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Stop Leeching and Start Collaborating: How you can benefit from the community rcross Many may feel that only large companies have the resources to contribute much back. This session aims to eliminate this myth by demonstrating how every individual can find some way to collaborate... Beginner Community
MultiLingual API Integration twistor In this session, senior Drupal Architect Chris Leppanen will outline the history, challenges and solutions for multilingual management modules. Multilingual modules have long been a theme of... Intermediate Site Building
Dojo Toolkit and Drupal: Data Visualization taken to the next level freelock When it comes to data visualization, few toolkits match what you can do with the Dojo Toolkit. Infinite scrolling grids. Data-enabled geographic charts. Scenario planning. Interactive seating charts... Intermediate Frontend
Sales Engineers, Your Not So Secret Weapon rickvug At Acquia we sell to some of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. A key part of our sales organization is our presales engineering team: a SWAT team of Drupal engineers who also... Beginner Business + Strategy
Drupal Assumptions: Common Assumptions that Kill Projects (and how to handle them) svettes, rcross, DSheffler, DSquaredB Lets not kid ourselves, Drupal projects have some unique aspects to them and its easy to make assumptions that can be devastating to a project if left unchecked. This session will talk through... Beginner Business + Strategy
Drupal for Advocacy and Social Change rootwork, ella.durham, wardshark, mlncn Bubbling beneath the surface of the slick Drupal case studies are the small nonprofits, community groups and activists who have adopted Drupal for social change. This panel will explore the ways... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Performance Tough Love msonnabaum As a performance engineer, I get asked a lot questions about general Drupal performance issues. About 90% of the time they make no sense and I end up having to ask my own questions to figure out what... Intermediate Coding + Development
Re-imagining libraries on the web: a case study of the Stanford University Libraries website redesign snydman, mksweet Drupal has become the web platform of choice in academia, and in particular for research libraries. The role of libraries has been evolving rapidly in this era of information ubiquity, and their... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
DevOps for n00bz smithbh, FilmKnurd, emuSHack Do you feel overwhelmed by talk of DevOps, automation, and lists of fancy command line tools? Do you think your operation is too small to benefit from automated processes? Have you heard of Jenkins,... Beginner DevOps
Reinventing the Proposal schiavone Nobody likes proposals. Web companies hate them because they make commitments before all the information has been gathered. Customers don't like them because they're short on details and contain a... Beginner Business + Strategy
OpenScholar as a SaaS platform ferdi OpenScholar is an open source SaaS platform built as a Drupal distribution. It’s a web site builder application that allows end users to easily create dynamic and customizable web sites on the fly.... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Zen & The Art of Drupal Maintenance rcross Its not the sexiest part of the web, but maintenance is important for all sites. Do you know which ways to build your Drupal site to minimise effort for the long term? Are you making it harder than... Intermediate Site Building
Augmenting Drupal - Let it do what it do FilmKnurd, smithbh, emuSHack Drupal is great, but have you noticed that performance suffers when you make it do everything? Would you like to know how Drupal can work in conjunction with NoSQL databases like MongoDB? Would you... Intermediate Coding + Development
Best Practices for Managing Drupal Development Teams schiavone, valthebald Drupal team members come from different areas of expertise, design, theming, configuring and programming. With such a diverse array of talents team wrangling a fine art. In this session we'll... Intermediate DevOps
Delivering Drupal: Processes for Success rcross Drupal websites aren’t just a matter of downloading the package from drupal.org, whipping up a database and installing a stack of modules. The actual site build can often be the tip of a much larger... Beginner Business + Strategy
Let’s Talk about Launch: Planning and Prep for better launches, migrations, and releases amye, CrystalWilliams Two veteran hosting and development PMs break down the critical things you need to know to get through your first website launches with satisfied clients, a happy team and your own sanity. These are... Intermediate DevOps
Organising Drupal Events: The journey to a DrupalCon mkostrzewa, rcross Want to know what it takes to get a DrupalCon in your city? This session will talk about how to build your local community from organising local monthly meetups, running drupal camps, to coordinating... Beginner Community
50 Ways to Rock the Web TomDude48 50 strategies, 50 slides, 50 minutes; let’s start building better websites that get results! Building a great, high performing website is no easy feat. You have to be an expert in; digital... Beginner Business + Strategy
Life as a Drupal dev: Tips, Pitfalls, Workflow texas-bronius Typical challenges we face include handling local and remote team collaboration, project juggling, learning curve, and hard walls. Let’s dive into some hit-the-ground, specific concepts and tips to... Beginner Coding + Development
Creating HTML5 Mobile Apps with Panopoly and the EXT JS library for Complex Enterprise Web Portals and Dashboards mcaudy The Panopoly distro takes the Panels functionality of Drupal 7 to a new level, with more than two dozen default layout templates to choose from, drag-and-drop layout editing, and much, much more. In... Intermediate Frontend

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