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Install Profile Walkthrough: Conference Organizing Distribution

Session Description

The potential of Drupal’s install profile system remains one of the most promising aspects for the platform’s future, but the process for creating these profiles remains shrouded in mystery. Join Zack Rosen and Matt Cheney of San Francisco’s Chapter Three LLC as they walk through an ambitious and featureful use-case: the development of a conference organizing Drupal site for NASA’s CoLab project, and the process for turning that site into a fully-functional install profile.

This session will include:

  • A guided tour of the Conference Organizing Distribution and its features.
  • An overview of how the profile was developed using contributed modules, best-practice implementations of Drupal’s core APIs, and the theme system.
  • A practical look at the process for turning the initial NASA CoLab website to a generic install profile.
Session Presenter: Matt Cheney And Zack Rosen
Presenter Info
Matt had the good fortune to be trained as a librarian, but spends most of his time with computers instead of books. He's served as a political consultant for several campaigns and causes, and developed online information systems to help connect attorneys in the California Death Penalty defense community. Prior to that, he was a researcher at the National Center for SuperComputing Applications where he developed communities for online learning. Matt Cheney has a B.A. in Philosophy, History, Religious Studies, and Political Science and a M.S. In Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Zack started the DeanSpace project in 2003 during his summer break from the University of Illinois. He then left school to take a job at the Howard Dean presidential campaign head-quarters in Burlington, Vermont as a web-developer and technical volunteer coordinator. He was responsible for servicing the web-technology needs of the state campaign offices, constituency groups, and grassroots web developers. Afterwards he co-founded and directed the CivicSpace project for two years. He is an active business leader in the Drupal open-source community and has freely contributed his expertise to hundreds of grassroots web projects.
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Tue, 10/30/2007 - 14:53 — jonah

I’ll be attending this session and am available for audio/video recording.

Jonah

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