Open Advocacy - Citizens Connected Goes Open Source
Speaker : Sebastian Lesch
Citizens Connected is a tool that was created 2 years ago to assist organizations in online advocacy. The David Suzuki Foundation has used this tool to create dozens of campaigns and send thousands of targeted emails throughout the years.
Intro to Agile and Scrum, Gary McCants
This session will be a condensed version of Improving Enterprises' Intro to Agile and Scrum publicly available class. A short history of the agile movement and a survey of the essential elements of agile will be followed by a look at the process, artifacts, and roles in Scrum. This session is intended to introduce attendees to agile and Scrum, as well as start conversations and power breakout sessions on specific topics.
Views Configuration: Taking it to the Next Level
Speaker : Suzanne Kennedy
So you know how to use Views, but feel like you're just scratching the surface. Views is a powerful module that allows you to build out complex functionality with just a few clicks of the mouse. This session will cover some of the more advanced features of the Views and take your knowledge of Views to the next level.
We'll cover:
Contextual Filters (Arguments)
Relationships: Pulling in Related Data to Views
Exposed Filters: Allowing Users to Filter Views Results
Views Displays: Formatting Views as Lists, Tables, Slideshows, and More!
HUGE? How To Deal with 381 Modules, 174GB Database and 200 Million Row Tables
What are the challenges when you have a huge site?
What if just importing the database takes days?
What if several tables had tens of millions of rows, and some had a few hundreds of millions rows?
What if the site had the most number of enabled Drupal modules ever?
How do you deal with such a site?
What issues are there hosting and managing such a site?
What is this site anyways?
Draggable Views vs. Node Queue (Cage Match)
"It's a CAGE MATCH!
I'm going to lock http://drupal.org/project/draggableviews and http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue in a medium sized windowed room and let them duke it out! I will not be responsible for the carnage that may or may not ensue!
OR...
Maybe I should just install then both and show you what they do so that you can make an informed decision!
Are you still adding INTEGER fields to your content types and expected the admins to keep track of these Pseudo-Weight fields while your VIEWS Displays use them for sorting things like Featured-Content, SlideShows, etc.
SEO for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7
"In this session, we will discuss Drupal as a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) platform. We will cover an overview of how SEO works, followed by how to leverage popular modules in Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 to support your SEO efforts. Special attention will be paid on optimizing websites for Google's Panda update.
We will cover:
SEO Fundamentals and Philosophy: How SEO works and why you should care
Specific SEO Considerations for: Off-site optimization, on-site optimization, and on-page optimization
Drupal and SEO: How Drupal modules can improve Core's default behavior for SEO
This Module Doesn't Work Right (And What You Can Do About It) by Brock Boland
The great appeal of using Drupal for a project is the incredible wealth of contributed modules available on Drupal.org. For just about any functionality you might need, someone else has needed it before you—and released a solution for you to use.
Drupal 7 Tutorials
Have you ever felt too intimidated by Drupal? This series starts at the very basics of the popular content management system Drupal 7 and will work it's way up to advance functionality. No prior Drupal knowledge is required!
This series of tutorials shows users the ins and outs of Drupal 7. The basics tutorials will cover installation, set up, overview and installing a theme. Futures series include theming, specific module training, maintenance and much more.
Tutorials
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Drupal Tutorials #17 - Updating a Module
This tutorial shows users how update a module in Drupal 7.
For more of this series, visit - http://tutr.tv/l6146
Drupal Tutorials #11 - Installing Your First Module - Pathauto
This tutorial shows you how to install a module and using Pathauto set up patterns for better URLs.
For more of this series, visit - http://tutr.tv/l6146