Accepted sessions

Session Experience level Track
A REAL-TIME DEMONSTRATION OF SCALING DRUPAL 7
Nathan Goulding

We will demonstrate the scalability of Drupal 7 in a complex, dynamic, cloud-based environment. The setup is this:

A prominent human rights organization has published a story exposing a...

Advanced Design
Are you accessible?
Geri Druckman

By now many have heard about accessibility, but what does it really mean? The web should be available to all users, regardless of physical limitations. Although it is not fully enforced, did you...

Intermediate Design
Beginner & Intermediate Guide to HTML5/CSS3 In Drupal
Kendall Totten

Update: My slides are up on Slideshare!
HTML5 and CSS3 are a part of the new Web 3.0 toolbox! This...

Beginner Design
BoF Networking Session

This freestyle networking session is a great opportunity to connect with your fellow Drupal lovers, brainstorm new ideas, share your latest projects and talk about all things Drupal.
The...

Beginner
Building Beautiful Forms in Drupal 7 - A Workshop
Chris Shattuck

Forms aren't just for harvesting information, they're opportunities to build serious karma with your audience and set the right atmosphere on your site. In this session, I talk you through some...

Intermediate Build
Building Beautiful Forms in Drupal 7 - CONTINUED
Chris Shattuck

A continuation of the workshop started at 1:15PM.

Intermediate Build
Building Results Oriented Web Projects – The Method that ends the Madness
Tom McCracken

Drupal gives you a huge tool box to deliver features. As Drupal accelerates the development cycle, the question changes from “How do we build sites?” to “What should we build?” This session...

Intermediate Build
Case Study: Chef John Besh Drupal Web Presence
Eric Schmidt, Tom Varisco

A discussion with the Developer (Eric Schmidt) and Designer (Tom Varisco) for the Besh Restaurant Group Drupal websites. The case study will review the process involved in choosing Drupal, design...

Intermediate Business
Content Strategies, SEO, and Social Media: Secret Weapons for Driving Traffic and Engaging Visitors
Tom McCracken

Drupal has a great architecture for driving traffic from search engines, blogs and social media. It provides a wealth of tools for engaging visitors, yet most sites produce anemic traffic from...

Beginner Business
Debugging Techniques for Drupal and LAMP
Rob Ristroph

A general approach to debugging Drupal problems will be presented, followed by an overview of a variety of tools such as the Devel suite, krumo, xdebug, client side debugging such as Firebug and...

Intermediate Build
Design to Scale: Planning and deploying infrastructure to serve a growing audience-- By Travis Mehlinger

This session will be targeted at those running high-traffic Drupal sites who are interested in tuning their infrastructure to better handle the traffic. Interested audience members would have...

Intermediate Design
Enterprise Drupal SEO by Josh Ward
Josh Ward

Enterprise Drupal SEO by Josh Ward

Using Drupal as your CMS gets you ahead in the online marketing game. However, outside of your basic on-page "best practices", what can Drupal do for your...

Advanced Business
Get Your Drupal Site Up and Running (and Customized) in Minutes! with WebMatrix
Alice Pang

Want to see a cool, free tool that could enrich your Drupal development experience by making everything easier? Why should you try out WebMatrix? How is it useful to you as a Drupal developer?...

Beginner Build
Keynote - Angie "Webchick" Byron

Angie "Webchick" Byron kicks off this exciting Drupal Summit with one of her trademark keynote speeches!

Beginner Design
Packaging up Drupal: How Distributions, Features, & Apps Save You Money and Time
Karen Borchert

Across the board, nonprofit, government, and business sectors are realizing that open source software can maximize their limited budgets by leveraging the community for the development of more (...

Beginner Design
Running a Drupal Shop: Running It or Running Ragged?
Susan Rust

Too busy to make it to this workshop?
Feel stuck and not sure how to scale?
Can't figure out how to be more profitable?
This is a fun and interactive workshop for developers...

Beginner Business
Running a Drupal Shop: Running It or Running Ragged?-CONTINUED
Susan Rust

Too busy to make it to this workshop?
Feel stuck and not sure how to scale?
Can't figure out how to be more profitable?
This is a fun and interactive workshop for developers...

Beginner Business
Simple DevOps Using Jenkins
Rob Ristroph

This presentation will cover a simple setup of a Jenkins (it can even run on your laptop), and a set of scripts will be demonstrated that enable the following workflow:

* Run Drupal Cron...

Intermediate Build
Super-Newbie DrupalOnTheBayou.com Case Study & Discussion (Jamboree Postponed)
Clark Allen

Ease into your 2nd day of Drupal Summit with a light discussion of the story behind building the Drupal on the Bayou website with the guy who (sort of) built it.

4 months ago, Clark new...

Beginner Design
The Secret Decoder Ring: Translating Client-Speak Into Drupal Requirements
Jeff Diecks

At a loss when your client's requirements sound something like this?

- I want it to pop
- I need it to scale
- We want to emphasize our value-add proposition to our consumers...

Intermediate Business