The state of Ubercart

SESSION OVERVIEW
This session will discuss the current status of the ubercart module, how it works with drupal, and its future developement. Highlight some of its features as well as things we’d like to expand on going into 2.0 and drupal 6. It could be various formats, either discussion panel (with other commerce developers) or a lecture and Q&A period. From the small lightning talk at the LA lullabot workshop, about 25% of the time should devoted to answering various questions.

TRACK
While this isn’t marketing, it is highly interesting to business type people. Thus marketing and business is probably the most suitable track.

AGENDA
* Current features and goals of ubercart
* Some sites using ubercart — compare/contrast to other ecommerce packages
* Talk about some issues facing ubercart would could be improved
* Future of ubercart, talk about its idea of being its own entity that uses drupal.

GOALS
There are three objectives of this session:
1) Get developers looking for ecommerce solutions something they can sign up for and develop on.
2) Get business folk excited about a complete e-commerce solution they can give to clients
3) Get wider publicity in the drupal community. Ubercart, while growing, is still fairly unknown to many newcomers to drupal.

RESOURCES
The best thing someone could have coming to this session is questions they have regarding e-commerce. If you’re a developer interested in coding with ubercart, having an idea of the api and some of our issues is a good idea as well.