Project Manager

First, a base definition and discussion will be had about the differences between an install profile for internal / multi-site use and a full blown Drupal distribution, and the shades of grey in between.

Then we'll dive into the business reasons and opportunities around building a Drupal product.

• Branding & marketing
• "Drupal inside" - the benefits of building on Drupal
• Product as loss leader
• Hosting?
• Revenue streams!

-Drupal User Group
-Local group or linguistic group
-Industries related group
-Drupal association worldwide

Should we adopt a Drupal Code of Conduct (#DCOC) ?
How can can it works together ?
How can it help Drupal grow ?

This session is more a place holder to have a panel with representative of Drupal User Groups and DA to share experiences and see what works and doesn't works.

The light side: being fully engaged in the community as part of your business strategy
The dark side: making money by deploying Drupal without ever participating in the community

I will be holding an open discussion on how & why to contribute to Drupal, both on a contrib basis as well as to Drupal core.

Here are some of the questions that will be explored:
* how do you schedule contributions?
* do you charge clients for contributions? should you?
* how do you promote your community ethos to clients?
* will doing community contributions lead to more work for you?

Last winter, when the recession hit my corner of the web world, I went and got myself one of those full-time jobs. Suddenly instead of designing, building and theming each site from beginning to end as a separate project, I found myself in a mosh-pit of 40 developers, developing dozens of sites at the same time. We've been moving a whole "enterprise level" corporation over to Drupal, rapidly theming without any visual designs (still waiting). Come hear about what I've learned, and the strategy I created for best reusing code and coordinating the efforts of the team.

Have you already studied to your heart's content the touristy attractions of Drupal 7 (Entity API, Fields, AJAX framework, etc.)? Looking to see something unexpected in Drupal 7? You're in luck.

Visit with me the semi-secret neighborhoods of Drupal 7, only known by some natives.

• Queues and Jobs: execute long-running jobs easily and reliably
• Pluggeable caches: do you love Cache Router, but hope it was properly maintained?
• Extensible database drivers: ever wanted to be able to alter the behavior of the database engine, to optimize your cluster?

The first thing any Drupal Project Manager learns is that clients only understand the power of the system when they see it. Once you get close to a final product, suddenly the client wants more. This new imaginative phase comes partly from the learning curve of any new system, and partly from simple human nature. Indeed, we are all prone to getting our best ideas towards the end of the project. Managed poorly, this tendency can be an enormous liability on your project budget; the term "scope creep" evokes the frightening image of a project that never ends.

Enterprise knowledge management has been the focus of many software
products in the last decade. However most of these products have
proven to fail on capturing everyone's inputs and on customizing the
information in order to meet people's constant requirements.

Drupal allows users with different roles to create rich contents
with defined properties. These contents give shape to a big infomation
cloud, in which users can categorize them using either the organization's language
(taxonomy) or their personal one (tags). This categorization

Mid 2009, France Télévisions, the French public national television group, decided to switch to a new CMS that would be able to suit all their internet content publishing needs.

Since France Télévisions hosts more than 1000 sites, it was impossible to migrate all the sites at once. That's why a pilot site was chosen : the sports news site sport.francetv.fr. Of course, the CMS also had to be able to handle the others sites that would be migrated later.

What we want to tell you is the story of this successful Drupal project .

We will cover the following topics :

June 2010 we took a bold leap as a new company and decided to spend part our summer developing an Open-Source Internet Curriculum. We partnered with COSOLA-MACILE, a non-profit organization focused on K-12 education in less advantaged communities.

In July, we are travelling to Itabo, Dominican Republic to teach 6th-12th grade students and teachers about the Internet, Open-Source technology and Drupal, using Drupal Gardens as the primary teaching tool. The Pilot Program will run for approximately 2-weeks as an after school program open to interested MACILE participants.

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.