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Proposed sessions

This is a list of proposed sessions. Everybody can propose a session and we encourage you to do that. The organizing comittee will then choose best sessions, we will send a notice to everybody, whether your session was selected or not.

Sessions are divided into five tracks, according to the topics we would like to show.

Session Session language Author Link
Drupal and the semantic web

As of Drupal 7 will use RDFa markup in core, in this session I will:

  • explain what the implications are of this and why this matters
  • give a short introduction to the Semantic web, RDF, RDFa and SPARQL in human language
  • give a short overview of the RDF modules that are available in contrib
  • ...
English Kristof Van Tomme Details
From conception to realization: A journey through the creation of a website

In this session I'll talk about the enitre process of creating a website. Defining site specifications with the client, refining the visuals (moodboards, colours,...), wireframing the actual implementation, usability testing on a limited budget, post-launch tracking, reaching the client's site goals and how to...

English Marek Sotak Details
Managing News: track news, visualise it & re-distribute it

Managing News is one of the rapidly growing number of Drupal distributions. It's an easy-to-set-up, extremely slick & user friendly tool to track news sources (eg. RSS & Atom feeds), visualise them (eg. display news items on a map) and re-distribute news content through channels you compile yourself.

We provide...

English Bruno De Bondt Details
OpenPublish: a Drupal news site distribution

OpenPublish is a Drupal distribution, that has been tailored to the needs of today's online publishers. OpenPublish is ideal for the implementation of a variety of media outlets sites including magazines, newspapers, journals, trade publications, broadcast, wire service and membership publications.

In this session, we explain what Open Publish is,...

English Bruno De Bondt Details
Building a Drupal theme from a html/css prototype English Raymond De Feyter Details
CCK & Views

Introduction to the two most important modules in Drupal: CCK & Views. CCK allows you to create your own content types and views let you show lists of content. The session ends with a CCK& Views demonstration building a job database.

The presentation is the same as during the user group meeting in Leuven, December 7, 2009.

To be decided during the session Boris Doesborg Details
Translate the interface & contribute translations

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Full title: "Translate the interface of Drupal & contribute translations with localization client and localize.drupal.org"

Demonstration of the module Localization Client (l10n_client) that lets you easily translate the interface of your Drupal website. It allows you also to share your translations with the community by...

English Boris Doesborg Details
A hands on guide to the Views API

Views is a great tool to create complex SQL queries and display their results on your Drupal site even if you don't know what this actually means. It's great. This session though is aimed at people who do know and might be confronted with tasks like that:

We want a summary of how many users have been accepted or refused a certain role. There's a view and we want you to display...

English Stefan Freudenberg Details
Modules for Drupal and e-democracy: a pilot project and future possibilities

Nuvole, our company, is building a platform to monitor public works in a medium-sized municipality. We will show why the local administration chose Drupal and how the modules Nuvole developed will be used in the project.

The...

English Antonio De Marco Details
Features - what is it and how to use it

So far it was really hard to export settings in Drupal, this made it particularly hard to reuse configurations and to do deployment between development, staging and production servers. Features is a module that addresses this problem: it allows you to bundle exportables and to switch them on and off on a site. This is really powerfull, currently features supports...

English Peter Arato Details
How the 'I Love Techno' site was built

"I love techno" http://www.ilovetechno.be/ needs no introduction, what you might not know however is that this event that was attended by 35000 people was running on Drupal. In this presentation I will explain how we built the site leveraging the services module, in an approach also...

English Peter Arato Details
Managing a Drupal community website: showcase of drupalfr.be

Drupalfr.be is the home of the french speaking Drupal community in Belgium. The website provides documentation in french about Drupal through:

  • translations of the official Drupal documentation
  • videos
  • podcasts
  • screencasts

Six drupalers write blog posts about Drupal modules...

English Gilles Bailleux Details
Drupal and Linked Data

I haven't seen a session proposed on Drupal and the semantic web yet, so I am just suggesting to have one. Please see this as a mark of interest for this topic rather than as a formal session proposal: I am relatively new to Drupal, feel I understand things such as CCK, Views, RDF and SPARQL pretty well, but not quite well enough to give lectures on them :-)

I am currently testing...

English François Dongier Details
Interface Drupal with desktop or web app via OAuth & REST

I will introduce OAuth protocol and REST architecture.
Then I will explain how to setup Drupal to have a REST server with OAuth authorization.

Introduction to OAuth
* Why OAuth?
* The protocol
* OAuth 1.0a

REST
* CRUD definition

Drupal Modules...

English Nicolas Froment Details
How Drupal feels like for a newbie with development experience

I delivered a couple of Drupal websites but am a relative newbie (fine with CCK/views,theme customisation and php hacking, but no own module development yet).
If anyone is interested, I can tell my story on how I mounted the Drupal learning curve and where I think Drupal could be improved to be more beginner-friendly.

English Koen Delvaux Details
The making of a full featured multilingual community website

MuseScore.org is the home of the MuseScore user & developer community and a full featured Drupal website.

Slides on SlideShare

This session will reveal all...

To be decided during the session Thomas Bonte Details
Debugging Drupal

What if your Drupal site doesn't function any more as you'd expect?
Where the hell would you start looking to fix the problem? And how?

For those who can't wait or rather want to discover "the magic" themselves, surf to: http://randyfay.com/debugging_drupal

To be decided during the session Pieter De Clercq Details
Make your site web-worthy. Make it usable.

These are the presentation slides: http://www.slideshare.net/DCPieter/make-your-site-webworthy-make-it-usable

We'll look at a fairly complex Drupal site:
- What did the...

To be decided during the session Pieter De Clercq Details
SEO & Drupal

Presentation about SEO and Drupal.

The presentation starts with an introduction of the key aspects of SEO,
whereafter we'll dig deeper into the technical aspects of SEO.

In the second part the link between SEO & Drupal is made by identifying
which modules are helpfull for the search engine optimization of your website.

This presentation is an update of the presentation I gave...

Dutch bart haedens Details
Basics of making mobile websites with Drupal

51% of the US citizens goes online with his/her mobile device on a weekly basis…

This says enough? Going mobile is gaining importance, and this is where this session will be about! How to go mobile with your existing Drupal installation, or design your Drupal site specifically for mobile.

The session will guide you through the basics of making a...

English Nico Goeminne Details
Discussion about translating Drupal

Discussion on Dutch translation of Drupal. This session is for translators and is not about the implementation of a Dutch Drupal translation on a website.

Style: Is the current style acceptable? Wat do we want to improve?
Management: How can we manage the translation?
Quality of the translation: How can we...

Dutch Erik Stielstra Details
Translating Drupal 7

Everyone can join, even Drupal newbies can contribute. You only have to speak and write Dutch fluently, but helping with Drupal translation has never been so easy!

- Explanation of the Drupal translation server (at http://localize.drupal.org)
- Use of the style guide and wordlist
- Hands-on with translating...

Dutch Erik Stielstra Details
Howto create a basic portfolio and brochure site with Drupal

A workshop in which you will create a basic portfolio and brochure site with Drupal.

A (Dutch) Drupal website containing:
- Portfolio
- News
- Pages with a menu
- Contactform
- A design that does not look like Drupal ;)

Duration: 2 hours
Audience: beginners

To be able to build your own...

To be decided during the session Erik Stielstra Details
Intal - social movement with Drupal and CiviCRM

"Intal is an organization to build a counter power in North and South to realize the right to health care, development and peace."

Intal.be is a website built with Drupal, with local groups in Leuven, Brussels, Antwerpen and Ghent, and theme groups about the Philippines, Latin America, Congo, peace, and health care.

Within the...

To be decided during the session Kasper Souren Details
What's so sexy about drupal 7 ?

While Drupal 7 is in 'Code Freeze'-state (only a few things are still in development - and the community is currently ironing out all bugs), it's time to have a look at all the new stuff Drupal 7 will offer in a few months.

We will dive into the new features and the visual changes, and we will have a sneak preview into the most important code changes that are going to...

English Jo Wouters Details
Hands-on introduction to module development

In this workshop we will give you some inroads to start developing your own Drupal module. Bring your laptops!

* Basic module architecture.
* The main Drupal hooks.
* Using Drupal APIs.
* security, localization best practices.
* Documentation and getting help from the Community

(session will be presented by the Krimson team...

English Jan Heynen Details
Building a Drupal theme from a html/css prototype

- Drupal theming introduction
- Start from a index.htm and style.css file and create a Drupal theme.

http://www.slideshare.net/hansrossel/drupal-theming-hans-rossel

Dutch Hans Rossel Details
Introduction to Display Suite

The Display suite module is an API which other modules can use to store and manipulate display data for objects (nodes, users and comments). Modules implementing this API automatically get an interface for adding build modes, fields and plugins either through code or via the UI.

What we'll cover in the session:

  • A brief history why this module was needed.
  • An...
English Kristof De Jaeger Details
Images & media in Drupal

This presentation will show you some of the possibilities for including images in your content. I will provide some history, the most popular methods at the moment (wysiwyg and no wysiwyg) and show what's in store for D7.

There will be a lot of overlap with this session from DrupalCon Paris:...

English Olivier Jacquet Details
internationalisatie

In one hour I will show you how you can translate:

  • the interface
  • content
  • menu's
  • views
  • paths
  • taxonomies

It will be a blitz-version of my August presentation with a couple of extra's.

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In één uur laat ik zien hoe je de volgende zaken kan vertalen:

  • de interface
  • content
  • ...
English Olivier Jacquet Details
Integrated knowledge and project managment in Open Atrium

In this session I'll present the tools we are developing for Knowledge and Project management in Drupal and how we use them in our Open Atrium intranet. I will talk amongst others about:

  • a RDFa WYSIWYG editor that allows users to mark up snippets in a text and so indicate the different contexts that the information...
English Kristof Van Tomme Details