Drupal Camp Toronto 2007

Description is here.. Sign-up to be a presenter in BA 2139 on the chalk board (I know, how "old school."). Everyone should attend (but you can sign-up here if you want to).

Fast, furious, action: enjoy!

A website is only as good as the design of the information that goes into it. Having interesting and compelling content becomes worthless if it is not designed in an equally interesting and compelling manner. Why is this important? Anyone who has spent any amount of time working with Drupal, can spot a Drupal site from a mile away. For many, using stock themes is a viable solution. However, corporate websites, community activists, and many others need to go that extra mile to make their websites stand out.

An open discussion about the experiences people have had selling Drupal to corporations.

Topics could include:
Common objections
Concepts they struggle with
Features they respond most to
Technical hurdles

The idea is to compile a set of best practices for getting corporations to adopt Drupal. It would be great to hear from people who have had experience selling Drupal internally.

Hello Everyone,
I recently participated in the creation of a Drupal based website that allowed users to create description of physic places in the world and mapping these locations on a map.

The outcome is pretty sweet, it generates a map on the frontpage and a GeoRSS feed. The GeoRSS feed url can be fed into Google Maps to see the locations mapped.

I would like to find out what you would interested in finding out about GeoRSS and what is possible with this technology.

This session will introduce the CRM API that Trellon is working on. It is basically a single layer for creating and accessing data on various CRM backends using a unified interface, in such a way that the unique features of the different CRMs are still available. I'll be covering: what it does, what problems it's supposed to solve, and where it's at right now. Most importantly, we'll be discussing what the API should do -- what kinds of situations would you use it in?, etc.

Update: There's a CRM API project page on drupal.org: http://drupal.org/project/crmapi

This session covers the trio of CCK, Views and Panels as a toolkit for site builders, virtually eliminating the need for custom modules for content type and display.

Note: this is a combo session on the same subject held in Toronto DUG in March and April. The presentation part, and the hands on part.

There may be interest in it from those who did not attend.

UPDATE: Slides are available here (or right here onsite)

Drupal's "multisite" capabilities are relatively well-known at this point, and quite easy to use. We will briefly go over how this works, but quickly move into more "advanced" usage of this important feature of the Drupal framework.

A general welcoming talk, with an overview of Drupal, what's new, what lies ahead.