2013 Stanford Drupal Camp Has Ended

NOTE: This website is an archive of the 2013 Stanford Drupal Camp. The current year's Stanford Drupal Camp website is at http://drupalcamp.stanford.edu

Session Experience level Track
100 Drupal performance and scalability best practices
Gord Christmas

In this session we will give an overview of 100 Drupal performance and scalability best practices. These have been collected and refined from performance audits on very large cross section of...

Intermediate Development
Academic Summit
Jason Yee, Jason Hegland, Irina Zaks

How Drupal is Bringing Value to Academia Research

Drupal is becoming a powerful research tool that relieves faculty and researchers from working on creating and managing databases and user...

Intermediate
Higher Education
Stanford
Use Cases
BoF Session - Training Needs
Nancy Baumann

Join Nancy Baumann and staff from Stanford IT Services Tech Training to discuss Drupal training needs and issues.

IT Services Technology Training is in the process of redesigning the Drupal...

Intermediate Training
Build better websites with Panels
Jen Lampton

Drupal is somewhat limited in how it handles the layout of content on the page. It assumes every page on any given site will use exactly the same layout, and that the only really important content...

Intermediate Site Building
Drupal as a Peer-Reviewed Publishing Platform
Michael Widner

Using The Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects (http://jump.dwrl.utexas.edu/) as a use case, this session...

Intermediate
Higher Education
Site Building
Use Cases
Drupal SEO Basics: A Drupaler's Guide to the SEO Galaxy
Kristen Pol, Aimee Degnan

In case you've been living in a cave (or maybe a Vogon ship's cabin) the last few years, SEO stands for "Search Engine Optimization." Improving your website's SEO can translate into more visitors...

Beginner
Content Management
Development
Site Building
Elegant Content Sharing: R.I.P. Feeds, Hello Large-Scale Content Syndication!
Jennifer Hols, Shea McKinney

With department / multi-site environments, you may have come across an issue with duplicate content or worse -- the mundane task copy of having to paste your article several times only to have to...

Beginner
Content Management
Development
Higher Education
Entities in Drupal 7 & the Entity API
JD Leonard

With every major version of Drupal comes a wealth of improvements. Some of these are easily visible to site administrators and end users, while others are more "under the hood". The concept of...

Advanced Development
Fast Local Development + Pantheon + Drush = Kalabox
Mike Pirog

We will discuss the various local and on-server Drupal development environments that are currently available and how readily available/free/open source local development environments have fallen...

Intermediate Development
From Blank to Live in 45!
Douglas Hoffman

Are you new to Drupal, but don't know where to start? This session is for you! In 45 minutes (or less), we will install Drupal 7, build a functioning web site and deploy it live to the Internet. I...

Beginner Site Building
From Freelancer to Drupal Shop: The things they forgot to tell you
Aimee Degnan

Starting a Drupal shop isn't just about getting talented resources, wonderful clients and making stellar websites. Being a business owner comes with a massive amount of legal and logistic...

Beginner Community
Getting Started on Stanford Sites
Cynthia Mijares

This session will cover the basics for getting a Drupal site on Stanford Sites. It's FREE with a full-service SUNet ID! We'll go over how to request a site, basic configuration, setting up users...

Beginner
Higher Education
Site Building
Stanford
Hack Core -- without using a footgun.
Micheas Herman

The first mantra of the Drupal community is "Don't hack core."

That is great advice for site builders and people new to Drupal.

Unfortunately Drupal is not perfect and sometimes the...

Intermediate
Development
Site Building
Intro to Custom Content Types
Cynthia Mijares

What is a Content Type and how can I customize one for my website? In this session, we'll manage existing fields, how it's displayed, and the editing form. We'll also add new fields and a new...

Beginner
Content Management
Site Building
Stanford
Intro to Stanford Features
Zach Chandler, Caryl Westerberg

Intro to Stanford's Drupal Features

Intermediate
Site Building
Stanford
Intro to Stanford Sites Jumpstart
Sara Worrell-Berg

In this session, we will learn about good stories, bad math, interesting ideas, poker, sprints, and other fun things that led to the development of ...

Beginner
Community
Higher Education
Stanford
Intro to Stanford's Responsive Drupal Themes
Megan Miller, Brian Young

In this session we will introduce Stanford's responsive, Drupal 7 themes: Open Framework, Stanford Framework, and its subthemes. We will introduce responsive web design, discuss which themes are...

Beginner
Design and Theming
Site Building
Introduction to Views
Caryl Westerberg

Taking advantage to taxonomy and views to organize your content.

Beginner
Site Building
Stanford
Training
Managing a Drupal Program & Parallel Development Initiative
Aimee Degnan

Don't let the title fool you, in this context "program" doesn't refer to Drupal as software, but to multiple concurrent projects aligned toward a unified goal. Persons interested in managing and...

Beginner
Community
Content Management
Development
Mapping BOF

Gather to talk about mapping, geospatial representation of data, etc.

Beginner
Site Building
Use Cases