DrupalVolCon
DrupalVolCon is an ad-hoc organized DrupalConference for all Europeans who planned to go to DrupalCon SF, but are stuck due to the Eyjafjallajökull volcano
- DrupalCon SF
- Antwerp (BE)
This is a list of proposed sessions. Everybody can propose a session and we encourage you to do that. The organizing comittee will then choose best sessions, we will send a notice to everybody, whether your session was selected or not.
Sessions are divided into five tracks, according to the topics we would like to show.
| Session | Session language | Author | Link |
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Drupal urban planning: distributed architecture options when your project doesn't fit in 1 site
This session is a meta session about architecture. In this presentation you'll learn about the different composite and mixed site architectures solutions in Drupal, their individual (dis)advantages and the technologies you could use to implement them.... |
English | Kristof Van Tomme | Details |
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Eat your own dog food! An introduction to Open Atrium and the KM/PM features we built for it
Are you still using not using Drupal to manage your projects? Since July 2009 excuses are running thing. It's time to "eat your own dog food"! In this session I'll start with a short introduction to Drupal and then continue with the tools we are developing for... |
English | Kristof Van Tomme | Details |
| Building new features for Open Atrium | English | Kristof Van Tomme | Details |
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About the Drupal Association
Kristof Van Tomme and Isabell Schulz will talk about the Drupal Association |
English | Kristof Van Tomme | Details |
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Bending Übercart. What we learned from airmilesshop.nl.
Over the past half year, Krimson has been working on a webshop with an edge: http://www.airmilesshop.nl. This was one of the largest projects Krimson has yet undertaken. With over 50% of all households in The Netherlands saving Air Miles, getting the shop right was... |
English | Matthias Vandermaesen | Details |
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Drupal and Solr - making the most of it
The Drupal search is very basic out of the box. For instance, it doesn't offer faceted search, weighting, or any of the other nice features we all want. Solr however does. In this session we'll look into deploying Solr, examining the schema Drupal offers by default, and extending that schema to unleash more of the Solr power. We'll also have a look at... |
To be decided during the session | Bas van der Linden | Details |
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Code driven development: a 100% database free workflow
At Nuvole the adoption of a "code driven" development has completely revolutionized our working flow, making it more maintainable, solid and scalable. Projects like Features and... |
English | Antonio De Marco | Details |
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Using features/exportables in production
An overview of what features is/does and how we are trying to use it in a production environment. What's it good for, and what are the current pitfalls. Depending on the time this will extend in to feature servers and how you can use all this to quickstart a Drupal project. |
To be decided during the session | Stijn De Meyere | Details |
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DIscussion: making Drupal user/client friendly
An overview of modules and techniques we use to-hopefully-make managing a Drupal website more easy. We'll go over some ideas and experimental stuff as well, modules we tried once or twice but are sure about yet. We'd like to keep this an open session where everyone can throw in his/her own ideas and where we can discuss other options/... |
To be decided during the session | Stijn De Meyere | Details |
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Module browser for Drupal 7
Drupal 7 comes with a new interface to install modules easily through the project download url or upload field. This session will provide a... |
English | Stijn Vanden Brande | Details |
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Houston - Project management in Open Atrium
With Houston you can manage all your (drupal) projects. All the metadata about your projects are centralized and easy accessible by everyone who needs to. Additional to this information other interesting data is grabbed from your projects:
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To be decided during the session | Jasper Knops | Details |
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Display Suite
There is an enormous choice when it comes to theming your data. The theming layer makes it possible to create suggestions and create an insane amount of template files, you can override existing theming functions, CCK has the display fields screen and with views you can either choose fields, nodes and other display methods. In big projects, this can lead to an unmanageable amount of places where theming can happen... |
To be decided during the session | Kristof De Jaeger | Details |
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Converting a simple HTML into drupal within 45 minutes
[This session is only available when enough beginners request it] In 45 minutes we will show you all the power of drupal by converting an existing html site into drupal using following modules |
English | Roel De Meester | Details |
