Business track
LUNCH / COFFEE
An anatomy of a Drupal project timeline
Walking the road of a Drupal project is sometimes not as predictable as with some other web software projects. This talk tries to prepare clients, designers and other related folks for what they should and should not expect to meet along the way; looks into the sequence of some interesting and some totally boring events that one encounters during a Drupal project; and describes some common situations where things go wrong.
The Secret Recipe for creating vendor lock-in
Ever heard people acclaim how their IT help desk speaks in terms they can understand?
Ever seen a customer who's more confident in their software vendor after a serious server crash than before it?
What if people would say YES to all of the above and reference your support by name?
WHAT IF YOU COULD BE THAT COMPANY, THAT DEVELOPER, THAT FREELANCER WHO MAKES THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE?
Introducing user-centered design in a 100 000+ employees corporation - research and learning
How hard it can be to push innovation within a huge corporation? Marek, who's been known in Drupal community as a Designer, Themer and Developer for over 7 years now, is trying to introduce user centered design, for the past year, in his new contract role in one of the largest bank in the world.
Jatkoaika - Building sports website using Drupal
Jatkoaika.com is the leading hockey site in Finland. In this session we will go through some of the common obstacles we met and best practices to solve them using live sports site example.
We will explain Jatkoaika.com site structure. It is based on relations which means a common hierarchy based structure could not be used as in most of other Drupal sites.
The past and present of CMS-s
A story of web content management systems through the eyes of ex-developer of proprietary CMS who turned into Drupal-believer. How these products evolved and how the market looks like today.
Drupal & Startups
When, where, how, with whom, for how much money, why and why not one should use Drupal as a startup.
