Drupalcon Chicago sessions are now open for voting. Here are the sessions proposed by the Lullabots. Come and vote for them! Lullabot loves you, you know you love us, too! ;)

Proposals

Growing a Virtual Company & Maintaining Team Moxie

presented by Matt Westgate (metta)

Five years ago Lullabot was a two person shop. Join cofounder Matt Westgate as he walks you through the pitfalls, the success points and funnier moments of creating a virtual team of nearly 30 people.

Videola - The Future of IPTV is Drupal

presented by Jeff Robbins (jjeff)

...a Drupal distribution created to build both paid-access and free-access video websites similar to Netflix (subscription-based), Hulu (ad-supported), Amazon (pay-per-view), Blockbuster (rentals), or even ESPN (live streaming broadcasts). Originally created for Drupalize.me, Videola manages video content, ecommerce, users, and everything you need to create awesome video sites. Additionally, Videola can deliver video to desktop, mobile, tablet, and television-based devices. It's open source IPTV!

Show Me The Money!

presented by Liza Kindred (LizaK)

For DrupalCon San Francisco, I polled the top Drupal shops to find out what they charge and shared the results in my session & online through Lullabot's blog. The results were eye-opening, and in some cases, mind-blowing! Let's open that door even further.

Cooking With Drupal: Drupal Distributions

presented by James Sansbury (q0rban) & Jerad Bitner (sirkitree)

Drupal Distributions... Everybody's talking about them. Are you working on one? Are you thinking about creating one? Or maybe you're just interested in the development practices behind them, and if they're valuable enough to add to your toolbox.

DrupalCamp, How to and Q & A

presented by Blake Hall (blakehall), Greg Knaddison (greggles) and Gregory Heller (GregoryHeller)

Curious what it takes to run a DrupalCamp? DrupalCamp organizers from the U.S, Europe and around are gathering to discuss what it takes to run a DrupalCamp as well as tips, tricks and best practices. We'll cover topics such as costs, venue choices, and how to find your audience. You'll leave this session with the knowledge and tools to hold a successful DrupalCamp.

Drupal 7 and HTML5 forms

presented by Eric Duran (ericduran)

This session will show you how to implement all the new html5 elements in your new Drupal 7 web site and will cover the new number, telephone, url, range, email field. This will also show you how to turn your standard Drupal elements into their html5 counter parts where appropriate.

Visual Hierarchy 1, 2, 3: This MUST Be Important!

presented by Jared Ponchot (jponch)

Whether you're designing a homepage, the next Views interface, or a car dashboard, visual hierarchy is one of the most important design principles that comes into play. We'll look at real world examples of visual hierarchy gone good and bad and some basic fundamentals, tips and tricks to ensure that the important things win in your designs.

Regressions No More: Automating Front-End Quality Assurance with Selenium

presented by Andrew Berry (deviantintegral)

One of the lessons learned from the Drupal 6 development cycle is that testing for regressions by hand is a difficult, time consuming, and a generally painful process during feature development. With Drupal 7, the SimpleTest framework was integrated, allowing both Drupal core and modules to be tested automatically on qa.drupal.org. This is great for testing back-end functionality, but what about testing the front-end of a site built with Drupal?

Git Phase Next: The Promised Land

presented by Angie Byron (webchick) and Derek Wright (dww)

At DrupalCon San Francisco, we presented a panel discussion entitled The exodus: leading Drupal out of CVS where we introduced the effort to migrate Drupal.org from CVS to Git. By the time DrupalCon Chicago happens, we hope to have already done the initial migration and completed what we've been calling Git Phase 2. To find out what that means for you, don't miss Git on Drupal.org: It's Easier Than You Think!.

Survival guide to theming in Drupal 7

presented by Joe Shindelar (eojthebrave)

In this session we will cover the ins and outs of theming in Drupal 7. Learn how to extend the new Stark base theme as a starting point for creating CSS only themes. Then dive in and take a look at what exactly it is that makes up a Drupal theme including info files, template files, and the ever favorite template.php file. Learn how/where and when to use each of these elements in order to override Drupal's default output and craft a theme that is both exciting to look at and easy to maintain.

What's wrong with Drupal?

presented by Angie Byron (webchick), Bojhan Somers (Bojhan) and Jennifer Lea Lampton (jenlampton)

There are so many painful points in the process of building a Drupal site where someone who's not experienced with Drupal get's stuck. From the "Now What?" moment after installation, to the Panic that sets in when you see the Views UI for the first time, it's painfully obvious that we are a community of developers. This leaves the Drupal project feeling unpolished and these rough edges drive people away.

Design Thinking

presented by Steve Fisher (hellofisher), Jared Ponchot (jponch), Mark Boulton & Samantha Warren

Design has the power to influence our core values, our identity, our expectations and our worldview. Design brings clarity and enhances meaning. It is time to reshape our understanding of the value of design.

Baby Got Backend: Content Administrators are Users Too

presented by Jeff Eaton (eaton) and Karen McGrane (KMcGrane)

Content administrators are the forgotten users of the internet. The user experience field focuses on delivering usable, compelling experiences for end users — but doesn't always consider what will be required from the people who maintain the site each day.

Confirmed

We also have some Lullabots in confirmed sessions as well!

Community Health: Some Doctor's Advice

presented by Addison Berry (add1sun)

Drupal is not just software. One of the things that has made Drupal so successful is its recognition of the fact that we are real people who need to work together as a community and deal with real human problems. Our project is unique, but being humans, we share many of the same traits, pitfalls, and concerns as most other social groups in the world. Often an outside perspective can provide insights and fresh thoughts for approaching issues that arise in similar circumstances.

Scaling the Drupal Community

presented by Angie Byron (webchick)

At Drupalcon Copenhagen, our fearless leader posed the question, "What would happen if Drupal grew 10x larger?" This session will attempt to explore the Drupal community angle of that question.

The Platypus Problem

presented by Jeff Eaton (eaton)

Call them modules, plugins, libraries, or widgets: any project that relies on an ecosystem of independent tools eventually hits the Platypus Problem: inexplicable, emergent complexity. That kind of complexity can confound the best software architects and community organizers.

Webform 3: The Survey Tool for Drupal

presented by Nate Haug (quicksketch)

Webform is the tool for surveys and data collection in Drupal. Come learn how to make a survey with this popular module. If you've used Webform in the past, come learn about all the things you probably don't know about 3.0 (e-mail attachments, conditional logic, PDF support and more!)