Drupalcon Schedule
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This may change between now and Drupalcon, but here’s the session schedule that the co-chairs of the tracks put together. You can view more info about each session including session leaders, agenda, date and time plus the overall program. Here is the list of potential birds of a feather discussions. (Stay tuned regarding how the BoF talks will be scheduled.)
MONDAY, MARCH 3:
8-9am Morning Coffee & Registration
9-10:30 Birds of a Feather (Room 252A)
9-10:30am Tutorials
Marketing and Business: 1-2-3: A Step-By-Step Guide to the PROFITABLE Web Development Process by Neil Giarratana
Design and User Experience: Report from formal Drupal usability testing at the University of Minnesota Libraries by Cody Hanson, Chad Fennell, Dries Buytaert, Angie Byron, Nathaniel Catchpole, Greg Knaddison, Kieran Lal, Karen Stevenson
Site Building: Drupal Multimedia by Aaron Winborn, James Walker, Darrel O’Pry
Community and Core: The Road from Newbie to Ninja: Drupal Tools and Techniques by Chad Phillips (hunmonk)
10:30-11am Mid-morning Break
11-12:30pm Opening remarks from Dries Buytaert: The State of Drupal (Room 253ABC)
12:30-1:30pm LUNCH (everyone receives $10 lunch vouchers to be used on the AIIM show floor)
1:30-2:15pm Sessions
Marketing and Business: Communication, Cooperation, Collaboration: Can Drupal Shops Work Together by Gregory Heller
Design and User Experience: Converting mock-ups to Drupal themes by Maureen Lyons
Site Building: Mapping business requirements to Drupal modules: a gap-fit process by Boris Mann
Community and Core: GHOP (Google Highly Open Participation) by GHOP students Charlie Gordon, Michael Fogleman, and Jimmy Berry, and various GHOP admins and mentors.
2:30-3:15pm Sessions
Marketing and Business: Drupal for fun and profit: making a career out of Open Source by Khalid Baheyeldin
Design and User Experience: Drupal and Open Laszlo: how an open source Flash solution fits with Drupal by Kris Vanderwater
Site Building: Site Recipe: Tracking Event Results With CCK and Views by Karen Stevenson
Community and Core: Introducing Acquia by Dries Buytaert & Jay Batson
3:30-4:15pm Sessions
Marketing and Business: Drupal in China, the how, who and why. by Robert Scales, Jacob Redding, John Zhu
Design and User Experience: Design on the Edge of Drupal by Claudio Luis Vera
Site Building: Drupal and the Knight Foundation by Gary Kebbel, Benjamin Melançon, Lisa Williams
Community and Core: OpenID and Identity in Drupal: the future of user.module by James Walker (walkah)
4:15-6pm: Business & Job Fair with afternoon snack and beverage break (Rooms 251 and 252A)
6-7:30 : Offsiite Networking I
7:30-9 : Offsite Networking II
More info about the industry networking events at http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/industry-networking-events-monday-march-...
TUESDAY, MARCH 4:
8-9am Morning Coffee & Registration
9-10:30am Birds of a Feather (Room 252A)
9-10:30am Tutorials
Marketing and Business: FastCompany.com Case Study by Ed Sussman, James Walker, Jeff Eaton
Design and User Experience: Burn the Help Manual: A Strategy for Self-Explaining UX Design by Bob Goodman
Site Building: Performance tuning and optimization of high traffic Drupal sites by Khalid Baheyeldin, Steve Rude, David Strauss
Community and Core: The Future of Fields by Barry Jaspan (bjaspan), Nedjo Rogers (nedjo), Karen Stevenson (karenS), Larry Garfield (Crell)
10:30-11am Mid-morning Break
11-12:30 General Session with Chris DiBona, Google (Room 253ABC)
12:30-1:45 : Parade to AIIM show floor then lunch (everyone receives two $5 lunch vouchers for the AIIM show floor concessions)
1:45-3:15pm Tutorials
Marketing and Business: Popular Science - Case Study by Kevin Bridges, Laura Scott, Popular Science
Design and User Experience: Designing for Drupal by Chris Fassnacht, Stephanie Pakrul
Site Building: Drupalcon Tutorial: Best practices in development environments, staging, build management, and production environments by Narayan Newton (OSUOSL), Milind Parikh (IBM), Sam Tresler (Advomatic), Neil Giarratana (Lucidus Corporation), Eric Mandel (Blackmesh)
Community and Core: Multilanguage Drupal: a status report and a discussion by Gabor Hojtsy (goba)
1:45-3:15pm Birds of a Feather (Room 252A)
3:15-3:45pm Afternoon snack/beverage break (Room 251)
3:45-4:45 Sessions
Marketing and Business: Skirt.com : Affiliated content for magazines by Nik Wilets, Tobby Hagler, Jonathan DeLaigle, Developer, Ken Rickard
Design and User Experience: “No Tears” Methods for User Centered Design by Michael Angeles
Site Building: Theming with the Theme Developer module by Moshe Weitzman
Community and Core: Making your contributed modules admin-friendly as well as user-friendly by Joel Farris (senpai)
5-6pm Sessions
Marketing and Business: Drupal powering hosted services by Lior Kesos
Design and User Experience: Better Drupal Interaction Design with Flex by Chris Charlton
Site Building: Training Drupal Developers by Karl Scheirer
Community and Core: Drupal Association Panel by The Drupal Association
7:30-11pm Acquia sponsored conference social at FELT BOSTON with special Lullabot sponsored performance by Orbit (This is a 21+ event due to venue restrictions in Massachusetts.) Complimentary drink ticket, free food, billiards and Wii! More info at http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/acquia-conference-social-march-4th
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5:
8-9am Morning Coffee & Registration
9-10:30 Birds of a Feather (Room 252A)
9-10:30am Tutorial
Marketing and Business: Drupal Client Delight: A Guide to Setting, Managing & Delivering on Client Expectations – Every Time by Shane Spraggs, Gene Bernier
Design and User Experience: jQuery and Drupal - A match made in heaven by Kyle Browning (ocyrus)
Site Building: Using Drupal with External Data Sources by Neil Drumm, Ken Rickard
Community and Core: SimpleTest: Because clicking on forms is for suckers by Angela Byron (webchick), Rok Zlender, Karoly Negyesi (chx), Jimmy Berry (boombatower)
10:30-11am Mid-morning Break
11-12:30 : General Session with Brian Aker, MySQL (Room 253ABC)
12:30-1:30pm LUNCH (everyone receives $10 lunch vouchers to be used on the AIIM show floor)
1:30-2:30pm Sessions
Marketing and Business: Marketing Open Source Software by Sandro Groganz
Design and User Experience: Sex, Drupal, & Rock n Roll - A Theming Love Story by mortendk
Site Building: Drupal Security - Best Practices and Process Discussion Greg Knaddison, James Walker
Community and Core: New JavaScript in Drupal 6: AHAH and Drag and Drop by Nathan Haug (quicksketch)
2:30-3pm Conference photograph (location TBD)
3-3:30pm Afternoon snack/beverage break (Room 251)
3:30-4:30pm Sessions
Marketing and Business: How IBM Uses Drupal by Oliver Siodmak
Design and User Experience: Creating custom workflows for Drupal applications - taking advantage of core hooks and context by Jeff Miccolis, Young Hahn
Site Building: Drupal as a GIS/Mapping Platform by Jim Craner, Brandon Bergren, Rebecca White
Community and Core: How to effectively maintain and release your Drupal contributions by Derek Wright (dww)
4:45-6pm Session
Marketing and Business: Open Source, Open Resumes - Becoming and Finding Drupal Rockstars by Matt Westgate
Design and User Experience: Scalable Theming: Theming for 100s of node types, CCK fields, and views by Bevan Rudge
Site Building: Druplash and Druplex: Content-Managed Flash and Flex sites powered by Drupal by Brian McMurray, Steven Merrill
Community and Core: Documentation - challenges, travails and myths by Steven Peck (sepeck)
TBD Evening Activities
THURSDAY, MARCH 6:
8-9am Morning Coffee & Registration
9-10:30am Birds of a Feather (Room 252A)
9-10:30am Tutorials
Marketing and Business: Tips and Tricks: Getting your team up to speed on Drupal (and staying there!) by George DeMet
Design and User Experience: Information Architecture to Drupal Architecture by Owen Barton
Site Building: Mail, Notifications, and Messaging by Jose Reyero, Jeff Miccolis
, Tim Cullen, Allie Micka
Community and Core: A Developer’s Assistant - Using Coder for Module Developers and Maintainers by Doug Green
10:30-11am Mid-morning Break
11-12:30 Birds of a Feather (Room 252A)
11-12:30 Tutorials
Marketing and Business: Popular, high traffic, and enterprise Drupal sites showcase by Chris Bryant
Design and User Experience: Drupal.org Redesign Panel by Tiffany Farriss, Angela Byron, Derek Wright, Nedjo Rogers, Kieran Lal
Site Building: Selling with Drupal: Ecommerce and Ubercart by Greg Bear, Ryan Szrama
Community and Core: Contributing to Drupal: A Guide for Everyone by Addison Berry (add1sun) & Karl Schreirer
12:30-1:30pm LUNCH (everyone receives $10 lunch vouchers to be used on the AIIM show floor)
1:30-3pm : Birds of a Feather (Room 252A)
1:30-2:15 Sessions
Marketing and Business: Music, Fans and Drupal by Ethan Kaplan, Shaun Haber
Design and User Experience: Building Capacity Through Good Usability: Lessons from Instructional Design by Tim Lindgren
Site Building: Panels 2 and Nodequeue
Community and Core: Triggers and Actions and Hooks, Oh My! by John VanDyk (clouseau)
2:30-3:15 Sessions
Marketing and Business: Drupal Podcast Live by Jeff Robbins, Dries Buytaert, and guest panel
Design and User Experience: What’s in a theme: The power of enterprise-level theming by Joshua Katris, Thomas Wysocki, Marque Staneluis
Site Building: Building a groups site - explore the backend of groups.drupal.org by Moshe Weitzman
Community and Core: Zen and the Art of Drupal by Jeff Eaton (eaton)
3:15-4pm Afternoon snack/beverage break (Room 251)
4-6pm Closing Plenary (Room 253ABC)