90 minutes

Drupal theming isnt that hard (at first) - but after the first sweet feeling of geek stardom, the truth comes sneaking...
Some elements in a drupal sit can be a little tricky, unless you are willing to dig a bit deeper and get a little dirty.
so this one is all about pimping the crap outta your site, and in the process build up a libary of pure awesomeness

Agenda

• - a Ménage à trois - Theming understanding
  and theres more than one position...
• - the quest for a the nada-html template.
  Cleaning up the css & html and remain some of your sanity.
• - access all areas pass
• - this my son is the kingdom you shall inhert
  how to steal win the prince (or princes), steal the gold and get a kingdom for your self
  or how to use the build in inheritance (thank you zen)
• - forms vs. the themer
  round 1.
• - Pimping the menu
  use the source luke
  Menus and the art of theme function overwriting
  css based coolness
  imagemaps -oh yeah we old skool
  image based menus - the designers love em ...
• The land of milk & honey
  drupal6 theming

Goals
To show some of the possibilities that are hiding just under the hood of drupal, and a couple of approaches to sex up your drupal life, and give the universal answer to the question that more than once have been shouted out:
"How the F!"#" do i get this menu to look like that the designer gave me - why cant we just use plain text menus and be done!"
and go from : "aaaargh I hate designer I hate drupal I aaaaaargh" to
"woohoo Drupal is the sweatest system in the world - wheres Dries I wanna kiss that guy, and by beers for all in the community"

Resources
basic css ,html, some php & basic drupal theming knowledge, and not to offended by the words that start with F.

Overview

A panel discussion, that walks through the countries in the region and makes a short sum up of the current community status: the events that are being organized, the localized resources, the member bases and the events that will be hold in the near future.

Agenda

Goals

Get an overview of the "state of Drupal" in Central Europe. Open a dialog between the different communities that might lead to concerted efforts to grow Drupal.

Resources

An interest in growing Drupal.

If you are interested in being part of this panel, please send me a message using my contact form.

Overview

In this second session on jQuery we plan to focus on Drupal-specific usage and also on more advanced topics such as effective debugging of js code and adding AJAX functionality.

Agenda

* How Drupal and jQuery relate to each other
* The Drupal js object
* AJAXifying Drupal with jQuery
* AHAH and Drag&Drop

Goals

By the end of this session, attendees will understand the fundamentals of how jQuery and Drupal work together; they will have learned some best practices regarding the use of jQuery in Drupal and be able to add AJAX, AHAH and Drag&Drop functionality to their modules (the latter two for Drupal 6 only!)

Resources

Prior knowledge of jQuery basics or attendance at the first session recommended. Attendees should also be familiar with basic Drupal module development.

Overview

Drupal module development is a bit like playing Zork. Anyone can play the game, walk around a while, score some points, get eaten by a grue, and try again. Even the most stalwart adventurer will need some help if he is to seriously improve his game. Otherwise, he'll get fed up with Zork and return to playing Duck Hunt.

So it is with module development. You've setup a Drupal site. You've used some contributed modules. You've tweaked some to your liking and even written a couple from scratch... but you need to know how to improve your game before you get frustrated or waste all your time making the same mistakes. Yes... there are plenty of mistakes to be made, and we've made quite a few of them ourselves.

Expect more classic gaming references in this session, but more importantly expect to learn about the things we've done wrong and the things we're starting to do right in our Drupal module development (primarily Ubercart).

This session will be geared toward beginning and intermediate Drupal developers looking to learn more about the module development process and "best practices" that go beyond (but certainly include!) simple adherence to coding and security standards. We will cover the tools we use, the module structures we like to stick by, and how we make the most of our first pass at a module. More importantly, we'll look at code that works with some of the harder to understand parts of the Drupal API, and we'll look at writing modules that integrate not just with Drupal but with other contributed modules like Ubercart and Views.

Sounds like a lot, eh? We think so, too. However, we'll be presenting the information in the following format to try and disseminate as much knowledge as possible:

A Hands-On Guide to Module Development will be an informal lecture session where we say our opening words and move into a time of hands-on learning. Those with laptops can follow along with code examples as we work through the development of a module that demonstrates the topics mentioned above. We'll be accepting quick questions as we go along and use any time at the end to take more questions and hopefully provide some helpful answers.

As always, if we can't get to you in the session, feel free to stop us in the halls or find us around Drupaltown and get your learn on.

We're open to collaborators interested in the topic and the format. Interested developers should contact Ryan or Lyle (Island Usurper). If you just want to contribute your module development best practices, we'd love to have a nice happy list for folks to use as a reference coming out of this session.

Agenda

* Introductory words
* Getting ready to code - think first
* Where to start with a blank file
* Writing those first hooks and callbacks
* Writing smart functions
* Documenting as you go!
* Grokking some more Drupal hooks:
   - hook_form_alter()
   - ... (to be determined)
* Hooking into contributed modules:
   - Ubercart
   - Views
   - ... (to be determined)
* What to do when you're "done" ; )

Goals

Attendees should leave with a greater sense of what it takes to develop Drupal modules successfully. There's no way to pass on a comprehensive understanding of what we know or get to cover, and that is a subset of all there is to know about module development. However, every little bit helps, so we'll try to pass on as many little bits as we can!

We want to help move as many beginner developers as possible toward the intermediate level and entice those intermediate developers to become the experts we know they can be.

Resources

* Drupal 6
* http://api.drupal.org
* http://drupal.org/project/ubercart
* http://drupal.org/project/views
* http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

We will include a downloadable zip of code examples for session attendees to use to follow along as we write the module, discuss the code, and discuss how we got there.

Fleshing out the plans is here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12972

Looking for co-hosts!

example:
- do a card sort on the admin categories
- discuss the different 'dashboard' approaches people already use
- choose 2 options we want to compare / test

another example:
- let's pick a nice chunk of core interface text: labels, descriptions, help
- rework them for clarity, consistency and brevity.

BoF Usability Sprint Day 2

build prototypes: on paper, in photoshop and/or code
or: further work on interface copy, start documenting the copywriting guidelines we find.

BoF Usability Sprint Day 3

Test conceptcode with the Usability Testing Suite
Or work on concept some more, take it to the Code Sprint.
or: create patch for interface copy and start the guidelines handbook page on drupal.org

Fleshing out the plans is here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12972

Looking for co-hosts!

example:
- do a card sort on the admin categories
- discuss the different 'dashboard' approaches people already use
- choose 2 options we want to compare / test

another example:
- let's pick a nice chunk of core interface text: labels, descriptions, help
- rework them for clarity, consistency and brevity.

BoF Usability Sprint Day 2

build prototypes: on paper, in photoshop and/or code
or: further work on interface copy, start documenting the copywriting guidelines we find.

Fleshing out the plans is here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12972

BoF Usability Sprint Day 1

* zoom in on 1 or 2 issues we already decided upon before the conference
(redo admin categories, modules page, permissions page…)
* bring your ideas and proposals
* discuss the options, decide on 1 or 2 things we can work on.

example:
- do a card sort on the admin categories
- discuss the different 'dashboard' approaches people already use
- choose 2 options we want to compare / test

another example:
- let's pick a nice chunk of core interface text: labels, descriptions, help
- rework them for clarity, consistency and brevity.

Overview

Lets brainstorm about what improvements we can make to the node access control system.

Agenda

* How to make it easier to grok
* What features should be there but aren't

Goals

Close with a sentence or two describing the outcome you'd like from this session. For example, is the goal to define a problem and come up with a solution? If you're imparting knowledge, what sort of knowledge should attendees hope to gain by the end?

Resources

Please read node_access() and all the functions it calls. Also be familiar with node_db_rewrite_sql(). If you have written a node access module, you are very encouraged to attend.

Overview

Tuning the Drupal stack continues to be an exciting combination of science and art. New options for cloud computing and infrastructure services like content distribution networks allow performance load to be distributed. The art of offering your users the right combination of features without creating a performance impact is a design challenge.

Agenda

* Performance tuning the Drupal stack
* Tuning images, CSS, Javascript for front end optimization
* Outsourcing your performance load
* Performance load testing
* Scalable architectures for peak loads
* Performance improvements in Drupal 6 and Drupal 7

Goals

The goal of this session is to learn best practices from a panel Drupal performance experts. We will review the latest tools, techniques, and architectures for ensuring your Drupal site stays fast and can scale under a variety of of loads.

Resources

http://groups.drupal.org/high-performance
http://groups.drupal.org/node/12823

Overview

Messaging and Notifications are two complete frameworks for handling subscriptions, notifications about site events, or simply sending out messages using any kind of delivery method. The goal of this presentation is to show the new developments we've been building on top of these frameworks and the new and exciting possibilities that have happened in just the past couple of months since the first beta was introduced at DrupalCon Boston.

Background

Your Drupal site is generating all kinds of mail for all kinds of reasons: You have giant announcement list, a few dozen group discussions, automated content notifications, send-to-friend messages, petitions and postcards.
Now there is the Messaging framework that attempts to abstract all the needs of other modules regarding the sending of user messages, adding also a centralized way to manage all your message templates, filtering, and delivery settings. The Messaging framework accepts different kinds of plug-ins for different sending methods, like different email modules (mimemail, phpmailer), SMS, web notifications, etc..
The Notifications framework, which in turn uses Messaging as the delivery layer, attempts to simplify building subscriptions-like systems in Drupal. It is a collection of modules that provide a core set of notification types and developers API for building specialized user interfaces, use multiple message delivery methods (including email, sms and IM) and developing custom subscription types.

Agenda

* Moving beyond 'e-mail only'; let the users decide how to interact with your site.
* Enabling round-trip email discussions for any content type or topic
* The Messaging Framework - More than just email, IM & SMS plugins.
* Building on the Messaging framework: free message templating and sending for other modules
* Extending the framework with your own modules or distribution types
* Notifications modules - How to configure & use subscriptions and notifications.
* Integration example: Organic Groups now using the Notifications framework
* Real life usage: Some examples of live sites using this solution.

Goals

* Show you we can move beyond the mail only paradigm to sending and receiving messages through different methods.
* Raise awareness about new and exciting possibilities for user interaction or why just sending emails is not enough nowadays.
* Let other developers know how they can build on this framework and abstract message sending from their modules.
* Overview for site builders of how to set up a full featured subscriptions/notifications solution
* Present the latest developments built on these two frameworks and some new plug-in modules

Resources

http://drupal.org/project/messaging
http://drupal.org/project/notifications
http://www.developmentseed.org/tags/messaging