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DrupalCamp London: Deeson Online Sessions and BoF

By Lizzie Hodgson | 4th February 2014

Deeson Online are not only really proud to have Tim Deeson, MD, as one of DrupalCamp London's CIC directors, we're also a main sponsor of the event that runs from February 28 to March 2.

What's more, we've submitted a couple of Sessions and a Birds of a Feather aka BoF: an informal gathering where like-minded members of the community with similar interests can talk about a topic without a pre-planned agenda.

The Session - Annika Clarke, Developer

Introducing Demo Framework

This session will introduce Demo Framework, a distribution that aims to make the process of pitching Drupal to new clients a lot easier.

Demo Framework includes inline editing with Spark, Commerce, Panopoly, Apache Solr facets, editing workflows with Workbench Moderation and a responsive theme. Bundling these together saves you the time and effort of putting together a demo for each potential client. The ability to create new demo scenarios allows you to cater to your client's needs.

In this session we'll explore:

  • Main difficulties with introducing Drupal to new users
  • What does DF demonstrate about Drupal?
  • Technical demo
  • How to extend DF to provide new scenarios
  • How we have used DF successfully in pitches
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The Session - John Ennew, Solutions Architect

Concurrent programming in Drupal

Concurrent programming is the process of designing and writing software code to enable it to be processed in parallel.

When running in a single process, a piece of code can only execute on one processor and must wait for external resources to become available or return data. If run concurrently, multiple processors can be taken advantage of and though one process may be blocked by external resources other process can be working on other parts of the problem at the same time.

This talk will look at what concurrency is in detail, what problems it solves, how to make use of it and a practical example of how we at Deeson Online used it to speed up long running data migrations by 500% using the multi processing capabilities of Drush and Drupal Migrate.

This talk is based on a series of three blog posts:

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The BoF - Lizzie Hodgson, Digital Strategist

Can we better articulate the benefits of Drupal beyond our amazing community?

We all know that Drupal isn't rocket science: once implemented, it's easy to use. But is this the perception of wider audiences?

I've been chatting to people beyond our immediate community about what they think about Drupal and a clear picture has emerged:

  • The Drupal learning curve is sometimes too steep for those on the 'outside'
  • We're not highlighting how amazing the Drupal community really is - Drupal doesn't have a strong 'public' profile
  • It's sometimes difficult to identify what Drupal can be used for: the potential benefits aren't clearly articulated.

With the above in mind I'd like to propose a BoF that explores ways in which we can better emphasise the benefits of Drupal to new audiences beyond our great community.

Why? Because open source is now seen as a viable solution, and those not associated with the central community need help to view Drupal as a viable CMS.

The question is how, and who's responsibility is it?

So, add us to your schedule, or tweet to meet @deeson_labs if you want to join us!

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