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Suggestions for Drupal Voices topics at DrupalCon Paris?

Blog by Kent ByeAugust 19, 2009 - 1:11pm

Another DrupalCon is just around the corner, and I plan on doing another round of Drupal Voices interviews. I'll be roaming around the hallways again grabbing different members of the Drupal community to do short 10-15 minute interviews.

I was able to do almost 50 interviews over the course of a few days in DrupalCon DC, and before I go back and do it again in Paris, I just wanted to get some feedback and some topic suggestions on what people would be interested in hearing more about.

You can think of these as just quick snapshots that either serve as an introduction to the more extended Drupalcon presentation videos or as Drupal journalism into other areas of interest.

You can check out the archive of previous Drupal Voices interviews to get an idea of what I did last time. Here's the Drupal Voices iTunes link to subscribe to just that series and grab the last 25 episodes, or here's a iTunes link to a combined feed of all of our podcasts.

So with that in mind, if you enjoyed something in particular from the previous interviews or have any ideas on any other types of things that you'd like to hear more about then please leave a comment down below with more details.

And here are some other questions and suggestions:

  • Do you have suggestions for members of the European Drupal community that you'd like to hear from?
  • Are there any hot topics that you're interested in hearing about?
  • Any specific modules that people have been developing (either new or upcoming ones or some of the essential modules)?
  • Any specific functionality that you'd like some module suggestions or more details about?
  • Interested in recommendations of utility or unsung hero modules?
  • What are the different Drupal development companies and sponsors are up to?
  • How are individuals, non-profits or companies using Drupal (either generally or specific case studies)?
  • How is Drupal 7 shaping up after code freeze? What big things got in?
  • Interested in different sociological aspects of an open source community?
  • Updates on the Drupal 7 User Experience project (#D7UX)
  • Interesting birds of a feather topics
  • Are you going to be in Paris and have something that you'd like to talk more about?
  • Anything else?

See you in Paris!

Comments

Jake Strawn (not verified) on August 18, 2009 - 11:22am

960gs/ninesixty/960 theming

I'd love to hear/give a short talk on 960gs related to Drupal theming.

Maybe I'm not the most impartial, Todd Ross Nienkerk and myself will be presenting on the 960/ninesixty theme.

But it is a hot topic for themers out there, and could have some great potential for one of the Drupal Voices chats!

Zohar (not verified) on August 19, 2009 - 2:10pm

Cool Nodequeue extensions

We're in the process of releasing few cool extensions to the nodequeue module. I'd be happy to present them:

- Nodequeue Node: let's you describe your queue, with meta data, powered by CCK
- Multiple nodequeues per user: each user can now manage her own nodequeues
- Nodequeue annotation: adds the ability to annotate each node, in the context of the queue it is in.
- Nodequeue as OAI-ORE XML file, used for aggregating media objects, and present them in a dedicated player.

What it allows you:
- Create a multi user blog, where each user can control the order of his posts
- Build Galleries of certain order (per user, per gallery)
- let's each user compose her own top-ten hit list (content is identical for all, but ordered differently per user)
- and many more...

See http://drupal.org/node/442772 for more details

Benjamin Melançon (not verified) on August 19, 2009 - 4:01pm

Complaints

I want to do a Drupal voices where I just complain about how I was waiting for you to talk to me while everyone else was getting the mass picture taken in D.C. :-)

  • RDF, again.
  • Drupalers from third world countries
  • Will Nick Lewis be there? I want him recorded talking about anything.
  • Find person with "Most improved Drupal skills" during course of the con, probably self-described, and what they got out of it and how.
  • Community builders -- con hosts, camp hosts, leaders of projects that benefit the Drupal community..
August 19, 2009 - 4:14pm Kent Bye

Thanks!

LOL. And thanks for the pointers.

I'll have to keep an eye out for these and track some down. And if anyone reading this is at Paris and feels like they're a good candidate for 'most improved' or had some interesting insights at the conference, then feel free to track me down. I'll be roaming around the hallways most of the time :)

joshmiller (not verified) on August 19, 2009 - 4:15pm

Hmm... Top D7 contributors

Hmm...

  • Top D7 contributors and what they contributed (and who helped out along the way)
  • Imagecache in core
  • Tokens in core
  • More "Drupal Shops" and "How they do it"
  • Features
  • Aegir (actually, just give Adrian the mic and let him speak for awhile, it's always fascinating to hear what comes out...)
  • Dries talking about Acquia Gardens
  • Young Hahn on anything: Context, Design, Development Seed, just give him the mic and make him talk about stuff.
  • Ask Earl Miles his views on politics (this would be funny and completely off topic)
  • Interview someone "behind the scenes" -- helps in the issue que, but rarely gets credit
  • Facebook module guy (social media & Drupal should be hot!)
  • Panels 3
  • Track down someone who has something to say about encryption in Drupal databases
Tim Millwood (not verified) on August 19, 2009 - 4:17pm

Push the NDAs

I want to hear what everyone are doing for their clients. There is a lot of work that is so custom that it is written specifically for a client. These projects often still use 90% of drupal core and contrib features, it's that extra 10% that I want to hear about.

Arnaud Fischer (not verified) on August 24, 2009 - 3:56am

Suggestions for Drupal Voices topics at DrupalCon Paris?

Hello Kent, I would be more han happy to connect you with some Drupal folks in Paris. And I can do that in French, too ;-). I spent the past 20 years in the US with Microsoft (Redmond), AltaVista/Yahoo! (Palo Alto), AOL (Dulles) and a couple startups in the Bay Area and just back to Paris (where I grew up) to work on a couple startup projects building on the Drupal architecture. I am not a dev guy, mostly product strategy/mgt, and got into Drupal a couple months ago, developping prototypes ... converted and avid viewer of Lullabot. Awesome learning resource!

Ping me!

-arnaud

Chris Bryant (not verified) on August 24, 2009 - 5:48pm

My favorite...

Hey Kent, the Drupal voices were one of my favorite things to come out of Drupalcon DC. I especially liked how they were all tied together nicely with the ordering into a cohesive picture.

Here are a few fun things we've been working on that might be of interest:

Skinr
http://drupal.org/project/skinr

New statistics module in CVS (project release coming soon:)
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/stats

See you there!