largest news publishing group in Denmark, Berlingske Media, started a migration of their largest sites to Drupal. The migration is currently half-way, and the current platform is among the largest Drupal installations in the world.

Drupal’s taxonomy system helps you to organize content on your website. This robust categorization system is one thing that sets Drupal apart from other CMSs and in combination with taxonomy-enhancing modules the system gets even more powerful.
During the development cycle for Drupal 7, the system received a big overhaul. Besides important API improvements, taxonomy term fields have been introduced. These fields open up many new possibilities and change the way of using the taxonomy system.

Multisite capabilities , have been in Drupal since the Bronze-age (version 4.6). It allows you to run multiple site from one installation of Drupal thus making it possible to share themes, modules and even certain tables. Thanks to this, updating several site only has to be done once.

What I have seen for now from Drupal 7 is, that everything will be better, faster, easier and more logical and user-friendly.
Unfortunately, for the time being, I cannot use Drupal 7 in productive environments because it is not stable (surely after this conference).
For that reason I will describe my adventures with Drupal 6.

Are you familiar with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer and the integrated Web Applications Gallery? These Microsoft offers made it easy to install and configure Drupal on Windows. But when building, optimizing and deploying Drupal on Windows and IIS it was still difficult. Come see the beta of a brand new product from Microsoft that covers the entire workflow, from pulling down the latest build of Drupal for Windows all the way to deploying it to a hosted environment, all in one place.

Are you using Rules yet? You should! The Rules module can take care of a whole lot of things that previously would require you to write a custom module, and can help you automate processes on your website.

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There's no purpose to site traffic if you cannot convert it into your end goal. Whether it be a purchase, phone call, or an ad click, HEO, also known as CRO, is the art of structuring, designing, and optimizing your site to convert your users. Take your SEO to the next level by adding HEO.

This session will cover the other side of the SEO coin, HEO and Conversions.
How to optimize your site for people, not robots.
Why we should spend more time focusing on conversion than traffic.

1) Defining HEO
2) SEO vs HEO
3) Where does HEO Go?
-HEO during Structure/design