While pingVision as a company is one of the many sponsors of DrupalCamp Colorado 2008, several pingVision people are doing presentations and panels.

Here's a quick run-down:

Kevin Bridges

...is doing a BOF on Project Workflow Management and Client Expectations.

Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, UML, Process Diagrams, Wireframes, Design Comps ... how does it all fit together into a clearly defined purpose?

John Fiala

...has a presentation on Advanced AHAH and Modifying Forms, which gets into that lovely UI goodness of dynamic forms generation, drag-and-drop, etc. He's also doing a presentation on Using SimpleTest to Prove Your Code. Very useful to any coder.

Ezra Barnett Gildesgame

...has a presentation on Drupal Benchmarking and Performance, covering:

- Factors that affect performance
- Measuring performance
- Different types of hosting (Shared, VPS, "Grid", Mosso)
- Techniques used to make enterprise websites scalable (ie Facebook, LiveJournal)
- Basics of Performance-friendly Drupal Module development

Greg Hines

...is presenting on RESTful services and Drupal, and will be showcasing his brand spanking new REST provider module which provides something of a REST API.

Ben Jeavons

...is presenting on Contributing to Drupal, which is about how anyone can participate in the Drupal community. He is also presenting Drupal Lightning Demos:

Rapid-fire demonstrations of modules, themes, Drupal-powered sites, fancy Drupal code snippets and anything else Drupal related that can be demoed in 5-10 minutes. These are quick, 5-10 minutes including time for questions, demos of something you've built on or with Drupal. Unless we have very few demos there probably won't be time to go looking at code so just show how it works or what it looks like.

He's also doing a session on the Drupal Community:

I'd like to talk about the Drupal community, the ways in which we are open and sponsor participation and the ways we've push people away. Because we have pushed people away. What do we do that is right and what are we doing wrong?

Make it better?

There is also going to be a BOF about Making DrupalCamp Colorado better, led by Kevin Bridges and (hopefully) many other interested folks. Maybe we can pull together a DrupalCon proposal?

The geek weekend

I was going to be joining Greg Knaddison in a session where we, as permanent members of the Drupal Association General Assembly, were going to give a little update on what's been happening and attempt to answer questions that may arise, but that proposal was rated lower than the others, so it's not going to happen. No, this is a weekend to get your geek on! See you there!

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