Sessions
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday (March 27-29) there will be three days of workshops and presentations focused on Drupal and web development topics with an emphasis (but not an exclusive focus) on Drupal 8. You'll surely learn something whether you're new to Drupal or already a pro; we'll have sessions for all levels and interests in the form of short and standard presentations (20 and 40 min) as well as shorter and longer workshops (2 and 4 hours).
We prepared speaker guidelines for our presenters.
Kristof De Jaeger (Swentel) made Android and iOS apps available. Enjoy!
Title | Speaker(s) | Abstract | Type | Experience | Track | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drupal 8 Entity API | fago | Developers will get to know the new API, learn about the ideas behind the API design and see how the API can be used to manage your data. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| The future of media management in D8 | slashrsm | There are currently a wide selection of media management solutions for Drupal 7: media, scald, asset, mediabox and more, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Application monitoring for your website | Berdir | This session provides a detailed look at the Monitoring project: https://drupal.org/project/m | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Devops | |
| Authentication in Drupal 8 | juampy | Drupal 8 incorporates a Modular Authentication System. We will see how it works and how can you make the most out of it. | standard presentation (40 min) | Advanced | Development | |
| Blocks & Layouts from D7 to D8 | dasjo | Slides & GitHub demo repository: | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Site building & case studies | |
| Building really fast websites with Drupal 8 | Wim Leers | Drupal 8 is going to have better front-end performance for anonymous users out of the box, applies render caching to entities and has pluggable CSS/JS optimization. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Performance | |
| Care for your backoffice! | Artusamak, Bès | We are using Drupal which is gently taking care of pre-building administrative forms for us. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Site building & case studies | |
| Code-Driven Content Modelling with Drupal 8 | tstoeckler | In this hands-on workshop we will dive into Drupal 8's new and improved entity API by creating a new entity type from scratch. In Drupal 8 this is "batteries included": Configure fields, widgets, formatters, view modes, ... without ever leaving your text editor! | short workshop (2 hours) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Community Tools Workshop | eojthebrave, agentolivia | This half-day workshop will get you up and running with the basic tools that the Drupal community uses to tackle problems together. | long workshop (4 hours) | Beginner | Other | |
| Configuring Drupal 8 - a developer's guide to the configuration system | alexpott | Drupal 8 has a new configuration management system. This session will cover how to use from an coding perspective and will be heavy on code samples! | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Cracking Drupal | klausi | Security is paramount, for almost any web application. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Develop for Drupal 8 on Drupal 6 and 7 | fgm | As we all know, D8 is a major rethinking of Drupal APIs, and little to no code can be expected to remain basically unchanged when updating to D8. | short presentation (20 min) | Advanced | Development | |
| Documenting your project with WalkHub | kvantomme | Tired of people that just don't get how they need to configure your modules? | short workshop (2 hours) | Beginner | Documentation | |
| Drupal 8 Field API - fields reborn | swentel | It is now a well known fact that the forthcoming Drupal 8 release brings massive API changes. Field API was not left behind - it was in fact almost completely rewritten. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Drupal 8 for real | floretan | Drupal 8 is bringing some major improvements compared to Drupal 7, but all changes also bring their own challenges. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Site building & case studies | |
| Drupal 8 multilingual wonderland | Gábor Hojtsy | Drupal 8 aims to make the almost all of Drupal's underlying system multilingual while offering a toolset for modules and themes to rely on and support multilingual much easier than before. | short presentation (20 min) | Intermediate | Site building & case studies | |
| Drupal 8 plugin system | aspilicious | Drupal 8 will ship with lots of goodies and new api's. One of my favorites is the plugin api. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Drupal 8 theming basics | thamas | Since Drupal 8 switched to Twig (from PHPtemplate) and a new config system Drupal themers should learn some new things. | short presentation (20 min) | Intermediate | Frontend & mobile | |
| Drupal 8: Undercover initiatives | pcambra | The Drupal 8 core initiatives have introduced a new methodology for code development, helping to focus both contributions and contributors very effectively in the specific objecti | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Development | |
| Drupal and Scrum / XP from the Trenches | Artusamak, Bès | How Drupal & Scrum rocks together ! | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Other | |
| Drupal as an iOS application back-end | iamZoltanVaradi | Let me guide you into the world of iOS application development where the heavy lifting of content management is handled by Drupal. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Druplicoin: a crypto-currency for our community | kvantomme, Coornail | The Drupal project has one of the strongest communities of the open source world, what if we could also give it it's own economy? | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Other | |
| Effective use of common PHP IDEs with Drupal | valthebald | Technically speaking, you can use any text editor for PHP and Drupal development. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Get ready for full translated Sites with Entity Translation | Schnitzel | Do you build multilingual websites with D7 and Content Translation today? Wanna build them tomorrow with Drupal 8? This session is for you. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Site building & case studies | |
| Get what you can from Entity Reference | czigor | We all use and love the Entity Reference module. Still, do you know what ER selection and behavior plugins are? I'll show you. | short presentation (20 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Graph databases for Drupal 8 | itarato | Graph databases gained a remarkable attention in the last couple of years. Their strenght is proven in many cases where relationship between data points is as important as the data itself. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Introducing the digital commerce ecosystem | bojanz | For Commerce Guys 2013 has been the year of digital ecommerce. | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Development | |
| Javascript Pulp fiction | nod_ | If you like or have an interest in: | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Frontend & mobile | |
| KEYNOTE: Community Building with Mentoring: What makes people crazy happy to work on an open source project? | YesCT | One of the more daunting things we encounter in open source development is getting enough people to regularly contribute. | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Other | |
| KEYNOTE: Drupal 8 ftw! | horncologne | Listen: I am excited about Drupal 8 and I'd like to share that excitement with you. | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Other | |
| Lingotek + Drupal - The Power to Translate is Now Inside Drupal | robertdbailey | Now it's easy to quickly translate your content directly from Drupal using the new Lingotek - Inside for Drupal module. | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Site building & case studies | |
| Manage and Deploy your Sites with Drush | bastian.widmer | Drush is not only awesome for managing your local Drupal site, with site aliases you can manage Drupal sites on remote servers without logging in via SSH! | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Devops | |
| Modernizing Drupal's Testbot | jthorson | On October 18th, 2007, Chad Phillips (hummonk) made an initial commit to the ‘Project Issue File Test’ module, with the description “initial commit of an integrated file testing | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Devops | |
| Openlayers vs. Leaflet | ifrik, ekes | Do you choose Openlayers or Leaflet to generate maps on your websites because that's what you always choose?Is one better than the other? | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Site building & case studies | |
| Run your site on Fun! - Gamify with Drupal | Katalin.Nagygyorgy, temaruk | A basic overview about gamification: definition and design framework with some basic Drupal examples. | short presentation (20 min) | Beginner | Other | |
| Ship It! | balintk | Adopt a product strategy mindset and get real with your idea. Discover principles that make your product better and ways to succeed. | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Other | |
| SiteEffect.io - Fully automated zero-cost regression testing | ti2m | SiteEffect is an attempt to build a full blown regression testing framework. It enables you to easily detect and understand layout, style and content changes caused by code/contrib/config updates. | standard presentation (40 min) | Beginner | Devops | |
| Speed up your backend caches with Heisencache | fgm | While front-end is often where most of the problems in website perceived performance lies, back-end performance is a major issue in Drupal 7, and currently even more so in Drupal 8. | standard presentation (40 min) | Advanced | Performance | |
| Techniques to overwrite code in Drupal | vasi1186 | This session is supposed to present various ways to overwrite the default behaviour of the drupal core and some of the well-known contributed modules (like views or panels). | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| The backend of frontend | marcvangend | The days when frontend and backend were completely different disciplines are long gone. Surely we all try to build sites with a clean separation of data, html output and styling. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Frontend & mobile | |
| The Caching Deep Dive | ohthehugemanatee | An active participatory workshop where we take a Drupal 7 site from slow to fast. Start with the basics of APC and Memcache, then work your way into configuring cache bins, Varnish, and caching for authenticated users. Learn how to load test and benchmark a site properly, and design a caching architecture that works for YOU. Bring your laptop! | long workshop (4 hours) | Advanced | Performance | |
| The Evolution of Online Help – from user guides to task oriented help | diana.lakatos | An overview of the evolution of online help systems and an insight into the principles behind the WalkHub project. | short presentation (20 min) | Beginner | Documentation | |
| The image system in the New World Order | clau | The new Drupal 8 image API. How to add image effects, operations or even... new toolkits. | short presentation (20 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| The Search API in Drupal 8 | drunken monkey | Since the release of Drupal 7, the Search API module (along with its numerous extensions) has been providing a new, flexible way of creating sea | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Themer vs Coder Ultimate Grudge SmackDown Fight To The Death | ohthehugemanatee, scaragucc' | Watch coder ohthehugemanatee face off in the ring against themer scaragucc' in this ultimate Drupalist showdown! | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Site building & case studies | |
| Tracking issues - the Drupal Way: introducing Drupal 7 based IssueQ | kenya, Boobaa | We would like to introduce Drupal developers to an issue tracker built on Drupal 7. | short presentation (20 min) | Intermediate | Other | |
| Upgrade YOUR module to Drupal 8 | Gábor Hojtsy, jessebeach, xjm | Drupal 8 is in API freeze and headed for its first beta. | long workshop (4 hours) | Intermediate | Development | |
| Using Drupal as a content repository and authentication tool for online multiplayer games | Yorirou, hairqles | This presentation is about a weekend project in prototype phase. | short presentation (20 min) | Intermediate | Site building & case studies | |
| Vagrant + Puppet = TRUE | MiSc | In this short session I will give som examples of what you can do with Vagrant and Puppet to get you started using Virtualboxes for development instead of working native. | short presentation (20 min) | Advanced | Development | |
| WF Tools FTW @ Pfizer | skwashd | For years people have complained about Drupal's lack of dev-stage-prodworkflow. | standard presentation (40 min) | Intermediate | Devops |