Proposed Sessions

Beer, plumbers, and free range chicken - True Tales of Drupal in Action

RuthieF — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:39:59 +0000

If you like interactive discussions about how to succeed managing the development, deployment, hosting, and ongoing maintenance of Drupal sites - come to this session!

In this hour, we’ll explore the Drupal journey at three leading organizations - Angie’s List, Maxim Magazine, and Whole Foods - as they’ve replatformed with Drupal and created centers of excellence around Drupal lifecycle management. Enjoy this no holds barred session where our speakers will detail the trials and tribulations, and how they’ve reached success today with Acquia.

Speakers

Reuben Wilson
Angie’s list Senior Software Engineer, who’s spent the past several years developing Angie’s list marketing sites, and has spearheaded the re-platform of angieslist.com.

Mike LeDu
Alpha Media Group (Maxim Magazine) CTO, who lead a Drupal re-platform, hosting provider transition, and launch of new online advertising projects all on a three month time-line.

Brad Power
Whole Foods IT Director, who managed the migration to drupal and completely new external web presence.

Schedule info

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

Tuesday, May 21 - 02:00pm-03:00pm

Room:

Day Stage - Blink Reaction

Session Info

Speaker(s):

reujwils

bhouse

Track:

Day Stage

Experience level:

Beginner

An Education. Who needs one?

RuthieF — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:47:28 +0000

Educating clients can be a tough endeavor for developers and project managers alike. As a client, discerning how the advice you receive from your development company fits in with your ‘dream’ project can be equally as confusing. Still, education should be something that is deeply etched into every project from kickoff to launch. No matter how big or small the project is, education helps to avoid the extremes between ‘the client is always right’ and being a slave to what the developer can (and will) build. We’ll share relevant stories and helpful tips for how a good education can get the best for you and your client.

Schedule info

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

Wednesday, May 22 - 10:45am-11:45am

Room:

Day Stage - Blink Reaction

Session Info

Speaker(s):

rickmanelius

brandtreed

NewMedia.Steve

Track:

Day Stage

Experience level:

Beginner

Open Atrium 2.0

RuthieF — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:45:57 +0000

Please note this session will be held in Room B112.

Open Atrium has long been a leader in open source tools for team collaboration, intranets, and social business software. Now, we're releasing the Open Atrium 2.0, with a new generation of collaboration tools to help your organization get work done together, better.

Atrium 2.0 is for organizations with teams, clients, or affiliates who need a common platform to communicate, collaborate, and manage knowledge. From multi-brand corporations to geographically dispersed companies; from national nonprofits to international aid efforts; from networks of government agencies to local or national political campaigns; Atrium connects teams with knowledge.

Join us for our tour of the new Open Atrium and see how it can work in your organization.

Schedule info

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

Tuesday, May 21 - 09:00am-10:00am

Room:

B 112

Session Info

Speaker(s):

mpotter

Track:

Day Stage

Experience level:

Beginner

Maximizing your servers

RuthieF — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:54:38 +0000

Simple steps to improve the performance, stability, and scalability of your site.

Schedule info

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

Thursday, May 23 - 10:45am-11:45am

Room:

Day Stage - Blink Reaction

Session Info

Speaker(s):

emandel

Track:

Day Stage

Experience level:

Beginner

Lullabot Q&A

RuthieF — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:57:11 +0000

Questions & answers with Lullabot's

Please note this session will be held in BOF room B 112.

Schedule info

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

Tuesday, May 21 - 10:15am-11:15am

Room:

B 112

Session Info

Speaker(s):

jjeff

Track:

Day Stage

Experience level:

Beginner

Too big to scale? Why enterprise websites fail to scale (& how some companies are breaking free from their own servers)

RuthieF — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:14:28 +0000

For a large company with a mission-critical site, launch day is a day of reckoning. The bigger the website, the greater the risks. Is your architecture scalable enough to support hundreds of millions of unique page views in a live environment? With traditional hosting, you don't know until the last minute, and adjusting on the fly can be difficult. Some companies refuse to play guessing games.

When The New Republic re-launched with a full-court PR push and an exclusive interview of President Obama, the website received enough page views to swamp traditional hosting. But Pantheon's all-in-one platform helped TNR serve up more than 100 million page views on launch day without a hitch. Learn how enterprise companies like TNR are launching on time & scaling worry-free, using the world's largest single Drupal infrastructure.

Schedule info

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

Wednesday, May 22 - 01:30pm-02:00pm

Room:

Day Stage - Blink Reaction

Session Info

Speaker(s):

joshk

Track:

Day Stage

Experience level:

Beginner

CRM Core: Building Portable Features for Contact Management

RuthieF — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:20:22 +0000

This session covers effective, useful techniques for building portable features for CRM Core.

Schedule info

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

Wednesday, May 22 - 02:15pm-03:15pm

Room:

Day Stage - Blink Reaction

Session Info

Speaker(s):

techsoldaten

Track:

Day Stage

Experience level:

Beginner

EPA.gov Building a Sustainable Drupal Platform

RuthieF — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:33:10 +0000

Schedule info

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

Tuesday, May 21 - 04:30pm-05:30pm

Room:

Day Stage - Blink Reaction

Session Info

Speaker(s):

kvoelker

Track:

Day Stage

Experience level:

Beginner

What is Enterprise Drupal?

RuthieF — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:25:56 +0000

What are the unique qualities of Enterprise Drupal projects and why is it so important to distinguish them from other projects.

Schedule info

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

Wednesday, May 22 - 01:00pm-1:30pm

Room:

Day Stage - Blink Reaction

Session Info

Speaker(s):

rgs

Track:

Day Stage

Experience level:

Beginner

Improving Drupal Performance and the teams that build Drupal sites

RuthieF — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:09:32 +0000

Performance Katas

Katas are practice sessions in martial arts. Let's practice identifying and solving common performance problems in Drupal.

Session Information

Company: New Relic
Speaker/s: Belinda Runkle (bleep)
Timeslot: 3:45pm - 4:00pm

Finding the perfect PM for your Drupal Shop

This will be a heavily abridged talk based on the first section of my proposed Drupalcon session that was not selected. See here. It'll focus on the traits of a successful project manager and how to interview to find the right fit.

Session Information

Company: Metal Toad Media
Speaker/s: Adam Edgerton (atedgerton)
Timeslot: 4:00pm - 4:15pm

Planning and executing multiple projects for maximum efficiency and amazing results

Large nonprofit organizations often need to build several related projects at a time. This can include organizations with multiple, interrelated programs, or a family of sub-branded web properties run by a coalition or educational institution.

For the production team, that means designing, building and deploying several sites one after another, training the client team, and supporting each site after launch. This kind of multi-project engagement can get unwieldy fast if not planned for and managed correctly, but it presents an opportunity for an extremely efficient process and fantastic results.

We will briefly look at effective strategies for executing a collection of projects in one engagement, starting with an upfront planning and design process, followed by a concurrent implementation effort. We will bring in real-world examples from our work with several large non-profit organizations, including Knowledge for Health (K4Health), a USAID-funded project of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Session Information

Company: Aten Design Group
Speaker/s: Jon Clark (juaneclark)
Timeslot: 4:15pm - 4:30pm

Turbo charge your Drupal website performance

Dr James Broberg, founder of innovative content delivery network MetaCDN and respected author on Cloud Computing, will demystify the world of website performance to help you turbo charge your Drupal websites. Find out what's slowing your site down, what you can do about it and what tools & techniques can you start using with Drupal today.

Session Information

Company: MetaCDN
Speaker/s: James Broberg (james.broberg)
Timeslot: 4:30pm - 4:45pm

Schedule info

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

Wednesday, May 22 - 03:45pm-04:45pm

Room:

Day Stage - Blink Reaction

Session Info

Speaker(s):

bleep

atedgerton

juaneclark

Track:

Day Stage

Experience level:

Beginner