DrupalCon Chicago - Coder Track Sessions

by Robin Barre

The Coder track for DrupalCon Chicago is looking for Drupal Geeks. Submit your Coder track session and show the Drupal developer community (and the world) what you can do with Drupal right now.  

Coder track sessions can show Drupal developers how they can extend and control Drupal.  We would love to see a variety of sessions which provide in-depth technical knowledge as well as help new developers get started.  

Some ideas:

  • using Drupal Core APIs with Drupal 7, for example debugging SQL with the improved database API
  • extending Drupal 7 sites with Contributed modules including APIs
  • understanding security and securing sites and code in Drupal 7
  • working on performance, how to get the most out of Drupal 7
  • the right way to extend Drupal and working with the developer community including when to write modules, when to patch, and maintaining modules
  • software architecture decisions, object oriented and procedural methodologies

DrupalCon Chicago is like no previous Drupal conference. We will have a larger audience. It is a chance to spread the word about your favorite API or your contributed module. More new people show up at each DrupalCon. Take advantage of training new people in the community. Show them the "right" way to develop Drupal.

Remember that a session you provide can also have a follow-up in a Birds of a Feather talk. You can use your session to provide the foundation, then have interested attendees join you in a quieter setting to dig deeper.

You can learn more about the Coder track at the DrupalCon Chicago website.

Do you know what your session will entail? Submit your Coder Track session now!

Robin Barre

Robin has experience building Drupal-based Web sites both for large international non-profits and for local community organizations such as homeless outreach centers and several animal care and control groups. Robin provides consultation, development, and programming services.

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Comments

Are all coder track sessions expected to be about Drupal 7 at this point? It's fine if they are, just wondering...

Evan Donovan —

The focus of the Coder track is Drupal 7. Sessions about the future of Drupal and Drupal 8 will be a part of the Core Conversations. A really interesting Coder track that uses Drupal 6 as an example may be accepted in the Coder track, but from our point of view is less desirable than promoting the use of Drupal 7 (which I would like to think would have a stable release by DrupalCon).

Robin Barre —