Panel of experts

Overview

The design firm that will be selected by the Drupal association will be selected and invited to present at Druaplcon Szeged. This session will explain their design concepts and processes for involving the Drupal community in the design process.

Agenda

* Update on the design process
* Presentation on the design firm
* How the designers will engage the Drupal community
* Presentation of the UX Toolkit for Drupal.org

Goals

The purpose of this session is for the designers to meet the Drupal community and the community to meet the designers. The goal is for the designers to help transfer ideas about the ongoing design improvements for Drupal.org to the community.

Resources

The RFP for Drupal.org redesign. The results of the UX toolkit, and other inputs shared with the design firm.

Overview

This session will show off the results of Drupal's Google Summer of Code 2008 projects. Students who make it to Drupalcon will be demoing their own projects, and we'll also show off projects from the students who can't be there.

Agenda
The following projects will be shown during the course of the session, as time permits.

• Apache Solr Improvements
• New Aggregator for Drupal core
• Bookings API
• Charts module Views integration
• Color module improvements
• Document Import Module
• Embed Widgets
• Revamped Help system
• Icon module
• Image manipulation GUI
• Memetracker
• New nodequeue sub-modules
• OAuth/Services module integration
• Open ID Attribute Exchange
• PluginManager
• Core search improvements
• Security scanner
• Usability Suite
• Validation API
• Version Control API / Project module integration
• Views datasources

Goals

This session will allow Summer of Code students to show off their hard work, and for the Drupal community to get a first-hand look at all the cool stuff that was produced over the summer. Summer of Code students typically make excellent employees as well, for those looking to hire. ;)

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NOTE TO ORGANIZERS: I put down "90 minutes" because that'd be a much more comfortable time frame during which to show off 21 projects. But every other year we've managed to do it in 60, so if 90 minute slots are short, you can push the time allotment back.