Proposed Sessions
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The business case for Drupal
Jennifer MacKinnon
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Considering the audience will include decision makers and non technical, but business oriented, individuals this presentation will speak to the business case for deploying Drupal. | Advanced |
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Next-Generation Entity Management
Robert Turnbull
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Drupal gives us Entities - an extremely powerful and flexible data storage device. Yet each entity still requires its own custom interface for admins and editors to perform CRUD operations. |
Intermediate |
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Drupal and Web Services: uoZone Case Study
Mathew Winstone
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A case study on the student portal uoZone soon to be launched at the University of Ottawa. It will cover how we used web services provided by an Enterprise Service Bus to feed a Drupal application... |
Intermediate |
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Making Acquia.com multilingual: trials and tribulations.
Dave Myburgh
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We initially chose Entity Translation as our translation method as this seems to be the way of Drupal's future. We also use Lingotek to add translations via their module. |
Intermediate |
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Drupal As A RESTful Backend For Client Side Applications
Arvin Singla
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Building client side applications almost always requires a RESTful backend to push and pull data. | Intermediate |
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Drupal on Windows Azure
Marc Gagne
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Drupal on Windows Azure (our cloud computing platform) and how easy it is to use Drupal in a number of ways (managed sites, pre-imaged virtual machines etc.) |
Intermediate |
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Part 2 Drupal WET: A demonstration of the Web Experience Toolkit Drupal Distribution and Addressing Government and/or Enterprise Concerns
William Hearn
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The WET-Drupal distribution is a web content management system which assists in building and maintaining innovative Web sites that are accessible, usable, and interoperable. |
Intermediate |
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Part 1 Drupal WET: Why you want OpenSource
Robin Galipeau
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Presentation touching on Business and Technology factors you need to be aware when adopting Drupal/Drupal WxT and OpenSource. | Intermediate |
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Drupal Site Building Checklist
Suzanne Kennedy
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So you want to build a simple Drupal website? Maybe it's a corporate website for a small organization or a small university department. Once you get started, you might realize that your website is... |
Beginner |
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Drupal 8, Accessibility & Why We're Not Done
Mike Gifford
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I'm really excited to do a quick demo of Drupal 8 to highlight some of the exciting things that have become part of Core. It's pretty amazing, and I'd love to have more folks from Ottawa involved in... | Beginner |
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Leveraging the power of Entities
Jesse Payne
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I would like to give a presentation about all the wonderful things that I have discovered about being able to create custom entities in Drupal 7. |
Intermediate |
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My First Module: from the sandbox to full project access
Chris Kahn
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Whether you're a Drupal newbie, or an experienced site-builder, at some point you're going to get your feet wet in writing a module. | Beginner |
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Responsive, adaptive, mobile
Penar Musaraj
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Tools and tests for building Drupal sites for multiple devices and screen sizes. This session is meant to be a discussion of the tools and frameworks that themers and designers can use to build... |
Intermediate |
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Vagrant for Drupal
Alex Dergachev
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Vagrant is a powerful tool for creating and managing virtualized development environments. In this session, I'll walk though how to deploy a local Drupal development stack with Vagrant. |
Advanced |
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Fearless Development With Drush, Vagrant And Aegir
Christopher Gervais
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You've probably heard of Vagrant by now. It's the command-line tool that allows you to "create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments." |
Advanced |
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Aegir-Based Business Models
Aegir-Based Business Models
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Aegir is the only fully free and open source distributed provisioning system for Drupal. |
Intermediate |
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Blurring the line between remote and local content
David Pascoe-Deslauriers
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Many Drupal site need to present content from other sources. | Advanced |
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Case Study: PWGSC Building Survey
Peter Lindstrom
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LiquidCMS (under contract by Genivar Inc - one of the world’s leading professional services firms) has developed an... |
Advanced |
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Selling Drupal to the Enterprise
Dustin Walper
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We understand the benefits of Drupal, but how do you convey its value to decision makers? Why should they choose it over a more out-of-the-box solution? | Intermediate |
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