drupalcon

For the past year, all of my Drupal work has been devoted to building a product on top of Drupal. In the beginning of the year, I worked with the Science Collaboration Framework to create PD Online. For the past 7 months, I have been with GoingOn building a social education platform on top of Drupal. I hope I will have the opportunity to tell you everything I have learned at Drupalcon in the Building a Product on top of Drupal session held by Tao Starbow and I.

Since I live in New England, and I adore any Drupal social events, I am of course attending Design 4 Drupal this June! I'm excited to have another large event to meet up with and talk with other Drupal enthusiasts.

I am eager to contribute what I can to help designers maximize the Drupal theme layer, so I submitted three sessions: introduction to version control, sustainable theming and image upload for content.

I've put the entire Drupalcon Schedule into a Google Calendar. This allows you to access it on your smart phone or any other internet-enabled device. I am also putting in social events, with links and addresses (which can automatically be linked to a map). If there are any changes to the schedule, I will be able to make the update through my phone as soon as I hear about it.

The URIs: iCal, HTML, XML

Staging and deployment is a vital part of any project, Drupal or not. As I've discussed previously, staging and deploying to production is particularly difficult for all the Content Management Systems out there that intermingle content and configuration settings within the database - and Drupal is definitely one of them.

I have to say that I am very excited that Drupalcon is coming to my area this time. Not only that, but I'm being sent to go for work!

I will be attending with the Harvard News Office's webmasters. Additionally, a coworker and I will be scoping out any possible new hires. We'll also connect with developers for event content distribution and iCal users and see how our FuseCal can work for content distributors.