Ok, Its a long way in advance, and possibly premature and above my lowly position, but what the hell!
Post here with the topics YOU want to hear about, the TYPES of sessions you want to see, the PEOPLE you want to hear speak.
We won't please everyone, but it would be good to hear what people are interested in hearing about.
Regards,
Alan
alanburke @drupal.org
Gordon Heydon on developing/using the Ecommerce Module
As someone who has wrestled with the ECommerce modules, I would love to hear Gordon lead a talk on how it should be done properly, ideally with a demo of some kind.
Alternatively, a session on developing Ecommerce modules would be good.
Regards
Alan
alanburke @drupal.org
PS I know its a long way, and very costly to get from Australia, so I promise to buy him a beer or two if he makes it!
Maybe he could set up a donate button to fund his trip if he is keen!
I would really love to come
I would really love to come to this, and I would be really keen to do some talks/demos on E-Commerce.
If I can get some money together, via work or donations I would really love to come.
Gordon.
+1 for gordon
where you do you want the funds to be sent ? :)
can I get a link somewhere in exchange?
Not this time :-(
Hi Cemper, Myself and Gordon had an email discussion about this, and unfortunately its a no-go this time around.
Ecommerce yes please
We are really keen to hear more about ecommerce side of Drupal. Great opportunity to hear it from the horses mouth so to speak ;-)
Demo of SoC projects
Webchick here. I'll probably do a demo like I did in Brussels of this year's Google Summer of Code projects. Hopefully a few of the students can make it to show off their own stuff. :)
Hopefully people have some interest in that. ;)
Absolutely
I'd love to see the fruits of this summer's labour :)
+1 for SOC
I liked the session about SOC in Brussels. If it would be possible to show more (all) projects that would be great. Personally I'm interested in the casetracker and xmpp projects. And some of the others as well actually.
Consulting with Drupal
There have been numerous interesting threads on the Drupal Consulting list over the last few months, and I'm curious if there is any interest in topics around some of those threads. In particular, I seem to recall a few:
I'd personally like to see more sessions in Barcelona around the business of Drupal. The core drupal community is still quite technical, but many large organizations are beginning make decisions to standardize on our technology. As well as the above, I'd like to see sessions on:
Multisite hosting
I'd like to learn more about hosting multiple sites on one Drupal installation. How to automate the processes involved (installing new sites, updating core etc), preferred Drupal setup and server environment and so on.. I think the good people from Bryght would be perfect for this :)
Genetic Algorithms / Combinatorics / Stochastics and the TSP
I've been playing around with GA and other stochastic process / combinatoric algorithms for a bit, and would be interested in seeing if anyone would like to discuss what can be done with drupal as a sort of mediator. In particular, I'm thinking of an open-source walklisting tool (similar to NetGeo, except without the $50k license) that could be paired with CRMs, or maybe a general "Travelling Salesman" API that could optimize various routing/servicing problems. Link in through CCK to provide data point content types, or use user data, and bob's your uncle... You get the idea. What do you think?
Marketing / Design
Still, Drupal is very weak concerning positioning itself as a Product with skills commercial companies can benefit from. It is hardly ever used for a plain corporate site. At least that's the impression one gets when one looks for these kind of sites.
So I would like to hear more about Marketing, about the plans people have, how e.g. Lullabot adress their customers. Sure - calling for that is nothing, doing it is something. So if I'm sure to attend Drupalcon - Money for accomodation and transport is a matter - I may apply to do a lecture myself.
The importance of individual Design is something else - everybody uses Garland so still all the sites look the same.
Earl Miles talks - Views, Panels, Node Queue
Attended Earl's views talk at Brussels last year. If he his attending I'd love to see him do some more talks on any of his work.
Drupal Mashups
Maybe split into a couple of sessions, one session doing a site mashup, another theming it.
Basic Theming
Drupal is very cool, but has MANY layers. There are seminars on advanced theming all over the place, but finding the starting point and entrance into theming is not obvious. A session on that would be very much appreciated.
Drupal for USERS
Themeing is a subject I'd love to see more of.
Not just an introduction but all Levels. I'm struggeling with theming an inport Form for example.
Drupal has a great development base. That's great. I'm a user. To be honest - I know very little PHP and will not be able to dive into API discussions. There are more and more great sites that were built with drupal.
I'd be interested to see how these sites were put together. How do all the bits and pieces that drupal offers fall together.
Jan