Drupal Camp Toronto 2007

This talk is about using drupal, open source software and commodity electronics to deliver diagnostic services to people in Canada and around the world.

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.

Drupal 6 will have support for OpenID in core. Microsoft, AOL, Wordpress.com, Digg, SixApart and Verisign have all pledged (and in some cases rolled out) support for it. So, what's the big deal?
This session will cover some background on Identity2.0, what it enables and how it changes the way we approach our online identities. We'll look at how the protocol works: specifically discussing the security considerations and implications. We'll also cover how to use the drupal modules, with some demos. We'll finish the hour with a look at the possibilities this technology can enable.

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.

You have a Drupal site, and it is successful. Perhaps too successful. First your shared hosting sends you notice that you are "exceeding resources". Then you go up a notch to a VPS. Then your site gets on Digg, and it dies.

Now what?

Is it time to find another host? Move up to dedicated hosting?

Perhaps just tuning and optimization is necessary.

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