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ANN: Kk at PreviousNext Keynote Sat January 14, 9p


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When: 9 AM Saturday January 14, 2012
Where: PreviousNext Keynote

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1. Keynote - Growing up in the Drupal Community
Dmitri Gaskin
tags: Keynote Presentation, 
At 10 years of age, Dmitri Gaskin (now 16) joined the Drupal community. It has a been a big part of his life ever since.
This keynote will recount his story of growing up in the Drupal community, from novice Drupaller to Drupal ninja. Dmitri will talk about how growing up with the community has shaped his life, his values and his ways.
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2. The truth about job hunting...
Georgie Carpenter and Julien Viard
tags: The Business of Drupal, Intermediate
10collective knows what it's like to be a real person that is looking
for a real job in a real company. It's hard, can be awfully draining
and frankly, who can understand all the little nuances and bits of
etiquette that employers, sometimes unfairly, heap on you?!
Well, this session is about assisting anyone who has struggled during
the employment process in the Web and Digital space. 
We know you have a specialist skill set in the Drupal space. We know
that you're not a generic automaton designed to simply spurt out code.
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3. Omega - how to implement & use this Responsive theme
Colin Watson and Christian Biggins
tags: Theming and Design, Beginner
OK, so you've heard about Responsive Design and perhaps even implemented it. Is there a Drupal theme which can help you put together a Responsive Design and also give you the option of implementing HTML5?
Yes, there is. It's the Omega theme: it's grid-based, responsive and gives you the choice of HTML5 or XHTML.
Come and drink the Kool-Aid with us and become a believer in Jake Strawn's Omega theme! We will show you how to download, implement and use it. You will impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and enamour your stalkers.
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4. Views API Exposed
Michael Strelan and Mark Matuschka
tags: Code, Core and Contrib, Advanced
Views is used by site builders and developers on 68% of Drupal websites, but on many of these sites only the basic functions of Views are in use. This presentation digs beneath the surface to discover the largely undocumented Views API and will demonstrate examples of how and when these hooks can be implemented.
The following topics will be discussed:
• Finding your  way around the Views API
• Dynamically modifying the configuration of a view
• Dynamically modifying a view’s query
• Creating a views plugin
• Using a view as a bulk data entry form
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5. A Moodle Integration tour.
Alex Lawn
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Intermediate
Sharing user accounts between Moodle and Drupal is possible, so is Single sign on. You can take then take this further by displaying Moodle course listings in Drupal, integrate this with your favorite Commerce module and finally feed the newly purchased course enrollments back to Moodle.
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6. jQuery for Designers & Themers
Bevan Rudge
tags: Theming and Design, Beginner
Small non-intrusive animations and interactions can greatly enhance the user experience and impress website visitors and clients. jQuery and jQuery UI make it easy to add these enhancements with very little knowledge of javascript or programming. Learn how!
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7. Field, Widgets and Formatters - oh my!
Lee Rowlands
tags: Code, Core and Contrib, Advanced
Drupal 7 saw the introduction of fields in core and a strong api to allow you to define your own fields and widgets giving you the flexibility to integrate your own business logic and functionality into the familiar administrative interface exposed by Drupal.
This session will discuss when you need to roll your own fields, widgets and formatters and why you'd want to do so.
It will then take you through defining a field, widgets and associated formatters for a real world example.
Slides: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhsbrthw_0c2k34fg6
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8. Drupal: A framework to accelerate business success
Russ Porteous
tags: The Business of Drupal, Intermediate
Drupal is a versatile platform for capturing and presenting information in a variety of formats.  This presentation seeks to demonstrate how Drupal can be used to accelerate business success.
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9. 0-6 Drupal websites in 6 months: a federal government experience
Daniel Nitsche
tags: Government, Education and NFP's, Intermediate
The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations shares their experiences in going from knowing nothing about Drupal, to building 6 websites in 6 months. Topics will include:

Open source in Government
Developing websites in Drupal: how we do it, and what modules you'll need
Learning about Drupal: how we did it, and continue to do it
Accessibility in Government, the National Transition Strategy and Drupal, or: DON'T PANIC
Drupal and HTML5, responsive design: how we do it, and some demos

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10. Drupal7  theming and template Inheritance
Aimee Maree Forsstrom
tags: Theming and Design, Intermediate
Where is that .class and .tpl coming from? and how has templating changed in Drupal7?
This talk provides a look at Drupal7 theme inheritance;
Discussion on why and how theme inheritance occurs within Drupal,  the Drupal way of over-riding theme elements. Has a look into some key things which have changed in Drupal 7 templates.
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11. The FUSE Projects - Nine Drupal sites for the education sector
Heath Graham
tags: Stories and Case Studies, Beginner
In 2010, the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood
Development provided funding to a range of Strategic Partners to produce original Web 2.0 content for Victorian schools to be hosted on the FUSE educational portal.
The projects were designed to encourage engagement, collaboration, and authentic work in a range of ways across the curriculum. Nine of them were developed using Drupal.
This session showcases these Drupal sites and the people and organisations behind their creation.
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12. Aegir - Skynet for Drupal
Miguel Jacq
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Intermediate
You've probably 'heard of' Aegir - it's a hosting system for managing rapid, automated provisioning and ongoing maintenance (upgrades, cloning, destroying) of Drupal sites.
Aegir itself is made of Drupal - it consists of a Drupal frontend 'control panel' and a 'backend' which makes extensive use of Drush.
This will be an ambitious and largely demonstrative talk (yes that's right, it's a tradition that we always do live Aegir demos) that will cover stuff for newbies as well as those that have seen many-an-Aegir presentation before already:
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13. The Dark Arts of Business Analysis: Requirements Gathering with Mind Maps for a Drupal Project
Jason Brooks
tags: The Business of Drupal, Beginner
Although the actual scale of the issue is arguable, it's well established in the Project Management community that a very significant proportion of failed projects are due to poor requirements gathering in the early stages of defining project.
There are many approaches, and no magic solutions - but I'll outline  one approach that we take, utilising a Mindmap to reduce the technobabble, and assisting the site builder and client to come to terms on a shared set of expectations.
- Capturing Requirements (you want it to make you coffee too?)
- Iterative Analysis (cleaning up the mess)
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14. Simple and powerful site deployment with capistrano
Kim Pepper
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Intermediate
Are you still using FTP to deploy changes to your sites? 
This session outlines a deployment process and use of the capistrano deployment tool.
When you run the one-line deploy command you get:
* Automatic database backup
* Pull in changes from a git repository
* Automatic 'update db' call
* Automatic cache flush
* Ability to roll back releases
* Support for mulitple servers, including separate varnish, app and db servers
Find out how to effectively manage deployment, and take control of your releases.
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15. Love and Devotion
Richard Hayward
tags: Government, Education and NFP's, Beginner
The State Library of Victoria is a cultural agency of the State Government of Victoria.  After implementing its first Drupal project in June 2010, further projects achieved the implementation of several additional Drupal 6 sites using a combination of internal and external resources.  The Love and Devotion project combined internal Drupal expertise with the introduction of Realityloop Pty Ltd to the development mix for the first time.  The project focuses on creating a new platform to accompany the State Library's significant cultural exhibition program.
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16. Drupal Commerce Group Buy: A Case Study Disaster
John Kennedy
tags: Stories and Case Studies, Intermediate
Earlier this year we developed a group-buy site for a customer using Drupal Commerce...
Learn from our mistakes!
I will post the slides 12 hours before the session.
This case study should appeal to:
- coders
- small business owners
- freelancers
- anyone interested in Drupal Commerce.
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17. Node.js and Drupal
Justin Randell
tags: Code, Core and Contrib, Advanced
Drupal is a powerful, flexible platform for building applications, but not something that handles realtime notifications easily.
Node.js is a breath of fresh air in the Open Source web server landscape. It makes writing applications that handle thousands of open connections at the same time easy.
The Nodejs module integrates Drupal with Node.js, allowing for the best of both worlds.
This presentation will address:
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18. Drupal and CiviCRM
Chris Ward
tags: Government, Education and NFP's, Intermediate
(There may be other presenters)
CiviCRM is a BIG module with a growing user base and a massive amount of potential for any clients (or indeed internal community or company organisation) requiring CRM type services such as mailing lists, event registrations, memberships, reporting and much more…
Whilst it offers as many features and functions as it's commercial counterparts, it's sometimes hard to know where to start with CiviCRM and where it can take you.
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19. Scaling out your Drupal and Database Infrastructure, Affordably
Arjen Lentz
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Intermediate
It's common for 'simple' Drupal systems to have a combined server for both the web server and the database. That's an easy way to start, but it can become nasty to maintain.
Obviously, any maintenance or upgrade work (OS security updates, for instance) requires scheduled outages. While for some sites that's ok, for many it's not. And what about backups, and the possibility of (parts of) the system failing?
You want to keep things simple, as low budget as possible, and preferably forget about it for most of the time - without it coming back and biting you later.
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20. Responsive Design
Geoffrey Roberts
tags: Theming and Design, Intermediate
Responsive Design is a web design philosophy that describes ways of making web pages respond to the device they're viewed on.  The techniques that underpin it enables designers to style websites to have an appropriate look and feel for a range of devices, without sacrificing functionality, depth of content, or beauty.  It means that you need not waste time developing different versions of your site for different platforms, and as a bonus, ensures your site is ready to work on future platforms or devices.
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21. The rough edges of the Drupal dream.
Pascal Hakim
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Beginner
In 2007 my team and I decided to move our main web sites to Drupal. Things were great - at first. A few years later, things were not going so well any more, and we eventually moved to a different system.
Find out what mistakes we made, what we did right, and where we went wrong with migrating data in, views, multi-site setups, caching, giving our users the functionality they wanted and running multiple systems at the same time.
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22. Keynote - The differences between WCAG1 and WCAG2
Gian Wild
tags: Keynote Presentation, 
The differences between WCAG1 and WCAG2
Now that WCAG2 has been endorsed by federal, state and local Government, the time has come to learn all about the new guidelines- and how they differ from WCAG1. Gian Wild will talk about WCAG2 and the main differences between this new set of guidelines and WCAG1, such as CAPTCHA, captions, ALT attributes, skip links, validation, keyboard operability and audio control.
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23. "The Dries-note"
Dries Buytaert
tags: Keynote Presentation, 
Drupal project founder Dries Buytaert delivers Sunday morning's Keynote. He'll speak about whether Drupal is for small organisations, or the enterprise and explore what that means for the ongoing development of Drupal 8. The Dries-note will be followed by in-depth Q&A giving conference attendees a chance to ask their burning questions, and Dries a chance to answer at length.
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24. Small is beautiful
Campbell Angus
tags: The Business of Drupal, Beginner
We host hundreds of small-to-medium Drupal sites, half 'regular' 'ol websites, and the other half online stores.
We jumped in deep end with Drupal when we started the company 2.5 years ago, and have learnt a lot along with way as we deliver online solutions to the huge small business segment. 
Our talk will cover:
- doing business with Drupal
- managing hundreds of small websites - think Aegir
- doing more with less
- streamlining the delivery life-cycle to cater for very simple requirements through to more complex sites
- the cost of making exceptions for clients
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25. HTML5 video specifications
Silvia Pfeiffer
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Intermediate
You would think that publishing video on the Web - YouTube-style - is all that is required to make video a core part of the Web. Far from it: work on accessibility features and synchronization of several audio and video resources has been ongoing since video was introduced into HTML5. And now we are looking at how to make real-time video work on the Web: how can we enable Web developers to make video conferencing possible in the browser using no more than a dozen or so lines of code.
Silvia will give us an update on HTML5 video and the latest developments at the WHATWG and W3C.
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26. Livethemer: theme builder for Drupal!
Jeff Hanbury and Tony Aslett
tags: Theming and Design, Intermediate
Wish you could quickly and easily create a custom, professional theme for your Drupal site yourself without having to write code or CSS? Or perhaps you're a Drupal developer who would rather write PHP than fight random CSS layout bugs?
Find out what you will be able to do with Livethemer, the D7 module Marmaladesoul & friends have been beavering away at all year...
— create whole new themes by pulling together modular, customisable sets of theme components
— enhance specific parts of an existing theme
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27. Poppin' forms that clients love.
Simon Hobbs
tags: Code, Core and Contrib, Advanced
Let's get jiggy with Ajax and Forms API. If you came to my talk in Brisbane, we're talking Chaos tool suite (ctools) again, plus some of the similar features that got into Drupal 7. Find out about all the bits that you can use to turn an ordinary form into and extraordinary form. You know you want to!
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28. Ezy-bake Drupal: Cooking sites with Distributions
Stuart Clark and Brian Gilbert
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Intermediate
Hi, I'm a Drupal developer and I build websites.
I like this module, that module, and those modules.
I click this checkbox, tweak that setting, and set those variable.
I make websites.
When does this stop being fun, aren't you sick of repeating these same arduous tasks for every site you build?
Meet Distributions, not a new concept at all but one that will save you time and let you get on with the better things in Drupal.
Recipe:
1 x Install profile
1-2 x Drush make file(s)
Add features to taste and stir
A new site ready to go in a matter of minutes.
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29. Finding Your Voice: Compelling Content For Your Site
Raena Jackson-Armitage
tags: The Business of Drupal, Beginner
You've got a great idea for a new site, and the technical chops to pull it together - all that's missing now is the killer content that's going to keep your visitors coming back for more. We'll talk about some easy techniques you can use to make your website copy great -- and avoid sounding like a marketing robot!
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30. eGility: Drupal ERP based Shopping Cart
Martin Fuggle
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Advanced
There are a few scenarios where Ubercart or Drupal commerce cannot meet the needs of a business, especially when the business is engaged in multiple channels of product distribution - multiple Point of Sale (POS) systems, multiple online stores, multiple warehouses, etc. A full blown ERP is usually sought in such situations, however this brings in a massive complexity with synchronisation of user, product, pricing and inventory to be presented online.
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31. Media savvy: Adding media to your Drupal site
James Gollan
tags: Code, Core and Contrib, Intermediate
The media module is described as 'a file browser for the web' and promises a much more unified and usable experience when dealing with files on your site. But it isn't without it's problems. 
In this session we will take a look at the core file handling in Drupal 7, and how this is enhanced by the media module suite. 
We will also implement a recipe for uploading and displaying images, audio, video and other file types using, amongst other things, an HTML5 video solution.
Areas covered:

An overview of core file handling in Drupal 7

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32. Future Friendly Design (Desktop, Mobile & Beyond)
Luke Brooker
tags: Theming and Design, Intermediate
As technology and the Internet continues to advance in leaps and bounds, so does the disruption it causes our industry. This is no more evident than in the growing number of connected devices and the contexts and cultures in which they are used.
As we discover solutions for each new problem, the time it takes for those ideas to transition from inception to implementation to standardisation will continue to be painfully slow. If we realise this is what the future holds, we can take steps now to prepare for and calm the disruption of impending new technologies.
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33. Crowdsourcing Historical Research
Claudine Chionh
tags: Stories and Case Studies, Intermediate
Founders and Survivors is an Australian Research Council-funded research project to build biographies of the approx. 70,000 convicts transported to Tasmania, and their descendants. The project is a collaboration between historians, public health scientists, and a growing number of volunteer genealogists and amateur historians. Our tools include a massive and complex XML database, and social and collaboration tools built with Drupal and Google Docs.
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34. Drupal, Web Typography, and You
Simon Pascal Klein
tags: Theming and Design, Intermediate
Web Typography has seen a strong resurgence in the past few years, and rightly so, with most of content online still very text-based.
We'll look at various methods of setting type on the web, both from technical and aesthetic perspectives, and explore a few tips to get the best effects and see what options there are for improving typography within Drupal.
The talk is suited to anyone who publishes on the web, with relevance to designers and devel­opers.
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35. Using Drupal for rapid prototyping and as application framework
Sven Berg Ryen
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Advanced
I'd like to share some experience from using Drupal to build custom applications, going beyond the normal CMS usage of Drupal.
- How quickly can you put together a prototype in Drupal? What are the benefits? How does Drupal match up against other frameworks in PHP and other languages?
- Examples of Drupal being used for web apps. What's already being built in Drupal and why are they using Drupal?
- The most common pitfalls to avoid.
- Improving speed for logged in users.
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36. All node, no code
Erica Bramham
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Beginner
Drupal is a great tool for building dynamic websites, but the learning curve can be huge particularly for people coming from a non-coding background.  
Presented by a non-coding developer who jumped from static HTML into Drupal with much hair pulling and frustrated documentation trawling, this session is designed for Drupal beginners, particularly those wanting to move from static HTML or other tools like Wordpress to building a dynamic website with Drupal.  And best of all, it shows you how to do it with no custom code.
The following topics will be covered:
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37. Building an awesome e-commerce site in 25 minutes (without losing your soul)
Andrew Yager
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Beginner
There are so many e-commerce frameworks and systems out there, and lets face it - Drupal has been pretty light on when it has come to anything of any quality. Drupal Commerce changes everything - and gives Drupal a truly enterprise set of building blocks for commerce stores.
Come along to this session to get a basic overview of Drupal Commerce, learn how entities relate to products relate to views relate to your mind being blown, and build an Australian Commerce site in 25 minutes!
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38. CDNs made simple, fast & cheap
Murray Woodman
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Intermediate
Do you want the snappiest page load times for all users, wherever they are in the world? Do you have a lot of multi media content which needs to be served? Is your web server suffering from too many connections or not enough RAM? Can you afford $5 per month and a little of your time up front? You should think about setting up a CDN for your sites.
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39. Telling Stories with Linked Data - Australian War Memorial
David Peterson
tags: Building Sites and Systems, Intermediate
The Australian War Memorial is connecting and enriching online archives and collections toward building a platform for telling history. Through Drupal 7 and Linked Data, the Memorial is developing tools that designers, researchers and historians can use to help find new ways of building historical narratives.
During this session I will also demonstrate some real-world Drupal modules built to leverage Linked Data along with early prototypes and examples of how we are using Drupal 7 as a practical publishing tool for the Semantic Web.
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