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Session	Experience level	Track
Workbench: Managing Content Management , Our clients often come to Drupal with expectations about the features of a content management system (CMS). In many cases, Drupal handles the features they expect. However, not all editorial tools...	Beginner	Site Building and Environment Set-up
With One Click Joel Spolsky describes the Joel Test as his "highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of a software team" and one of the questions he asks is: Can you make a build in...	Intermediate	Site Building and Environment Set-up
Why Royal Mail and UK Government Are Shifting towards Open Source and Drupal Why did an organisation like Royal Mail chose Drupal? What are the experiences of migrating? A case of UK government shift to Open Source and Drupal.		Business Day
Why Drupal Projects Fail: Breaking Down Barriers to Successful Drupal Adoption Drupal is a flexible, feature rich web application platform that many thriving companies leverage as their cornerstone technology. Why, then, do some companies fail horribly when adopting Drupal...	Beginner	Business and Best Practices
Web Typography & Drupal: Putting Arial Out To Pasture Arial's days are numbered, and we should all celebrate. Come learn about the evolution of web font embedding, how it works, what it can do for your site and your users, and how to make the most of...	Intermediate	Design, UX and Theming
We invented the Web. 20 years later we got Drupal. , CERN is a remarkable organisation dealing with a unique set of challenges in managing its web environment. This session looks at CERN's perspective on adopting Drupal as an Enterprise...	Beginner	Business Day
Tools for the Ultimate Drupal Developer Experience From local development to our proven cloud platform to site management, Acquia gives Drupal developers the ultimate suite of tools to make Drupal development easy and fun. In this session we'll...		Day Stage
This Code Stinks! "Code smell" refers to hints and patterns within code that can be a tip off that something is wrong. Learning to recognize code smells is a critical skill in software engineering. If you can...	Intermediate	Code & Coders
Theming API When you are actively working on theming in Drupal, you definitely know how should theme an item list or a table. But, there is a big difference between being able to theme most things in Drupal...	Intermediate	Design, UX and Theming
The Rules Way of Life , Rules 2 for Drupal 7 is a powerful module that can ease your life as site builder drastically. This session will show best practices, tips &...	Intermediate	Site Building and Environment Set-up
The Prairie Initiative - Redesigning the Social Spaces of Drupal.org Since the Prairie Initiative was kicked off at the Chicago Drupalcon earlier this year, a small but active group have been working on achieving our goals of: Improving the...	Intermediate	Ecosystem
The Path to a Mobile Drupal: Techniques, Tools and Failure Recently, I received an email invite for a webinar on mobile device development. I tried to sign up via my iphone, but was told that my mobile device wasn’t supported. True story.	Beginner	Design, UX and Theming
The Economist: An Informal Technical Case Study For people interested in big websites and their unique challenges, this panel offers a behind the scenes look at The Economist site. A team of experienced Economist developers will talk about the...	Intermediate	Business and Best Practices
Telenet: Adopting Drupal to Reduce Costs, Improve SEO and Flexibility The Business Case Redirect traffic to the call centers from consumers and business to the online channel. How? By putting in please a better and more flexible knowledge...		Business Day
Taking Inventory of Drupal Products and App Stores We now live in a world of Drupal products. The first "app store" was announced and launched, and more companies than ever are building (or want to be building) Drupal products. It's time to take a...	Beginner	Business and Best Practices
Take Full Control of Your Site Layout with Display Suite for Drupal 7 , Display Suite offers you a drag and drop UI that allows you to easily manage the layout of your site in a consistent and centralized way. In this session we will show you what Display Suite...	Intermediate	Design, UX and Theming
Survive and Thrive: Drupal(Con) How To , Start DrupalCon off right with jam and Robert, two Drupal(Con) veterans who will get you fired up while passing on helpful tips about getting the most from your experience. This session is an...		Ecosystem
Successful Communities & the New Breed of Drupal Events , , , The Drupal community landscape is changing. A host of new events is springing up: Design Camps, Dev Days, Business Days, Gov Days, CxO summits, and more. The success of these events in bringing...	Beginner	Ecosystem
So What's this "Drew-paul" Thing You Do? (Explaining Drupal to Others) You're introduced to someone by a friend. The smalltalk begins and you know what's coming. They ask, "What do you do?" The friend who introduced you tries to understand your explanation yet...	Beginner	Ecosystem
Slick Data Sharding: How to Develop Scalable Data Applications With Drupal High-traffic websites that capture a lot of data from users often encounter performance problems when database input becomes a bottleneck. High volume user-submitted content (comments, ratings,...	Intermediate	Code & Coders
Scaling the Drupal Community , The Drupal ecosystem is changing ... a lot. We have venture financed startups, we're powering 2% of the interwebs, and our community has already seen exponential growth–in 5 years Drupal.org has...	Beginner	Ecosystem
Scalability and Performance Options , , , NodeOne - Tomas Persson Talking about how Drupal could move towards the cloud and what we need to think about when we scale a Drupal site for 100.000 users. Voxel - Sam Machiz, VP of...		Day Stage
Relation , , Relation is a new module to create relationships between entities. In this session you will see some of the feature of this extremely powerful module. See how easy it is to create one relation...	Advanced	Site Building and Environment Set-up
Product, Framework, or Platform? What They Mean, And Why You Should Care As Drupal's popularity has grown, its core audience of hobbyist developers has exploded into an international community of businesses, nonprofits, independent developers, startups, and governments...	Intermediate	Ecosystem
OXFAM + Drupal = Great , Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organizations working together in 98 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. Since they need to communicate quickly and richly...	Intermediate	Business and Best Practices
OG7 - This Time It's On! OG7 - the one that should have been in Drupalcon Chicago, but this time, I'll even be there! Learn about all the new stuff OG7 has.	Intermediate	Site Building and Environment Set-up
Of Constraints and Capabilities: Applying Systems Thinking to Design the Ideal Experience , In software design and development we often overlook the role of our customers in applying their own capabilities to achieve their goals, often creating solutions that are bloated, complex, and...	Beginner	Design, UX and Theming
Node.js and Drupal , Drupal is a powerful, flexible platform for building applications, but not something that handles realtime notifcations easily. Node.js is a breath of fresh...	Intermediate	Code & Coders
Multilingual Drupal Solutions: Use Cases and Modules , Building multilingual websites is hard. It's hard because there are many different decisions that need to be made, touching everything from business logic to technical considerations. ...	Intermediate	Site Building and Environment Set-up
Minnesota Usability Study : What Do Users Have to Say About Drupal 7? , , Three years after our first round of formal usability testing on Drupal 6, the UX team returned to the University of Minnesota in May 2011 to uncover usability issues and patterns for Drupal 7....	Beginner	Design, UX and Theming
Meet the Drupal Association and DrupalCon The Drupal Association is a not-for-profit trade organization that tasks itself with fostering and supporting the Drupal software project, the community and its growth. Created in 2006 by a group...	Beginner	Ecosystem
Managing Localized & Multi-site Environments , Drupal's multi-site and multi-lingual features make it possible to host a large number of sites, in many different languages on the same drupal installation. Making the most of this power presents...		Day Stage
Making Your Theme Scale With Your Brand , Brands grow organically and often undergo complete re-design. How do you prepare for change and build a scalable brand? Our session will show how, when you theme effectively, Drupal has the power...	Intermediate	Design, UX and Theming
Mad Skillz: Become the Best in the World Are you a themer or developer who wants to work on bigger, more complicated projects? Do you want to send your resume to top Drupal shops and get hired? Do you want to assess and approve your...	Intermediate	Ecosystem
Living, Breathing, Drupal: The Biology of the Request Taken in its simplest form, Drupal is a linear system that starts at line 1 of index.php and executes its code line-by-line until it outputs what a user asked for. What if we could visually...	Intermediate	Code & Coders
Integration with External Services (APIs, web applications, mobile) , In this session we'll share how to integrate Drupal other web based or enterprise services. More precisely: How can we make calls between different Drupal instances, even different...		Day Stage
I'm Leaving You: The Risks of Dumping Your Old CMS for Drupal and How to Manage Them In the old days, moving to Drupal often meant converting static pages or templates to Drupal nodes. Today, it is rare that we get to build a site from scratch. Reality is that most major Drupal...	Beginner	Business and Best Practices
How to Theme Like A Rockstar Theming a site is NOT doing a grid, modifying the CSS & changing a bit of HTML - Theming starts when the first field is created! This is where Design, UX, Drupal stuff, functionality...	Intermediate	Design, UX and Theming
How to Have an Open Relationship... With Software (and Still Make the Paper) You love Drupal. You love Linux. You have a pet penguin and you recompile your kernel daily. So what, at the end of the day, you've got to pay your mortgage, and last time I checked, the bank...	Intermediate	Ecosystem
How Do You Know that Gal Knows Drupal? Towards an Open Source Curriculum and a Community-Based Accreditation Scheme for Drupal , As Drupal grows, so do the challenges of identifying and developing Drupal talent. Gone are the days that a look at the issue queues of various projects could identify all the key talent available...	Intermediate	Ecosystem
Hollywood Storytelling and the Drupal Development Process Finding the best way to approach Drupal site development can be a daunting task. Not only do projects vary widely in size, scope, and team composition, but there are also several different...	Beginner	Business and Best Practices
Free Software and You , So you've taken the plunge into Drupal and you know that it's open source. But what does that mean in practice? Free and Open Source Software means more than just no licensing costs. In...	Intermediate	Ecosystem
Forensic Theming: Key Techniques to Building Effective Drupal Themes The theme of your website has the capacity for beautiful, semantic markup...and also the hacky HTML soup. You can build a new theme by downloading a free theme and tearing out its guts--or you can...	Beginner	Design, UX and Theming
Entities - Emerging Patterns of Usage Entities are a powerful new abstraction introduced in Drupal 7 that can provide new ways to approach and resolve several often-encountered development problems. Questions remain though as to when...	Intermediate	Code & Coders
Eating the Elephant - Managing a Big Drupal Project , So what's it like to manage a huge Drupal project with over 100 people on the team, a multi million pound project budget, and demanding clients? Colin Sweetman and Al Croston of Axis12...	Intermediate	Business and Best Practices
Easy Drupal Hosting Lifecycle: Local Dev, Production Deploy, Cloud Scale, and Sleep Well. Drupal site best practice workflow includes initial development on local workstation, testing in a staging environment, and a production environment ranging from a single server to a high-...	Beginner	Site Building and Environment Set-up
E-Commerce - The Benefits of Using Drupal , , More information is coming soon		Day Stage
Drush Deploy , From small sites to large, drush is an essential tool in a drupal deployment strategy. Many of us are already using commands like rsync, sql-sync, features-revert, and updatedb as steps in our...	Intermediate	Site Building and Environment Set-up
Drupal On a Dime , You already know Drupal is capable of doing almost anything... for a price. But what about those looking to leverage Drupal on a tight budget and timeline? Is it possible to build a kick-butt site...	Beginner	Business and Best Practices
Drupal Module Developer Challenge by Tropo: Winners Announced and Entries Demoed Read more about it here		Day Stage

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