Showcase & Strategy

This year's SANDCamp site started with the great contribution LA Drupal made when they released the codebase for their camp site.

It takes a lot of work to put up a good camp website, and they're only really useful for a month or two! It is, honestly, completely out of proportion, and everyone working on it is a volunteer so tasks can take some time to finish.

But, we want to encourage *more* camps. Part of that effort is making the camp websites as easy as possible.

This session will provide a behind the scenes look at code and development process for VitalSignsME.org. A recently launched website to facilitate teaching science education to students in Maine.

This session will cover the following topics related to the site:
-Background information on the site and it's purpose
-Tour of the entire site including role specific functionality and administrative features
-A brief look at the almost quarter million lines of custom module and theme code
-Discussion of the development process and challenges

This is mostly a strategy guide on how to create an installation profile and if they are worth the initial time to create and some alternatives. Based on my recent experience at work and fiddling around at home with installation profiles.

Also covering basics if you never have taken any time to look into or use an installation profile.

Presentation Overview

(Very Tentative)

• Drupal Installation Profiles
• Drupal Distributions
• Some concepts and strategies
• Tools to develop these

Learn how to setup Drupal 6 and Ubercart as well as how to connect them both up to the very popular Authorize.net gateway and Paypal standard gateway. Includes base modules as well popular modules to add on.

Basic themeing guidance included.

Determining room and time.

Learn multiple ways of setting up an SVN repository with Drupal and it's Databases on multiple OSs while taking the whole workflow further with non-techie tracking and responsible task management. How to rollback, ignore files you don't want in SVN, how to release to dev, staging and live in a non chaotic way. More details to come...

...Determining approval by local community as well as day and time and room.