Sessions

Creating Professional Website for Beginners !!!

Presenters: 

Abhishek Nagar

GOALS: 
This session aims at provinding an overview of Drupal to Beginners.
Session Start Time: 
10:00AM

Advanced Module Development

Presenters: 
Sumeet Pareek
AGENDA: 

* Drupal hook system and API (1-2 mins)
* How to plan a module and define requirements (admin req, user req, UI req, Db req, integration with other drupal moudles) (2-3 mins)
* Step-by-step developing of the module. Related files at different stages of development would be ready. Major hooks and things like schema API, form API, ahah API, help module, integration with views etc to be discussed. Tips, tricks and scripts for faster development (30 mins)
* How to contribute the module and best practices for maintaining one. (10 mins)

GOALS: 
Intended audience:people with at least end user familiarity with Drupal or developers interested in starting to use the Drupal platform. The audience would benefit by seeing how easy and fun it is developing for durpal. Learn some useful tricks. Hopefully help us see more contribution to drupal from India.
Session Start Time: 
11:00AM
Module development and contributing to Drupal. This would be a 45 min talk with demo of how to develop modules on top of drupal and contribute and maintain it.

Drupal Patterns - Managing and Automating Site Configurations

Presenters: 

Vojislav Jovanovic (Vaish) and Jonathan Hebel

AGENDA: 
  • What is Patterns and why?
  • Review of module architecture
  • Look at Patterns configuration code examples
  • Demonstration of automated site setup
  • Discussion
GOALS: 
You will learn how to use Patterns to save time and easily setup complex websites. You will also learn how to create your own patterns and get involved with improving the module.
Session Start Time: 
1:00PM

Complex websites and web applications can be created by combining configurations of Modules, Content Types (CCK,) Views, Menus, Blocks, Categories, Roles / Permissions, etc.. This site setup and configuration process is a very time consuming and repetitive bottleneck.  

Galaminds - The Business of Instant Drupal Websites

Presenters: 

Roshan Shah

AGENDA: 

*Galaminds - Business Concept
*Technical Architecture *
*Current State and Future
*Questions

GOALS: 
Multisite, Install Profiles to build secured scalable venture
Session Start Time: 
2:00PM

Using migraine script to maintain and sync live drupal sites

Presenters: 

Mukesh Agarwal

AGENDA: 
  • Challenges in adding features to a live drupal site, with minimum downtime. (5 mins)
  • Prerequisites and how does the migraine script work? (5 mins)
  • How to actually use migraine and svn to maintain a site? A live demo (35 mins)
Session Start Time: 
3:00PM

It would be a 45 min talk about how can one best manage to add on top of a live drupal site using the migraine script from Andrew Shearer.Intended audience: People who have experience building drupal sites but have always faced the challenge of adding new functionality to a live site with minimum downtime and manual reconfiguration.

Drupal on EC2

Presenters: 

Dipen Chaudhary

Session Start Time: 
4:00PM

Case Study - iLoveBolly

Presenters: 

Gaurav Kumar

AGENDA: 

1. iLoveBolly Introduction : Aim, Audience, Scope.

2. Feature List to be Discussed :

* Brief Architecture : Some custom content types discussed, some views 

* News Aggregation - Introduction to aggregation in Drupal (modules that can be used), Demo of feeds being used on iLoveBolly, Multiple sources in multiple categories, multiple sources in one category 

* 3rd party Integration - Example of 3rd party integration (YouTube API), Working demo, Videos dynamically retrieved for song nodes on iLoveBolly, Plaxo, Tyrant Web Services.

* Fan Clubs using OG - Build it on top of existing modules, Introduction to OG, Concept of a fan club, Nodes associated with nodes ( fanclubs to movies/celebrities )

* SEO in Drupal - Pathauto, XML Sitemap, Nodewords (Metatags), Customization

* Upcoming Features : Autoclassification of news feeds

3. iLoveBolly's future path with Drupal.

GOALS: 
1. Provide the audience with an insight on what can be done with Drupal. 2. Discuss some challenging/interesting features on iLoveBolly.com.
Session Start Time: 
5:00PM

iLoveBolly.com is a social network built around the Indian entertainment industry built on top of Drupal.

Besides being an information portal on entertainment (Movies, Songs, Celebrities, TV Serials, Advertisements, you name it) this website implements the social networking aspects of Drupal.

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