Drupal at SXSW 2011 - Vote for Sessions

Posted by steveparks on August 12, 2010 at 8:37pm

South by Southwest Interactive is the ultimate geekfest, held each year in Austin, Texas. Next year's event will be from March 11th to 15th, but voting has now opened to choose the sessions that will take place.

A number of sessions either focus on Drupal, or will mention it in a range of topics. This is our guide to what has been submitted, so you can vote to get Drupal on the schedule.

First here are the sessions that focus on Drupal:

Free as in Puppy: Planning Successful Drupal Implementations

Crystal Williams is a freelance Drupal consultant, who previously worked at Workhabit. She says of her session

At it's best, Open Source levels the starting point for large and small sites and allows developers to stop reinventing the wheel and focus on better problems, but great sites still require a whole lot of thinking. Learn what to expect from the process, how to budget, how early to invite technical and content stakeholders into the discussion, and how to ensure you're equipped to manage your new bundle of joy once it's live.

Open Media Project: Giving Community Control of Television

Kevin Reynen from the Open Media Project says of his session:

The Open Media Project (OMP) is a collaborative effort by several public access stations, community media centers, and public media organizations to develop open source, online tools making it easier for members of local communities to have their voice heard online and on TV. [Learn] How the Open Media Project’s Drupal-based online tools work and make the video production work-flow easier for users and staff at community television stations and channelAustin.

Building Drupal Sites in the Cloud

Barry Jaspan from Acquia is presenting this session. He says:

Attendees will hear firsthand the unique challenges when hosting dynamic applications like Drupal in the cloud as well as an overview of how Acquia has built Acquia Hosting and the Drupal-as-a-Service platform Drupal Gardens. [I] will discuss specific issues that were encountered while building on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the solutions that were developed to address them.

Pantheon: Start With Pennies, Scale To Millions

Josh Koenig, from Chapter Three, presents this session:

This presentation will explain the nuts and bolts of the Pantheon project — Drupal, Varnish, Hudson, Cloud Computing and more — bringing this vision of first-class content management to a growing internet public.

Duplication is Evil: Drupal to the Rescue

Stéphane Corlosquet, from Massachusetts General Hospital, says there's a key message to her session:

Don’t repeat yourself! And don’t repeat the Web. Instead, reuse content from across the Web with Drupal’s Semantic Web tools. Now you can use Wikipedia, the New York Times, or even your friends’ Web sites as your database—all without learning custom APIs. In Drupal 7, you can pull specific information, on the fly, from sites across the Web. And on the other side, you can expose your content for reuse and feed sites with your information.

Print to Web: Linux Journal and Chron.com

Katherine Druckman, from Linux Journal, says:

Learn how we take advantage of web technologies to compliment our print publications. We'll discuss our preferred platforms, such as Drupal and Ruby on Rails, information architecture strategies, and scaling challenges, while also highlighting some of our success stories and pitfalls. Additionally, we’ll offer perspectives on the different challenges of niche publications versus large, general audience publications.

Other sessions, that will mention Drupal, include:

So get voting, and make sure Drupal is well represented on the schedule.

[Crossposted from http://drupalradar.com/drupal-sxsw-2011-vote-sessions by request]