Development Seed

We have proposed to lead or be a part of several sessions at DrupalCon Copenhagen on our development processes using Drush Make, Features, and other tools and our site management with Aegir, making and building business models around Drupal distributions, and aggregation and the real time web and localization. If you're headed to Copenhagen and interested in seeing these topics on the schedule, go vote for them!

• For Every Site, a .Make File: Building Drupal sites has gotten faster with tools like Drush and .make files. Jeff will demonstrate how we use these tools - along with Features and Kit - in our development process and walk through examples of how the process has worked when implemented on real client work.

• One Drupal to Rule Them All!: Aegir - the hosting system that allows you to easily manage thousands of Drupal sites on as many servers as you need - development is moving fast. Led by Adrian, this session will will walk through how to install Aegir, how to use it to clone, upgrade, and manage sites, and how it improves the staging workflow in Drupal.

• Drupal Distributions: The Dos and Don'ts: Drupal distributions like Open Atrium, Managing News, Open Publish, and Tattler are becoming increasingly popular and common. Jeff and Irakli Nadareishvili will talk about the challenges of building and managing a distribution and how tools like Installation Profiles, CTools, Features, Context, Drush, and others are crucial to it.

• Go Real-Time with Pubsubhubbub and Feeds: In this session, Alex will talk about how to bring realtime web feed subscriptions into your Drupal site using Pubsubhubbub. He'll explain how Pubsubhubbub works, how the Feeds module can be used to subscribe to PuSH feeds, and how the PuSH Hub module can push content from Drupal to other web applications in real time.

• Backstage with Drupal Localization: Jose will join Gábor Hojtsy in this session to show how localization works in Drupal, how you can make your themes and modules localizable, and how you can utilize APIs to help with it all. Jose will also talk about how localization works on Translate.OpenAtrium.com - the community based effort to translate Open Atrium which is now up to 38 languages.

• The State of Drupal as a Web Application and Product Platform: Looking at the other side of Jeff and Irakli's session on Drupal Distributions, this session will look at the business of building a distribution on Drupal.

• Managing a Drupal Consulting Firm: In this panel Eric will join folks from NodeOne and Four Kitchens to talk about running a Drupal shop, explaining how we do things here at Development Seed and why and running through some approaches that have - and absolutely have not - worked for us.

Voting on sessions for DrupalCon Copenhagen closes this Sunday. With well over 200 sessions proposed for the three day conference - happening August 24 to 26 - voting will play a huge part in narrowing down the program. You can vote at DrupalCon.org.