Sun BoF workshop room

Overview

The menu API underwent major changes between Drupal 5 and Drupal 6. Now that it's been in use and modules have been updated, do you see areas of the API that need improvement? Bugs that are showing up? Performance concerns?

Agenda

• Introductions
• Developer experience (DX): could it be easier to program menus?
• Dynamic tabs
• Breadcrumb handling
• Allowed depth of the links tree
• What do other components of the Drupal framework need from the menu systems: e.g. semantic web, alternative renders, etc.
• Time permitting - Drupal 6 coding questions.

Goals

By the end, we hope to have identified specific features there there is a consensus around, and ideally have an implementation plan.

Resources

This will be a detailed, code-level discussion. You should be familiar with the menu hooks and page-serving mechanisms for Drupal 6 ahead of time.

Overview:

Imagefield Gallery is a module that's been around since shortly before Drupalcon Boston. I created it with the intent of making gallery management for an existing site easy for single nodes. Since that time others have used it for their own sites, and have extended it to work with proprietary gallery types that have not been contributed back. I would like very much to introduce the drupal community at large to imagefield gallery and encourage them to help develop it in a direction that could be beneficial for ALL of drupal, not just a small subset.

As stated above, imagefield gallery's primary purpose is to create galleries on a node from an existing imagefield. The new 2.x version cleans up the admin, and is striving to squash some old bugs, and add new features. In development is the ability to do node references, as well as a new gallery type. Imagefield Gallery makes creating new gallery types pretty easy and straight-forward. These gallery types are re-usable in a large number of instances and allow the site administrator to customize gallery types per content type.

Agenda

• Current Capabilities
• What I'd like to see donated by the community
• What about D6?
• What could the future hold?

Goals

Ultimately the objective of this session is to introduce Drupal at large to the Imagefield Gallery module, and show them what it can do for them. With some help I believe imagefield gallery can fill a significant void in the current Drupal codescape and give Drupal a varied and significant gallery system upon which to draw.

Resources

Project Page:
http://drupal.org/project/imagefield_gallery

Development/News Blog:
http://www.worxco.com/blog-categories/imagefieldgallery

This will just be an informal gathering of the women who make it to Drupalcon: the Drupalchix (also known as the "7% club" ;)).

We did this in Barcelona and Boston, and it was awesome. :D

Topics might include things like:
* What are our various backgrounds/experiences prior to coming to Drupal?
* What is it that we’re currently working on?
* What have our experiences in the community been like?
* What can we do to encourage more women in open source/Drupal specifically?