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This is the story about a hybrid, designer/developer finally giving up ultimate control for their very first, drupal project for gavinbryars.com.

Subversion is a pervasive revision control technology used by many developers to track changes and manage their code. However, understanding the benefits of using Subversion as well as learning how to use it day-to-day can seem challenging. Together, we will discuss why revision control is such a useful tool and how to use Subversion to augment your productivity, streamline your workflow, and protect your resources.

Several 5-to-10-minute talks given by members of the community describing what they've been up to lately. All experience levels welcome! Just leave a comment if you're interested in presenting!

I'll start at the top of the list of Drupal contrib projects by popularity ( http://drupal.org/project/usage ) and work my way down. For each one I'll tell you what it's used for and my opinion on its quality and usefulness. I hope to get through at least 50 modules in the time provided and give folks a lot of info on module selection.

As Drupal matures the number of code level vulnerabilities continues to shrink. Powerful user features are evolving however, creating a disturbing counter trend to the decrease in code vulnerabilities. While developer introduced vulnerabilities become more scarce, opportunities for Drupal user configuration vulnerabilities are on the rise. Learn how to protect your Drupal site though good configuration choices.

I am currently assembling a membership-based community site and am faced with selecting module that I know and don't know. The budget doesn't allow for custom work so I need to do everything "out-of-the-box." What modules have you used for this type of site? Come share your successes and challenges. I will share with you what I am planning and why. This is not a formal presentation but more like a show-and-tell discussion. Anyone interested?

This small group session will be a way for developers, site administrators, and others involved with Drupal to discuss and share ideas about how to manage their workflow. The session will not involve a formal presentation. Instead, it will be about sharing ideas and tools on topics such as SVN, local development environments, moving changes to production/live websites, etc.

A good start for those new to Drupal administration and a concise review for seasoned pros who are concerned with security implications of hosting Drupal web sites. We'll discuss a simple "defense in depth" strategy for keeping our Drupal sites secure, including intrusion prevention, backups, and reliability.

It is sometimes said that Drupal does not have a learning curve. It has a learning brick wall. In this session we aim at getting you over that brick wall. We will cover what Drupal is, the vocabulary that you need to know to talk about/work with it and the most common and important modules. We will take an introductory look at some basic configuration and where to look for various features. We will also point you at how you can engage with the community and some excellent outside resources.

Virtually every site built with Drupal uses CCK and Views. These modules allow you to create specialized web forms with whatever arbitrary fields you need and then create lists of just the submissions you want to see. In this session we will take a hands on approach to learning these tools for creating and listing content as well as administering it.