Proposed Sessions

One year after Drupalcamp Leuven, our CultureFeed 3 module suite is becoming more and more a first-class citizen. We worked hard to reduce the bugs, adding some customization and spent the most of our time on building a responsive theme, based on Bootstrap. Basically it's still a suite for building an event site based on events gathered in an external backoffice "outdatabase" (UiTdatabank), but with the extra tools you can do a lot more. Come and see our new mobile first project, the applications we or other Belgian drupalshops build last year and even more what CultureFeed Kickstart (or in general a Drupal install profile) can do for you. We might reveal some of our Drupal 8 plans as well.

Do Drupal 8 - workshop You like to start using Drupal? But have little or none hands-on experience? Enter this hands-on workshop to: start doing a first basic page in Drupal 8, the next version to be released. After actually add your first image to a Drupal 8 web site, you are invited to start using views. What is views? Views can be looked upon as the tool to get data out of your database and present in on your website. That is attractive as you will be able to present the content which might enlighten the vistors of your site. If you define and follow an effective content strategy, search engines might rank you high. And you will be able to have your visitors buy your products, share your ideas, join your club, etc., etc., or whatever may be the reason that you want to have a web site. (The workshop is originally constructed for the drupaltrainingdays.nl. It is to be considerated if it is possible to start a drupal 8 web site in the cloud - this has to be discussed and is due to factors as wifi availibilty, and cooperation of partners)

So you've just installed the Drupal base package and you've just started out exploring. You've created a few content items and the odd block? Great! You've probably noticed that Drupal doesn't do much out of the box. So, what's next the next stop? Creating lists of content of course! That's where the Views module comes into play. In this session, you'll get a soft introduction to the Views module by practical example. We'll cover these topics: Installing the Views module Creating your first view A tour of the Views user interface Views pages and blocks Managing fields and filters Filters as exposed forms Changing Views styles (tables, grids, lists) Passing URL arguments An overview of what's next This session is geared towards the absolute beginner.

On friday 26th of september we've organised DrupalTrainingDay that is currently fully booked with 260 students and 10 teachers. The feedback of track5 (teachers) at http://drupaltrainingday.nl/ will be included. As well as our methods. This presentation will inform and compare four open source educational distributions built in the Drupal 7 CMS. Julio : targeted for schools, school districts, small colleges, and academic departments within universities. OpenScholar : Thousands of easy maintainable and personal research sites, created by Harvard university. A single OpenScholar install hosts thousands of easy, self-service, custom websites. Features multiple domain names, dozens of built-in themes, drag-and-drop layout, best-practice presets and "apps" that solve virtually every use case. OpenAcademy : Web publishing for higher education and university. A flexible, extendable package that lets university departments run fully functional, polished websites straight out of the box. Critical features are provided for handling courses, research publications and presentations, departmental news, faculty profiles, events and more. ELMS Learning Network : A modular approach of educational distributions with specific tasks linked around a central Course Information System (CIS) by web services like : Some key sattelites: Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) Collaborative learning environment (CLE) Interactive Course Object Repository (ICOR) ELMS media Not only will this presentation help to integrate Open Source in the Educational landscape and facilitate educators to make informed discussions. Also the results of the of the workshop at the Community Summit at Drupalcon 2014 Amsterdam will be shared. https://amsterdam2014.drupal.org/community-summit The bigger picture is to create a generic knowledge repository on how to utilize the Drupal Content Management Framework both in the curriculum by using it as a “testbed” for educational purposes and using the advanced CMS featureset it offers to publish and share knowledge between students, teachers and other stakeholders. This knowledge repository will be formalized in the Drupal Onderwijs collaboration platform, which will include information on best practices, turnkey solutions for educational facilities and sharing information on how to use Drupal to empower your organization to offer optimal communication tools to your students and teachers. Hope to see you all and that you have a great time. Following this session there will be a BOF to bootstrap a trainingday in your local community.

Ten days ago I started working on the next version of OpenLayers using the version 3 of the JS library of the same name. My session will explain how I did for building the new module, with code examples. I will also invite people to help and contribute to the module. More informations here: https://groups.drupal.org/node/440733