Cultural center 'De Brakke Grond' has been transformed from a quiet gallery into a bustling hub of all things Drupal for the Amsterdam Drupal Conference. Over 50 developers and users have already attended, and new faces continue to appear every morning. If you are nearby, please drop by!
Hot topic of discussion has definitely been the new forms API, which opens up a bunch of new avenues for modules and themes. End-user usability is another important point that many people are interested in.
Yesterday in particular had several interesting sessions about the Drupal community itself, and how we can keep up with its exponential growth. These were complemented by the Drupal Birds of Feather session at Euro OSCON down the road where we met many new Drupal users.
In fact, it seems there are so many ideas floating around here, that the catchphrase this week has become: 'We should have an API for that...'
For more info, check the following resources:
- Conference information
- Session schedule.
- Presentation summaries at Roland Tanglao's Blog (Bryght)
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thanks!
I meant to do this, but lack of internet at our apartment prevented me!
Have you tried the mussels at De Brakke Grond?
They used to be really great, when I lived in The Netherlands. Good luck with the conference and keep up the the good work!
German Press
http://pressemitteilung.ws/node/view/4907 in German!
Free (and fast) translated:
Drupal Conference 2005 - Amsterdam: The rising star of websuites
Amsterdam: Under the main topics of usability, methods, architectures and lifecycle management up-to-date the last lectures and discussions of the Drupal Conference in Amsterdam take place.
The meeting organized parallel to the EuroOSCON held thereby professional yardstick regarding which contents, problem-free.
The fact that apart from the sessions with the Drupal Community members, also internationally high qualified speakers such as Davis Axmark and Rasmus Lerdorf participated can be quite rated as a quality seal.
Drupal internals:
- Dries Buytaert: Driestalk: Drupal 4.7 and ahead
- Gerhard Killesreiter: Drupal and mail
- Robert Douglass: Drupal code repositories - human architectures that scale
- Chris Messina: Using microformats in themes and module developments
- Károly Négyesi: New node access system
- Adrian Rossouw: Drupal form API
- Dries Buytaert: Drupal.org infrastructure and Survey results
- Karoly Negyesi: Split mode
- Vlado Dikini: Drupal package management
- Ber Kessels: Drupal in media communities
- Dries Buytaert: Driestalk: Drupal Infrastructure and results survey
Public interest:
- David Axmark: The future of MySQL
- Chad Phillips: Undo feature
- Kieran Lal: Extreme usability training
- Neil Drumm: Content Construction Kit
- Ber Kessels: Relation system
- Adrian Rossouw: User configurable themes
- Dan Robinson: OpenBusiness Models
- Rasmus Lerdorf: The future of PHP
- Johan Janssens: Joomla and Drupal
- Moshe Weitzman: Unit testing
At the selection and speakers (among other things of OpenUsability, NowPublic) with which power the Community can be reconstructed on a quality-based project worked.
Drupal is a development framework, wich integrates:
- Blogger / Newsfeed
- CMS (Content Management System)
- Online Admin (User / Rights)
- Distributed (XML-RPC, RSS)
- Workflow
And has following:
- OOPS
- Generic architecture (Abstract contenttypes, Taxonomy)
- Open architecture (Plug&Play modules)
- Template-based layout-generator (Engine)
- Layer model (Core / Layout / Module)
- Highly integrated
- Scaleble
- Plattformindepenence
Thomas Narres
Keep the sunny side up
what "german press"?
i wouldn't call a site where anyone can publish anything she wants "german press". and where of the latest 10 entries 7 are ads. quite suspicious.
I am...
... member of:
e.g. http://www.journalisten-im-netz.de/php/details.php3?mNr=19725
Site and person are different things: Humans better scale.
Sometimes it's hard to write articles in the train from AMS to CGN ;)
The reason I choosed http://pressemitteilung.ws/ was cause it's fast spidered by http://news.google.de/news?q=drupal
Keep the sunny side up
... and don't make clouds
Thomas Narres
Keep the sunny side up
Was great seeing you
Hi Thomas,
it was great seeing you at Drupalcon. Too bad you couldn't make Barcamp too!
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I have been just one day...
but was enough to enjoy very much of the event. Keep us informed of the results of all the sessions and talks.
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foss link
the extreme good demo / presentation of Rasmus is online. David's one ended with a call for voting against software patents, see this article for more info and vote!
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bertb
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bert boerland
Flickr photosets and tags
Drupalcon and Barcamp were pretty heavily photographed, and there are tons of sets and tags on Flickr for those of you who want to see what it was like. Here are mine:
My Drupalcon set
My Barcamp set
And my favorite tag: chxcannotbedistracted. This shows just how deeply one can concentrate on Drupal coding.
- Robert Douglass
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Many thanks to all
Maybe there is a better place to say this, but I wanted to thank every person and organization who had a hand in making Drupalcon and Barcamp become a reality. There were the folks in Amsterdam and nearby who made the arrangements, like Bert Boerland. There were the companies like Bryght, Civicspace Labs and Mediamatic. And of course, there were lots of other people who played a part, contributing in one way or another.
I had a great week in Amsterdam, enjoyed meeting you all, and learned a lot of interesting and useful things. I went from being opposed to the new Forms API to being in favor of it, and got my contrib module working with it.
Thanks to all!