Project Manager

Christian Edwertz (business developer) and Odd Råberg (web editor) at the daily newspaper Värmlands Folkblad (VF) will tell you why they moved their on-line edition - VF.se - from the .NET based EPiServer to the Drupal based NodeStream. You will also see NodeStream demonstrated; and how seamless it can be integrated with a third-party editorial system.

Why VF.se chose NodeStream/Drupal

Drupal.org is undergoing a massive change. It's our home and playground. It's also a public face of Drupal. In this session, some of the team discuss:

• Why Drupal.org needed a redesign
• How the Drupal.org redesign project is also a redevelopment, and the technical challenges we face
• What project management strategies worked, and what didn't, and what we're learning along the way
• Why the Drupal Association had to hire people
• Overview of our contributors

One thing is certain, this is not your typical open source project.

In recent years media related organisations have expressed strong interest in Drupal. This session aims to encourage more media organisations switch to Drupal. From pure player to dead tree press, not forgetting Radio and TV more and more media are choosing Drupal, Why?

This non-technical session is designed primarily for people working in the media industry to help visualise using Drupal for their business model, it will be of interest to both internal dev teams and independent Drupal shops in this domain.

Why has Drupal gained such momentum in the publishing and media world?

Join Rob Purdie, ScrumMaster at the Economist, and Ezra Barnett Gildesgame, Developer at Growing Venture Solutions, as they discuss how the Economist uses Scrum to focus on completing work according to an exacting "definition of done."

Starting out as a simple iPhone app designed to demo the image recognition capabilities offered by LTU technologies, supported by Drupal, lookthatup took on a life of its own. Today, lookthatup is a mobile visual search solution that can be used to power all types of mobile marketing programs featuring visual search, whether it be mobile apps, email or MMS campaigns. If not for Drupal, this rapid transformation could not have been possible.

The Features module is mostly known for the possibility to share, distribute and re-use bundled sets of configuration. But how can it help you in the development of your next Drupal project?

Wedful.com is a hosted web service for couples getting married. It allows users to easily create and manage their own wedding website . The service is built with Drupal using our own custom distribution. The goal of the project was to give couples a better, more up to date product than currently existed in the marketplace and one that required minimal maintenance on our part.

This talk will cover the following:

• Introduction to Wedful.com: what it does and how it works
• Technical background and overview of the tools used

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.