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Sat, 10/13/2007 - 00:52 — dww

I’m available for the camp on Sunday, and I’m willing to give a presentation about something, but I’m not sure what it should be. I’d like to use this forum post as an informal poll to see what people would be most interested in hearing about. Below are some of the current options I’ve been considering, but if anyone has other suggestions, I’d love to hear them…

  1. Event registration stuff, the signup.module, etc.
    • More generally: using Drupal to organize a (very large) band or similarly sized organization.
    • Comparing Calendar + views with event.module
  2. Drupal.org project management functionality, wish-list, how to help, etc.
    • More specifically: Drupal.org project user interface brainstorming.
    • The future of install profile support at drupal.org (better packaging, etc) — [not that much to say as a full talk].
  3. The new revision control API and the future of Drupal, revision control, release management, etc.
  4. What I’ve learned about building a Drupal-based newspaper site while working on a new version of the Socialist Worker website.
  5. How to views-enable your module.
  6. Introduction to the security team and security practice.
  7. Trying to get diff.module into core for D7.

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Any help narrowing down the topics to what people would get the most out of, or other suggestions I should consider, would be most appreciated. You can find out more about me and my Drupal knowledge by reading my bio for this site.

Thanks,
-Derek (dww)

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Tue, 10/30/2007 - 00:12 — dww

"How to Develop and Maintain your Drupal Contribution"

Since there was no clearly popular topic in here, and since some of these topics are being addressed in other sessions, I figured I should propose a session on something I know a lot about, but which there’s not much knowledge about (or, even much good documentation about yet): How to be a responsible Drupal maintainer.

http://badcamp07.org/07/sessions/how-develop-and-maintain-your-drupal-co...

Fri, 10/19/2007 - 15:46 — admin

Proposal deadline is Sunday

Hi Derek,

Just a reminder that we are closing the proposal period this Sunday the 21st. Boy, looks like you got votes across the board.

cheers,
-tao

Fri, 10/19/2007 - 17:07 — dww

yeah, no clear topic came out ahead... :(

thanks for the reminder. yeah, seems like everyone wants to hear something else. oh well. still not sure what i’m going to do yet, but i’ll finalize something and submit it on saturday.

cheers,
-derek

Wed, 10/17/2007 - 21:15 — dmitrig01

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My vote is down on #5, since that’s gonna radically change in D6, unless that’s what you are planning on. If so, then that session has my vote

Wed, 10/17/2007 - 12:33 — ChrisBryant

#6 Security

My vote would go for number 6, Security and especially module related security issues and automated tools for finding common security bugs. Hopefully something like this could be included in the coder module. :-)

Mon, 10/15/2007 - 10:28 — gman

Since it is where I am at

#1 is an evaluation that I need to make for a few websites in the next month, so I am voting for it out of need.

#3 and #7 together are a close second since most of the sites my company works on has an editorial team that sifts user contributed articles. Having a diff in core and a more robust revision management/deployment system for nodes would help us a lot.

That for taking the time to gather input for your presentation. -Greg

Tue, 10/16/2007 - 23:58 — ming

#4 newspaper site

I am interested in how a real-life solution is built on Drupal. As a beginner, I find it not easy to select/combine the right features because there are too many of them.

Sun, 10/14/2007 - 13:45 — admin

How to make something happen in the Drupal culture

I would be excited by a talk on “How to make something happen in the Drupal culture”. You have gotten an amazing number of concrete things done (esp – the module versioning system and getting update status into D6). I have been involved with Drupal for about the same time as you, but am still intimidated by taking on core level changes, and I suspect there are a lot of people like me out there.

Wed, 10/17/2007 - 16:02 — sepeck

lightning talk?

Maybe for one of the lightening talks? Getting things done is mostly a matter of working on them, diplomacy, negotiation and not letting the features that were not accepted crush your spark of enthusiasm….

Hmmm…... Now that I think about it, hmmm…. Now I am not so sure. This would almost be a community involvement discussion. That ends up being very complex….