How to Write a Winning Session Submission
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The document provides a comprehensive guide for submitting winning abstracts for DrupalCon New Orleans, highlighting important dates, session selection criteria, and tips for prospective speakers. It outlines community-selected tracks, suggested topics, and details about both community and sponsored sessions. Additionally, the document emphasizes the importance of collaboration with established community members and thorough preparation of submission materials.
How to Write a Winning Session Submission
- 1. DrupalCon Call for Papers How to submit a winning abstract
- 3. Call For Papers Webcast Agenda ● About Session Selection ● How to write a winning abstract ● Special tips for sponsors ● DrupalCon New Orleans Tracks ● How to buy a session
- 4. About Session Selection Image credit: Flickr Drupalcon
- 5. DrupalCon New Orleans May 9 - 13, 2016 ● Monday: Training & Summits ● Tuesday - Thursday: Sessions ● Friday: Sprints Call for Papers ● Closes February 29 at 11:59PM New Orleans local time ● Community selected sessions, paid sessions
- 6. About Sessions ● There are 13 tracks ● We host a total of 143 sessions ● Sessions are 60 minutes long, recorded ● Format: Present alone, co-present, or host a panel ● Speakers get: ● Free DrupalCon ticket (one speaker per session)
- 7. Who Selects Sessions ● 2-3 volunteer experts are assigned to a track ● Define themes, desired sessions ● Receive 500+ sessions ● Over two weeks, rank and select sessions ● In depth explanation here: https://events.drupal. org/neworleans2016/session-selection-process A Community Process
- 8. Pro-Tips: Getting Your Session Selected Image credit: Flickr Drupalcon
- 9. Getting Your Session Selected ● Speaker has proven speaker experience and is known in the Drupal community as an expert ● Speaking at camps is a good inroad ● Start the writing process 2-3 weeks before the deadline ● Go to event site, read about the Tracks & ideal sessions ● https://events.drupal.org/neworleans2016/tracks ● You can reach out to Track leads with questions ● https://events.drupal.org/neworleans2016/team A Community Process
- 10. Getting Your Session Selected ● Write a complete, educational abstract - no pitches ● Tell a story: ● Share the takeaways you will provide in your session ● Proofread your proposal ● https://events.drupal.org/neworleans2016/news/submit-session- drupalcon-new-orleans ● Get feedback from others before submitting and during ● Ask other Drupal experts ● Ask your Account Manager ● Read community feedback once you submit ● Submit on time. No exceptions for late submissions ● https://events.drupal.org/neworleans2016/submit-session A Community Process
- 11. Writing a Winning Abstracts For the Community Selected Sessions
- 12. Pro-Tips: Insights for Sponsors Image credit: Flickr Drupalcon
- 13. Writing a Winning Abstracts ● Be an attractive speaking team ● Not known in the Drupal Community, but you are an expert? ● Partner with a known community member, co-submit the abstract ● Especially helpful for Software vendors and Hosting companies ● Tell a solution story with a Drupal Shop or Drupal customer - no pitches ● Partner Connect ● Not sure how to find the right person in the community? ● Ask your Account Manager about this program ● We connect you to possible partners https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16MMJdJPa29-ctlvMNgfrWqM_O2nd-vmtwS96AgHNOtg/edit?usp=sharing For the Community Selected Sessions Ask About Partner Connect
- 14. Let’s Get Ready for DrupalCon New Orleans
- 15. DrupalCon New Orleans Tracks Community Selected Tracks ● Business ● Coding and Development ● Core Convos ● DevOps ● Drupal.org ● Frontend ● Horizons ● PHP ● Project Management ● Site Building ● Symfony ● UX Sponsored Track ● Business Showcase (only case studies)
- 16. Business Track Suggested Topics ● Recruiting and retaining talent ● Tools and best practices for teams - local and distributed ● Customer service, communication, and marketing ● Selling Drupal: Showcasing the value of investing in open source ● Beyond Drupal: offering products, strategy, services and integrated solutions ● Growing and scaling your business ● Choosing the right platform for a technology start-up ● The upgrade decision: when is the right time to move to Drupal 8? Track Leads Jeff Diecks Diana Montalion
- 17. Coding & Development Track Suggested Topics ● Showcasing awesome things that contrib projects can do in Drupal 8 ● How to manage the migration of our projects to Drupal 8 ● Tools and techniques for upgrading modules ● What both beginner and experienced developers should know ● Project architecture ● Caching and performance Track Leads Matt Davis Jon Peck Mike Nielson
- 18. DevOps Track Suggested Topics ● Business value of DevOps for companies of any size ● Establishing DevOps Culture ● Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack) ● Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery ● Docker best practices ● Docker infrastructure (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher, Swarm) ● Monitoring and Logging (ELK, Graylog, Sensu) ● DrupalCI use outside of drupal.org ● Chatops (Hubot, Stackstorm) Track Leads Joe Stewart Ashok Modi Jason Yee
- 19. FrontEnd Track Suggested Topics ● The maturation of Front End as an engineering practice ● Front End practices outside the Drupal world ● Current and emerging best practices, tools, & techniques (BEM/OOCSS, static prototyping, design in browser, progressive enhancement) ● Front End and Back end templating systems (Twig, Twig.js, Handlebars) ● Performance ● Content-first, atomic design, and new design issues ● Sustainable patterns of development ● And most importantly -- Why are we doing this? What do we hope to achieve? Why, as a Front Ender, use Drupal at all? Track Leads Eric Sembrat Kathryn McClintock
- 20. Horizons Track Suggested Topics ● What perspectives can the Drupal community learn from alternative, complementary or even competing platforms, JS MVC frameworks, etc. ● Drupal as a publication platform for the Internet of Things ● Integrating Drupal with your chosen front end framework ● Drupal as an application framework ● Interdisciplinary topics: accessibility, performance and security ● Optimized Drupal for content discovery: search engine optimization ● Web analytics and A/B testing ● Advertising networks and integrating them with Drupal ● Video content publishing ● The content authoring experience ● Using Service Workers and Drupal Track Leads Jason Want David Hwang
- 21. PHP Track Suggested Topics ● PHP 7 / Strict Type Hinting / New Features ● Unit testing ● Building from cross-project components (Composer, etc.) ● Web services / REST / Guzzle ● Web security best practices ● Debugging PHP ● Code quality tools, practices (Code reviews, pull request, etc), and methodologies ● Software architecture patterns and techniques ● Interoperability and integrations between Drupal and other PHP projects Track Leads Heather White Larry Garfield
- 22. Project Management Track Suggested Topics ● Project estimation ● Project planning techniques: Sprint planning, resource allocation, Backlog management ● Scope, risk, and change management strategies ● Project management case studies ● Project and portfolio reporting tactics: “how to” with specific tools, charts, reports. (PMs like spreadsheets) ● Leadership and coordination approaches: working with remote teams, encouraging self-organization, encouraging cross-functionality. Track Leads Justin Rhodes Ashleigh Thevenet Shannon Vettes
- 23. Site Building Track Suggested Topics ● Drupal 8 is here: What’s new with Site Building (e.g. Multilingual), Share your Drupal 8 Site Build story ● Improving Accessibility, UX and Content Admin UI ● Information Planning and Content Architecture, Applied Content Strategy ● Migration - either from previous versions of Drupal or other systems ● Configuration Management Best Practices, and beyond CMI core functionality ● Layout and Theming using UI : Tools that allow you to build and control layout ● Distros & Platforms: Come talk about the next platform you are building! ● There is a recipe for that! Whether building a shopping cart, Faceted Search, or custom RSS feeds, all are something that Site Builders can do. Highlight a module that made your site special Track Leads Ryan Price Dan Linn
- 24. User Experience Track Suggested Topics ● UX process and techniques ● Strategy and planning ● Content strategy ● Visual and interaction design ● Responsive and accessible design ● Usability ● The impact of non-web interactions on the web user experience Track Leads Lauren Smith Koen Platteeuw
- 25. Sponsored Sessions Image credit: Google Images
- 26. Buy a Session ● Business Showcase = Case Studies ● Sponsor Packages Include Speaking Opportunities ● Diamond - 60 minutes ● Platinum - 30 minutes ● Gold - 15 minute lightening talk ● Buy a speaking slot as an add on ● Platinum/Gold can buy more time on stage ● Sponsors can buy a speaking opportunity as an add on ● Ask Account Manager if they are still available - this sells out Review Sponsor Packages Here https://assoc.drupal.org/drupalcon-sponsorship
- 27. Summary ● Know the tracks ● Talk to the track chairs and others ● Write a detailed abstract ● Submit on time ● Talk to your account manager about ● Partner Connect ● Buying a session Johanna Bergmann Johanna@association.drupal.org Mark Brandstetter Mark@association.drupal.org Gener Umali Gener@association.drupal.org
- 28. Questions?