Designer, themer

session 4 of our continued Usability Sprint

This is a small informal presentation of the guitar module (http://drupal.org/project/guitar) which lets you put guitar chord diagrams on your website.

Depending on the interest, we can go through how to use the module, how it works, potential use cases and planned features.

A short meeting to prepare for the road map of the French Drupal Community post Convention

Agenda

* Training, Training, Training !
* DrupalCon Paris ???!!!
* Association, no Association?
* Newsleter to the whole of the community
* Schedule work on Drupal'n'GO

Overview

The same way Google has summer of code, this idea is to have something like Google year of code.

We're talking about a website where the community can collectively fund projects (ie bounties), design them collectively and fund them collectively.

This session is to hear your thoughts and ideas about the matter.

Agenda

* FOSS Factory, an introduction
* Does the community need this model
* If so, what's the idea way of using it (ie implemented within the drupal website or left as an external site)
* what kind of problems would be posted on it, what level of expertise would be required to solve them.

Goals

Basically I would like to know if this idea makes sense at all, and if it does, I would like to know how to make it happen.

Resources

please see www.fossfactory.org

Extra BoF Spot for the Usability Sprint

Group working on the Node Forms

This is the third session of a series of 4. Participants will pick up where we left off, and continue to design for the tasks they chose.

Building a website for Drupalcon.org is a challenging matter. There are lots of features to work with, the site should adapt to the needs at any time and of course should show that when Drupal is used to build its own conference website, it should do cool stuff for its attendees and other interested parties.

There were lots of design decisions made on the site given the needs we specified based on our look at previous Drupalcons and our own expectations. Sometimes existing modules fit well into our plans, quite a few times we needed glue code or our own code to do the work. Sometimes our own code resulted in superb end results but then also sometimes made mistakes. It also turned out that some of our design choices were not perfect and in some cases our implementation was not adaptive as we wished.

I hope to tell stories about these experience, dive into some details about the implementation, glue code, own code. You will most probably not get clear recipes, and definitely not ready to use code.

Ps. (If we have time and interest, we can get into the making of do.drupaltown.org - our management website for this event and lessons we learned using and sometimes not using that).

• Overview
  • Do you know Microformats?
  • Do you use Microformats?

  This BOF is for brainstorming and discussing the use and relevance in Drupal.

• Agenda
  • Who's behind Microformats
  • What is a Microformat
  • hCard
  • hCalendar
  • etc?
• Goals
  • Brainstorming and raising the awareness the value off Microformats
• Resources
  1. http://microformats.org/
  2. http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal

Join us for a real life examples and a panel discussion around CSRF with Amanda Giovanni, Director of Enterprise Risk Management of CommonPlaces, Erich Breyent, VP of Engineering of CommonPlaces, Matthew Nash, Cyber Security Consultant of Katalyst Strategies, and Arian Evans of Whitehat.

Overview

The demo will show ajax tooling technology from ArtwareSoft.
We will show how you can take your existing drupal components such as views and data types and empower them with specialized interactive javascript UI.
The demo will focus on building the components with no coding, using both simple WYSIWYG approach for the simple cases and a rich specialized DSL with ajax IDE for the more complex cases.

Agenda

* Demonstration
* Discussion about the best ways to facilitate and exploit such a technology in the Drupal community.

Goals

Participants will meet and like the new technique, use it for their needs and contribute more styles, repository controls and drupal adapters for it.

Resources

Attendees are welcome to bring sample Xml's from which we will generate together the desired interactive views.