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Ubercart Development Roadmap, Drupal 7 and Beyond

Andy_Lowe 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Ubercart has been ported to Drupal 7 and we are adding features while waiting for Drupal 7 to be released. In this session we hope to build a community consensus on which features to implement in which order. Topics include fieldable products and orders, Rules and Views integration, and any suggestions from the audience.

Ubercart has been ported to Drupal 7 and feature development is in full swing. In this session we will discuss the current road map and future plans for Ubercart on Drupal 7 and 8. We welcome suggestions from the community and will ask for guidance in the order of implementation. Topics will include:

Replacing Conditinal Actions with Rules: Complete
Namespacing functions: Complete
AHAH forms: Mostly complete
Theming improvements:
Fields for Orders:
Fields for Products:
Products as an entity separate from nodes:
Tax improvements:
Addresses standards:
Address book:

Introduction to internationalization in Drupal 7

Olivier Jacquet 4 July 2010
Type:  Session in official program

This session will introduce how you can activate different languages in Drupal 7, configure the language negotation and how you can build a small multilingual brochure website.

This session will introduce how you can activate different languages in Drupal 7, configure the language negotation and how you can build a small multilingual brochure website.

It will demonstrate the locale and content translation modules from core and some of the functionality provided by the i18n and views modules. Hopefully some of the functionality of i18n will have been ported by then.

The session will also highlight some of the changes between D6 and D7.

Developing Community Websites with Drupal

Ronald Ashri 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

This session aims to demonstrate how to build a community website in Drupal. Combining modules such as Groups and Activty with Views and CCK to get from vanilla Drupal installation to sophisticated community website. We talk about what works, what perhaps should but doesn't quite and what is coming in the future. A session for anyone considering to built a community website with Drupal.

Drupal has long been touted as a system that provides the necessary "plumbing" to build community-oriented websites. However, it is not immediately obvious, even to developers with some experience how one gets from a vanilla Drupal installation to creating a sophisticated community with complex interactions and different types of users.

Additional Presenters:  John Griffin

See Through Their Eyes: How to Anticipate The Needs of Your Clients

Stuart Broz 4 July 2010
Type:  Session in official program

If you build Drupal sites for others, you've run into differences in vision. Your understanding of a client's needs might be imperfect. A client might make assumptions about what Drupal can easily do and not mention major functionality that they are expecting. This session will concentrate on helping you see achieve a shared vision. This will increase both your efficiency and your client's satisfaction.

This session will focus on opening your mind to the point of view of your clients. Whether you are working for a non-profit, a corporation, or your mom... we will cover some tricks that will help you understand what they want even if they can't explain it to you in Drupalspeak.

Ultimately, the aim of this session is to help you build skills that will enable you to understand your client's desires. Your clients get the Drupal site that they want. Your save time and energy (and money and aggravation) while you build it. This leaves both you and your client happy.

Go real-time with PubSubHubbub and Feeds

Alex Barth 4 July 2010
Type:  Session in official program

PubSubHubbub (short PuSH) is a publish/subscribe protocol for RSS and Atom feeds. Instead of polling a news feed periodically for new items, PuSH issues notifications when new items are published: Instant delivery in place of "are we there yet?" aggregation.

PubSubHubbub (short PuSH) is a publish/subscribe protocol for RSS and Atom feeds. Instead of polling a news feed periodically for new items, PuSH issues notifications when new items are published: Instant delivery in place of "are we there yet?" aggregation.

PuSH has gained considerable traction since its inception in 2009. Today, Wordpress, Feedburner, LiveJournal, MySpace, Tumblr and more publish PuSH feeds.

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15 Modules to help you build a community website.

Adrien Baumann 4 July 2010
Type:  Session in official program

A quick overview of 15 modules to help you turn your drupal website into an interactive and user-friendly community platform.

In this session we would like to share our experience and talk about 15 contributed modules (pros, cons, needed tweaks, interaction with each other, ...) that helped us build the community part of the french news website www.lefigaro.fr.

Here is the list of modules we will be talking about.
- Messaging
- Private Message
- Notifications
- Activity
- Facebook Status
- Profile Privacy
- Profile Complete Percent
- Content Profile
- Avatar Selection
- User Relationship
- User Workflow
- Flags
- Organic Groups
- Weblinks
- Shorten

Additional Presenters:  Sandrine Sibel Demircan Frédéric G. MARAND

Advanced Site Building Module

Welin Welchev 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

We (Propeople) have been working hard on a concept for Site Buidling and we think we now have a module that is well-tested, stable and ready to be shared with the Drupal community.

Architecturing the way content editor will be able to manage the content on their site is one of the most important parts of building a web site.

Drupal Performance Boost Solutions

Welin Welchev 4 July 2010
Type:  Session in official program

In this session we plan to share our best practices (what modules we use, hardware setupe, etc.) and explain our approach in building one of the biggest Drupal sites in Denmark, and probably worldwide

Honestly speaking, Drupal is a big out of the box system. It carries a vast amount of queries per page load, and uses quite a few MB for its PHP memory size.

Having the experience on more than 250 developed projects we pledge that Drupal performance can be vastly improved according to your website's goals. Indeed, using the right tools we always achieve the results of the Powerful CMS + Amazing Performance.

Tips and Tricks for Scalable and Stable Drupal Websites

Welin Welchev 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

In this session we plan to share our (Propeople) most valuable tips and tricks, to help you build exceptionally scalable and remarkable stable Drupal websites based on our experience on more than 250 developed projects.

One power-feature of Drupal is flexibility. You can take what's already made by others and create your "own" version of the system.

Having the experience on more than 250 developed projects and always exceeding our clients' highest expectations, we have identified absolutely-must-have modules fitted for different types of sites, and to benefit your customer with the full extent of this great CMS.

Also, our in-house research has shown there are many small enhancements that can make a big difference.

OLPC Australia's use of Drupal & Civi-CRM

aimee maree forsstrom 4 July 2010
Type:  Not planned session

You might have heard about a little laptop called Xo? One Laptop Per Child Australia will provide an overview on how they are using Drupal and Civi-CRM. This talk aims to provide an introduction to how Drupal and Civi-CRM can be utilised for management of non for profit projects.

You might have heard about a little laptop called Xo? One Laptop Per Child Australia would like to provide an overview on how they are using Drupal and Civi-CRM for online communications and managing laptop deployments. This talk aims to provide an introduction to how you can utilize Drupal and Civi-CRM for management of non for profit projects.