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Maarten De Block

22 June 2010
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maartendeblock.be
Belgium
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maartendeblock
358753
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Business students challenging the web with Drupal

Mixel Kiemen 22 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Business students have use Drupal as mashup machine and integrate other APIs. They create a pool of prototype that lead to interesting discussion: can we build a Drupal labs initiative?

During this presentation the concrete projects get elaborated to see how the prototype leads to an interesting medium for researching strategic innovation management. From this experience we suggest a collaboration between academic business education and the Drupal business-ecosystem to work out a Drupal labs initiative.

Getting visibility on the Drupal Business ecosystem

Mixel Kiemen 22 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Drupal is growing up and it is getting more Business oriented, but what exactly is the Drupal Business ecosystem, can we get some visibility?

For my research on strategic innovation management I've noticed how much literature exist about OS, but how little is yet know about Drupal. I'm interested in getting more understanding of the Business ecosystem and by doing so we may actually provide some service to that ecosystem.

For example, for modules there are "projects", that helps developers to collaborate. Why don't we have tools for

Mixel Kiemen

22 June 2010
Mixel Kiemen
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Belgium
Language (Primary) Dutch
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mixel
46625
http://www.mixel.be
mixelKiemen

In 2006 I got involved in Drupal by a research project on knowledge sharing. After Drupalcon Brussels I became research assistant at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels where I work on my PhD and a Drupal course for First year Master students of Business. More information can be found on my website http://www.mixel.be

Thomas Johansen

22 June 2010
Thomas Johansen
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Unitmakers
Denmark
Language (Primary) Danish
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umtj
http://unitmakers.dk

Wilbur Ince

22 June 2010
Wilbur
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Advantage Labs
United States
Language (Primary) English
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Wylbur
24884
http://wilbur.us
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I recently joined the staff at Advantage Labs, making the change from an independent developer to account manager and cat-herder. Looking forward to my first DrupalCon!

Rubén Romero

22 June 2010
RUBEN ROMERO
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Varnish Software
Norway
Language (Primary) English
Language (Secondary) Norwegian
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huayra
834974
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huayra @ freenode

Work as Global Sales Executive @ Varnish Software, a proud sponsor of DrupalCon 2010 in Copenhagen.

We deliver the fastest HTTP accelerator in the known universe. Varnish makes websites fly!

I have a special love affair with Drupal and I am very vocal about it. I really enjoy its combination of flexibility and usability while it's still very good at being powerful, secure and easy to use at the same time.

Also I am a 29Y old Father holding a BA in Philosophy/IT/Classical Languages/Entrepreneurship from the University of Oslo and a proud Ubuntu Community member.

Drupal 7: What you need to know

Angela Byron 22 June 2010
Type:  Session in official program

Come learn about the new changes coming down the pipe in Drupal 7 from the release co-maintainer!

Since February 2008, the community has been hard at work on Drupal 7, which is rapidly nearing completion (or possibly already complete ;)). This revolutionary new release sports literally hundreds of improvements, and Angela Byron, the Drupal 7 co-maintainer, will lead you through the most important ones and how they'll impact your future site building endeavors.

Angela Byron

21 June 2010
webchick
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Lullabot
Canada
Language (Primary) English
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webchick
24967
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p>Angela Byron is the Drupal 7 core maintainer, recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open 2008 Source Award for Best Contributor, and an Open Source evangelist who lives and breathes Drupal. She got her start as a Google Summer of Code student in 2005 and since then has completely immersed herself in the Drupal community.

Drupal Business Lessons From Science Fiction

George DeMet 21 June 2010
Type:  Not planned session

Best practices for running a Drupal business presented through the lens of science fiction.

Can watching “Star Trek” help make you a better businessperson? Find out in this multimedia presentation, which focuses on some of the lessons I’ve learned about running a Drupal-oriented Web development business using examples from science fiction.