The DrupalCamp Montreal is going to be conducted on 11th and 12th of September. While on the 11th night there will be just a special meeting. The actual knowledge, fun and excitement are saved for the second day when there will be a number of presentations and discussions. It is a bilingual camp with the sessions being in both French and English.
Venue:
DrupalCamp Montreal will be held at Strathcona Music Building, Montreal.
Schedule:
The registration will begin the early morning at 8:30 on 12th September followed by which will be the opening session. Further presentations will be held at four different tracks:
Floe Design+ Technologies:
Aimee Degnan will be teaching the campers to manage your backlog as per the need of your team and clients and at the same time keeping it tidy too.
In the next session, campers will come to know how you can carry out fast and furious deployment using the Docker.
Philippe Labat will be conducting a presentation where he will explain how you can improve your development workflow by using a site deployment module.
Next will be a featured lunch talk for the attendees of all the tracks. Alina Mackenzie will explain why it is important to contribute to the Drupal community and how you can do it.
Hubert Carignan and Pascal Rioux will be hosting a session where they will be providing valuable inputs regarding Drupal’s project management features.
Next will be a presentation by Michael Meyers where he will explain why you and your organizations should embrace open source projects like Drupal ans how it can help you to grow.
The last session at this track will be conducted by Andrew Lindsay. He will teach the campers to balance the operational and development work when you have a very small team to handle both the tasks.
Savoir-faire Linux:
Suzzane Dergacheva in the very first session at this track will provide details about the amazing multilingual features offered by Drupal 8. She will explain the steps you need to follow to get a multilingual website.
Next will be an amazing session where Jorge Diaz will teach the campers to use Bootstrap theme, Drupal Commerce, and PayPal payment process to create an online store quickly.
Followed by this will be a presentation by Aimee Degnan on some of the standard tools used in Drupal 6 and 7 for better Search Engine Optimization.
Post-lunch David Pascoe- Deslauriers will be holding an introductory session on system administration for Drupal.
Colan Schwartz will be teaching the campers to integrate remote data into Drupal 7 and how to expose it to the Views.
The last session will help site builders to know about Drupal’s migrate module.
Lovelace Room:
Trevor Kjorlien will commence the sessions at this room by providing a very basic introduction keeping in mind that campers have little or no knowledge about Drupal.
Next to this, Ryan Weal and Novella Chiechi will help you plan your Drupal 8 migration in the right way.
Adam White will be introducing tools like Entity Metadata Wrappers and EntityFieldQuery to developers who know the basic Drupal module development.
In the next session, Ryan Weal will be helping campers to create a Drupal module that allows site builders to accept money is several currencies.
Trevor Kjorlien will be discussing the advantages and complexities of being a front end developer working on Drupal projects.
The last session at this track will be conducted by Salman Jaffery where he will teach campers about the basics of the Drupal 7 Rules module.
Turing Room:
Alex Dergachev and Dave Vasilevsky will be sharing details that how using tools like Docker, automated backups and automated testing they can keep the Drupal sites safe.
Next to this will be an introductory session on Aegir3, its new and amazing features, its basics principles and the update strategies from the previous version.
Tiffany Tse will help the campers to demystify what Sass is and why it is called the most mature, and powerful CSS extension language.
Post lunch Colan Schwartz will be sharing a Drupal 7 Performance Optimization Checklist that will help you deliver memorable user experience.
Philippe Mouchel will conduct a presentation that will focus on the various tools and development processes required to develop, manage and maintain plant and factory based Drupal sites.
J-F Bohemier will be conducting the last session at this track on the topic of Vagrant Drupal Development.
The closing remarks will begin at 5 pm.
Followed by this will be a Drupal after party which will be conducted at McKibbins Irish Pub which is located at 142 Rue Bishop.
Drupal Camps are always known for the excitement and the knowledge they provide about Drupal development, and DrupalCamp Montreal will be no exception. It is going to be an extremely wonderful event.