Business and Community

Job Fair - OR - Get Your Job On

Posted by greggles on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 at 1:49pm GMT
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This is a "Job Fair" session to allow folks who are hiring to hook up with people who might be interested in a new job. Let's face it, with the right fit, everyone's interested...

Tentatively scheduled as the last session on Saturday. A perfect time to flex your new skills. Or, if you're happily employed, schedule a BoF for the same time.

Agenda: 

1. Mingle
2. Exchange business cards
3. Repeat

Prerequisites: 

None.

More miles, less gas

Posted by justin2pin on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 6:25pm GMT
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Using Drupal lets our team focus early in the process on user experience, content and design -- then pull all three together without duplicating effort. For a small design company doing big work, that kind of efficiency is important.

Agenda: 

Discuss how we incorporate Drupal, starting early in the process, to increase efficiency. Specifically, we'll talk about the following:

- Site-map prototyping
- User-testing
- Implementing (vs Developing)
- Copy Writing and Content Migration

Prerequisites: 

None, really; this will be high-level and mostly about process, with a slant toward design.

Goals: 

To illustrate practical ways in which Drupal can help the design process go further, with less effort, while supporting an iterative process.

Drupal Association - How Can We Help You?

Posted by greggles on Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 2:06pm GMT
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The Drupal Association was founded in 2006 with a set of goals stated as:

The purposes of the Association shall be for providing support in developing,
communicating, promoting, distributing the Drupal project and in deploying
an infrastructure in support of the Drupal project.

That goal can be interpretted in a broad or a very narrow way. In the past 2 years the Drupal Association has acted cautiously while still trying to support the Drupal project as much as possible.

Agenda: 

1. History of the Drupal Association
2. What we've done so far
3. Audience participation: How can we help you?
4. General Q&A

Goals: 

To communicate the goals and purposes of the Drupal Association and for the Association to learn how we can help you.

Drupal Lightning Demos

Posted by bjeavons on Friday, July 11th, 2008 at 9:17am GMT
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Rapid-fire demonstrations of modules, themes, Drupal-powered sites, fancy Drupal code snippets and anything else Drupal related that can be demoed in 5-10 minutes. These are quick, 5-10 minutes including time for questions, demos of something you've built on or with Drupal. Unless we have very few demos there probably won't be time to go looking at code so just show how it works or what it looks like.

Anyone is welcome and encouraged to participate in these demos. Please add a comment on this session if you'd like to demo something. We'll work out the order and logistics of demos soon.

Agenda: 

Quick demos

Prerequisites: 

No prerequisites for attendance, just an interest in seeing anything someone has built with Drupal!

Goals: 

See a lot of cool things people have done with Drupal.

The Dao of the Drupal Community

Posted by greggles on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 4:20pm GMT
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This could probably equally go under Beginning Drupal, but...

One of the hardest things about using Drupal the software is knowing how to interact with the community itself.

  1. Where do I find the roadmap?
  2. How can I help?
  3. Why are there major changes to the API with every release?
  4. Why isn't FeatureX in Core?
  5. I found this bug, why doesn't anyone care?
  6. How can I get help with my problem?
  7. What are the new developments with the project?

Answers to these questions and more will be provided in this session.

Agenda: 

0. Listing your top complaints - will help guide the rest of the presentation
1. introduction to a variety of topics that tend to confuse new users
2. Audience submitted questions (and hopefully answers)

Prerequisites: 

None.

Goals: 

You will leave the session feeling more at peace with the world and with your relationship to the Drupal project.

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