Introducing Drupal

With the incredible success of Ubuntu around the world, the LoCo project helps groups of Ubuntu fans and enthusiasts to work together in regional teams to help advocate, promote, translate, develop and otherwise improve Ubuntu.

This session focuses on how the Ubuntu Community makes use of Drupal everywhere: From ubuntu.com through most Local Community sites worldwide and to the Ubuntu Marketing site SpreadUbuntu, we use Drupal to spread the message of Open Source Freedom. And we want to share this know-how with everyone!

Working with Drupal brings the power of its community to work for you. But it also involves you in that community in ways that you might not expect. We'll cover some of the hidden costs of bringing Drupal into your organization, plus the resources you will need in order to keep your project sustainable.

This will feature lively panel discussion covering best practices for Drupal contributions maintainers and the rights and responsibilities of Drupal users.

Topics that we will cover:

* What are the rights and responsibilities of Open-Source developers?


If you're looking for love, you looking in all the wrong places. If you're looking for a good geeky time, expanding your Drupal knowledge and making drinking buddies (business partners) you are absolutely in the right place.

We'll be doing rotating pairs, speed dating style with some other surprises thrown in.
Expect to:

• Relax
• Make friends
• Learn something

Session goal: The goal of this session is to create informative visuals to assist in Drupal adoption.

Introduction: There is a presentation renaissance happening, and people are leaving the old tired bullet points behind. But there is a lack of useful visuals for Drupal. If you write documentation for your modules; if you present proposals to potential clients; if you deliver training, you find you need compelling visuals for your ideas.

This session will introduce you to the wonderful and powerful tool of working from a *nix command line interface (CLI) instead of using a GUI (pointy-clicky). This is targeted at folks who've never opened a terminal before, but will cover a number of tips and tricks along the way. We'll even show you how Windows users can get the same CLI that Linux and Mac users use, so you can use it too!

Main points we'll cover:
- Huh? What is this thing? How do I get one?
- Moving around (both locally and accessing a remote server)
- Creating and editing files
- Searching

With Drupal 7 just around the corner (beta releases are planned for July), this session will demonstrate the creation of a simple real life site. The session starts with site sketching and a core Drupal 7 install and ends with a production-ready website.

In this session you will learn how to create a Drupal site that has:

• a blog & news section
• a product section with image gallery
• client interaction - (contact page, forum and simple mailing list)
• a custom front page (with the help of views, blocks and a little custom css)
• basic SEO configuration

Session plan

The effectiveness of the Drupal project is often attributed to the power of the community. Economists refer to this capacity for solving problem as collective intelligence. Most of this collective intelligence is developed over the Internet through twitter, IRC, Forums, mailing lists, issue queues. This session aims to accelerate that process by having a panel of Drupal uber networkers connect people and their ideas to other members of the community.

How do I get the most out of Drupal? How does it all work? What sessions should I go to at DrupalCon?

Providing support for Drupal sites and projects of all sizes and helping users with a wide variety of experience levels at Acquia has given us some insight into the most common questions about getting to know Drupal and how it can best work for you.

Adding content to Drupal is easy. Right out of the box you can create pages with specific menu items and articles that promote to your front page with minimal effort. But what if you need more? Come to this session to find out how Drupal's core systems empower you to create and display any number of custom content types.

This session is aimed at beginners. It will cover the following topics in the format of a walkthrough to introduce new Drupal users to the major concepts involved in building, displaying, and managing content on their Drupal site:

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Are you new to Drupal, experienced in the software but lack an overview of how all the pieces fit together in the community? In this session I intend to provide a brief overview of what Drupal is and instead of delving into technical details, focus more on how the different avenues to improve Drupal work. Systems like distributions, localizations, issue queues, the core and contributed modules repositories, the security team, automated testing and so on. How can you collaborate with the community and make money on the way?