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Mapping with Drupal wwhurley Displaying data with a map can help people understand how it all fits together and how it can directly impact them and where they live. Learn about the open source tools that can make your data come... Intermediate Coding + Development
Selenium + Jenkins for configuration management TwoMice Staging configuration changes in Drupal is a big challenge in many development workflows, where a site is developed and deployed across several staged environments. Code changes, of course, are... Intermediate Coding + Development
Leveraging the Community and Other Techniques For Learning Drupal eojthebrave, KHofmeyer Are you ready to learn Drupal? Already know some Drupal and want to increase your knowledge? Or maybe you've been around the block a couple of times and now need to learn a whole slew of new tools... Beginner Business + Strategy
Distribution Lessons Learned: Panopoly, Commerce Kickstart, Commons, and Atrium rszrama, karenborchert, populist, ezra-g This panel of Drupal's top distro maintainer companies will talk about the community's big questions surrounding distributions -- how they're changing, what they're doing about Drupal 8, and whether... Beginner Business + Strategy
Building Collaboration sites using Open Atrium 2.0 febbraro, mpotter, karenborchert, jwalpole Open Atrium is the most widely used distribution of Drupal. The new Drupal 7 version of Open Atrium is being released and contains many new improvements for building collaboration and Intranet sites... Beginner Site Building
DRUPAL FOR POLICY IMPACT: WHY DRUPAL MATTERS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR kvoelker Are you trying to change the world? Then Drupal matters for your organization! Drupal is more than just a publishing tool, it is a platform that enables and accelerates change - and it is making a... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Running a Website - Patterns for Business Owners bshort You have invested time, effort, and money into a new website. The new site has been delivered, and you find yourself still left with a laundry list of tasks that you probably did not even consider.... Beginner Business + Strategy
Now is the time on Sprockets when we make money: How to run a profitable small digital agency Betsy Ensley, mistcat Technology is hard, making money can be even harder. Join two seasoned digital agency professionals to learn how to structure your small digital agency for profitability, successful client... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Who's your User? Building Administrative Interfaces to Achieve Better User Experiences bshort Where is my content? How do I find it? How do I edit it? How many users do I have? These are just some of the questions that Administrators and Editors have even after a site launch. Drupal is an... Beginner Coding + Development
Using Drupal for Multiple Sites: Effective Strategies for Enterprise Web Platforms kvoelker How many websites is your organization running? Your main site. Program and project sites. Product sites. Community sites. Marketing sites, blogs, and event sites. There is a way to manage it all.... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Building Brand Reputation as an Open Source Company Betsy Ensley, mistcat Brand building in the open source community begs a different strategy than we often apply for our clients in developing their brands. Frequently we leave the branding and marketing as an... Beginner Business + Strategy
“By the numbers: How the Big Boys run their companies.” Peter OSullivan As companies grow, they get more complex. Executives must learn how to manage “by the numbers” and delegate to others in the company. Participants leave with some powerful, actionable building blocks... Beginner Business + Strategy
Next generation Drupal Performance with a rear window towards drupal commerce perusio, kotnik If you think a web stack using Apache, Varnish and Memcache are the summit of Drupal performance then this session isn't for you. We're cheap. Dirt cheap. We want a web stack that is modern and... Intermediate Coding + Development
Media, StreamWrappers and You - Powering a rich video experience through Drupal using thePlatform bshort, mikedikan, aaronschachter Rich media has long been an area of confusion and frustration for any web publisher wishing to display rich media content to users in Drupal. Further, in order to achieve this online rich media... Beginner Coding + Development
Managing Your (Drupal) Professional Services Business (Aka what keeps you up at night?!) cwolz, kvoelker, Ben Finklea In this “unconference” format session new entrepreneurs and leaders of growing (Drupal) services businesses will gather to discuss business questions and challenges they face in building their... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Usability, Accessibility, and Search Engine Optimization: How They All Work Together DSheffler We often see usability, accessibility, and search engine optimization discussed individually, but the three all work together to make a site easy to use for all site visitors. This presentation will... 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
Coding For Config: Install Profile Development Using Features emarchak I'll be focusing on walking through intermediate developers through the process of creating an install profile, specifically focusing on the difficult decision of using features vs. hook_install/... Intermediate Coding + Development
Drupal and Authentication: So many choices so little time. worldlinemine, cpliakas Authentication is often a scary topic to broach. Many believe it to be a topic of interest only to security professionals in large enterprise organizations or complex university systems. However, the... Beginner Site Building
UX Prototyping in Axure RP for Drupal danigrrl When working on relatively simple sites, there's a lot you can do directly in Drupal to show clients how content and functionality will work together. But as functionality gets more complex and more... Intermediate User Experience (UX)

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