Open Atrium is an intranet in a box that provides teams of people with a set of tools to get work done. These tools include a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboard. But sometimes that's not enough. This session will cover what it takes to extend Open Atrium and make it do something new.

* As technology advances, it is more important than ever to code with web accessibility in mind. Web accessibility measures help users with disabilities related to limitations of vision, hearing, learning, cognition, and motor skills to use the web effectively.

What are designer and themer roles within Drupal? This panel will bring together Drupal professionals who focus on the front end. We'll look at recent work and discuss the techniques we use and the challenges we all face as designers and themers working with Drupal everyday. How can we work better together, with our beloved developers, with designers who don't know our platform, and what can we do to make sites better.

drush is a command line utility for (relatively) pain-free Drupal administration. This session will cover drush core functionality, drush architecture, and drush custom command implementation. I'll walk through the implementation of a custom drush command called "node" that lets you run UNIX commands on Drupal nodes. Given time we'll also go over novel uses of drush including embedded AJAX terminals, features, general purpose bootstrapping of scripts, and more.

There are ways to organize a page before it gets rendered to the screen. The purpose of this presentation is to show what Drupal does out of the box (blocks/regions) and then show 2 alternatives that provide more flexibility (context & panels). We will identify the strengths and weaknesses of each and provide examples for situations where one is more suited than the other.

In this demonstration, we'll go from a Photoshop image to a working drupal theme in 60 minutes. We'll briefly discuss wireframing and prototyping and how Drupal can help with them, and we'll make a working theme using the Zen theme and the Blueprint CSS framework.

We will discuss Drupal in higher education, who's using it, scope of usage, requirements, et al

This session provides a fun introduction for people who want to get started writing their first module or extending an existing one. The presentation is both conceptual and hands-on, and covers topics like Drupal's hook system and the Form API. By the end of the session, attendees should have resources and a foundation to start writing or extending Drupal modules!

Drupal themers and developers who want to get literate in jQuery should come learn the basics of writing jQuery for your sites. jQuery makes simple hide/show animations (popups, tabs, expanding fieldgroups, etc.) and AJAX functionality easy to write. Come get started doing it yourself, or get a refresher on best practices using jQuery with Drupal.

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.