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    St. Louis’ first DrupalCamp!

    April 26, 2014, Washington University West Campus

Great sessions

DrupalCamp St. Louis will have many great sessions covering Drupal and its incredible community.

Great extras

T-shirts, networking, lunch, and an after party... did we mention the shirts?

Great location

Washington University's West Campus in Clayton is just 10 minutes West of downtown St. Louis.

DrupalCamp STL.14 Keynote Speaker Brad Nowak from Palantir

Brad Nowak - Keynote Speaker

Palantir - Business Development Manager

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Brad provides consultation and analysis to help clients create an effective Web presence through the right mix of people and technology. He has prior experience as a project manager for a variety of clients ranging from non-profit organizations to media companies. Brad holds a BFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

08:30 - 09:30

Session Schedule

  • Roundtables
  • Case Studies
  • Site Building
Eric Brown
Eric Brown
Get Your Drupal Sea Legs
09:45 to 10:30
You’re ready to dive head first into the vast sea that is Drupal. Ahoy!

Are those sharks in the distance? This session will help you navigate the waters to avoid common dangers that early stage Drupal users face, and how to get the most out of your Drupal site. So fish or cut bait. Get busy with Drupal.

Jeff Geerling
Jeff Geerling
Senior Application Developer, Mercy
Drupal 8 - a brief introduction
03:15 to 04:00
Drupal 8 brings a lot of changes.

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Many standby contributed modules are now included with Drupal Core, and many small changes add up to the most exciting Drupal release yet! We'll walk through many of the biggest changes, highlighting how Drupal 8 will accelerate your web development and provide tools to make Drupal the best content management platform on any device.

Christopher Panza
eCommerce in Drupal - Real world and exploratory examples
10:45 to 11:30
Drupal Commerce is a flexible module and framework that is tightly integrated into Drupal's core functionality.

We'll show examples of Drupal powered stores and carts and run through the configurations that make them possible. You’ll also learn to configure your store without hours of custom development. Examples will range from simple carts to complicated hotel booking systems and will prepare you to set up shop!

Jeff Geerling
Jeff Geerling
Owner, Midwestern Mac, LLC
Case Study - Server Check.in
01:15 to 02:00
Server Check.in is a simple and inexpensive server and website uptime monitoring service.

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Server Check.in was built to be simple, responsive, and fast. The Drupal codebase interacts with Twilio for SMS, Stripe for payments, Ansible for infrastructure management and Node.js for back-end checks. This presentation discusses how Server Check.in was built to remain easy, scalable, and fast.

Sheila Burkett
Drupal + CiviCRM: A Fundraising/Membership Love Story
02:15 to 03:00
Learn about one of the best kept secrets in the nonprofit world, CiviCRM.

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You: a member-based organization looking to enhance your fundraising and membership efforts through a sustainable and scalable technology solution.
Me: A module that’s powered by Drupal and excels at managing members, donations and events. We’ll explore the features of CiviCRM and how it integrates with Drupal architecture to create a robust member management, donor management, and event management platform.

Julia Koelsch
Views: The Swiss Army Knife of Modules
10:45 to 11:30
Views are one of the most loved yet misunderstood modules used in Drupal today.

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We’ll get into the nuts and bolts of Views and share the reasons why the Drupal community depends on this module for well, just about everything. Whether you’re building lists of content, slideshows, RSS feeds, or calendars, we will discuss Views’ many uses and get to the bottom of why it’s the swiss army knife of modules.

Kraig Hufstedler
Kraig Hufstedler
Developer - Enterprise Holdings
Intro to Custom Module Development
01:15 to 02:00
When should you build a custom module, and how do you do it?

This session will provide a high-level overview of module structure, how to modify Drupal's functionality, and when using a custom module is a wise choice for providing custom functionality, integration, tweaks and magical powers.

Cecily Borzillo
Technical Project Manager - Bluespark
Herding the Political Animals: Delivering a successful project in spite of organizational politics
02:15 to 03:00
Internal politics will affect the design and development of any project.

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Unless you are working with a single stakeholder, politics are going to be an issue. Bluespark's three step playbook can be integrated into any development process to help you manage organizational politics and deliver a successful project.

Big thanks to our partners

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DrupalCamp STL.14 Sponsor Grain

More Info

DrupalCamp STL.14

Washington University West Campus

5 North Jackson, Clayton, MO 63105

camp@drupalstl.org
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Hosting donated by Midwestern Mac, LLC.

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