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About DrupalCamp QLD 2010

DrupalCamp Qld was Queensland's first state-wide Drupal event. It was aimed at developers, designers, coders, businesses, amateurs and anyone with an interest in Drupal. We'd like to thank everyone who attended and made the day a huge success.

The day consisted of 8 Drupal sessions over two tracks. All session were recorded so you can now view the sessions online.

Organisers of DrupalCamp QLD were from the Brisbane Drupal Meet-up:

Jeff and Sheree Hanbury As CEO's of Marmaladesoul, we love Drupal (of course) and would love to see more people in Brisbane and beyond discover the vast potential and world changing power that Drupal provides. The Drupal community has given so much to us and we would love to give back!
Tony Aslett Drupal is a powerful system that allows site owners to extend the core functionality through modules built by others. Having a strong community benefits everyone as we share knowledge and experience.
Chris Hood With much experience in php, I've found that the Drupal API is most excellent developer platform for creating custom web solutions. Brisbane is right on the verge of a Drupal revolution and I'm excited to play a part in organising Drupal Camp QLD.
Sean Bannister As an Online Marketer and Drupal Consultant I've been developing with Drupal for 6 years because it gives us the flexibility to develop not just websites but successful websites. The talent in the Drupal community never ceases to amaze me and it's a pleasure to be contributing to DrupalCamp Queensland. Come for the software, stay for the community.

Special thanks to Josh and Kat from Marmaladesoul, James from Suncorp, and John Zornig from UQ for all their hard work and contributions.

Location

Location: University of Qld, Parnell building (7) (just off the entry foyer from the Great Court.)

map of UQ

Room 222 (7-222) will be the general meeting room and track 2.
Room 234 (7-234) will be used for one of the tracks.

Sessions

The following sessions were presented at DrupalCamp QLD 2010.

Advanced Views
Jeff
Josh

Advanced views, covering:

  • Arguments
  • Multiple displays
  • display attachments
  • field rewriting
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Drupal 7 - The good, the bad and the ugly
SeanBannister

An overview of all that's new and exciting in the greatest Drupal release ever... Drupal 7!

Never have we seen such a feature packed release of Drupal. When Drupal 7 is released later this year it'll make over 70 contrib modules redundant thanks to its new features and flexibility.

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Using PHP snippets in your Drupal site
Jeff
Josh

For those who have never touched PHP before... there are still a lot of powerful things you can do with PHP snippets, if you're brave enough to copy and paste code!

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Drupal SEO - 5 steps to better Search Rankings
SeanBannister

So... you've got a Drupal site? Now it's time to improve your search rankings, increase your traffic, and generate the sales/leads your site requires.

This session covers Drupal's SEO best practices, and how to get the best results in the Search Engines.

Search Engine Optimisation is one of the most effective ways to drive targeted visitors to your website to achieve your sites goal.

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Managing Drupal with Aegir and Drush
Chris

Aegir is a distributed instance management system, that allows authorized users to administer multiple Drupal sites across one or more servers, through a Drupal based administration front end. It is designed to help solve many of the common problems that administrators come across when providing mass hosting solutions, by providing the basis for turn-key deployment and management of Drupal sites and related services.

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Selling nodes and other objects as custom products with Ubercart
larowlan

Ubercart is a great module if you're doing traditional e-commerce such as selling products or file downloads.

This session targets developers and covers building a custom module from scratch to sell other nodes or objects that aren't quite as straight forward.

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Custom Theming
scarer

This session is an introduction to creating custom Drupal themes. It provides an overview of how to set up your custom themes and the options that are available to get started with custom theme development. The presentation is aimed at non-technical and technical Drupal developers.

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jQuery in Drupal
Tony

In this session we look at how to use jQuery to enhance your Drupal site. Doing jQuery the Drupal way. The Form API and jQuery. How to build a simple module to add dynamic content via AJAX and jQuery. We will also look at changes coming in Drupal 7 relating to jQuery.

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Schedule

Track 1 = Advanced Topics (Room 222)
Track 2 = Intermediate Topics (Room 234)

Schedule for the Day:
8.00am — 8.30am Registration and Breakfast
9.00am — 9.30am Welcome (Room 222)
9.30am — 10.30am Session One:

Track One: Managing Drupal with Aegir and Drush
Track Two: Using PHP snippets in your Drupal site

10.30am — 11am Morning Tea
11am — 12 noon Session Two:

Track One: Advanced Views
Track Two: Selling nodes and other objects as custom products with Ubercart

12noon — 1pm Lunch
1.00pm — 2.00pm Session Three:

Track One: Custom Theming
Track Two: Drupal SEO - 5 steps to better Search Rankings

2.00pm — 3.00pm Session Four:
Focus groups.
3.00pm — 3.30pm Afternoon Tea
3.30pm — 4.30pm Session Five:

Track One: jQuery in Drupal
Track Two: Drupal 7 - The good, the bad and the ugly

4.30pm — 5.00pm Group Meet-Up Room 222