Drupalcon Barcelona - Call for Sessions
Drupalcon Barcelona - Call for Sessions
Dagmar Muth
Tue, 05/26/2015 - 14:12
Our team just came back from DrupalCon Los Angeles, but this does not mean that we are not already working hard on getting parts of DrupalCon Barcelona sorted.
Michael chairs the Site Building track and Dagmar is chairing the Business & Strategy track. Bastian shares his experience from last year and and works as a global DevOps track chair; together with Ricardo Amaro.
Since the submission deadline is coming up soon we encourage you to submit a session NOW! If you saw someone presenting about a specific topic and you believe this person should speak in either one of the Business, Site Building or DevOps tracks feel free to get back to us. We'll use all our charm to win those people to submit a session too!
The submission deadline is Monday, June 8.
If you already have a topic in mind, give yourself a head start and submit today!
If you are not sure yet what to speak about, you have enough time to get inspiration from the talks at DrupalCon Los Angeles.
This Business and Strategy track is aimed at attendees looking for actionable advice, ideas and challenges from business owners, executives and project managers on how to manage a Drupal business in a successful way. Sessions in this track will be non-technical by nature. We are in a good market position - the usage of Drupal is expanding and Drupal companies are growing, are founded or merged. Growth and change make Drupal businesses face various challenges. This year we will talk about how we grow, how we make our good culture sustainable and which processes and tools we need.
We are especially seeking topics for the following sessions:
- Growth and team size
- Business Diversification
- Culture
- KPIs and Processes
- Resource Planning and Profit Growth
Building complex sites without coding is one of the most powerful strengths of Drupal. Learn what can be achieved by using the best tools, practices and strategies; from the wide contrib space of the mature Drupal version 7 to the fascinating new features and possibilities of the upcoming Drupal 8.
We are especially seeking topics for the following sessions:
- What we can achieve right now using Drupal 8
- How to build sites with Drupal 7 that will be easy to upgrade to Drupal 8
- There is a distribution or module for that! Studies and real life examples
- Layouts and theming through UI
- Improving UX
DevOps continues to bridge the gap between the world of developers and operations. The business value gained with the solutions achieved makes DevOps an important mind switch on systems, end-to-end processes, amplification of feedback loops and the culture to experiment and learn. In this track we want to expand these core concepts of DevOps to the Drupal community and have a broader view on how they are being achieved and used out there.
We are especially seeking topics for the following sessions:
- Testing Frameworks (Behat, PHPUnit, PhantomJS, etc)
- Container Virtualisation (w/ docker, lxc, etc.)
- Search Infrastructure (Apache Solr, Elasticsearch)
- Infrastructure Management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt)
- Logging / Log Data Handling
- Dashboard Design / Data Visualisation / Monitoring
- Automated Deployments/ Continuous Integration
- Performance and Global Performance Strategies
- Business value of DevOps
- Establishing DevOps Culture
Doesn't that sound like you could give a fantastic talk about one of those topics? Don’t hesitate - Submit your session now!
We are looking forward to seeing you - On stage in Barcelona!
Dagmar, Michael & Bastian
Chairs of the Business and Strategy, Site Building and DevOps tracks for DrupalCon Barcelona