[development] DrupalCon Barcelona: call for presentations

[Larry Garfield]

On Monday 06 August 2007, Dries Buytaert wrote:
> Some more ideas:
>
>   - Beyond FAPI and the Schema API: next steps (*)

I can see this potentially overlapping the PHP 5 stuff, since that opens up a 
whole new world of possibilities.

>   - Drupal and PHP5: how to get most out of it (*)

chx and I have a proposal out for this now.  We just need to decide what we're 
going to cover. :-)  Anything people want to hear about in particular?

I need some time to sit down and write out some possibilities, too.

>   - Making Drupal scale: the Drupal.org use-case
>   - Making Drupal scale: war stories + solutions

I'd love to see these.

>   - Drupal and RIAs (idea: can we invite a Flex developer from Adobe
> developer?)

What I'd really love to see here is how to leverage the new Ajax-friendly FAPI 
to build JS/jQuery-based RIAs rather than Flash ones.  

Related to that, how about Drupal as an application framework rather than CMS?  
Is anyone but me silly enough to do that? :-)

>  - How to spice up your D6 modules with actions

I'd love to see  a talk on actions.

>   - PHP 6

Namespaces just went in.  My mouth is watering. :-)  Whether or not Unicode 
will be in a usable state for us is yet to be determined.

>   - Drupal 7 plans for the Drupal database abstraction layer

I don't know what the status of the code will be in a month and a half, but if 
people are interested I'd be happy to give a talk on my evil ideas here.


>   - $your_crazy_idea (i.e. inline template editing)

All of my ideas are crazy. :-)

>   - Dating a Drupal developer (presented by the Drupal wifes/
> girlfriends that travel along)

Would the actual developers be banned from this one? :-)

> (*) I'd like to see someone take a lead in this for D7 -- gets extra
> bonus points to become a Drupal branch maintainer.
>
> --
> Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/

Here's a thought.  In Sunnyvale, we had one or two double-header talks (one 
long talk with a coffee break).  If we have more room than we do talks right 
now, could some be double-features?  There's definitely some that I could see 
easily filling out to 2 hours (PHP 5, RIAs/Web Apps, FAPI stuff, Actions 
(beginner and advanced), etc.).  


-- 
Larry Garfield			AIM: LOLG42
larry at garfieldtech.com		ICQ: 6817012

"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of 
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, 
which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to 
himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession 
of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."  -- Thomas 
Jefferson