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The (Digital) Place You Love Is Gone: Designing for Permanence jsokohl So many times we design for new users, with only a passing nod at existing ones. But what happens when we redesign a familiar experience, especially one that people have "grown up with"? What happens... Beginner User Experience (UX)
The 5 pressure points you need to hit to knock out big competitors JacobSingh Yes grasshopper, you have come far, but learn my Drupal-fu and you never be defeated. Moving from small sites to the enterprise has presented new challenges for people trying to win Drupal... Intermediate Business + Strategy
The Absolute Beginners Guide to Views rodOST, steveburge When it comes to making a Drupal site really work, no module is more essential than Views. In fact, Views is so critical to a Drupal site's success that it is being incorporated into Drupal 8 (to... Beginner Site Building
The Agile Drupalist Canuckaholic More and more clients are asking for a Scrum methodology for their projects, but do they really know what they are getting into? Both Waterfall and Scrum are viable methodologies, but each is best... Beginner Business + Strategy
The AJAX Framework in Drupal 7 mrconnerton This session will be for developers that want to learn how to make the sexy happen with ajax in Drupal 7. We will learn how to incorporate the new core ajax framework into our custom modules to... Beginner Coding + Development
The biggest Drupal Commerce project ever done Damien Tournoud, Artusamak, laurentchardin We will share the knowledge we have acquired while building the most challenging Drupal Commerce implementation ever. This project, the ecommerce store-front of a leading jewellery and watch... Beginner Coding + Development
The business of being a software developer thejmather There are many things about business theory that is never talked about in our circles: disruption, jobs to be done, pricing, engagement practices, billable hours, and most importantly, how to... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Business of Community Steve Purkiss How do you make the most of Drupal's phenomenal growth and leverage the community for your business? The Drupal project is the largest Free and Open Source Software community in the world,... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Care and Feeding of your Online Community (with ice cream!) deviantintegral You've installed Drupal, downloaded Organic Groups, added a few content types, and have your first community site. Ready to launch! Right? It's really easy to get excited about about all of the... Beginner User Experience (UX)
The CLAIR Distribution: A Collections Management System for Museums and Institutions rj, thesleuth, energee CLAIR is an open-source Collections And Internal Records management system built on Drupal. It gives museums and institutions the ability to manage online collections and can be used as an "out-of-... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
The Drupal Ladder: Materials and activities for meetups to learn about and contribute to Drupal 8 bryanhirsch, kay_v, add1sun As Drupal’s popularity sky-rockets, so does the volume of issues and sense of urgency for problems to get solved fast. To keep up, we need to get more people contributing to Drupal core. There are a... Intermediate Community
The end of Hooks Crell Drupal 8 will ship with not one but two event systems. One is the Symfony Event Dispatcher. The other is hooks. But really, do we need two event systems? No, we don't. Hooks have served us well... Advanced Core Conversations
The Evolution of Front-end Components and Templates JohnAlbin PHP, of course, was designed as a templating language. And over its lifetime, Drupal has iterated over several templating systems striving to improve its capabilities and ease-of-use. However, our... Advanced Core Conversations
The Fight Against Divitis dcmouyard Are you a semantic HTML purist that cringes when you view the source of a Drupal site? Are you a hard-core performance ninja that wants to optimize the DOM? Do you love the power and flexibility of... Advanced Frontend
The first-class "Page" of Drupal 8 sdboyer Drupal, with its love of alters, has always had a pretty malleable model of just what makes up the HTML on any given "page." Modules are free to hook in just about anywhere to add and modify what's... Intermediate Coding + Development
The Four Pillars of Data dianadupuis, StevenWill As Drupal moves beyond "content publishing" and towards "content as data", are you managing data to its full potential? Are you storing content, but should you be proving systems to develop... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Importance of the Drupal Cache luisr This presentation will focus on the importance of the Drupal Cache for Drupal development. Discussion will include an overview of available options to improve Drupal performance, including utilizing... Intermediate Coding + Development
The King’s Scribe - Why Content Strategists are Your Most Important Team Member Chris Gaffney Content is the most vital aspect of any website - the living material providing meaning and value to the user. Content is a website’s expression - encompassing the message, theme and story that you’... Beginner User Experience (UX)
The Library of the Future - Solr Search and Responsive Design for Multnomah County Library MobileHippie The Multnomah County Library is the second largest public library in the U.S. by circulation. We are second only to the New York Public Library system. We move more books, music, movies (and more)... Advanced Site Building
The Many Layouts of Drupal: Panels, Display Suite, Context, and Friends Kristen Pol In Drupal, we often have the blessing and curse of flexibility, allowing us to get the same “result” in a myriad of ways. This is no exception for laying out our pages! This session will give an... Beginner Site Building

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